Month: November 2007

  • Child's Play

    Gamers unite! It’s time to donate to Child’s Play, the charity started by the creators of the popular webcomic Penny Arcade. What exactly IS Child’s Play? Here are Gabe and Tycho in their own words: Child’s Play works the same as last year. With the help of hospital staff, we’ve set up gift wish lists…

  • TASED and Confused

    According to the Danger Room, TASER (everyone’s favorite make of less-than-lethal weaponry) is developing a “mini-flying saucer like drone which could also fire Taser stun rounds on criminal suspects or rioting crowds”. Insert whatever ‘welcoming robot overlords’ comment you deem appropriate. All I know is I want one to zoom out over the plaza here…

  • They Couldn't Pick A Better Instrument?

    Ken Shuttleworth has unveiled a design for a ten-story office building…which resembles an accordian. There will be a roof garden with a sundial, and the gnomon (new word for the day!) is provided by the 1677 monument by Sir Christopher Wren. New York City is responding with a really bitchin’ guitar shaped building.

  • Forget Couches…

    …go for a ball pit. That’s what Randall Munroe of xkcd did. I wonder if I can convince my son this is what he wants instead of a fire truck motif for his room. ;)

  • PopSci's Best of What's New

    The very cool Nanosolar Powersheet tops the list of Popular Science’s Best of What’s New. There’s a few obvious choices (iPhone) but other wise some amazing tech. The company produces its PowerSheet solar cells with printing-press-style machines that set down a layer of solar-absorbing nano-ink onto metal sheets as thin as aluminum foil, so the…

  • Colossus, Reborn

    The BBC has a story about the rebuilding of the Colossus…not the big stone guy, but the code-cracking computer that was h4x0ring the Germans during WWII. Tony Sale led a 14-year project to rebuild the device in an effort to preserve this bit of computing history. Colossus is widely recognised as being one of the…

  • As If Marching Bands Weren't Geeky Enough

    The Cal Marching Band recently performed an opus to video games as their halftime show. Gizmodo has the video here. Complete with a Pokemon fight between the mascots.

  • VectorMagic

    I was surfing Lifehacker again, and found the link to VectorMagic, and online tool for taking your bitmap images and vectorizing them. It works very well, taking in .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png and .tiff and giving back .eps, .svg or .png. I’m having a ball uploading various pictures and things and seeing what the output…

  • Lifehacker: First Look at Firefox 3.0

    Lifehacker has a preview of the latest beta build of Firefox 3.0. They have updated bookmarking with STARS, saved searches, as well as the typical design updates you get with a new version.

  • Battlestar Galactica: Razor Will Have Showings In Select Theaters

    Mixed in with the news that the BSG Season 4 will not start until April (decidedly not cool) is news that the BSG movie Razor will be in theaters in select cities before it airs on TV. On November 12th, you can catch Razor at theaters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas,…

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