Elonian Nomad

Doodads

Beautiful And Original Product Designs
Please, do squeeze the Chumby
CHW on the MSI Wind (translated)
World’s Smallest Helicopter Ready For a Spin

Robots

Grasshoppper “robot” sets new high-jump record
SRI’s Wall-Climbing Robot
PhD Student Makes World’s “Most Advanced” Walking Robot

DIY: SW

Google’s ‘Friend Connect’ Offers a Way to Bring the Social Web Together aka Google’s instant social network widget!
Build your own fonts [...]

 Doodads

First Person RC Plane – If we put in some mechanism to disable other RC aircraft, thsi can be a nice (and expensive) hobby flight combat sim.
Help me Obi-wan!  It’s a real R2D2 DVD projector!
Breville ikon Combines Tea and Toast (“teast”?)
Create Perfect Ice Spheres For Perfect Cocktails
From the Runway to the Road: Terrafugia Redefines the [...]

Gaming News:

2008 Origins Awards Nominees Announced – To those who don’t know, these are awards for tabletop games and RPGs.
A Touch of Evil is a new boardgame from Flying Frog (makers of Last Night on Earth)
XBOX 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray
Level Up! shuts down Khan – Honestly, with all the MOGs available in the local [...]

News:

Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter
Quicktime Flaw Makes Windows Vulnerable to Attack
‘Social Media’ Usage on the Rise
What Does It Mean To Be Alive?

GTA IV Related:

Man stabbed in line for midnight launch of GTA IV – Ah, life imitating art!
Negative GTA IV reviews
Rockstar Support Feels Terrible about GTA Lock-ups

Opinion:

Downgrade Rights As a Backdoor to [...]

News:

New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability
Are new mathematical truths discovered or invented?
Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection – I hope your webserver isn’t one of them.
Shoe-box data center
India launches 10 satellites in one go!
Sports social networking
Karaoke on MySpace? Next thing you’ll know we’ll have social gardening too… wait [...]

Purchases:

“Starship Troopers” by Robert A. Heinlin

I never would have thought about getting this based on the movie and CG animated series, but I read a little something on the net. It was unfortunately a bit of a spoiler, but if I didn’t know about it, I probably wouldn’t have tried getting the book.

“Necronomicon: [...]

DIY: HW:

If Sherlock Holmes has access to a PC, he’d probably use something that looks a little like this.

News:

Yahoo! “refunds” disappointed search advertiser $8,962,385,800… well… they almost did.
Open Yahoo!
EMI says you can’t store your own music files online
Sun looks to free up the rest of Java – I’ve been hearing about this for so [...]

Doodads:

THE wedding ring for the SysAd/Network Engineering couple

News:

Good bots vs Evil bots -
Stephen Hawking believes that (primitive) alien life is very likely.
Priest who floated away using helium balloons for a fund raiser is missing.
Pig urine plastic ware (or “You packed my lunch in what?!”)
In this analysis P2P is no longer the major bandwidth hog.
Hotmail [...]

News:

Glowing plans on the moon may be feasible
Software can now fix off-pitch chords! – Before you know it they’ll be making microphones with stuff like this built-in, improving performances of karaoke nights and deluding more people into thinking they can actually sing.
D&D 4th Ed will have a new System License. The d20 STL will [...]