tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19764425126359665482012-02-17T00:46:18.002ZBunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-9178536472837783412011-03-26T12:49:00.000Z2011-03-26T12:49:05.828Z

Humanity is currently in red alert - no, wait, what's worse than red? And the thing is that we don't fully realize the extent of the crisis, really. The media, but also people around the world (which the media are sort of the thinking machines for), haven't paid the whole situation - nay, this crisis - the proper attention. I really feel we should be much more freaked out about it. These

Melhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216331489164939920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-17942760444431048772010-07-02T21:31:00.005+01:002010-07-03T11:14:05.421+01:00

You see, I've been wondering, for a while now, and used this as a spark for my once-every-ever-so-long post here, why Google Wave is such a failure and nobody ever uses it, no, checks it even. My boyfriend and I (hereforth refered to as 'us' or 'we') have been avid users of said Wave facility for a while now, initially inspired by my Google fangirl-ism, which I am somehow notorious for among

Melhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216331489164939920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-35299134649754866452010-05-15T10:23:00.003+01:002010-05-15T11:50:33.144+01:00

(The post title here is kind of a double entendre, get it? I'm explaining why I chose the thing, while it took me a while to do so, and I'm asking it why it's doing this to me, like "Why, Linux?") I've always had this 'thing', you see: whenever somebody pesters me about something, even if I know it's 'better', or at least want to try it out, I avoid doing so with all my might, until they stop

Melhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216331489164939920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-6783466879634827172010-05-10T21:32:00.002+01:002010-05-10T21:42:42.572+01:00

The iPad is to netbooks, what the iPod is to mp3 players. No, let me explain: They both existed beforehand, and other, non-Apple brands continue to make those similar products, often better than the Apple versions of them, but Apple is the one that made them popular, that made the world realize that they exist as technologies. Oh, and they're cutely designed, but shockingly overpriced compared to

Melhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216331489164939920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-36516012596414692972009-11-23T11:14:00.000Z2009-11-23T11:14:47.412Z

The thing about culture, the important thing about culture, is that it builds on the past (yes, that's building on the Terry Pratchett quote regarding football, from Unseen Academicals, which I'm evidently reading now), as they pretty much say in RiP: A Remix Manifesto. And what can be a more appropriate modern ground for us to discuss culture than the Internet, whose past is pretty short,

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-33142961253948334312009-10-12T19:14:00.000+01:002009-10-12T19:14:31.548+01:00

Yes, a double negative, and I'm not phased enough to turn that into a positive, to tell you the truth. I haven't really proved my come-back fully yet, I believe. And the role of a gamer isn't one to be taken lightly, in my book. Plus, things keep going wrong for me, so I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep (you know whom this is dedicated to). For one, Steam has a policy where

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-64924285961421245312009-06-07T09:57:00.005+01:002009-06-07T20:13:47.577+01:00

I just couldn't NOT share this with you guys. As the article says, 'here is yet another "two of my favorite things, together at last" video: A Magnetic Fields song being played on a Game Boy.' And that it is, alright. In every way possible. Plus, it irrevocably proves the fact which I have known for a while to be true: even geeky kids (check that awesome hairstyle, now, whydoncha) love Stephin

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-65479641201856899762009-05-28T09:19:00.002+01:002009-05-28T10:00:26.692+01:00

Wolfram|Alpha is quite the talk of the (digital) town at the moment, yes. Everyone (who matters) has tried to play around with it one way or another. Still, I'll tell you what: the most fun of all games you can play with it is to ask it a question which is also a reference. It's cool to see how each of these are answered by it.For example, we all know that the answer to life, the universe, and

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-47254843032412655942009-05-02T15:00:00.002+01:002009-05-02T15:40:10.874+01:00

The Human race's energy issues are well known to all of you guys - from the 'why the f*ck batteries don't last longer' question to what on Earth (or in space, for that matter) we're going to do about powering our needs, now that we've grown to have so many.Well, it's not like I have answers to any of these questions for you here, 'cause, sadly, I don't. I just want to grasp this opportunity to

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-19393921506200556522008-11-05T22:13:00.002Z2008-11-05T22:39:33.427Z

My friend Sabbattack came over today. He's been coming by quite often lately, filling his - and my - mornings, which would otherwise mostly be boring (well, that's a lie - I seem to always have things to do lately...).Last time he came, he left with my Wii - which was formerly my brother's wii, but my brother gave it to me because he couldn't care less for it and I looked at it and drooled - in

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-21425763037160058992008-09-10T12:15:00.004+01:002008-09-10T13:35:07.008+01:00

The LHC is working, and no black hole was created or anyfink. Other than the one in naysayers' arses, that is.What's interesting (to me) is, last night, before going to bed, I talked to my brother, who mentioned he's been to CERN, with a special group of 17 kids from our school, in 04/2007. He inquired, once he found out what 'the five-storey building' they were building was and what it was

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-19774371226068272152008-06-30T11:40:00.004+01:002008-06-30T19:12:20.911+01:00

