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Hah! Using the motion-sensor built-in to recent Mac laptops to synthesize lightsaber noises. Genius!

Apple is posting time-lapse videos of the first 24 hours outside their new NYC store. Respect is due to the person in that 5am video who uses the camera to propose marriage!

Hooray! The annual tacky-fest is tomorrow. The question on everyone’s lips: Since Cyprus hasn’t made the final, who will Greece give their “douze points” to?

Failed pilot for an animated series based on Evan Dorkin’s “Eltingville Comic Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Role-Playing Club”. Most of my Star Wars trivia knowledge comes from reading those strips.

Absolute and relative pricing of consoles on their US launches. Interesting fact: Every Nintendo console (NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube) has launched at the $200 mark. Wonder what the Wii will cost…

Stanford research project (from the folks behind the Coral caching system) tracing the outer leaves of the internet.

Cross-platform mountable network file-system storing your precious data with Amazon’s S3 service.

Javascript toolkit. I don’t need all the fancypants “Make text swoop in” stuff, but the DOM querying syntax looks dead handy.

Tetris implemented in XHTML and Javascript, thanks to Yahoo’s javascript UI libraries.

Edinburgh’s been infested with cows. This is happening in Boston this summer too.

Best feature of the Flickr “Gamma”? Proper fulltext search functionality, including Creative Commons searching. Huzzah!

“Overall, the findings … show that for young people, no other news source drives cynicism toward the candidates and the political system more than The Daily Show.”

My next laptop. I love the fact that they’ve made the black shell a “premium” offering, costing $150 more than the equivalent white. They’ve managed to make a black Macbook into a status symbol!

Google’s new “Gather webpages and search results” tool is launched. I quite like it — It’s a different approach than del.icio.us (there’s no tagging, and you’re not limited to sorting by time), but I think it might fit in with people’s usage a lot better.

glenn’s written an excellent review of new photo-sharing site Tabblo for BostonWTF.

Hooray! It’s the first fucking idiotic, easily-gamable, pyramid-scheme, AllAdvantage-style “We’ll pay you to watch ads” business model of the new bubble.

PDF containing new clues and details regarding the upcoming final book in the Series of Unfortunate Events (Due out Friday the 13th October)

Snap (the olde Idealab search site) has relaunched. It’s an endearingly different approach, and good for browsing, but I imagine it’s be a PITA when doing in-depth technical searches.

US Skype users can now use it to phone anywhere in the US or Canada. This is going to be painful for the mobile companies — I’m sure a large part of their money comes from people using the “free” longdistance that your minutes bring.

Fun rant predicting an impending crash. “We’ve now advanced from realistic 3D to slightly prettier 3D and… even slightlier prettier 3D with slightly better reflection effects and slightly better animated water ripples and - oh, look! This game has the most realistic fog yet!”

Enjoyable hand-drawn Flash platformer.

If MS detect you running a pirate copy of Windows XP, they’ll try to sell you a discounted legal copy. Smart.

Diebold voting machines are found to be easily re-flashable by anyone wanting to invisibly rig an election. Diebold spokesman: “I don’t believe these evil elections people exist.” I have not the words.

This is just splendid in ways unimaginable. A cabdriver who was in the BBC’s reception area was rushed onto air by mistaken producers, thinking he was an internet expert to talk about the Apple vs. Apple case. Full marks to the bloke for struggling through the interview despite being clearly horrified!

Nicely done parallel-universe cold-open from last night’s SNL.