Saturday, October 3, 2009 - Page 2

Oil Company To Use Tallest, Greenest Building In Europe As Its HQ

It looks like a modern version of a van Gogh painting rather than the future headquarters of an oil company, but with its concert hall, museum, hotel and business centre Gazprom Tower will be the tallest, greenest building in Europe.

Entertainment

Transformers 3 Gets Super Official, Will Explode July 2011

Despite Megan Fox’s recent press jabs at Michael Bay, the directors Transformers has re-upped and committed to Transformers 3.

Gadgets

Why We Love Wires Too

Oh wires. Technologizer loves you, but we thought we’d tell you why we love you too.

Software

The Week In iPhone Apps: The Beautiful Game

There are plenty of good things to drop into the App Store this week. Let’s take a look…

It’s A Terrible Day To Be A Pirate (Bay)

It’s bad enough that the Pirate Bay’s prospective buyers are world-class sketchballs — today, we find out that the Pirate Bay’s business dealings are even shadier. Oh, and Google’s culling TBP from their results Things: they don’t look so good.

Geek Out

Bangladeshi Farmer Slaughters 83,000 Rats, Gets Crappy 14-Inch TV

Bangladesh has a disgusting rat problem: It imports three million tons of food a year, and rats destroy 1.5-2 million tons of it. So the government made killing rats a legit sport, with prizes.

Warning: This Image Will Give You Insomnia For A Month

Dearly beloved, this is the scariest piece of pseudo-art ever. Please don’t zoom if you want to sleep tonight. Or tomorrow. Or next week. Heck, you will be lucky if you can sleep before Halloween. Holy Batman.

HP Photosmart Premium Web Printer Review: For Mums

HP puffed its chest when announcing the Photosmart Premium web-connected touch-enabled printer, and I understand why. You print colouring books, movie tickets and news reports without even owning a computer, let alone connecting one. It works, and works well.

Diamond Light Is Probably Manufactured In Krypton

The Diamond Light by Hiroki Takada has three of the things I like in a lighting design: Weirdness, disco bling bling and the possibility of making photons bounce until they create a massive laser capable of destructing the planet.

Geek Out

Obama Bans Government Employees From Driving While Texting

An executive order from President Obama bans all government employees—including soldiers and postal workers—from texting while driving if they’re working, driving one of Uncle Sam’s cars or using one of his mobile phones. Meaning we’re all next. [Ars]

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