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Link: http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/index.htm

An enterprising German figured out how to attach a small camera to his pet cat that would take photos automatically throughout the cat's daily wanderings. It's really quite clever.

(Via BoingBoing)

Link: http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/games/2007/06/games_frontiers_0617

There's a good article from Wired about the effect of voice chat within online gaming. Personally, while I'm more than happy to use it while gaming -- it's pretty much a requirement when participating in a WoW raid -- I never speak unless participating only with people I know from a face-to-face milieu. I'm not really sure why, but that seems to work best for me.

Link: http://www.loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/208/Rejected+WiiPlay+Games

I may have to create a Wii section on the blog at this rate... Anyway, link is to a video of a few "rejected" Wii games!

(Via Kottke)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-LpbXF33g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fuk%2Egizmodo%2Ecom%2F2007%2F06%2F15%2Fstar%5Ftrek%5Ftheremin%5Fwiimote%5Fmoo%2Ehtml

More YouTube silliness: the original Star Trek theme as played on a Wiimote.

(Via Gizmodo)

Link: http://uk.gizmodo.com/2007/06/15/german_chicks_in_bikinis_smash.html

I'm at a total loss to explain the audience for this one, other than people looking for bizarre videos.

Still, at least she's following basic safety procedure by donning protective eye-wear prior to destroying the PowerBook.

(Via Gizmodo)

Google recently added full photographic views of some parts of some cities to GoogleMaps. Much like with GoogleEarth, people have been spotting a few interesting events on camera. Here's Wired's take on it.

BoingBoing also has an interesting discussion on some of the pros and cons of the concept.

Over at CNet's NewsBlog, there's more.

The feature is very cool indeed but I just haven't the imagination to figure out how it's useful rather than fun. That said, Calgary's not covered yet. Dang!

Link: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/bootcamp.html

While Parallels is the way I prefer to run XP on my MacBook these days, DF notes that Apple's Boot Camp windows environment now has a new feature that suspends OSX and BootCamp launch. Thus when you return, you can pick up where you left off rather than restarting from scratch. Cool!

(Via Daring Fireball)

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/technology/11code.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Neat article from the NYT on the rise and fall of the captcha ("Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart") authentication process.

(From TalkingPointsMemo)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRGCMc59Wao

Oooh! One of my favourite game franchises is back. I can't wait to see what they do with it this time around.

(Via Nodwick)

Link: http://passiveaggressivenotes.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/when-phds-get-frustrated/

Basic physics with an attitude.

(Via OptimusCrime)

This subscription card appeared in a recent Macworld issue. Spot the mistake.

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This one's for the new Wii owner on this blog. From Wired 15.05:

Link: http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/968.html

Link is to a blog-related funny from The Joy of Tech.

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/06/02/calgary-transit.html?ref=rss

Looks like the City and the transit union have reached an agreement, signing a contract for the next three years.

I do hope this means the end of work-to-rule so I can actually rely on the buses being present at their scheduled time (or at all.)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWvT8hYf0qQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eoptimuscrime%2Ecom%2F

Don't watch this if you revere your DC superheroes...

(Via OptimusCrime)