As the bike shop owner was reading out the description, we were going through a red light, sirens blaring. Kim suddenly made a squeaking sound, and pointed at the intersection we had just gone through. I slammed on the brakes, and looked. True enough, there he was. Bright red T-shirt with a white logo on the front, and a bike that was gleaming in the bright midday August sun.
Looks like we’re in for a stormy solar Saturday, as the sun has erupted in our direction again. It shot out an M3.2-class solar flare towards our humble little planet (as you can see above). The resulting stream of charged particles should crash into Earth’s magnetic field on Saturday, and could cause the odd blackout, pretty lights, and conspiracy theorists to go nuts, again.
Dogs, they’re not quite the internet sensation that Cats are, and I think that’s a tad unfair. They can do awesome things too, just like this incredible balancing act. Hell, I’ve tried that many a time over the years and always landed flat on my face.
Despite talk of Google owning Motorola's mobile division, the deal hasn't yet been completed. Google needs approval from anti-competition regulators on both sides of the pond before it can be made official, with the EU today announcing it'll be publishing its decision on February 13th. The shareholders are happy, now Google just needs the pen-pushers onside. [Reuters]
Capcom has released the first official trailer for Resident Evil 6, attaching a November 20th release date to its latest zombie-packed sequel. It'll arrive first on Xbox 360 and PS3, before appearing later on PC. The plot's something about zombies, as you might be expecting, only triggered by "bio-terrorism" attacks on the US and Hong Kong this time. [YouTube]
The FBI shuttered file-sharing web site MegaUpload yesterday; arrested its executives, and have called the site an "international organised criminal enterprise." Even though there's little doubt that MegaUpload was host to some copyrighted material, it was also a great way to upload and share large files, like photo archives and video, and send them to friends without worrying about hosting, Dropbox quotas, or overloaded inboxes. Now that it's gone however, here are some other great sites that let you share large files effortlessly.
Apple recently opened its largest UK store in fancy Covent Garden, but that’s just not prestigious enough it seems. Cupertino’s gone and inked a deal to open up an Apple store in one of the most prestigious department stores in the world, Harrods in London's Knightsbridge.
Stats released by BT's retail division show that online shopping spiked significantly on November 30th last year, the day of the wide-ranging strike of public sector workers. Sales on that day were 45 per cent higher than on the same day in 2010.
I am not a Navy Seal. I don't need a fixed-blade, full-tang pocket sword with a tanto blade and a Rockwell factor of 58. I open a lot of boxes and trim my nails with this 50-plus year-old pen knife. It used to be my grandfather's. I'm named after him. He died before I was born.
Hope you didn't get too excited about that HD update of Samsung's popular Galaxy S II, as Samsung has now said the slightly enhanced Galaxy S II HD model with the 720p screen and fatter battery won't be launching here. Which means we'll have to wait a few more weeks and get a Galaxy S III instead. [Recombu]
We know Viagra is good at keeping human penises erect. And shouldn't that be enough? Not for one horticultural expert who claims the drug does the same for cut flowers.
According to quotes apparently coming from Simon Cowell today, a deal with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism venture could see the winner of 2012's Britain's Got Talent sent into space on one of the first private space trips.
Gawker's uncovered a pretty devious plan of Anonymous to wage war in its Megaupload retaliation — tricking Twitter users into firing the Low Orbit Ion Cannon. But what the hell is that? Giz explains.
I thought the class Homer had to take to become a monorail driver was a tongue-in-cheek look at what it takes to operate the trains of tomorrow. But glancing through this Disneyland Operator Guide from 1966, it doesn't look that difficult.
GiffGaff’s feeling the strain of its low cost user-powered business model. It left some customers without a connection for three weeks and managed to mix up users’ numbers for days, in its biggest gaff yet.
It was almost definitely not the first time Apple thought about how to revolutionise textbooks and education, but Joe Peters and a couple of Apple interns won its annual iContest, "sort of an American Idol for great ideas that gives interns a chance to present their best thoughts to executives," by presenting a plan for cheap digital textbooks to enthusiastic Apple execs back in 2008, two years before the iPad was loosed on the world.
