Smelly e-Books
Smelly e-books for college students — Anyone who knows me well will realize why I love this link [via Dave, who knows me well]
Smelly e-books for college students — Anyone who knows me well will realize why I love this link [via Dave, who knows me well]
Funny: iPhone Shuffle — I still want an actual iPhone... [via Rich]
The Aeroscraft flying yacht/cargo ship looks very keen [via Dave, of course]
Rube Goldberg, eat your heart out! This is amazing. [via Rich]
Text-based adventures: Before the graphics — These were the games I loved as a boy
If God says, pi == 3, does that make it so?
I love Japanese television: What happens when a ball is thrown back 100 km/h from a truck moving forward at 100 km/h? My favorite comment: "music needs to be more dramatic!!"
Awesomeness: Speed test between a 1986 Mac Plus and a 2007 AMD Dual Core Athlon machine. Care to guess which machine wins? It takes the MacPlus 11 seconds to boot to desktop, but 63 seconds for the modern machine. [via Dana!!!]
Mashup: Boogie Nights vs Star Wars [via kottke]
Via Jeff: Obi-Wan buys a car
The last ten seconds of every first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (How I loved this show!)
For all my geeky friends: Marvel vs. DC
Apple podcast seminar [via Macdaddy]
Samson C01U USB microphone — somebody's thinking of starting a podcast...
Star Wars in 30 seconds. With bunnies. [via Andrew P.]
For ALL my geeky friends (Nicole, Dave, etc.): Battle of the Gods
For Tammy: What Dungeons & Dragons is really like — this is frighteningly accurate [via Rich]]
I just picked up Civilizaton 4 a couple weeks ago. It's awesome, and has been sucking the spare cycles from my life (such as they are). Nick bought it, too, and has begun forwarding fun Civ4 articles to me, such as this: Winning a cultural victory with "always peace" on. Fun for a Civ geek.
Wii Sports experiment — Guy loses ten pounds in six weeks just playing video games. [via mikebanx]
For geeks only: FeedBurner hack to find the number of subscribers via tricksiness
Jedi are evil. A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope [via Rich]
Obsessed with online games? Try First Life!
The history of computer role-playing games, part one — ah, this brings back memories
Oooh. Fun for word geeks: heteronyms.
Real-life Leeroy Jenkins — funny for what? one other person that reads this? But funny just the same. [via waxy]
For Joel: Master of the Dark Arts — Ignored for decades, the twisted genius of Mervyn Peake is finally getting the attention it deserves
Somewhere over Essex — Zeppelins at war. I cannot possibly describe how much I love this summary of Zeppelins used for warfare.
Forget Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. What would dogfights in space actually be like?
The World of Warcraft diet — man loses 41lbs. in three months playing online computer game. Maybe I should try...
A Bend developer is building The Shire in Central Oregon, which doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense — The Shire is more like, well, Canby.
Madden NFL 07's Mr. Irrelevant — this is a great little article about player ratings in sports video games
Spam + Blogs = Trouble — I've been moaning about splogs for several months now. They're a curse, and they're only going to get worse.
The Radius 320, a 4800x1200 flat-panel monitor. Lovely. [thanks, Dave!]
8-bit opera [via scrubbles]
Goggles, the Google Maps flight-sim, is pretty darn nifty
These Star Trek inspirational posters are all the rage on the net, and with good reason. They're funny! [via rich]
This is amazing: the time fountain.
Van Gogh's Starry Night. From LEGO.
Who's on force? The classic Abbot & Costello routine set to Star Wars... [via rich, who flies]
The 95 theses of geek activism. Great reading for geeks.
This is awesome! Stop-motion human space invaders. [via kottke]
Best corn maze ever. Beam me up, Scotty!
Keeping the sci-fi health theme going: bionic man can control robotic arm with his mind and silk may be able to help repair damaged nerves. We are living in the future. [via Dave]
Science fiction approaches reality: Suspended animation trials are underway, and they're working
Nintendo Wii may launch early — I shouldn't be this exceited, but I am
The official Nintendo Wii site is up. Yes, I still have money saved to buy one of these this fall...
I've been taking some heat in comic book forums because I think the first Superman film (from 1978) is awful. (I just rewatched it on Sunday.) Pauline Kael's review says a lot of what I wanted to say, only better.
I find this fascinating: an inside view from a Google employee
For Sparky: Xybots
I mentioned social bookmarking in the blog the other day. Who filters the filters? looks at the social bookmarking, and includes a table comparing the major sites. Here's popurls, my favorite link aggregator aggregator.
Tell me about couples and surfing. Though this fellow is actually doing research for an article on the subject, he offers some great food for thought. I, too, am addicted to the total flow of information on the internet.