Can anyone recommend a portable (for inside-the-house values of portability) device that combines digital radio with playing audio off a NAS via wifi?

(And is there a generic term for such devices?)

I love my Microsoft Trackball Optical, which I've had for about seven years now, and thought idly about getting another one for spare. They've not been made for a while, so I expected them to be fairly pricy. Even so, I was quite amazed to see the best price I can get for a new one is nearly 300 USD. Even second-hand ones on eBay start around 50 ( Read more... )

I need to get a new hard drive for my PC. I've not bought one for around 3 years, and that mfr (Maxtor) doesn't even exist any more... any of you bought one recently, or otherwise kept up with devpts? Who's good these days ( Read more... )

Having talked about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript recently, today along comes the Antikythera Device, also beloved of peculiar conspiracy theorists ( Read more... )

• Went the other night to see Burn after Reading, the new Coen brothers film. We thought it was pretty good fun: just a fairly shallow piece of fluff really, but there's nothing wrong with that. The galaxy of stars (Malkovich, Swinton, McDormand, Pitt, Clooney) all put in entertaining turns. It kind of cops out and runs out of steam at the end, but ( Read more... )

St Peter's Brewery sends out an irregular email newsletter, with offers and so on, but it doesn't actually include a link to, or even the url of, their website so you can go and buy stuff. Charming amateurishness in this over-commercialized age, or bewildering incompetence ( Read more... )

What would you call this?

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A few things that have caught my eye recently:

• BgPatterns is a terrific resource for generating background graphics. Choose your motif, colurs, canvas texture, rotation, scaling, opacity and basically every tweak you might reasonably need. Preview it live on the site, then save it locally as a jpg for your own use. Really nice implementation.
• The ( Read more... )

A few things that have caught my eye just lately:

• PMOG, The Passively Multiplayer Online Game -- mentioned by killalla, basically a way of making ar$ing around on the Web more fun. Needs Firefox. See also pmog.
  
• What does atheism mean to you? Interesting finding from the Pew Foundation that an impressive 15% of US atheists are either absolutely or fairly ( Read more... )

Following a link from languagelog, I learned some things about predictive text.

Did you know that the commonest predictive text system is called T9? I didn't. But I do now ( Read more... )