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Top 10 reasons to hate the iPhone 3g
APC has a great article up on the top 10 reasons to hate the new iPhone 3g. As much as I kind of want to, I really don’t hate the new iPhone. In fact, I’d love to have one.
Continue reading...DIABLO 3 - Nick knows and now you do too - a compilation of all things Diablo 3
2. July 2008
I’ve got to point you all to Nick Breckon’s Shacknews feature on Diablo 3. Nick got frustrated after watching a bunch of interviews and realizing that no one had compiled all of the information in one spot. So he did this for us, to which we are forever indebted to him and should probably buy [...]
Continue reading...Neuros hack that radiates awesome. Live chat over Live TV (or) the future of television
1. July 2008
Crowd Narration is what it’s being called and it was shown to the Neuros folks at a BBC sponsored event. It’s created by a guy named Matthew and you can download it to play with it directly from here (Heavy Horse). It’s a fairly simple idea which can I think have pretty far reaching effects. It [...]
Continue reading...Great tits cope well with warming
12. May 2008
I love the BBC for a variety of reasons - not the least of which now is this wonderful headline. They are of course referring to the bird which makes it’s home in Great Britain. How charming to think that the warmer the weather gets, the more we’ll be seeing Britain’s Great tits. Image [...]
Continue reading...How Alaska got a town called Chicken
7. May 2008
Occasionally I learn something or hear a tidbit of info that makes me smile to myself. Today’s tidbit was Chicken, Alaska. No, it’s not a dish and it doesn’t involve heating something frozen, which I imagine happens quite a lot in Alaska. Chicken is a town. Full time population of 17 to 37. So why the [...]
Continue reading...Looking to get into 3D art? Bryce 5.5 and DAZ Studio are free
7. May 2008
I’ve long tinkered with 3D art, landscapes and figures. I don’t consider myself an artist but with programs such as Bryce 5.5 I was able to make this: Not a masterwork by any means, but not bad for someone who’s just tinkering. A while back I actually shelled out the money for Bryce 5.5 because it [...]
Continue reading...50,000 copies of SAGA - the collectible MMORTS for free
7. May 2008
SAGA is something of a new concept. It’s a collectible MMO which charges $19.95 for the game (you can play for free but lots of things are locked). Or - you can hit FileFront right now and grab one of the 50,000 free registration keys to essentially get this game for free. Here’s the press release. For [...]
Continue reading...Did you know that the ATF has a kids page?
28. April 2008
Ahh sweet memories of childhood. Bootlegging moonshine, selling arms to neighbors and smuggling cigs into Canada. Those aren’t your childhood memories? Well I’ll bet you have the ATF to thank for that! The Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco Firearms and now, Explosives (ATFE) has launched their kids page! Enjoy pictures of old time ATF agents and the [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu’s Hardy Heron gets it’s wings - flies until 2011
24. April 2008
Ubuntu’s newest release, Hardy Heron, an LTS to boot is available for you to get now! Expect slow download speeds from their site as everyone and their brother upgrades. You also may want to consider getting it via torrent! Also the server edition is good until 2013. And by good, I mean supported. I’ve been using [...]
Continue reading...Elementeo - the card game of Chemistry
14. April 2008
I like kids. They’re cool and fun and possibly more reliable than Social Security. I like ‘em so much I have two myself. Sometimes a kid somewhere will do something so outstanding that they really make others sit up and take notice. Often there isn’t even a jail term involved. Enter Elementeo [...]
Continue reading...The printer that will change the world and colonize the galaxy
8. April 2008
Would you like to get a look at the invention that will change the world as we know it? Perhaps not today, surely not tomorrow but with certainty in the next 10 years. Meet RepRap. What is it? It’s a self replicating 3D printer. Yeah, that doesn’t sound as high and mighty [...]
Continue reading...Ms. Huff sued for smoking in her home, her dog sued for peeing. What litigious society?
7. April 2008
ABC is running a story about a woman who’s lived in the same apartment for 15 years being sued by a neighboring apartment for smoking. They neighbors moved in about 5 years ago. They allege that her smoke is escaping her apartment and floating about in the building’s common areas, causing, according to [...]
Continue reading...Bioshock (game guide book) for $0.01 at Best Buy. Good bathroom reading?
7. April 2008
I was perusing Best Buy’s site this morning as I’m like to do when I came across this little gem. The Bioshock game guide is only a penny. One whopping cent. So if you’re having trouble getting through this game on your Xbox or PC, then spending a penny plus some shipping costs may be [...]
Continue reading...Atari delays game release not to bring you a better game, but to treat you like a criminal
2. April 2008
Shamus over at Twenty Sided has a very well thought out and detailed article about Atari’s decision to delay the release of an expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights 2 in order to create and polish their new DRM scheme. The idiocy of those corporations who rely on DRM never ceases to amaze me. From Shamus: [...]
Continue reading...Twine - tie it all together. I have 8 invitations to this beta Semantic Web site. First come, first serve
1. April 2008
Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company. It’s part social website, part calendar, part usenet brought back to the front of things. In my fooling [...]
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