One of the best computer games I ever played was Bill Budget’s Pinball Construction Set. Today, Visual Pinball takes that idea far beyond what anyone imagined was possible in 1983. Visual Pinball allows for extremely detailed recreations of existing pinball machines, and for some innovative and very fun new pinball machines. The graphics are just…
April, 2006
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Caleb Chung, the guy who created the Furby, has spent the last five years working on a sequel, which will be available in time for the 2006 holiday season — the Pleo, It’ll retail for about $200, but it is equipped with 40 sensors and 14 servo joints controlled by algorithms designed to make it…
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Back in 2005, our grandstanding governor Jennifer Granholm called for the legislature to pass a bill to ban the sale of “violent” video games to minors. The legislature granted her request, and the bill was signed into law in September of 2005. This month, U.S. District Court Judge George Caram Steeh issued a permanent injunction…
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The Los Angeles Times recently profiled Cliff Atkinson author of Beyond Bullet Points, which advocates for replacing the dull-as-nails barrage of bullet points PowerPoint style with a more narrative, visual storytelling format. Since I read Beyond Bullet Points I’ve used its ideas in putting together a few presentations with varying degrees of success, and I’ve…
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The Onion published a hilarious World of Warcraft piece, Baby, You Mean The World of Warcraft To Me, with lines like, There is no other way to put it: You take my breath bar away. . . . Please, baby, if you leave, you will increase by 32 percent the chance of doing direct damage…
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John Lott continues to be an embarrassment to gun rights supporters, this time filing a lawsuit against University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt over Levitt’s bestselling book, Freakonomics. I haven’t read Freakonomics but apparently the book claims that other researchers have been unable to reproduce Lott’s findings about the extent to which concealed carry laws…
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This excellent custom magnetic Katamari can be had at etsy.com for just $25.
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Kanguru is currently manufacturing a 64gb flash drive. Unfortunately, it will set you back about $2,800.
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For the most part I don’t want Thunderbird to automatically extract all attachments, but I also receive about 15 automated e-mails every day that have large attachments where I’d like to automatically extract the attachments to a directory. Attachment Extractor is an extension for Thunderbird that does just that. Simply select the messages that you…
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There’s an online campaign to have Hoth selected as the host planet for the 2014 Olympics. Why not? Sign the petition here. How about Talos IV for the Summer Olympics?