Strangeness. Meter. Off The. Scale.
William Shatner, channeling Frank Sinatra in a tribute to George Lucas. It just don’t get no stranger, folks.
Category Outright Geekage
Friday Link Dump
Okay, time to toss out all the nifty links that I stumbled over in the past week but never really made it to “full post” status. Enjoy. Vids Kinetic destruction visited upon an old Toyota, rubber band-style. Robin Williams guest-starred…
Great, There Goes Another Bit Of My Childhood
I was alerted to a rather startling turn of events in re: the release of the “original” Star Wars trilogy on DVD by the lads of Penny Arcade and felt it worth passing on. To wit: I listened to Gabriel…
Simply Awesome
I stumbled across this one early today, which is pretty interesting in a synchronistic sense, since Ocean’s Eleven (the Clooney/Pitt/Damon vehicle, not the execrable Rat Pack one) was on TV last night: Recreation of The Bellagio’s fountain display – an…
It’s Times Like These That Make Me Love This Crazy World Of Ours
Ever heard of the WCBO? No? It stands for “World Chess Boxing Organization”. Participants in this new sport alternately play 4 minute rounds of speed chess and 2 minute boxing rounds with around a minute or two between rounds for…
Fun With Google Video
A couple of brief visual divertimentos to lighten your day: Ryan vs Dorkman – an amateur Lightsaber battle so good, it ought to make George Lucas blush. Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and trade show – Oklahomans using the Second Ammendment…
Ultra-Mega-Hyper High-Def Gaming
Yowsers – Quake 3 on 24[!] monitors. It takes 12 Linux servers running parallel processing to power that badboy, but whoooo dang, that’s a sweet rig!
No New Galactica ‘Til October – D’oh!, Yet Hmmmm…
I initially reacted with some disappointment that Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica is due to be delayed until October, that is, until reading the following tidbit: There are mutterings that one reason could be that parent network NBC is considering…
SpokePOV: Sweet Biking Hack
For a small investment – PCB, microcontroller kit, LEDs, batteries and some solder – all you EE/CREG geeks out there can deck out your bike with SpokePOV and have PacMan chasing ghosts in the spokes of your conveyance in mere…
Will Wright Is A Madman, A MADMAN, I Say!
If you’re not immediately familiar with the name Will Wright, you’ve probably never played Sim City, The Sims, etc. If you do know his name, you’re probably cursing it at this very moment for the countless hours you lost to…
