Is down to four minutes? [icbm: home]
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Hamster powered mobile phone charger
I so need a hamster powered mobile phone charger. Now. Please. [icbm: work]
Worst timing evar!
Microsoft announces the latest release of MSN messenger, in the middle of the Google talk buzz. [icbm: work]
I wonder if that paraglider has any drugs?
How about we find out by firing these here machine guns at him? [icbm: work]
Hackathons again
How about a 48 hour hacking session in a house? It forces you to turn of that part of your brain associated with fear of failure, and therefore makes you more creative. Again, this sounds like a cool idea to me. Previous linkage. [icbm: work]
Interview with Adam Savage
An interview with a Mythbuster. Did you know the show was an Australian concept? Or that they get gay fan mail? [icbm: dcs]
Where did SUVs come from?
I’ve always wondered where the SUV proliferation in the US came from. This article assures me that it’s because the US federal government tried to make cars more fuel efficient. Interesting, if it’s correct. Nick Hac. [icbm: work]
Want to be an acquisitions editor on Open Source topics
Because the Average Joe is looking for one. [icbm: home]
The channel seven defence
Your honour, they can’t prove we didn’t lie in our story. Arguing that you could have lied in a journalistic story as a defence? Either Channel 7 is populated with such morons that you shouldn’t be watching, or they can’t be trusted. Pick. [icbm: home]
Hackathons
Let your development team spend a day hacking on a feature they care about. Sounds like a great idea to me. I look around at a lot of the developers I know and they’re running at 50% efficiency because they feel bored doing what the managers say they should the whole time, and the product…