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Month: October 2007

124 posts

The problem with business software

[The people using it aren't the ones buying it](http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/669-why-enterprise-software-sucks). I think this is a little bit true, but often you get the same problem even when people who'll…

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Get your skates on

[Electric powered roller skates](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/24/ishoes-electric-roll.html). Feh, 15mph. Give me rocket skates any day.

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Practicality optional

[A remote control with a bigger dose of 'weird' than 'usable'](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/the_tv_remote_control.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). What I *really* want is a remote control like the one Superman has in his fortress of…

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Election07: One Month Out

*Announcements*: The ALP releases an [OH&S policy](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/24/2069031.htm). The coalition announces [$218m for defence skills](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/24/2068720.htm). That was it. 31 days to go. Longest. Month. Ever.

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Very fast camera

[A camera that shoots 300 frames per second](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/super-slo_mo/casios-exilim-cam-lets-you-shoot-300-frames-per-second-mythbusters+style-295491.php) Unfortunately it only does it in pretty low resolution, but it could be quite fun. But my real question is…

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Expensive art

[Burning one million pounds](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/30/klf-burn-a-million-q.html). Yes, it's real. And yes, the K Foundation were very very strange.

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No more tears

[If you refrigerate an onion for 30 minutes you won't end up with stinging eyes when you cut it](http://lifehacker.com/software/macgyver-tip/refrigerate-onions-for-tear+free-chopping-313343.php). Brilliant, but perhaps a little too time consuming.

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Preservation

[The Library of Congress is looking in to how to preserve video games for the future](http://kotaku.com/gaming/feature/the-library-of-congress-loves-video-games-313328.php). Anyone who's tried to run old games on a modern PC knows…

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Causes of the American Revolution

[Benjamin Franklin](http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/fraud/how-benjamin-franklin-made-new-england-prosperous/): >The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been the poverty caused by the bad influence of…

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Facebook coverage

According to the advertising system, Facebook has around 1.5 million members in Australia, or over 7% of the population... (The US has 20m/6%, Canada 7.4m/22%, the UK 6.4m/10%…

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