It's... strange. Starting tomorrow, Bill Gates will "transition out" of his role at Microsoft, allegedly to work more actively at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. That's their charity thingy, mind you, if you didn't know.Having been born in the glorious year 1982, I grew up with the knowledge that Gates is "the richest man in the world", even if he's now just the 3rd richest, poor thing. And

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-26928178645637060652008-06-18T17:39:00.005+01:002008-06-18T18:25:54.031+01:00

After my previous "times change" rant, I have an announcement to make, ladies and gentlemen: I don't play games. PC games, that is. No. Not the way I used to.Far from that - I only installed Yahtzee's Trilby recently, and I haven't even finished it. And I do play the occasional wii game with my brother (I must say, I trashed his friend Hector in wii sports' bowling the other day), or with whoever

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-15427740870541932292008-06-18T14:52:00.002+01:002008-06-18T14:57:09.549+01:00

I was trying to fix the PC this morning, as my brother came back from school, where he had to write his one-exam-before-last. And he came in while I had the tower open and, once he'd finished with all his stupid jokes about "why these cables (the IDEs) are lots-of-cables-connected-as-one and they don't sell them as separate cables", I offered to give him a quick once-over about the basic

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-84766699741981007342008-01-31T17:53:00.006Z2008-05-17T16:28:21.273+01:00

I've been wanting to write about my google mania for a while. Ever since the year 2000, when I was (kinda pretending to be) studying Biochemistry in Edinburgh Uni and was plugged the search engine there by teachers, other staff and students alike, I've been using it and its services more and more. And more.I now use everything from Google Documents to Picasa to quickly check (and sometimes share)

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-5525309101766421272008-01-28T06:05:00.002Z2008-01-28T07:23:38.095Z

or, "Justifying Our Respect For Overpriced 'Style-Gadgets'".Thanks to David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard in The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution - this book I'm now reading, which Alex (my friend next door, who's doing his MA in Music Business) lent me - I realised something which is kind of evident if you think about it for a second: the digitization of music all started

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-1396619175817454272007-12-28T13:24:00.000Z2007-12-28T13:52:09.175Z

Just a top ten, from Wired magazine, naming the 10 coolest scientific breakthroughs of the year - movies have it, albums have it, what about SCIENCE?!My faves, subjectively and not-so-much, are numbers 1, 8, 10 and probably 4 (since I'm an O-, and Rett Syndrome is something I don't have ), in that order. Go check them out, you'll be a little bit smarter by the time you're done, guaranteed. Yeah.I

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-22186649817403765002007-12-04T12:52:00.002Z2008-05-17T16:46:32.643+01:00

We live in wondrous times, when many of the 'important' things have already been discovered. Or invented. Or dismissed as stupid. And we've found new things that can be useful in our lives, things that the best science fiction writers of previous centuries would have to have smoked too much opium to think of. We're in a glorious age, scientifically, where most areas move too fast for us to

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-52784459872616838602007-11-30T00:15:00.000Z2007-11-30T09:57:39.503Z

For a long time, so many conglomerates, and their brothers, have been looking at us with mistrust, spreading the word, whether they knew so through research or - more probably - not, that we were tapping into their much-needed, hard-earned revenue from their reasonably priced product. Video, television and, more so, music have all been part of this media misinformation-followed-by-adaptation

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-3236125379866434032007-11-21T07:51:00.001Z2008-06-30T19:18:38.650+01:00

Kids' stuff is pretty much what video games are seen as. But many of them are not fit for your 10-year-old, with 'sex and violence' often being their major selling point [*'Major Sellingpoint' HIMYM in-joke reference salute here*]. And I'm not just talking Devil May Cry or Need for Speed here, as popular as they may be; there are far more 'adult' examples out there than that.However, the ex First

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-28957571648838056532007-11-17T06:48:00.000Z2007-11-17T07:16:41.206Z

I've been following this guy's art for a while now, on Gizmodo. He makes working steampunk gadgets of all sorts and I've been drooling over their artistic and geeky value for obvious reasons (mainly the fact that steampunk is sooo cool) over the last few months .The thing is, his name wasn't known on Gizmodo, not until now. The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, however, found the guy who makes

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-8885541536605945352007-10-09T17:30:00.000+01:002007-10-09T17:49:17.903+01:00

Well, I just discovered evidence for the fact that Than is a bored housewife, and that he has a degree in Geometry from the University of Smart-arse. Which is why I was with him for more than 5 years, actually. And he's also an escapist that lets great chunks of time disappear into thin air, which is kind of why I split up with him. And he also finds cool stuff on the web for me to look at, which

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-47268569732146711452007-10-03T12:09:00.000+01:002007-10-03T13:17:41.000+01:00

I always find it frustrating that gaming is still not widely accepted as a 'higher art'. As a medium, it already has its auteurs, its classics and its avant garde, so... why not? Just because it's newer? Just because there's not a bunch of French guys that have decided so for us, and have not elevated it socially?It's not that it's new, either, I don't think. Machinima have their own festival,

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-90373310448897692472007-09-30T22:27:00.000+01:002007-10-01T09:07:32.579+01:00

