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Lenovo's all-business ThinkPad SL510 gets reviewed {Engadget}
Oct 25th 2009 6:37AM What a great looking laptop. Really. Simple, clean lines AND NO F**KING GLOSSY/PIANO SURFACE ANYWHERE IN SIGHT, not in the case, not in the screen!
I simply cannot understand the glossy/piano finish mania. Piano finish makes everything look just plain cheap (and disgusting after a while) and glossy renders displays unusable.
Thank god for Lenovo and other business laptop makers.
Texans denied entry into Ireland {Gadling}
Jul 11th 2009 4:46AM Europeans will probably be denied entry into the US too if you cannot tell where you are going to stay, at least initially. In addition, you will be photographed and your fingerprints will be taken before you can enter the country.
Oh, and you must also request travel authorization 72 hours before you arrive, whereas (I think) US Citizens are free to come and go as they please to Schengen area, as long as they have a passport.
Global Sony announcement rumored for tomorrow, unicorns practically a lock {Engadget}
Mar 30th 2009 9:22AM I don't think that moving to 45nm process or whatever warrants a worldwide press announcement as 99% of the potential customers do not know what it means, let alone care.
If it's not about a price drop then something major is going to happen to the PS3 firmware (PS2 compatibility by firmware upgrade, is it possible?).
Climbing Mt. Kinabalu {Gadling}
Jan 3rd 2009 10:30AM It's Kinabalu, not Kinablau.
Anyway, climbing this mountain is probably a stunning experience. Would love to do it someday.
Plastic bag fees in New York City? What about Seattle? {Gadling}
Nov 7th 2008 11:58AM I live in Finland and pretty much all grocery stores charge for bags (plastic, paper and "eco" bags) and have done so for decades. Eco bags are not available in every store.
Typical price is 15 euro cents for a plastic bag. However, they are quite durable and can be used several times. There's no "eco tax" on them, just the normal 22% VAT.
I usually take a smallish backpack with me to the supermarket so I don't have to buy any kind of bags that often, except garbage bags and paper bags for organic kitchen waste.
The Pirate Life on Somalia's Coast {Gadling}
Oct 30th 2008 1:32PM Somalians are perhaps the most unwanted immigrants in all European countries nowadays.
Here where I live we've had Somalis since the early 1990's and about 90% of them (!) still live on social security and benefits. The situation is the same in every European country who've made the grave mistake of granting them an asylum.
This piracy thing is hardly surprising - they are a major force in mindless violent crime in Europe, too.
(oh, don't bother waving the racist card at me - this has nothing to do with race)
LittleBigPlanet delayed worldwide, Qur'an misuse cited as cause [update] {Joystiq}
Oct 17th 2008 1:18PM Islamization of the western world is a great thing, indeed...
It's really amazing how we bend over to every request from the muslim community, be it a dog (!) in an advertisement which "offends" them or whatever.
Mosques are being built with tax payers money in many European countries, try to build a church in Saudi-Arabia and you'll be beheaded.
UK PS3 install base over three times what it was a year ago {Joystiq Playstation}
Sep 30th 2008 12:55PM "it would also be interesting to see how many PS3s are just for movies"
Every time PS3 sales figures are quoted people come in to tell that "nobody plays any games on it, it's just for the movies'.
Every time Blu-Ray sales figures are quoted people come in to tell that all those players sold are PS3s and "nobody watches any movies on it, it's for the games".
Would you eat horse meat if it were the humane thing to do? {Slashfood}
May 22nd 2008 2:30PM It's interesting that horse meat is such a taboo for many people who have absolutely no problem eating chickens, pigs and cows which have been "produced" in really disgusting meat factories.
I'm sure that every horse which ends up in a supermarket has had a better life than any (non-organic) chicken, pig or cow. As far as I know, horses are rarely kept *just* for the meat.
Anyway, good thing about living in "western world" is that we can choose what to eat. If you don't feel like eating something, then you can simply stop eating it and eat something else instead. Many people in the world don't have that choice!
Bathing with beer {Slashfood}
May 12th 2008 1:59PM You can actually bathe in beer in Austria:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1415257.html
