Archive for August 8th, 2008
Mattel’s Online Collector Store
A couple weeks ago, Mattel launched its online collector store MattyCollector.com. Basically, the store offers hard-to-find and exclusive figures. They offered limited quantities of their SDCC figures, for example.
Later this Fall they’re going to sell this Adam Strange/Starfire DCUC two-pack exclusively online. Nice.
Firefox 3 and Self-Signed SSL Certificates
Firefox 3 changed how it handles self-signed SSL certificates — it gives users a big scary full-page warning that “The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed.” You can add an exception for sites using self-signed certificates, but Firefox will warn you that ““Legitimate sites will not ask you to do this.”
The change [...]
Mike Mayfield’s Star Trek Game Revived
Michael Birken dug up and reworked Mike Mayfield’s 39 year old text-based Star Trek game.
When I was in high school back in the early 1980s, the library had some sort of DEC terminal hooked up to a modem that had a number of simple programs, with this Star Trek game being one of them. Now, [...]
Charlie Brooker Reviews ‘The Genius of Darwin’
PZ Meyers linked to this review of Richard Dawkins’ new documentary ‘The Genius of Darwin’. The reviewer, Charlie Brooker, has a wit about as acerbic as Dawkins’, writing,
Darwin’s theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it’s been under attack [...]
Uri Geller Should Have Seen This Coming
I definitely have regrets in my life and things I’d like to do over, and at the top of the list is the time when I was about 12 years old and checked out and read the entirety of Andrija Phuarich’s ridiculous biography of Uri Geller. I’d really like that week back. What’s always amazed [...]
Seagate’s 1.5 TB Hard Drive
Somehow I missed this Seagate press release announcing the release of a 1.5 TB hard drive planned to ship in August. Alas, no pricing.
However, the downward pricing on magnetic media continues unabated. I’ve seen 750gb HDs from big retailers hitting the $110 range. At the rate prices keep dropping, it won’t be much longer before [...]
