Apple shipped video iPods last month infected with a virus. In a press release, Apple said only 1 percent of all Video iPods shipped since Sept. 12 were infected. The virus named “RavMonE.exe” only affects PCs and so far only 25 reports have been confirmed. 
The government has been spending too much time watching bad sci-fi movies. It seems they’ve created a working stun-gun that looks like its straight from “Stargate” or a billion other shows.
The U.S. Air Force has named the gun "PHaSR," which stands for "The Personal Halting and Stimulation Response" gun. It works by shooting a non-leathal beam of laser light at a person. It blinds them and supposedly there is very little pain. Of course I don't see why a pair of sunglasses or closing your eyes would make the gun useless.
These are sweet. They are adapters to make 9 volt batteries work like candles. I mean I don’t even own anything that uses a 9 volt battery but I have a whole pack of them in a box. Something like this would be great for a power outage or a good way to seduce a really nerdy chick.
It would be a lie if I said I wasn’t interested in the DVD format war. I know I’m a geek but this is a HUGE deal. You see back in the 80’s there was VHS and Betamax. Betamax was a better quality but more expensive. So the country was split with some companies backing one version and some backing the other. Eventually VHS won the battle, but it slowed the progression of the medium and made things more expensive for us normal people.
I just saw this on the AP Wire. I laughed because the whole thing is just ridicules. I mean this girl has to be messed up! Then I sorta felt sad thinking about how there are people this messed up in the world.
Here is the article:
MESA, Arizona (AP) -- A 22-year-old woman was arrested after authorities say she tried to hire someone to kill another woman whose photo appeared on her boyfriend's MySpace.com Web page.
Heather Michelle Kane was booked Tuesday for investigation of conspiracy to commit murder, Mesa Detective Jerry Gissel said.
She was arrested after she met an undercover Mesa police detective at a grocery store, gave the officer $400 and offered to pay an additional $100 once the woman had been killed, according to court records.
The records say Kane gave the undercover officer photographs taken from her boyfriend's social networking Web page of the woman she wanted killed.
She also requested a photo of the woman's dead body.
It wasn't clear if the boyfriend and the targeted woman were romantically involved, Gissel said.
Apple is expected to announce today the opening of the iTunes Movie Store. I first mentioned this here, so its not too much of a surprise.
The surprise is that Apple thinks they can make a bundle of money by charging $14.99 for each movie downloaded to an Ipod. It’s one thing to watch a short TV show that you paid $2 for on a small screen, but the mass community does not want to watch a full feature on something so small. Look at the horrible sales of the PSP movies.
Supposedly, Disney and Lionsgate Films are the first two companies that signed a movie deal with Apple and others are going to be announced at a press conference today at 10 a.m. PT.
Rumors are also swirling that Steve Jobs will display a new wide-screen video Ipod, but even with it, people aren’t going to want to pay $14.99 for a movie they can’t also watch on their TVs.
I saw this and thought it was a joke. I showed it to Sarah and she thought it was the greatest thing in the world.
The EnterTrainer, which sells for $139, is a heart monitor that links up to your TV. While your heart is beating at a certain rate it keeps the TV on and normal. If your heart beat starts to slow down, the EnterTrainer drops the volume of the TV and eventually turns it off. The whole thing is wireless and can be synced up to a tredmill, bike, weight machine, or free weights.
I found this. Who seriously needs a garage inside of their RV? Volkner Mobile RV and pricing isn’t announced yet for it. Even more annoying is that it can only fit small sports cars. Which begs the question, if someone can afford a fancy small sports car, why would they be traveling around in an RV?
Like a scene from a bad reality TV show, 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries voted Pluto out. The sphere, named after Mickey Mouse’s dog, is no longer considered a planet.
Sarah’s laptop got infected with Winfixer. She has the most recent version of Norton but it was doing jack to fix the problem. No programs were doing anything to help. At Norton’s website there were instructions on how to remove Winfixer from the registry but they were 10 months outdated. I knew what the problem was. I knew Winfixer was in the registry but I had no idea about how to find all the pieces on my own. I decided to call Norton’s help line and ask them if they had an updated registry map with where all the Winfixer pieces were.
After waiting for 39 minutes I get a guy on the phone and he tells me his name is Bahrita. I’m not joking. He said the name, I couldn’t understand him, so I asked him to spell it. Then since I just watched “30 Days” episode about outsourcing I flat out asked Bahrita if was working an outsourced job.
He told me he was and that he’s in India. I complement him on his fake English accent and having him warmed up we begin talking about Winfixer.
I love the AP wire! I just read this article about how hobbits were just discovered in China. Well its a new species of human ancestors called hominoid, but nicknamed "hobbit."
Read the full article:
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) -- Skeletal remains of a hominoid nicknamed "hobbit" and found in a cave on a remote Indonesian island are from an ancestor of human pygmies still living there today, scientists say.
Previous researchers concluded in 2004 that the remains on Flores island represented a new species of human, "Homo floresiensis", which was about 3-feet tall with brains roughly the size of grapefruits.
Scientist proved this week that the darkside of the Force exists, well sorta. They proved that dark matter exists and this strengthens the theory that dark energy exists. They know this because two huge clusters of galaxies collided in the biggest bang since the “big bang.” This some how changed gravitational fields, which allowed scientist to locate and prove that dark matter is real.
Dark matter is matter that does not emit or reflect light. This is similar to black holes, but black holes don’t emit light because their gravity is so powerful it doesn’t let light escape. Dark energy is an even more mysterious phenomenon, a force of some sort that beats out gravity and is causing the universe to expand at an ever-faster pace.
I know this sounds like boring techno-babble but this is huge. This is just one more piece to the giant puzzle of figuring out how the world/universe works. Of course if it is ever figured out, I’m sure it will come after I’ve died.
Continue reading to see the full article form the AP wire....
The first shipment of the “100 Dollar Laptop” is expected to happen this fall with 500 computers shipping to children in Thailand. 
I'm soooooooo getting this when it comes out. It is an adapater that links your cell phone to your Debit/ATM/Credit Cards and you can just use it to pay for things. The best part is that my cellphone is already equiped to handle it so I don't need to get a new one.
Read the article from CNN.com: