Literal Barrage

There are days that I'm amazed by the Internet, and then there are days that it lives downup to my expectations. Take, for instance, a recent Tweet of mine in which I pondered

I was quickly answered by Stephane, who pointed out the wonderfully-implemented and -documented iPod Shuffle RAID0 array.
A few days thereafter, [...]

Muppetstar Galactica: an idea whose time has come. I promise the below video contains zero spoilers (Rowlf has been a Secret Cylon all along!).

Heh.

Good idea: Defending your intellectual property via every means necessary.
Bad idea: Defending your intellectual property via every means necessary by threatening to sue a competitor whose president is a former lawyer and who has the law on their side.
Good idea: Reading Dave Barry's Tax Day column.
Bad idea: Reading Dave Barry's Tax [...]

Engineers like the folks over at Mana Energy Potions that brought us the Robo-pult:

Or, most especially, Johnny Lee and His Wonderful World of Wii:

…For without them out there, being Dudes Of Unnecessary Science and abiding for the rest of us, our world would be much the poorer.
(On the Johnny Lee tip, you must click through [...]

I don't know if you were paying attention to technology news today, but Apple held a little keynote address at their yearly Macworld Expo at which Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air, a pretty freakin' cool piece of ultra-lightweight mobile computing technology. He also announced a free firmware update for the iPhone which adds [...]

Wowsers. Netflix and LG are apparently set to release a set-top box for direct downloads of movies in the very near future:

Netflix enters internet TV race
US DVD rental firm Netflix is to release a set-top box which will let subscribers download movies and other programmes over the net.
The box will be built by LG [...]

The VertiPod. I want it. Oh, how badly do I want it.
Cruising at 40mph at between 5 and 15 feet off the ground? Yes. Yes, please.
You're not a red-blooded American geek if you don't pine after such technology. "Be back in a bit, honey. Just popping down [...]