Wheeeee!

Posted by Doug on September 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Regular awesome: diving boards. Extremely awesome: people-flingin' catapults:

Posted in Humor, Videos

This Browser Is… So HEAVY!

Posted by Doug on September 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment

…Heavy with links! It's time, folks, for another massive download of Links Of Interest that I've managed to pack-ratsave for your enjoyment, so here goes.
Near-zero-G Mentos & Diet Coke! Yay, science!

I've run into some funny automated censorship software in the past (the old America's Army forums had a particularly aggressive one, so much [...]

Posted in Books, Humor, Military, Politics, Video Games, Videos

CPU Vs. GPU, Mythbusters-Style

Posted by Doug on August 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment

By way of Extra Life, we have this awesome (albeit scientifically suspect) demonstration of traditional in-order execution on CPUs vs. the multi-core/GPU massively-parallel execution that is the New Hotness:

Awesome, just awesome.

Posted in Science, Television, Videos

Just Covering The Bases

Posted by Doug on August 28th, 2008 | No Comments

Bloomberg runs the obit for the still-alive Steve Jobs.
And no, he wasn't eaten by wolves, nor has Zimbabwe invaded.

Heh.

Posted in Humor, Videos

Imperial Fleet Week San Francisco

Posted by Doug on August 26th, 2008 | No Comments

Nerd-tastic:

Posted in Movies, Outright Geekage, Sci-Fi, Videos

Oh, Bravo, EA, Bra-vo!

Posted by Doug on August 21st, 2008 | No Comments

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade, right? So if life hands you glitches, you make… glitchade?

Sacriliciousness aside, that there's some good humor. Well-played, EA Sports, well-played.

Posted in Humor, Sports, Video Games, Videos

A Musical Interlude

Posted by Doug on August 19th, 2008 | No Comments

The 6 string banjo: a weird hybrid of a guitar and a banjo. It sounds great, though, as the Page/Krauss album attests to.
Give a listen:

Posted in Music, Videos
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