Try this out.

The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting
hit
by the blue blocks or touching the black walls.

If you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal. It's been said
that
the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are expected to go
for
at least 2 minutes.

Give it a try but be careful...it is addictive!! The URL is
http://technodaddy.com/redsquare.html

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MPAA admits to unauthorized movie copying

This is WAY too funny.  I think they should sue themselves so that they go bankrupt and have to dissolve the organization! 

The MPAA gets caught doing what it warns consumers about: making unauthorized copies of a film. At least they didn't throw them up on BitTorrent.

[Ars Technica]

Korea to introduce household bots to watch the kids, clean and order pizza

Uh, am I the only one that thinks this is creepy?  Don’t get me wrong, I would love to have one, but I don’t think I would leave it alone with the kids, or the cats… 

Filed under: Robots

South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communications hopes to introduce a series of internet-connected household robots this October. The bots, according to the Ministry, will be able to perform such household tasks as cleaning, monitoring homes, reading to children, and ordering pizza via the Internet. The Korean government also plans to roll out robocops that can pursue suspects, and multi-legged or wheeled combat bots within the next five years. The bots will receive most of their commands via a wireless Internet connection, keeping costs down to as little as $1,000, and allowing a malevolent AI or evil scientist to completely take over the nation's network of robots at will.

[Engadget]

The Sound Pillow: tampering with a classic

Info from someone who listens to his MP3 player while he sleeps, this is way cool!  I can never find a set of earbuds or headphones that don’t end up either falling out/off or hurting my ears.  Now, one would ask, why not just hook regular speakers up to it?  Well, the wife tends to not like my choice of music and tells me that it keeps her up or wakes her up in the middle of the night…  This might actually be worth trying…

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Household

Open letter to manufacturers of household products: Stop messing with the classic pillow design by trying to get all high tech and cutesy. That means no more MP3 playing pillows, no networked pillows for "communicating" with loved ones, no pillows that record us snoring, no pillows that indicate current surfing conditions, and definitely no pillows with artificial heartbeats. Chillows, however, are still allowed. That is all. Since we'll get in trouble if we don't mention the actual product here:  the Sound Pillow is just a regular pillow with embedded speakers and a stereo plug, designed by the UK's Royal National Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to sooth tinnitus sufferers (which actually makes it sound kind of useful, thus negating our whole introductory rant), and costing about $44.

[Engadget]

Superstition, (Fri, Jan 13th)

I hope my buddy Bill does ok today.  I seem to recall that he has Triskaidekaphobia or Paraskevidekatriaphobia.  I think it is the first one but anyway, I guess I shouldn’t also mention that it should be a full moon tonight…..

Hack your 4GB iPod nano to 8GB?

Way cool!  But, if I had put out the dough to get an iPod, I would be afraid to break it open and start messin’ with it. 

Filed under: Portable Audio

We definitely absolutely positively cannot attest to the validity of efficacy of this hack, but word on the street is you can actually solder in a dead iPod nano's guts (namely the Samsung flash chips) to double that storage to 8GB on a formerly 4GB nano -- and the guy who's making the claims is also offering up his services to do so for a paltry $225 (which includes shipping, natch). Buyer / modder / hacker beware -- you know what they say about things seeming too good to be true. That said, anyone given it a go yet?

[Via hack a day]

[Engadget]