This Santa Claus Drives a Taxi Cab (AP)

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Yes, Metafilter, there IS a Santa Claus

Yes, Metafilter, there IS a Santa Claus 12/25/2004 05:19 PM
T.E.R.D. Tangible Evidence. Real Discoveries. Dr. Lloyd Darrow may have proof that something - or someone - really exists.

Microsoft foiled. Who said there's no
Santa Claus?

Microsoft foiled. Who said there's no
Santa Claus? 01/01/2005 10:09 PM
Observer Jan 2 2005 2:20AM GMT

PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus

PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
Now a team of four top researchers looked into the case and concluded .. PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus

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Santa Claus, super shaman

Santa Claus, super shaman 12/22/2003 06:29 PM
Psychedelic Santa Claus. "Modern Christmas traditions are based on ancient mushroom-using shamans." [Via J-Walk blog.]

The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus

The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus 12/24/2003 06:31 AM
are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe .. The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus .. Cannabis Culture .. MORE

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The Guardian: Microsoft Foiled. Who Said
There's No Santa Claus?

The Guardian: Microsoft Foiled. Who Said
There's No Santa Claus? 01/03/2005 10:16 PM
"Last year was the year of Google and open source. It was also the year when the Apple iPod inherited the mantle of the Sony Walkman as the icon of a generation, IBM exited the PC business, Sun Microsystems entered its death throes..."

BBC NEWS | Europe | French teenagers mug
Santa Claus

BBC NEWS | Europe | French teenagers mug
Santa Claus 12/24/2004 01:09 PM
French teenagers beat up Santa Claus for candy .. mugged Father Christmas

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4117383.stm
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"The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Website"

"The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Website" 12/26/2004 04:42 PM

Avoid Santa Claus approach to content
management

Avoid Santa Claus approach to content
management 12/15/2003 04:42 AM

The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Website

The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Website 12/25/2004 08:55 PM
The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus Website (English) .. Track the Big Guy's flight tonight .. Show your kids .. See the site

noradsanta.org/english/index.html
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Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy
& Santa Claus

Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy
& Santa Claus 05/17/2004 07:38 PM

Santa drives a UPS truck

Santa drives a UPS truck 12/24/2004 01:01 PM

(Picture47, originally uploaded by davidfg)

We made a rule in the house this year that packages mailed to us and still unopened count as wrapping, whether or not the things inside are wrapped as well (we have no way of knowing). You can't see what's inside the boxes so it does the same thing as wrapping. It also cuts out a stupid step where you have to open a present for someone, wrap it, then have them open it on xmas day.

But not this year, brown boxes count just as much as holiday paper wrapping.

"Santa santa santa santa santa PRESENTS
PRESENTS!"

"Santa santa santa santa santa PRESENTS
PRESENTS!" 12/25/2004 05:03 PM

Santa santa santa santa santa presents
presents

Santa santa santa santa santa presents
presents 12/25/2004 05:00 PM

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Gibson: Cyber-Claus

Gibson: Cyber-Claus 12/26/2004 04:44 PM
Xeni Jardin: On William Gibson's blog, a holiday-themed short which was originally published as "Cyber-Claus", in The Washington Post Book World in 1991. Snip:

In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare, genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of states, sleep.

Even as I hurriedly dressed, I knew that dozens of telepresent armed-response drones would already be sweeping in from the District, skimming mere inches above the chill surface of the Potomac. Vicious tri-lobed aeroforms that they were, they resembled nothing more than the Martian war machines of George Pal’s 1953 epic, “The War of the Worlds”.

And while, from somewhere far above, now, came that sound, that persistent clatter, as though gunships disgorged whole platoons of iron-shod mercenaries, I could only wonder: who? Was it my estranged wife, Lady Betty-Jayne Motel-6 Hyatt, Chief Eco-Trustee of the Free Duchy of Wyoming? Or was it Cleatus “Mainframe” Sinyard himself, President of the United States and Perpetual Chairman of the Concerned Smart People’s Northern Hemisphere CoProsperity Sphere?

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Sputnik-Claus is Coming to Town

Sputnik-Claus is Coming to Town 01/07/2004 05:28 PM

Just in time for the holidays, a new promotion from Sputnik: the Sputnik Quick Start Kit (bu y). The program runs from now until the end of the year. A perfect stocking stuffer for that hot spot on your holiday shopping list!

Sputnik Quick Start Kit - includes:

• 2 Sputnik AP 120s
  
• 1 Sputnik Central Control License for 2 APs
  

Sputnik Holiday Promotional Price - $455 (normally $1,265) - less than the price of some high-end APs whose names I won't mention!
If you want to upgrade to the full 20-AP license (normally $895) you can do that later, for $485 more - a 25% discount.

