Ooooh, High Tech Homebrew Weaponry!

For anyone looking to reprise Ahnold’s role in Eraser, I present: the Gauss Pistol. Sure, it takes 20 seconds to charge in between shots, but, c’mon, it’s a hand-held railgun, for cryin’ out loud! Heh. Via Hack A Day.

Posted by Doug on September 8th, 2005 | Comments Off Posted in Cool Sites, Outright Geekage, Technology

Everyone Give Slashdot A Round Of Applause As They Join Us In The “Noughties”

Slashdot: finally moving to CSS-based layout, and not a momentfive years too late. Heh. Maybe it’ll finally render correctly in Firefox, for a change.

Posted by Doug on September 6th, 2005 | Comments Off Posted in Linux, Outright Geekage, Web Design

No Dub Dub Dub Dot

I’ve long deplored the “www.” prefix for my websites. There’s very little point in it existing these days, unless you’re actually pointing to a server that goes by the name of “www.[domain name].[top level domain]“. I generally eschew the prefix whenever I can, although I’m by no means as much of a stickler as the [...]

Posted by Doug on September 1st, 2005 | Comments Off Posted in Blogging, General, Outright Geekage, Site News, Web Design, WordPress

“I’m Wearing Boots Of Escaping!”

Heh. This one’s right up there with Summoner Geeks: Reno 911 takes down a LARPer. “I’m wearing Boots of Escaping!” has now officially become the catchphrase around the office for those wishing to extricate themselves from unending conversations. *chuckle*

Posted by Doug on August 25th, 2005 | Comments Off Posted in Humor, Outright Geekage

Throwback Tech Giggles

If you’re a *snort* geek like me, you may very well enjoy Engadget’s retrospective “from” 1985, featuring the latest news on cellphones, Windows 1.0 and the Engadget “Tapecasts”. It starts out thusly: WELCOME TO THE ENGADGET BBS August 22, 1985 | 12:35 Callers to date . . . . . . . . . . [...]

Posted by Doug on August 22nd, 2005 | Comments Off Posted in Humor, Outright Geekage, Technology

Yet Another “Support” Fad Has Officially Jumped The Shark

I knew that ribbon campaigns (AIDS ribbons, Breast Cancer ribbons, etc.) had Jumped the Shark when Rush Limbaugh began touting a method for turning $1 bills into “tax awareness” ribbons. I knew that magnetic “ribbon” campaigns (Support Our Troops, Autism Awareness, etc.) had J’d.t.S. when I saw a “Midnight Green” Support the (Philadelphia Football) Eagles [...]

Posted by Doug on August 19th, 2005 | Comments Off Posted in Humor, Observations, Outright Geekage, Video Games
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