If you are into gaming and you haven’t checked out Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw’s videos over at The Escapist, then you haven’t lived.  Personally I absolutely love his game reviews, they are hilarious and point out obvious flaws in an extremely entertaining way.  I think thus far my favourite is probably his review of ‘Army of [...]

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Codeweavers is a company that develops a proprietary version of Wine called Crossover.  It allows one to run Windows based programs on a Linux or Mac system.  The company distinguishes itself from other Wine variant producers by returning all its patches to the Wine project.
In July 2008 the company launched the Great American Lame Duck [...]

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AT&T has introduced the American market  to it’s new Samsung Epix, the first phone with an integrated optical mouse.  It is located between two directional keys, in order to allow easy navigation.  The phone also has a standard touch screen for those who prefer using a stylus.  All this should make for a much more [...]

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For the first time ever, internet users could chat to the astronauts in the ISS. Polish IM company Gadu-Gadu organised the chat transmission between IM users on Earth and the ISS crew.
“The internet users could ask them anything – from questions their everyday life in space to more scientific queries. Some questions were humorous, whereas [...]

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After a transformer failed earlier this week, CERN’s LHC has run into another problem.  One of the 1700 superconducting magnets has failed, leaking helium (gas) into the tunnel that houses the collider.  In order to repair the problem, large parts of the tunnel may need to be brought up to room temperature to allow repairs [...]

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CERN’s LHC is supposed to be fired up for the first time tomorrow.  Their main aim at this stage is hunting for the Higgs Boson, whose existence would explain the mass of many different types of particle.  Here’s to hoping they find it, and that they don’t create a black hole in the process.  Read [...]

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I’ve always liked the Sony Vaios, very good build quality and great specs on most of them, as long as you are willing to spend a decent amount of money.  However, they had to recall over 300 000 batteries in 2006, and now they are having problems again.  This time the problems lie with the [...]

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Honda announced that it is working on a second generation of its Insight hybrid, which has been in production since 1999.  Its good to see more hybrid models around, but it seems as though they are still targeting mainly the US.  I haven’t seen any hybrids around here other than the Toyota Prius, so not [...]

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So I stumbled across this article on the Honda Civic natural gas car.  While I understand that its emmisions are very clean, one has to ask whether this is a real long term solution to our problems.  Also questionable is whether we should be using the natural gas that we have (keep in mind its [...]

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In a rather odd way, Google seems to have announced their own open source browser.  Although the announcement is not quite official, it was written about, in some detail, in a comic book by Scott McCloud.  The comic also mentioned several Google developers, which is a somewhat convincing case that this is not just a [...]

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