It seems that researchers at MIT are experimenting with using video games to teach players a foreign language. In the linked study, the researcher in question used The Sims to teach users high school level German. I think this is…
I stumbled across the Oracle of [Kevin] Bacon, a nifty little webpage that will give you the “Bacon Number” of any actor or actress out there. Go ahead, give it a try. It’s pretty entertaining. The highest number I’ve been…
This one’s for Brad, since Blogger seems to have b0rked my attempt to post the link over at his site: Button Maker. Yeeehaw.
Don’t ask me how, but the following code will produce the 12 Days of Christmas: /* * seriously — run it 🙂 */ #include main(t,_,a) char *a; { return!0
Why is Christmas just like Halloween? Because Dec(25) = Oct(31). Haw. *snort*
I can’t quite wrap my mind around this one – it almost certainly has to be a hoax: Hriders.com gives out free 1TB [you read that right, one terrabyte -ed.] email accounts. Makes my puny 1GB GMail account seem puny…
It appears that the number of back-and-forth emails that GMail will collect as a single “conversation” is 61. After that, it begins a new one. How do I know this? Simple: I recently installed Kitten’s Spaminator in order to combat…
While I don’t necessarily want everything on RedHat Magazine’s Geek Gift Giving Guide, they did have the foresight to add the Neuros Audio Player to their list. The thing is sweet – open sourced firmware and open spec hardware schematics…
Tom’s Hardware: Gigabyte creates first [nVidia] dual-GPU graphics card. Here’s the real dirt in the article: The card integrates two Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT graphics processors and is the first 6600 GT card on the market to offer a total…
The Mozilla Foundation was supposed to take out a two page ad in today’s New York Times advocating a switch to Firefox as your browser of choice (full PR here). The ad looks great and, although I haven’t yet been…
