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Help SETI save Arecibo
Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest radio telescope and the source for the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts that will END its ability to continue the search for life beyond Earth. The decision to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on Senate Bill S. 2862 and House Resolution [...]
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. [...]
Continue reading...Did you ask for the day off when the new iPhone comes out? You’re a jerk!
23. June 2008
After reading the following article I had to think back to all the people who would take time off work to get latest iPhone, a particular video game or awesome thingamajigger that I could truly care less about. The article was correct sadly to say. I love my friends but arrogant truly is in their [...]
Continue reading...Save Jericho. Again!
15. June 2008
Some slightly rabid fans of the twice canceled television show Jericho have created their own commercial. Looks like they raised about six grand to create and then air the television spot. The spot is running in the Los Angeles area over the next few weeks, but of course you can grab it on YouTube or [...]
Continue reading...Move over potato clock… build your own Multi-Touch pad
1. June 2008
Found on New Science and Gizmodo With gas prices now over the four dollar mark (Road Warriors still plays in my head when I think about that). Seth Sandler, you’re my new hero. With merely a cardboard box, tape, a piece of glass, paper and a webcam; he was able to create a Multi-Touch pad. [...]
Continue reading...Got a band but can’t afford to shoot a video? Use public CCTV cameras and then demand the footage!
9. May 2008
The Get Out Clause are an upcoming UK band who are currently unsigned. They took a brilliant and I’m sure soon to be much copied method to producing their own video. Unable to hire a production crew for a standard 1980′s era MTV music video, they performed their music in front of 80 of the [...]
Continue reading...Trent And NIN, you freakin’ rock
6. May 2008
No pun intended. It’s nice to see an artist who really gets it and has the clout and wherewithal to do things their way, on their terms. Yesterday Nine Inch Nails in the person of Trent Reznor (who’s name I always thought sounded like a hardy German stout. Sorry.) put up a whole brand new [...]
Continue reading...The chubbiest stormtrooper
22. April 2008
Lot’s of things at ComicCon will make you turn your head and stare for a moment. This guy caught my attention as we were sitting down for a light lunch of some-kind-of-meat bought at a cart. I almost want to write a children’s book about this guy all kitted out in winter gear – the [...]
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 – a collectible [...]
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 as an autobalancing [...]
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 about [...]
Continue reading...Virgle. Another April 1st, another fool.
1. April 2008
Yup, the Virgle bit by Google and Virgin about colonizing Mars is *gasp* A JOKE! Bwahahahaha. Can I get back to surfing now? Technorati Tags: april fools, google, virgin, virgle, a laugh a minute, sigh Share and Enjoy:
Continue reading...StanLeeStanLeeStanLeeStanLeeStanLee
25. March 2008
Awww cool! Mr. Lee will also be receiving the first every New York Comics Legend award. Share and Enjoy:
Continue reading...Time to tip our hats to Arthur C. Clark
19. March 2008
Author, inventor and all around fascinating guy and huge influence on my reading while still a teen Arthur C. Clark passed away. Cheers to you Arthur! You gave me lots of things to mull over while reading your books. We’ll all miss you. “He never grew up; but he never stopped growing.” Technorati Tags: farewell, [...]
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