Random Tangent

Most of you probably know that I love LOLcats and everything else on the Cheezburger Network.

What you might not know is that, in response to the LOLxyz meme, there is the brilliant AverageCats:

AverageCats is a site that has pictures of cats.

Pictures of cats on the internet are not very new or exciting things. In fact, seeing cats on the internet is an incredibly average occurrence. They practically live here.

As you may have noticed, nearly all cat pictures include captions. And these captions usually personify the cat in some way or another.

What the internet fails to realize is that most cats do not think like people. They think like cats. AverageCats seeks to remedy this misinformation by providing a helpful, pictorial primer on cats.

AverageCats uses the accepted lolcat style to explain simple truths about cats. Any humor that arises from these pictures is coincidental.

So what is an AverageCat picture like? It’s like this:

Or like this:

:)

Check out the site make sure you read the text below the pictures as well.

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If you’ve ever wondered what the CSIRO is, you could either go to their website and read this:

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia’s national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

Or you could just watch this video:

:)

Tags: Australia, Science, Skepticism, Technology by Ameel
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NotebookReview.com’s Kevin O’Brien recently reviewed two Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet PCs and had this to say:

The Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablets we reviewed performed very well in almost all categories. Battery life was excellent with the 8-cell battery, reaching 8 hours and 48 minutes on the sunlight readable version, and 5 hours and 32 minutes on the touchscreen model. Screen quality on both models was phenomenal, with the sunlight readable display being one of the best screens we have ever seen in our office. [...]

Overall performance was very good on both models, with little impact to battery life or system temperatures. Considering the low starting price compared to the Dell XT2, the ThinkPad X200 Tablets are a clear winner. For its amazing screen, great build quality, and excellent battery life we are also awarding the outdoor viewable X200 Tablet with our Editor’s Choice award.

Now, I’m not getting the outdoor viewable X200 tablet PC because I am willing to sacrifice awesome screen quality in favour of two-finger touch capability but the “touchscreen model”, as O’Brien refers to it, is pretty awesome too. Read the review for more.

Meanwhile, the two new touch-enabled ThinkPads models – the X200 and T400 – also got a mention in a blog post about crapware on Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows.

Crapware, which you get on all new PCs, is irritating even while it makes PCs cheaper to buy. According to Thurrott, Lenovo partly redeems itself by adding bundled software that “expand[s] on core Windows capabilities or, increasingly, simply provide[s] new capabilities that are not present in Windows at all”. Read his post for details.

Tags: Tablet PC, Technology by Ameel
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