The Washington Post ran a very interesting piece the other day documenting the affinity that our military’s finest tend to develop with the robots placed in their care. The article starts off with, quite literally, a bang: The most effective…
My browsers on each and every machine I have access to have been collecting open tabs like some hideously geeky HTTP-fueled version of Garbage Pail Kids figurines/Pogs/[insert some other non-Pokemon hackneyed pop cultural reference here] and so, in order to…
I’m actually surprised nobrainer hasn’t commented on this story as of yet — seems like it’d be right up his alley. Anyways, here goes: some moron idiot charlatan high school dropout enterprising inventor has proposed placing wind turbines along New…
Or: Idiotically digging Your Community’s Grave A “minor” rebellion over at digg yesterday has simply reinforced my perception that the comments section of said news aggregator is filled with either a) 14-year-old males with little-to-no understanding of the real world…
I officially retract my previous iPhone fanboi status, as Apple officially announced today that their next-generation Macintosh operating system Leopard will be delayed until October and the iPhone is solely to blame. Apparently, Apple’s best and brightest engineers had to…
Holy Out-Of-Left-Field News, Batman. I’ve stated previously that I will never give Best Buy another dime of my hard-earned money due to their consistent mistreatment of me in the retail space. Looks like they’re going to be mistreating me in…
It’s hard to believe, but Google, the current King of the Internet[s], sprang up from humble beginnings at Stanford back in 1998. Want proof? Here are the pictures that capture the ragtag nature of the first revision of the Little…
…And then there’s Freestyle Powerizer Stilts: A buddy of mine works for a sporting goods e-tailer and he apparently got a review set of these badboys to try out. He’s bringing them to church on Sunday – if I’m in…
First off, a love song, sung by geeks, gone horribly, horribly awry: Next up, one of the absolute high points in Western action cinema, the car chase sequence from Bullitt: From Web 0 to Web 2.0 in five minutes’ time:…
For those of you pondering a purchase of a Mac Pro workstation, heed my advice: make sure you upgrade the included video card to the ATI x1900. Do not, under any circumstances, buy a Mac with an nVidia video card.…
