Posted on December 13th, 2007 in Axel Night by Axel Night
It’s been a slow week, what with everyone doing what people do. That means it’s time for a random news article! No, there’s no sense in hiding the fact that it’s shameless filler. Venture with me through the jump into a realm of mediocrity.
AsusTek designs Bamboo Laptop
Asus, known for their quality hardware and usually lead heavy price tags, has been developing a new laptop they call their EcoBook. While not a whole lot of talk has been going on about the thing’s power consumption or production methods, the buzz is the fact that the case will be made partially from bamboo. Bamboo grows quick and easy, and thus harvesting it is, indeed, far more environmentally conscious than mined metals or petroleum-based plastics. By itself, it’s not a huge factor, but at least it’s something. If they’re looking to make this an eco statement, they’ll have to play up more than just a pretty wood finish. As is, this appears to belong more with the other luxury products by Asus, such as their Lamborghini or Prada models.
Environmental Talks Gored
In other ecological news, Al Gore is the only American that several European nations don’t hate. The ex-vice president and now nobel prize winner, seen here saying "the power is yours", did his best to detour hostilities against the United State’s policies of optional environmental action by saying, and I paraphrase, "I told them, they wouldn’t listen to me. It’s obviously the republicans’ fault. Everything will be better once that election-rigging, oil tycoon is out of office." He followed up with his back-up plan to recruit five teenagers and a monkey from different continents to storm the White House.
- Europe threatens to boycott U.S. climate talks – msnbc.com
- Gore: US blocking climate progress – msnbc.com
From Russia With Love Does Not Compute
In Russia, home of the super-hot planeteer Linka, love is in the air and on the web. But the next horny web slut you find may be as fake as my recycling Russian reverence. Due out in early 2008, a website, CyberLover.ru, is releasing a software package that is rumored to be a highly advanced, emulated flirt. The package claims the ability to troll chat rooms, chat up several people, have cyber-sex, and generally coerce phone numbers and pictures out of assorted lonely web daters. Interactions are said to be convincingly human, which I can only assume means it has no grasp of grammar, spelling, or common human decency. While it claims to have fooled just about anyone who conversed with it, I remember hearing similar claims from Eliza. Fears have flared as people began worrying about it being used to dig up personal information and for identity theft. The creators claim this isn’t the purpose of the software, but then it never is a knife maker’s fault that people get stabbed. I’m hoping for an English version down the road. For all the love and affection I give my computer, it really should flirt with me more.
That’s all I have to say on this December 13th, 2007. Eat your Wheaties, avoid the Noid, and remember, the power is yours!
