Stumbled across a great article on the Wired website today, and thought it would be worth linking to for your enjoyment.

There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.

That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias

Computers and Videogaming
1. Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
2. The scream of a modem connecting.
3. The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
4. 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
5. Using jumpers to set IRQs.
6. DOS.
7. Terminals accessing the mainframe.
8. Screens being just green (or orange) on black.

Click here to read the full article.

We all know things get messy when the shit hits the fan. Well now you can travel prepared.

I found this on Firebox today, and it made me laugh so much. Its just great, check it out here.

Flat-packed, the Shit Box pops open to become a rigid but comfy loo into which you can drop your fudge, again and again, without making a mess or gassing everyone within a 5 mile radius. That’s because it comes with 10 biodegradable poo bags. Genius! Simply pop one inside, lay your cable, remove the whole shebang, tie up the bag and shove it in your best mate’s sleeping bag… sorry, we mean dispose of it responsibly.

Ok its not big, and its not cleaver, and its not even security related, but it is funny. Enjoy 🙂

You might want to mute the music though!