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For anyone who’s read the Sprawl Trilogy, this will definitely flip your switches:

You can buy ‘em on T-Shirts and hoodies and all sorts of stuff over at memetictees.

I think the “Tessier-Ashpool IT Department” and either the “Chatsubo Bar” or “Sprawl Cowboy” shirts would make a fine addition to any geek wardrobe

Saw this on the venerable BB the other day and thought it rather neat… Not sure how comfy, but definitely neat..

Makes me think of playing Bullfrog’s old Magic Carpet game back in the day… Nostalgia follows:

Check out that draw distance! And gen-u-wine Musical Instruments Digital Interface muzak… To be fair, it was top-end in its day, though – and really quite a fun game to boot =D

This has to be the most impractical yet wonderful sofa in the world… Objet d’art incarnate.

I just got my first ever smartphone the other day, a HTC Desire – and it’s absolutely gorgeous! Picked it up on Telstra in the AU on a $50 (~25 quid) 24 month contract that gives me $400 of calls and texts, plus 200MB of data, and the phone for free. I know the data side is a bit low, but Telstra have the best coverage and fastest mobile network in the AU, and I could always throw in an extra $10 a month to double it to 400MB. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think I’m going to be downloading an awful lot with it, it’ll just be nice to be able to check my mail, browse a few websites etc while I’m on the move, so 200MB should be plenty.

The version I got is a Telstra branded HTC Desire (A8183 model) which is currently running Android 2.1 with Sense UI – and it’s an absolute pleasure to use; pretty to look at, fast & responsive, and does pretty much everything I could possibly ask of it, but Android 2.2 isn’t officially out for it yet, so I’m going to root that bad-boy and stick on a DeFroST or DJ DROID Android 2.2 (froyo) ROM, which’ll give me tethering, wireless hotspot capability, save and run apps from the microSD card instead of the phone memory etc. Should be good, if I can get it all to work!

I’ll make sure to document the rooting/mod process using my own particular brand of x-ray pedantry, too =D

Awesome, awesome phone – couldn’t be happier

I’ve been pretty busy prepping all my new networking and programming classes of late, but in my downtime (and really only over the last couple of days) have managed to watch The Lost Room (Careful: Link contains spoilers!) – a sci-fi mini-series about a guy who finds a key that’ll open any door and transport you to any other door that you can picture in your mind… So for example, you can picture a door you’ve used on a holiday or such, and then use the key to open any door around you and come out there… It’s rather neat!

But oh noes! The guy’s daughter gets lost in the motel room that’s always linked to the key, and he has to try and find a way to get her back by finding other objects that do all sorts of mundane/bizarre/amazing stuff, and tracing it all back to where the objects came from and how they can be used together in weird & wonderful ways…

It’s only six episodes in total (so it’s not like it’s a major time commitment), it’s got Peter Krause (Nate!) in it – who’s always awesome, and it’s really rather good!

IMHO, that makes it definitely worth checking out!