The game of stone skipping, has been solved by French research scientists who, after much work, have determined that in order to maximize the number of skips, one should throw a stone four inches in diameter at 60 miles an hour and at an angle of 10 degrees”.

They hope to achieve a record-breaking [...]

If you buy a Samsung SCH-B100 (or LG SB-100) mobile phone and live in Korea, you will be able to receive 39 channels of satellite tv starting in May of next year.

The DMB service will let you watch satellite broadcasts without using the cellular network. The SCH-B100 has the 2.2-inch display and a two [...]

The Suite Vollard is an apartment building located in Curitiba, Brazil. The building is unique in that it has 11 floors that rotate independently.

Each unit occupies 1 floor and has a control panel for the speed and direction of the rotation.

So named by architects Bruno De Franco and Sergio Silka in honor of Pablo Picasso. [...]

The Webcomics Review website has released its list of the 24 best webcomics for 2004. The top 4 are:

A Lesson is Learned, but the Damage is Irreversible

Acid Keg
Athena Voltaire
Ballad

Interestingly, none of the webcomics listed above appear in list of top 100 webcomics as compiled by Buzz Comix. Their top-ranked webcomic, by far, [...]

The Dec 16th, 2004 issue of the New York Times has an article by David Pogue entitled “With Mini’s Rivals, More Is Sometimes Less” which compares and contrasts the Apple iPod Mini with 4 of its rivals.

The products reviewed consisted of:

Apple iPod Mini

Dell 5GB Pocket DJ

Creative Zen Micro

Virgin Player

Rio Carbon

As you’ve no doubt [...]

Nokia has just launched the Mobiado Professional a new luxury mobile phone, whose price of $1,200 US puts it about half way between regular Nokia phones and the $3,850 of the Vertu Ascent line of phones. This would make the Mobiado a semi-luxury phone I suppose.

Complete specs can be found at this website.
Highlights include:

EGSM [...]

Nice new mobile phone from Pantech & Curitel. The PH-S4000 is small enough (80.5 x 37.5 X 24.3 mm) and light enough (81 g) to be worn on a strap around the neck.

The PH-S4000 is a slider handset with a 128×143pixel 1.5in 260K color TFT display.

Includes an MP3 player and a [...]

Pointer to The Becker-Posner Blog, which is the 1st known weblog by a Nobel prize winning economist (Gary S. Becker 1992) and a Federal Judge (Richard A. Posner). Its good to benefit from the intelligence, wisdom and insight of some of the greatest minds of our generation on a variety of topics, including Preventive [...]

Pointer to Seth Godin’s list of The Top 1,000 Things to Know. Its a work in progress that starts out with:

How to type.

How to speak in front of a group.

How to write clear prose that other people actually want to read.

How to manage a project.

Some kind of commentary there. Thanks to Tokyopia.