All of the details are up at: http://www.sputnik.c om/products/promo.html

"taxi girl [>]"

"taxi girl [>]" 02/19/2004 06:44 AM

Taxi ticket 0.0.3

Taxi ticket 0.0.3 07/15/2004 06:50 AM
A corporate taxi ticket manager.

William Gibson short: Cyber-Claus

William Gibson short: Cyber-Claus 12/26/2004 11:21 PM
Xeni Jardin: On William Gibson's blog, a holiday-themed short which was originally published as "Cyber-Claus", in The Washington Post Book World in 1991. Snip:

In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare, genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of states, sleep.

Even as I hurriedly dressed, I knew that dozens of telepresent armed-response drones would already be sweeping in from the District, skimming mere inches above the chill surface of the Potomac. Vicious tri-lobed aeroforms that they were, they resembled nothing more than the Martian war machines of George Pal’s 1953 epic, “The War of the Worlds”.

And while, from somewhere far above, now, came that sound, that persistent clatter, as though gunships disgorged whole platoons of iron-shod mercenaries, I could only wonder: who? Was it my estranged wife, Lady Betty-Jayne Motel-6 Hyatt, Chief Eco-Trustee of the Free Duchy of Wyoming? Or was it Cleatus “Mainframe” Sinyard himself, President of the United States and Perpetual Chairman of the Concerned Smart People’s Northern Hemisphere CoProsperity Sphere?

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IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives

IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives 07/15/2004 08:59 AM

For embedded computing hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard drive is usually the last non-solid-state part in the whole deployment. And while most engineers will just use a Compact Flash card, sometimes the only option is an ATA (hard drive) connection; that's where the IFD-iV flash memory parts from IO Data Device Corporation come in. Basically just flash memory drives, the defining feature of the IFD-iVs (besides fairly rugged operating specifications) is that they use the standard ATA connection of a hard drive, meaning they can be deployed in place of hard drives when necessary. Models up to 2GB in capacity will be available for around $2,100 -- maybe we'll just deal with the fragile hard drives instead.
Read - Flash memory ATA hard drive [TechJapan]

Update: Reader Tom Lee brings up a much cheaper option for hackers on a budget (after the jump.)

On taxi drivers in Los Angeles...

On taxi drivers in Los Angeles... 02/10/2004 02:46 AM

So I'm being churlish of course - you give a taxi-driver a written-down address on a piece of paper and you would of course expect them not to have heard of the large region of Los Angeles where things like the Sony Pictures Lot are located. I mean you'd obviously expect that right? That would be normal. And then you'd expect them to spend about ten minutes while driving very slowly typing the address into their GPS / map thingy while looking confused. And then of course you'd also expect them not to be able to read an American address and take you to completely the wrong place. And then - of course - you'd expect them to bitch not-so-very-quietly to themselves about how you actually told them to go to the wrong place and that it wasn't their fault, when in fact all you did was give them the bloody address written down on a piece of paper and frantically gesture at it while saying, "This is where I'd like to go please! Thank you very very much!" And then you'd expect to get into a huge row with them in which you say, "For God's sake, you ludicrous man! I gave you the bloody addres on a piece of bloody paper. The address was written down by an American. It's written in exactly the format and style that you'd expect it to be in. It's even in a large bloody font! So why the hell are you shouting at me about giving you the wrong bloody address!"

And then - of course - you'd expect to still pay then $50 for a $20 cab fare because it simply wouldn't occur to you that when a cab driver made an obvious mistake they'd still expect you to pay for the whole journey and not apologise or anything. And of course you'd give them a tip. Because it would be rude not to...

Anyway... Little taxi-bastards aside, Los Angeles is already proving tremendously good fun. At this point, I've done very little though - just spent a little time hanging around with Kerry, had beer and tequila in his office and watched the 100th episode of Angel. Shortly we're going to visit his ex, Sean, and at that point we shall have Tacos. Everything over here remains kind of beautiful and kind of monstrously tacky at the same time, but at least there's lots of sky, which matters to me. The flight was - unsurprisingly - good for sky, and we went over Iceland and Greenland again and just like last year I took far far too many pictures of the ice-flows, mountains and seas.

But the most important thing of all is that I'm not in bloody London! I can already feel my frantic and jellied-up brain shudder a little and let out the tiniest little gasp of relief. Should Kerry actually permit me to sleep at some point during the next few days I should be nicely fresh for ETCon. In the meantime, in my few remaining off-moments, I plot the death of taxi drivers and think about visiting the Apple store...

