The E-tale contributor who sent us this image has just nabbed himself a great big 23-inch screen to work on… and then he sent us this. A bunch of guys at a Linux lab, who obviously have far too much time on their hands, are using their 24-monitor display wall to play a hacked version of Quake III. Obviously, when it comes to certain things they can never be too big.

It was posted on the Boing Boing website by Cory Doctorow, who — for those who might be interested in rigging up something similar — says the system is driven by 12 Linux servers (2 monitors per server) using Distributed Multihead X (DMX) and Chromium. Chromium distributes the OpenGL rendering from the head node to all the servers. Playing the big game is not glitch-free but, apparently, is still an awesome experience.

One of our E-talers is reporting on the forthcoming ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) conference and has been looking at the proposal to set up a top-level XXX domain for pornography. ICM Registry, the US company which wants to set up the domain, makes porn website operators sound so much like nice, serious, responsible companies, the E-taler says. Indeed, the company's website talks about "responsible self-regulation", and how the domain would ban deliberately misleading domain names — the sort designed to suck innocent net surfers and kids in.

It all sounds terribly nice, but our E-taler is not convinced that a "clean up" of the industry is likely to happen. Sadly, we aren't either, although we do recognise the issue has to be addressed — responsibly, of course. But we would like it better if the proposal included confining the myriad porn sites on the internet to the XXX domain, instead of, potentially, adding more.

One of our E-tales stalwarts was recently looking for contact information regarding HumanWare, the Christchurch company which makes technology to help blind users access digital systems. First, he tried www.humanware.co.nz; he was then redirected to www.pulsedata.com/HumanWare, which told him that PulseData and Visualaide had merged, to form HumanWare, in January 2005. He knew that. That's why he tried HumanWare first.

"We are working on updating this site and will be unveiling it shortly," the page said. "In the meantime, please feel free to visit www. pulsedata.com or www.visuaide.com."

Clicking the first link took our explorer to a page with the www.pulsedata.com URL, but headed HumanWare. The VisualAide link, by contrast, led to a bilingual English/French page - again headed HumanWare - at www.humanware.ca.

Confused? We are. But, we suppose if your merger leaves you with three URLs you may as well use them all for a while. But 18 months is a rather long time.

The germ of the following little gem is actually the subject of a question in a quiz reached via the Boing Boing website's entry entitled Web Zen: Revenge Zen.

Online news site Ananova reports that a cuckolded husband got his revenge on his faithless ex-wife by punting sexy photos of her on eBay . The revenge quiz postulated that such postings might be one way of paying back faithless behaviour. Well, it obviously is, and it works, in one way at least — 200 photos of fair-haired Linsey, 24, "who was playing away with my so-called best friend", as the seller put it, sold within 24 hours.

Apparently, a US$1 million (NZ$1. 5 million) Ferrari was recently ploughed into a street pole in Malibu, California, by someone as yet unnamed. However, the car contained Bel-air resident Stefan Eriksson, who claims he was just a passenger in the car and that the driver, who he knew only as "Dietrich", ran away.

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