SmackBook Pro

Switch desktops by tapping the side of your (motion-sensor fitted) machine. Sounds like fun until you start getting frustrated while writing an email or reading a blog post. :)

Official: Gambling A Mug’s Game

And I’m the mug. Boyle Sports had a “we’ll match your deposit” offer a while back, so I decided to fire in a tenner and play the geegees with tips from the Horse Racing forum on Boards.ie as my sole point of reference, as a sort of experiment.

Long story short, I blew my last €7.36 today on a long shot, and the experiment is a resounding failure. Fun though.

Love the Daddy, at his expense

According to Snopes, more collect phone calls are made in the US on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year. What horrible people. Be interesting to see relevant figures for Europe or Ireland though.

ALLOFMP3 Offline

…for maintenance according to Google, since the 13th according to Wikipedia, forever according to Digg (apparently they stopped taking payments two days ago, but this wouldn’t be the first time). Interesting. I don’t use it very much, but I’d miss it if it went. And I’m constantly surprised at it’s continued existence…

NSA has massive call database

In case you missed it, from USA TODAY:

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

Universal Music settles payola probe

$12m! Might as well just slap them on the wrist. From The Boston Globe:

Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record company, settled a payola investigation with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for $12 million and agreed to stop bribing radio stations to secure airplay for its artists.