November 2008
12 posts
John Herrman wrote HDCP Restrictions Rolled Back... →
One part of the new MacBook experience that didn’t exactly seem like much of an upgrade was the addition of HDCP for the new DisplayPort video connector, which left users unable to watch iTunes…
John Herrman wrote Amazon Kindle 2 Might Ruin... →
TechCrunch reports that the previously spied Kindle 2, or Kindle II, or Second-le, or whatever it’s going to be, isn’t really going to be anything before Q1 of 2009. Apparently, the device was on…
John Herrman wrote Lenovo Lets You Disable Your... →
In the next couple months Lenovo will be rolling out a BIOS update for its Montevina laptop users which enables remote shutdown and subsequent encryption via text message. The tech relies on the…
FYI, Edinburgh's Greatest Pride
A boy, a boy, a boy and another boy, joined by around eight other boys, tell a girl, a girl and a large girl all about about their collective virility. After this fertile subject is exhausted, they call the large one many synonyms for ‘large’, and continue drinking. This coach, coach H, smells like crotch. There are 100 open seats in at least five other coaches.
John Herrman wrote 17,000 Square Foot LED... →
When we first wrote about this comically huge Walgreens LED sign — the largest of its kind in the world — construction was just getting under way. That was May, and now they’re done. D3 LED, the…
John Herrman wrote Winsome Leaf Keychain Speakers... →
At first glance, this leaf from Bird Electron doesn’t seem like such a bad idea: Provide people with a small, unamplified, discreet speaker that can hook up to pretty much any MP3 player, wrap it in…
John Herrman wrote Samsung Manufacturing 256GB... →
It was nearly six months ago when Samsung laid out their plan to manufacture an affordable, super-fast 256GB SSD by the end of the year. It sounded a little bit optimistic at the time, but as of…
Traveling back in time one year, this conversation...
Nate Silver: Why would you commission a survey question with no correct response?
John Ziegler: The purpose of the question, you pinhead, was we wanted to determine the Tina Fey Effect.
USE YOUR IMAGINATIONS, HISTORY PEOPLE.
A list of very angry people, now very nervous →
John Herrman wrote Beautiful Voltron Painting Took... →
