Unleashing unrestrained devastation to the unending hordes of beasts and hellions in the surprisingly cavernous, well-lit dungeons of Torchlight, essentially an exercise in gambling for marginally improving stats, while listening to an unending loop of Macross Frontier’s JPOP divas, is utterly engrossing. Sheryll Nome’s encouraging “FAITOs” dare me to press on. “Let me know what [...]
No news collection for today. Quite a collection of features from around, though.
Doodads
Hands-on with the MSI Wind ultra-portable
Keep Your Bum And The Earth Cool
Convert Your Gas Mower to Solar
Features
Generation Y Has No Culture
Innovative Shipping Container Homes and Offices
Can Social Media Advertising Work?
Lists
20 Unusually Brilliant Bookcase and Bookshelf Designs
10 Clever Architectural Creations Using Cargo [...]
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 [...]