I just discovered that McDonald's UK now takes cards. Which is the coolest thing since Frappuccino Light.Let me explain. I think that credit cards are the smartest financial institution ever invented until now, and I'm glad they're around. Especially due to their application in online shopping, but not that alone. They're actually used in so many different ways nowadays, and people don't always

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-45201861483648431422007-09-28T10:32:00.000+01:002007-09-28T10:46:10.310+01:00

I may have whined about the whole 'pink gadgets' thing before, but the truth is that I am female after all and I do care about the design side of mah gadgets. I just moved into my new room and set up my PC and all, and what was the first thing I bought? Yes, coordinating peripherals, in black and matte silver...I firmly believe that these colours are, to every self-respecting geek of 2007, the

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-78704713374080365272007-09-27T15:22:00.003+01:002008-05-17T17:19:02.044+01:00

I just watched the video of 1997's Macworld - the one where Steve Jobs comes back to what seemed like a doomed company at the time, which still cultivated the enmity between Macintosh and Microsoft, started because of the mouse patent issue and all. The one where he was criticized for announcing Mac's new deal with Microsoft by presenting Bill Gates on a big screen - which was really referential

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-63315187318528224792007-09-27T15:21:00.001+01:002007-09-27T15:21:55.839+01:00

So I've been browsing through websites and store catalogues in my pre-Xmas gift-buying escapade. And along with the "what to get for which member of your family / social life" poor attempts at grouping people together, I've noticed so many "for her" items in gadgety stores (mostly online, 'cause dat's where us geeks buy dah prezzies). And what I really can't wrap my carefully coiffed head around

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-87282296195057796562007-09-27T15:19:00.000+01:002007-09-27T15:21:16.794+01:00

Whether it's about image or sound, in homes or specialised shops, the debate is still on, and the relevant misconceptions are abundant...A great portion of the general population will have an opinion, whether they actually know what it's about or not. And there's the ones who are pro-analogue, just because it's older and more "established", without them actually realising what it means - just

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-75271342793605736012007-09-27T15:17:00.000+01:002007-09-27T15:19:40.458+01:00

I've been "part of the internet" for more than half my life now. And it's been an extraordinary experience altogether. It's magical to see new ways of thinking emerge (and eventually subdue) in this brave new world, to see how brilliantly or terribly people can interact and exchange thoughts and knowledge and creativity, to be part of things you never imagined could exist.What I really want to

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-38176535436026153912007-09-27T15:15:00.000+01:002007-09-27T15:17:44.154+01:00

OK, I just had to write this down for the world to see...I have a true, unrivalled fixation for 3D buttocks. That's female 3D model buttocks, obviously, since 90% of male 3D models in games out there are buff and brawny, and everyone who knows me is aware of my affinity for slim, "cut" male figures with almost flat buttocks. But that's a whole different blogpost.You see, butts were the first

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-69164505810140133742007-09-27T15:14:00.003+01:002007-09-27T15:34:15.034+01:00

Check out Google, huh... It's got us by the short and curlies, almost. Not only is it the best search engine by far - whereas I remember a time when we all got lost in the Yahoo Vs Altavista debate, and now they're half-forgotten - and offers features like Google Images and Google News, it's also slowly starting to become indispensible in other fields as well. Fields where others have innovated

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-25542234630938247052007-09-27T15:14:00.002+01:002007-09-27T15:15:36.993+01:00

Douglas Coupland, back when he wrote Microserfs, said that "nerds will inherit the earth". A "Revenge of the Nerds", much larger than that in the 80s movie by the same name, is knocking on our collective door, while the door is already open.It's amazing that people today don't realise how much the Internet has changed our lives. From wikipedia to music or tv series downloads, from instant

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-17901336052226467312007-09-27T15:14:00.001+01:002007-09-27T15:14:22.864+01:00

Than used to have a watch which he wore for a whole decade. He was really happy with his watch, it was his watch and he wouldn't change it for another, even though its face had cracked and he'd had to change the strap a few times along the years. But one day I got him another one, which was just like it, but new. Not just a new watch, but a new model of the same Casio one, with exactly the same

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-75510372677091537582007-09-27T15:13:00.001+01:002007-09-27T15:13:23.334+01:00

I used to wear Bluthan's airforce army tag around my neck. I wore it for more than two years, never taking it off. I lost it in the sea, doing a handstand - I was so used to it I didn't notice it was gone until the next morning.So, with respect to its symbolic value, Bluthan and I bought matching tags from thinkgeek.com - his says "geek" and mine says "geek girl".And I wondered, when I saw the

BunnyDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16995770360275752147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976442512635966548.post-18176020003094975212007-09-27T15:10:00.000+01:002007-09-27T15:11:34.471+01:00

I was born under a lucky star. Early 80s, hand-in-hand with the digital boom.I'm old enough to know what it was like before computers were part of our lives, and young enough to care. I was no more than 13 years old when the internet came into my life - when Windows were no longer where we looked at to see the future. When we were caught in the 'net.And the 'net led to more than just the chance

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