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Crazy Taxi 3 Demo

Crazy Taxi 3 Demo 01/11/2004 07:55 AM

Google gets into the taxi business

Google gets into the taxi business 04/02/2005 12:49 AM
Infomatics Apr 2 2005 4:56AM GMT

Missing student took a taxi home

Missing student took a taxi home 01/06/2005 09:45 AM
A student missing for six days in Cambridge took a taxi to within 100 metres of her home before she vanished.

Christian taxi firm closes down

Christian taxi firm closes down 04/16/2005 05:34 AM
A Christian taxi firm set up in the Shankill area of Belfast closes down days after its owner's home is attacked.

Man injured in bogus taxi attack

Man injured in bogus taxi attack 07/24/2004 07:58 AM
A man is attacked in Londonderry after accepting a lift in a car which he thought was a taxi.

Yamaha Hybrid Pedal Taxi

Yamaha Hybrid Pedal Taxi 12/19/2004 03:01 PM

Next year's World Expo in Tokyo Aichi Prefecture won't allow participants to use regular taxis on the grounds, so Yahama has designed this pedal-powered hackney with an electric motor-assist. And if I'm not mistaken, those look like solar panels on the top—that would be eco-licious.

Story (Japanese) [NikkeiJP via SorobanGeeks]< /p>

Taxi driver in fire bomb ordeal

Taxi driver in fire bomb ordeal 01/02/2005 02:00 PM
The Continuity IRA claims responsibility for forcing a taxi driver to drive a fire bomb to a police station.

Heathrow to get wireless system for taxi
management

Heathrow to get wireless system for taxi
management 01/23/2004 03:48 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jan 23 2004 8:07AM GMT

Taxi Driver Convicted for Ferrying
Bomber (Reuters)

Taxi Driver Convicted for Ferrying
Bomber (Reuters) 05/06/2004 10:17 AM
Reuters - An Israeli taxi driver who unwittingly drove a suicide bomber to an attack was convicted in a precedent-setting case that could make drivers responsible for their passengers' crimes, judicial sources said Thursday.

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
Now you can have safe, secure, portable storage of your confidential business and personal data with the biometric fingerprint ClipDrive Bio USB Flash Drive and the Outbacker USB biometric fingerprint Hard Disk Drive. The devices are non-operational until a validated fingerprint or password is received. [PRWEB Jan 21, 2005]

Water taxi accident prompts safety
review (USATODAY.com)

Water taxi accident prompts safety
review (USATODAY.com) 03/08/2004 11:10 PM
USATODAY.com - Federal investigators are examining whether safety standards should be tightened for passenger boats like the water taxi that capsized in a fatal weekend accident in Baltimore.

Island taxi firm looks forward to a
high-tech future

Island taxi firm looks forward to a
high-tech future 08/03/2004 09:15 AM
Royal Gazette Aug 3 2004 1:29PM GMT

Lima taxi drivers driven to psychopathic
distraction (Reuters)

Lima taxi drivers driven to psychopathic
distraction (Reuters) 04/06/2005 06:02 PM
Reuters - Anyone climbing aboard a bus or taxi in Peru should think twice because many drivers have psychopathic tendencies, a university study says.

Digital Dispatch Expands Presence in UK
Taxi Market with Vector 530 & PathFinder

Digital Dispatch Expands Presence in UK
Taxi Market with Vector 530 & PathFinder 05/10/2004 11:09 PM
BC Technology May 11 2004 3:36AM GMT

Digital Dispatch sells 500 mobile
computers to Toronto taxi firm in $1.6M
deal

Digital Dispatch sells 500 mobile
computers to Toronto taxi firm in $1.6M
deal 01/01/2005 12:33 PM
Canadian Press Jan 1 2005 3:17PM GMT

PeerDirect & Interactive Taxi Showcase
Wireless ''Backseat Portal'' at Gartner
Wireless & Mobile Summit 2005

PeerDirect & Interactive Taxi Showcase
Wireless ''Backseat Portal'' at Gartner
Wireless & Mobile Summit 2005 04/12/2005 08:10 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 12 2005 10:57AM GMT

Thank you Santa

Thank you Santa 12/27/2004 05:17 AM

Thank you Santa for bringing Mimi the pink dress she asked for. And her teddy has a matching outfit.

Can you FLY Santa??

Can you FLY Santa?? 12/14/2003 02:24 AM
Santa and the X-Games. Help two poor elves sling Santa Claus all the way to Mordor.
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