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!
Video Games: The Proving Grounds For Our Next-Gen Soldiers
Blackfive has a nifty piece about a new addition to the U.S. Marines’ arsenal – the M-32 “Six Pack” grenade launcher. Whereas our soldiers and Marines have previously been restricted to using the single-shot M-203 under-barrell grenade launcher for indirect…
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…
WordPress Users Take Note – 2.0.2 Security Release In The Wild
All of you WordPress users out there, take note: the WP dev team has released the 2.0.2 Security Release with fixes for an undisclosed security issue and several large bugfixes. I’ve upgraded all of my hosted sites to 2.0.2, so…
How To Tell Whether You’re Protesting For The Wrong Side In Several Easy Steps
These days, it seems as if everyone is ready and willing to throw together a demonstration, protest, march, or riot at the slightest provocation: Supreme Court appointments, elections, Presidential visits, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, sports championships (both won…
Peggy Noonan On Hollywood’s Problems
Peggy Noonan has penned a very interesting piece for the Wall Street Journal today entitled “Boy in a Bubble – What George Clooney doesn’t know about life”. It is quite possibly one of the most sympathetic and generous readings of…
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…
Stupidity Loses In New Jersey To The Delight Of Netizens
If you’ve payed careful attention to the news in recent days, you probably have seen reports of proposed legislation in New Jersey that would prohibit anonymous online posts in order to impose “civility” on the Web. If service providers refused…
Center Field Suddenly Feels A Whole Lot Emptier
A tear came to my eye last night as I read of the death of Kirby Puckett, one of my childhood heroes. As a child of the ’80’s growing up on the south side of Minneapolis, there seemed no higher…
Whatever Happened To Primetime Sitcom Gimmicks?
Recently, I’ve caught myself wondering what happened to all the primetime TV sitcom gimmicks. Where’d they go? Who decided to nuke ’em? I mean, there’s nary an alien puppet, robotic little girl, strange alien child with the ability to freeze…
