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August 23, 2007

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]

August 14, 2007

iPhone Shuffle

Funny: iPhone Shuffle — I still want an actual iPhone... [via Rich]

August 8, 2007

Aeroscraft Flying Yacht

The Aeroscraft flying yacht/cargo ship looks very keen [via Dave, of course]

August 7, 2007

Rube Goldberg Machine

Rube Goldberg, eat your heart out! This is amazing. [via Rich]

July 14, 2007

Linux on an Apple IIe

Linux on an Apple IIe

Text-Based Adventures: Before the Graphics

Text-based adventures: Before the graphics — These were the games I loved as a boy

July 10, 2007

xkcd

I recently read every single episode of xkcd, a "webcomic of sarcasm, romance, math, and language". My two favorite episodes were: Beliefs and Dreams.

June 15, 2007

Roll Your Own Online Office

Roll your own on-line office

June 13, 2007

God Said Pi == 3

If God says, pi == 3, does that make it so?

June 7, 2007

Physics in Real Life

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!!"

May 31, 2007

Mac Plus Kicks Athlon's Ass

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

Mashup: Boogie Nights vs Star Wars [via kottke]

May 17, 2007

Obi-Wan Buys a Car

Via Jeff: Obi-Wan buys a car

TNG End Scenes

The last ten seconds of every first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (How I loved this show!)

May 3, 2007

Marvel vs. DC

For all my geeky friends: Marvel vs. DC

April 20, 2007

Apple Podcast Seminar

Apple podcast seminar [via Macdaddy]

April 9, 2007

Samson C01U USB Microphone

Samson C01U USB microphone — somebody's thinking of starting a podcast...

April 1, 2007

Star Wars in 30 Seconds

Star Wars in 30 seconds. With bunnies. [via Andrew P.]

March 26, 2007

Battle of the Gods

For ALL my geeky friends (Nicole, Dave, etc.): Battle of the Gods

Bird-Watching With an iPod

Bird-watching with an iPod

March 22, 2007

Smallist

Smallist, a weblog about the elegance of small stuff. [via Matt]

February 20, 2007

Real-Life D&D

For Tammy: What Dungeons & Dragons is really like — this is frighteningly accurate [via Rich]]

February 18, 2007

Civ4 Geekiness

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.

February 8, 2007

Wii Sports Experiment

Wii Sports experiment — Guy loses ten pounds in six weeks just playing video games. [via mikebanx]

January 31, 2007

FeedBurner Hack

For geeks only: FeedBurner hack to find the number of subscribers via tricksiness

January 30, 2007

A New Sith

Jedi are evil. A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope [via Rich]

January 23, 2007

Star Wars Dogfight, With Hands

Star Wars dogfight, done with hands

January 22, 2007

Get a First Life

Obsessed with online games? Try First Life!

January 15, 2007

Zork

ZORK!!!

World Freehand Circle-Drawing Champion

World freehand circle-drawing champion

January 10, 2007

How Apple Kept Its iPhone Secrets

How Apple kept its iPhone secrets

December 25, 2006

The History of Computer Role-Playin Games, Part One

The history of computer role-playing games, part one — ah, this brings back memories

December 7, 2006

Heteronyms

Oooh. Fun for word geeks: heteronyms.

Rea-life Leeroy Jenkins

Real-life Leeroy Jenkins — funny for what? one other person that reads this? But funny just the same. [via waxy]

December 4, 2006

Master of the Dark Arts

For Joel: Master of the Dark Arts — Ignored for decades, the twisted genius of Mervyn Peake is finally getting the attention it deserves

November 27, 2006

Learning Latin

On language learning, particularly Latin

November 20, 2006

Somewhere Over Essex

Somewhere over Essex — Zeppelins at war. I cannot possibly describe how much I love this summary of Zeppelins used for warfare.

November 5, 2006

How to Rip DVD to iPod

HOWTO Rip DVD movies to your iPod using free software

November 2, 2006

What Would Dogfights in Space Actually Be Like?

Forget Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. What would dogfights in space actually be like?

November 1, 2006

The World of Warcraft Diet

The World of Warcraft diet — man loses 41lbs. in three months playing online computer game. Maybe I should try...

October 28, 2006

DIY Secret-Door Bookshelf

DIY secret-door bookshelf [via lifehacker]

September 13, 2006

Middle Earth in Central Oregon

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.

September 7, 2006

Madden's Mr. Irrelevant

Madden NFL 07's Mr. Irrelevant — this is a great little article about player ratings in sports video games

September 5, 2006

Spam + Blogs = Trouble

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.

August 29, 2006

One-Handed Rubik's Cube in 20 Seconds

One-handed Rubik's Cube solution in 20 seconds

August 28, 2006

The Radius 320

The Radius 320, a 4800x1200 flat-panel monitor. Lovely. [thanks, Dave!]

August 19, 2006

8-Bit Opera

8-bit opera [via scrubbles]

August 9, 2006

Goggles

Goggles, the Google Maps flight-sim, is pretty darn nifty

Star Trek Inspirational Posters

These Star Trek inspirational posters are all the rage on the net, and with good reason. They're funny! [via rich]

August 8, 2006

Time Fountain

This is amazing: the time fountain.

August 3, 2006

Starry Night from LEGO

Van Gogh's Starry Night. From LEGO.

August 2, 2006

How to Make a 100 Page Notebook

How to make a 100 page notebook

July 31, 2006

Who's on Force?

Who's on force? The classic Abbot & Costello routine set to Star Wars... [via rich, who flies]

July 25, 2006

The 95 Theses of Geek Activism

The 95 theses of geek activism. Great reading for geeks.

July 18, 2006

Stop-Motion Human Space Invaders

This is awesome! Stop-motion human space invaders. [via kottke]

July 14, 2006

Best Corn Maze Ever

Best corn maze ever. Beam me up, Scotty!

July 13, 2006

More SciFi Health News

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]

Suspended Animation

Science fiction approaches reality: Suspended animation trials are underway, and they're working

July 6, 2006

The Perfect Utility Belt

AskMe: I'm becoming a costumed crime-fighter — what should I have on my utility belt?

July 5, 2006

Nintendo Wii May Launch Early

Nintendo Wii may launch early — I shouldn't be this exceited, but I am

July 3, 2006

Vacuum Cleaner Death Rays

Retro death rays constructed from Electrolux vacuums [via Dave]

June 29, 2006

Nintendo Wii Site

The official Nintendo Wii site is up. Yes, I still have money saved to buy one of these this fall...

June 28, 2006

Pauline Kael on the First Superman Movie

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.

June 23, 2006

An Inside View From a Google Employee

I find this fascinating: an inside view from a Google employee

June 10, 2006

Xybots

For Sparky: Xybots

June 7, 2006

Social Bookmarking

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.

May 31, 2006

Tell Me About Couples and Surfing

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.