A Glutton For Retail Punishment
– or – Fool Me Once, Shame On You, Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me, Fool Me Thrice, You Must Work For Best Buy! As long-time readers will no doubt recall, I’ve had my troubles with Best Buy (and customer…
Category Technology
A Quick Primer to the Internet
Are you frightened by “the Internets”? Do you ever worry about the vast and sundry forces arrayed against you, a hapless information consumer in a vast sea of bits? Well, fear no more! Those enterprising lads over at Red vs.…
New Athlon64 Chips, nForce Chipset
Anandtech has posted info on the released (on paper) AMD Athlon64 4000+ and FX-55 CPUs and the announced nForce4 chipset and man, I have to say that I’m drooling. I want an A64 rig so badly, I can almost taste…
Neal Stephenson Responds
A while back, Slashdot solicited questions that they would forward to Neal Stephenson (of Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, The Baroque Cycle, etc. fame). They’ve posted his responses and, as always seems to be the case with Stephenson, the results…
The Croquet Project
If you are at all interested in human interface design and the possibilities for collaborative work made possible by the Internet, I would highly recommend that you take a look at the Croquet Project. I can’t really do the concept…
CBS Should Be Wetting Their Collective Shorts
According to this article: Researchers at Purdue University have developed a method that will enable authorities to trace documents to specific printers, a technique law-enforcement agencies could use to investigate counterfeiting, forgeries and homeland security matters. I would be very,…
Shazbot!
Well crap. Looks like there’s not going to be an air show at Willow Grove this year. I can’t seem to track down any specific information, but if I were a betting man, I’d wager it has a lot to…
State of the Blogging Nation
I came across an interesting summary of the state of things in the blogosphere, at least in relation to the tools used by bloggers. Executive summary: Blogger holds the current lead with ~30% of bloggers using its tools, whileLive Journal…
The Watercooler
Thanks go out to Aron and Heather for pointing me to the Watercooler. It’s a cool collection of random/nifty links that’s updated fairly often and has already yielded (for me, at least) breakdancing Transformers, insane jumps ala Jackie Chan, and…
Microsoft + NES + Fark PS Contest == Funny
So those nutcases over at Fark decided to have a PS contest themed “What classic Nintendo games would have been like had they been owned by Microsoft”. The results are extremely entertaining, if I do say so myself.
