Wow! Here’s an interesting development moving on from those tiny R/C cars! Konami have produced tiny remote controlled tanks that can shoot each other! — Combat DigiQs.
There is a great, in-depth review by Dan Rutter over at Dan’s Data.

“These are tiny little remote controlled tanks that fight. Up to four can play. They’re a bunch of fun.”

“The Combat DigiQs are so small that you can stage a satisfying battle on a coffee table. You don’t have to use the carpeted floor. And they are tracked vehicles, so they can clamber over small obstacles quite successfully.”

“They charge in about 10 minutes, and run for up to 15 minutes, which is good.”

Hmmm. I would love to get a couple of these!

Link courtesy of slashdot

Well Duh! Furtive phone photography spurs ban.

” As camera phones become more popular, national, governments, local authorities and some businesses are starting to restrict the places they can be used.”

“Some people have already been prosecuted for misusing their mobile phone camera.”

But what about all the other devices?

I’ve thrown together a couple of pages with thumbnails of most of the websites I have worked on. Those on the first page are sites I work on in my job, those on the second page are family blogs I have designed.

Whilst I am a great fan of The Cluetrain Manifesto, (to the point of quoting it top right of the page), I am also a great fan of satire. This old mickey-take of the original is hilarious: The Gluetrain Manifesto

people of uranus…
A powerful inter-galactic conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to waste time at work, download naughty pictures, and build pipe bombs.
…
“The glue train stopped there four times a day for ten years, and they took a sniff every time.”

I’m sure there will be lots of people as pleased as I am to hear that Michel Valdrighi, cafelog.com, and the b2 forums are back.

I’ve been playing about with blogshares again. It really is good fun. Seyed Razavi is doing a great job, and seems to be constantly updating the whole thing. As problems are found or as they are reported, they are addressed and fixed, new features are being added all the time too. There is a great buzz about the whole thing.
Go have a play.

It looks like blogchalking should have considered sending out staggered emails regarding their change of server rather than modifying the images pulled from their old server to say “update your image”.

“Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.”

I also read this story on wired today:

“An author hoping to spur sales of his book is facing a gigantic bill after an online publishing experiment went horribly awry.
Last week, writer Glenn Fleishman offered his book, Real World Adobe GoLive 6, as a free download.
But instead of the few hundred downloads Fleishman expected, the book was downloaded about 10,000 times in just 36 hours. And because he’s charged incrementally for bandwidth, Fleishman estimates he could be billed $15,000 at the end of the month — possibly a lot more.”