Solar Death Ray – not really much else to say. The name is self-descriptive and if the pictures are any indication, there is some seriously fun destruction valuable scientific research that can be performed at the hands of such a…
The creators of The Sims have made a bunch of music tracks from the varions Sims titles available. They’re free and they’re a trip to listen to. They feature such Simlish language tracks as the perennial hip hop favorites “Downarown…
Inquiring minds want, nay, demand to know. Found by way of nobrainer.
I’ve recently upgraded my primary desktop at work to a rather beefy AMD FX-55-based box (running the recently-released RedHat Enterprise Linux version 4) and while I love the speed gained by moving to a 64bit processor and scads of RAM,…
Over the past 5 years or so, a term has arisen in the web-savvy world: LAMP-powered. In the generic case, LAMP stands for “Linux – Apache – MySQL – PHP (the “P” can also stand for Perl). This combination of…
What do you get when you cross: a filmmaking school’s animation project, Adam West, Mark Hamill, Courtney Thorne Smith, Dick Van Dyke and the Batman universe? Why, Batman: New Times, of course! The quality of the resulting piece far exceeds…
Sign #45,152,567 That You Have Surrounded Yourself With Too Much Technology: Your computerized coffee machine has “eaten” a prepackaged coffee pack and is squirreling it away deep inside while the LCD screen displays the following message: “ERROR: Pack eject timeout…
Car Talk enjoys widespread acclaim, and rightfully so. Let’s expand the concept to computers – have a weekly pre-screened call-in show where two irreverent techies field all manner of tech support questions. Thick Boston brogues optional. I’m available to host…
Did you know that Bluetooth, the short-range wireless communications protocol, is actually named after a 10th century Danish king named Harald? Neither did I.
People constantly amaze me with the nifty little tricks they are able to put together using CSS on webpages. This maze (implemented entirely in CSS) stands out as one of the more amazing examples I’ve ever seen. Too cool.
