Posts by Bad Max

Google and the Great Wikipedia Feedback Loop

Answer is simple

http://www.startupbin.com/google-google/

or

http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/

While we're at it -- beat Google tracking with

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

Enjoy.

Ps. Where's the GoogleBeast icon!?

SpaceX erects Phallus Falcon 9 rocket

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No! It's Superd***!!

Mattel bemuses gamers with 'brainwave' toy

@ If I was inventing...

Or use accelerometers (probably what Mattel did). All that straining to produce "brain waves" is certain to be accompanied by involuntary tossing of the head. And all but the living dead / even the living dead could learn to play it...

Phorm losses shoot up by half

The sweetest words I've heard all week

"Revenue remains zero."

HA!

Google's 'Smart Grid' idea? Get the govt to pay for it

Degrees

Hmm... that qualification in Natural Resources BS certainly appears to be handiest one Mr Terrill has acquired.

Red Hat buys Qumranet, sidesteps Microsoft

"rile the feathers of..."

"In a long-awaited announcement today, Internet rag EL REG disclosed that it has adopted a new editorial policy. 'We have too right like our readers, and there not knowed for good Inglish", disclosed El Reg in the PR.

"Too maintain the interest of reader's in our websight, we have to adapt and grow." New forms of English, presumably.

Do not cast thine eyes up to the hills, and do not look to AskOxford.com for help; you're on your own now (or is that "your on you're own"?).

Thailand clamps down on rude websites

@AC (At Some Point ...)

AC for president! No, King! Okay, local councillor then!

(AC, come out of that anonymous closet, pls?)

Google's comic capers: what they really meant to say

@adblocker

I run Windoze so I use Proxomitron (but it's no longer supported).

www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Popup-Ad-Spyware-Blockers/Proxomitron.shtml

Or try Privoxy

http://www.privoxy.org/

Brit firm to demo serious flying robo-saucer in 2009

It's not rocket science

You can build one yourself (that weighs about a pound):

http://jlnlabs.online.fr/gfsuav/index.htm

The site includes plans (third link in log book)