Toy Vault has a line of Godzilla-related plush toys, like this awesome Mothra plush, These retail for $18-$25. Last year, Bandai released a series of 6″ Godzilla figures. What’s not to love in this Mecha King Ghidorah figure?
March, 2006
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I was sitting through a completely unrelated training session today when the trainer brought up the supposed benefits of the Dvorak keyboard over the familiar QWERTY arrangement. Ugh. Unfounded statements ensued. For the record, 1. The QWERTY arrangement was not designed to slow typists down. In fact, QWERTY was an attempt to get the fastest…
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In the latest issue of Reason (not online yet, unfortunately), Matt Welch has an article about his early, misplaced optimism of the role that blogs and amateur journalism would have. If anything, I was even more optimistic than Welch. Take a tool like Google where it is almost trivially easy to track down and fact…
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IDG’s Martyn Williams has the latest on planned rollouts of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs. Both are likely to make summer launches, though the Quixotic quest to DRM movies could hold that off. According to Williams, Sony will start selling 25GB BD-RE and BD-R discs in April for $20 and $25 respectively and 50GB capacity versions…
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Abstract of commentary, Artists’ Suicides as a Public Good published in Archives of Suicide Research, This Commentary suggests that it is possible, from an economic perspective, that any individual artist/celebrity suicide may be of net benefit to society. Sales of the artist’s products and associated merchandise may increase after the suicide, and people, including those…
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I’ve always been a fan of tech writer/geek Rogers Cadenhead, and not just because he bought me a Salon.Com subscription. But when he rescued Dave Winer from the Weblogs.Com fiasco and then went to be part of the RSS Advisory Board back in 2003/2004, anyone who has followed the Winer train wreck knew that at…
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I needed a utility that would monitor a directory waiting for a specific file to be added, then rename and move that file to a new directory — rinse, watch, repeat. WatchDirectory is a Windows program that does just that. A bit pricey at $49 for the registered version, but it does a good job…
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This screenshot is proof that I never learn.
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This article describes a British exhibition — supported by the UK government — that highlights 1,001 Muslim inventions from the 6th through the 16th centuries. The problem is that it includes inventions that do not appear to be Muslim in origin. For example, the exhibit apparently describes chess as a Muslim invention, which is a…