Expensive Speakers, Sarah Palin Xbox 360 for $1.1 Million, Digg Ads and Remote Control Kitchen: Daily Roundup

DDOS Attack Against Facebook, Twitter, Et Al. Was Because of One Guy’s LiveJournal -

According to a Facebook executive, the target of today’s DDOS attacks on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, YouTube and other social media sites was one pro-Georgian blogger going by the username of “Cyxym.” No word as to who was behind the attack…Gizmodo

Transmission Audio Ultimate speakers — $1M for the best monophonic sound ever -

We didn’t think anything would top Goldmund’s $190,000 Telos 5000 amplifier, but we should have known better. Bloated excess knows no bounds, so coming in at a cool $1,000,000 per side, we’ve got Transmission Audio’s Ultimate speakers. Each channel consists of six, 7-foot high panels (one supertweeter ribbon, two tweeter/midrange ribbons, one 24×8-inch woofer, and two 10×15-inch subwoofer); taken together, a stereo pair of the Ultimates will eat up a modest 37-foot swath of your living room airplane hangar. Even people with more money than sense like convenience, though, so the Ultimate takes a page from the HTIB crowd and bundles in six 500-Watt dual-mono amplifiers and a preamp…Engadget

Digg Ads To Begin Testing This Week -

Digg has just announced that it’s going to begin rolling out Digg Ads, the site’s innovative and experimental advertising product that invites users to vote on which ads they like best, over the next week. Digg first announced the new advertising product in June, and they were briefly spotted in the wild in July, though Digg claimed at the time that the ads were limited to an internal test. Digg plans to roll the product out gradually over the next few days to a small subset of users, with plans for a larger deployment over several months…TechCrunch

The remote-controlled kitchen arrives -

Ever since home automation systems were invented, manufacturers have been looking at ways to integrate the technology into the busiest room of the house – the kitchen. But apart from the original Internet fridge (with its frightening price tag and lack of functionality) useful products have been few and far between…GizMag

How to squeeze a PC into a mini briefcase - a DIY activity -

Since the whole world is going compact, a user at TBCS demonstrates how you can shrink a PC to fit in a mini briefcase, maintaining the whole compaction thing. The guy fitted an Axiomtek SBC84810 embedded motherboard ( which has an onboard Celeron-M ULV 1GHz and 1GB of DDR333, running at 266MHz), inside a small aluminum briefcase hardly bigger than it. The mini system boots Windows XP from a 16GB Compact Flash Card…Gizmowatch

Crazy Nut Wants $1.1 Million for Sarah Palin Autographed Xbox 360 -

If you’re an idiot with a million dollars lying around, love the Xbox 360 and think Sarah Palin is the greatest thing sent from God, then we have the perfect item for you to buy. A Sarah Palin autographed Xbox 360 on eBay, posted for $1.1 Million…Ziggytek