Links for 2005-11-10
- An implementation of the Yahoo maps API turns the whole thing into a pirate map. S'pretty. There's also a radar screen. It's pretty cool, all things considered. Shiny.
- Blast from the past: In 2001 Macrumors users were not impressed by the recently announced iPod. It took them a couple of weeks to work out why it was cool. It took me about a month - when I bought my first 5Gb iPod for £350... "I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player?"
- "Implosion researchers have found that if water is put through a spiral, its electrical field changes and it then appears to have a potent, restorative effect on cells." "This is not a cultural issue, and this is not about alternative science versus western medicine. It is about the far simpler issue of a proper media organisation presenting made-up marketing rubbish as if it was scientific fact."
Comments
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The iPod link is awesome, some of the quotes contained are really astute (with 20/20 hindsight vision!):
“Not exactly "revolutionary". With the economy in its current state, You'll be able to pick up MP3 players for peanuts soon. The Archos Jukebox does the same thing and it's not blowing off the shelves either. $399 is just too much for an MP3 jukebox. Sorry Steve, this isn't it...”
→ Posted by: darren at November 10, 2005 12:45 PM
Heh. I bet every person in that thread now owns one or more iPods.
→ Posted by: dan at November 10, 2005 7:44 PM
implosion, eh? doesn't sound like a field of research that would end up healing anything. i love "bad science", it just scares me how much of it there is. and the venerable institutions where it can be found.
→ Posted by: inky circus at November 14, 2005 11:23 AM