Monday, June 29, 2009
Dell Developing MID (Mobile Internet Disaster)
The consumer electronics wizards at Dell who brought us the now defunct DJ Ditty MP3 player and the Axim handheld are hard at work on another gadget, a mobile Internet device.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Dell Zune Killer Postponed
So, Dell’s ambitious return in the digital music player market? Not quite so ambitious. The company has reportedly shelved for the time being its new “iPod Zune killer.” Intended to launch in concert with an online subscription service, the device was to use software developed at Zing, a company Dell acquired last year, to retrieve and organize digital media.
Think of It as More of a “Zune-Killer”
A glutton for punishment, Dell. Though its foray into the MP3 player market was about as ill-starred as they come (remember DJ Ditty? Yeah, didn’t think so.), the company is gearing up for a second attempt. Unfazed by its Ditty disaster, the company has reportedly developed a second, ahem, “iPod killer.”
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
