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| Thursday, January 12, 2006 08:03 PM |
| Reticules, Volume Two |
 by Fëanor |
- Apparently the new version of iTunes has a crazy mini-store that everybody's all riled up about (because it's on by default and automatically sends information about your listening habits to Apple). On the good side, however, it also has the ability to automatically convert video files into the iPod format. I'd know more about it if my iTunes would just admit it's inferior; it keeps telling me I already have the latest version. :(
- Joystiq complains that Mario is selling out, and that he should be above this sort of thing, but I love this Japanese Flash video commercial for the department store Parco. It's just cool! And besides, it's not like Mario hasn't already sold out six ways from Sunday. I mean, come on now.
- Check out this awesome video of a Volvo convertible automagically retracting its hardtop. That's hot gadgety goodness. (Via Digg)
- Dude, we might be able to watch a volcano erupt, live on the internet. St. Augustine has been showing signs that it's about to blow, so the Alaska Volcano Observatory pointed two webcams at it and made up a website for them. Awesome. (Via Digg)
- It's like Noah's Ark, but for plants! Those forward-thinking Norwegians are planning to build a "doomsday vault" inside a mountain on an Arctic island and stock it with a seed bank of all the world's crops. Considering the way things have been going lately in the world, this seems like a good idea to me. But where are the mineshafts where the human population can hide to wait out the nuclear winter? (Via Digg)
- One step closer to piggoons, ladies: green, glow-in-the-dark, transgenic, part-jellyfish pigs. I love this quote:
Others have bred partially fluorescent pigs before. But the researchers insist the three pigs they have produced are better.
They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green, they say. Um...yay for you! (Via Digg)
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