Rants, raves, whinges… all of the above
Gizmodo has a short review on the Motorola Razr V3. I also found another review at The Gadgeteer.
After seeing the pictures of the phone, and realising just how thin it is, I want one! Stand-out features:
However, at a price in excess of A$1100, it's a *little* out of my price range. Realistically, who is going to shell out $1100 on a phone?
Damn.
The SMH has an article on how stem cells used to repair a Korean woman's spine and allow her to walk (albeit with a frame) again.
Slashdot also has a discussion on it.
Note that this was done using stem cells from cord blood and not embryos, avoiding the whole ethical kerfuffle surrounding the use of embryos. However, as I understand it, stem cells from cord blood cannot be used in as many ways as stem cells from embryos. I'm not quite sure where I stand on this whole issue. I have seen opinions from both "sides", and there are flaws in each. However, the benefit that could come from the use of stem cells is tremendous, so I don't know if it is that easy to just reject the use of stem cells from embryos.
Ars Technica has an article on the "Cell" processor developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, which will be used in the PS3. It looks very, VERY interesting.
Dunstan has landed himself a job at Apple. Congratulations!
MacNN has a preview of OmniOutliner 3.0, including screenshots. It also includes an "audio recording" feature that was
Thanks to Mat: Ahhh… nothing like free publicity. 
Courtesy of Backup Brain: George over at 90% crud takes a look at an article from Wired in 1997, giving 101 Ways To Save Apple, and what's happened since then.
Courtesy of macosxhints: Crackistan.com has a tutorial on how to connect to Vodafone GPRS using a Sony Ericsson phone and MacOS X (using Bluetooth).
My friend from Uni, Rob, recently talked about the pirating of music that seems to be prevalent among people in our age group. Will (another friend from Uni) and I have been debating about this for a while (instead of studying), so this post is for him, as well.
Continue reading 'Rob: My friend the pirate'
