September 25, 2009 – 10:54 am
You can view Sagan’s whole Cosmos series here.
September 17, 2009 – 10:51 pm
So the word is that the gamers in Australia are effectively being “Lef t 4 Dead” when it comes to the new zombie shoot-em-up of the same name, Left 4 Dead 2. My only question is, does this prevent them from obtaining it via Steam? Is it only banned in stores / box versions? The [...]
September 10, 2009 – 8:40 pm
I was looking up some old toys I had when I was a child but didn’t know what they were. Wikipedia has a construction toy category so I was able to get some spoilers on my childhood. Going through the different kinds I eventually came across the ones I had, Construx. The entry for which has [...]
8Bitone is an iPhone synthesizer and sequencer of impeccable taste. If you have some time on your hands, check out the excellent tutorials posted on the author’s site.
“And you’ll be what, the Pope-Emperor of the World?” via When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, by Cory Doctorow.
Hulu Desktop (available for Mac and Windows) seemed like a great idea when I heard about it earlier, so I’ve taken it for a test drive with some original Battlestar Galactica and found it to be better than the experience of watching through the browser. How so? Firefox on Mac at least is riddled with [...]
Found tonight under the free section on Craigslist in Philadelphia: “Unopened box of Kotex Super Plus tampons. They will be in a plastic bag hanging on the mailbox at 359 Richfield Road in Upper Darby. Don’t bother emailing, just come and get them. Post will be removed as soon as they’re gone.”
Marijuana Farms Take Root In National Parks : NPR.
“My husband and I bought Google (T-Mobile) G1 phones in December and there are tons of free apps you can download,” says Jessica Singleton, a 29-year-old freelance writer from Seattle. “He downloaded this one app, “DeskBell,” which makes noises, including a gong, a cowbell and a ‘ding’ like a service bell.” Unfortunately, her husband began [...]
Today, I just received my copy of the OpenSolaris Bible by Nicolas A. Solter, Gerald Jelinek, and David Miner. While the post office only dropped this off today, I’ve been frequenting my local bookstore to read this book several times over the past week. To be honest, I haven’t yet finished the book’s meaty 971 [...]
1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell | Books | The Observer.
A lot of webmasters such as bloggers or webcomic authors have fundraisers from time to time. It’s usually for something like a new computer (they are upgrading so they can better bring YOU content. How benevolent!), or some other piece of electronic equipment, or maybe even a medical procedure. This practice is of course self-indulgent [...]
“I went over to our nearest KFC a few minutes ago … and chaos ensued,” the e-mail read. “Despite the very visible grilled chicken behind the register, the manager told everyone with coupons to leave and that the promotion was over for the day. The people there are currently holding a sit-in and refusing to [...]