Remember Clocky, the fiendish alarm clock that rolls away and hides when you hit snooze? The inventor has graduated from MIT and taken the design commercial. You can now buy your own self-propelled alarm clock.
The MIT Media Lab has come up with Clocky, an alarm clock that rolls away and hides when you hit the snooze button.
(via CNET Extra)
I saw this CNET headline — Microsoft battles piracy with free software — and my first thought was that they were using some GPL’ed/BSD’ed/etc. tool for tracking or some such. No, they’re just giving away free software to people who will let them remotely verify that their OS installation is legit. Which makes perfect sense once you get out of the open-source/Free software (with a capital F) mindset.
In other news, I feel like I’ve spent the entire month of October rebuilding, recovering, restoring, repairing, reinstalling and retrofitting computers.
Strike that. I have spent the entire month doing that. *Sigh*
