I was seriously looking at the Sonos system to play my MP3s throughout my house. First, though, I need to get my MP3s and other data onto a larger NAS system, and I was doing research to make sure that the NAS system I was going with would work with the Sonos. It was at…
May, 2006
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Unfortunately, this particular auction appears to have been retconned into non-existence. I though the KITT Car replicas were fairly cool, but this eBay auction for a Back To The Future Delorean replica blows them away. Check out the attention to detail on the interior as well, Current bid is $45K, which doesn’t meet the reserve…
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Hand Shadows was originally published in 1859 and is largely a set of illustrations of how to make a variety of shadow creatures using two hands.
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A number of conservative websites have been slamming Google lately — it started with Google’s foray into China, but has ranged from Google’s removing sites from its Google News service because they ran racist anti-Muslim screeds to rumors that Google is a major source of funding for MoveOn.Org. But the anti-Google screed that takes the…
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Surely everyone has sat around on a lazy day thinking, “I wonder what would happen if someone tried to set a Jello shot on fire?” Well, there’s no need to be left in ignorance on the outcome any longer thanks to MyScienceProject.Org. After first establishing the upper possible limit for alcohol content in a Jello…
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Charmed Labs manufactures an interesting Gameboy-based system that transforms a Gameboy into an embedded controller that can be used, among other things, to make Lego-based robotic systems. This product page for the Xport Robot Controller includes a number of demonstration videos in WMV format that are pretty interesting. Cost is $140 to $200 depending on…
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The Groovy Age of Horror is a weblog dedicated to all things horror from the 1960s and 1970s. Nice links as well as scans and reviews of 1960s-1970s horror novels and comics.
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Ran across Breakfast of the Gods over at The Groovy Age of Horror. Breakfast of the Gods is a very well-drawn comic positing a war between breakfast cereal character. If you’ve always wondered what would happen if Lucky the Leprechaun and Captain Crunch threw down, this is for you. This reminds me of an April…
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I was looking the other day for a good password storage/management solution. — preferably a free, open source application. KeePass meets my needs at the right cost. It uses TwoFish and AES to encrypt the password database and keeps the passwords encrypted in memory as well. It also allows for the use of key disks…
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When it comes to the principle of net neutrality — the idea, essentially, that a packet is a packet is a packet — I’m largely neutral. Along with the political issues involved there are some technological issues that I rarely see discussed enough (and don’t know enough about to render a judgment) so I really…