February 2008
49 posts
Never Gonna Give You Up - Wikipedia, the free... →
Mac4Lin Project Documentation →
HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like A Mac
Spongebob Squarepants Rectal Thermometer →
Jerry Beck, who co-edits the Cartoon Brew blog, found a disturbing thing in the supermarket recently. “This officially licensed item is wrong on so many levels,” he says, and right he is. Link.
Spongebob Squarepants Rectal Thermometer →
Jerry Beck, who co-edits the Cartoon Brew blog, found a disturbing thing in the supermarket recently. “This officially licensed item is wrong on so many levels,” he says, and right he is. Link.
iTunes Store adds 99 cent weekly movie rental... →
Mat Lu / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: iTunes Store adds 99 cent weekly movie rental specials — Along with the iTunes update we noted earlier, Apple has introduced a new weekly special movie rental for 99 cents. Macrumors reports that each Thursday Apple will make available a new movie at the special price, good until the following Monday.
“The argument goes that it still takes several hours to download a movie at...”
– Buying Movies on Flash Drives: Nice Idea That Doesn’t Work - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
“Washington says its aim is to prevent harm to humans from the satellite’s...”
– U.S. missile hits spy satellite | U.S. | Reuters
PC Psychic Controller Hits This Year [Gdc08] →
Mind-controlled video games comes to the masses this Christmas for $300 a pop. Emotiv’s Epoc “high-fidelity nero system” will begin shipping later this year with a Bluetooth dongle for synching with a computer and come packed with a PC game that will allow gamers to levitate virtual rocks, pull digital trees and scare of in-game spirits, all with their minds. “At Emotiv...
cDc communications →
Newspond →
MAKE: Blog: R2D2 knit hat →
Blu-Ray Wins HD Disc Format Battle; Will Lose War... →
For several weeks now, we at Mashable have been charting the gradual downfall of Toshiba’s HD-DVD technology. And looking at new developments of the last couple of days - exemplified most clearly by Wal-Mart’s choice to sell hardware and media compatible with Sony’s Blu-Ray video technology - it seems that things are finally coming to a close for the HD-DVD format.
And so this appears as good a...
Booty call: Music has-beens line up to sue The... →
Justice or money grab? Bands are lining up to sue The Pirate Bay now that the Swedish government has indicted the site’s owners, but the plans could backfire as the promises of sunken treasure give way to reality.
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Madison Miscellany -- February 17, 2008 →
Here we go again… southern Wisconsin is getting blasted with another blizzard in this long winter. Travel warnings, plowing updates, closing and cancellation announcements, pedestrian and bicyclist reports are flying as fast as the snow today. Additionally, the winter storm’s effects on presidential campaigning around Wisconsin, the Mad City Model Railroad Show, an open casting call...
Full Lunar Eclipse for the Americas on Wednesday →
KingArthur10 writes “It will be the last lunar eclipse until December 2010, and it should be spectacular. Shades of turquoise and red will pour over the moon’s surface as it moves into the Earth’s shadow around 8:43pm EST. As NASA reports: ‘Transiting the shadow’s core takes about an hour. The first hints of red appear around 10 pm EST (7 pm PST), heralding...
“Now if you truly want to understand White People I recommend listening to...”
– Stuff White People Like » Blog Archive » #44 Public Radio
Project Chanology →
- Insurgency Wiki
“God will download our software onto his hardware until the time he gives us new...”
– Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop - TIME
My Cherry Pop →
by Dawn Marie Miceli - PodShow Press
Save the Date: Flickr Turns 4! →
We’re getting our ducks in a row for our annual birthday celebration. If you’re in or around San Francisco, please save the evening of Saturday, March 15th for us. If you’re not round these parts, don’t fret. We’re working on an online event too! More info when we have it on the blog and on Upcoming (where you can RSVP). Photos from stechico.
The environment's gain is a newspaper... →
The Capital Times will suspend publication as an afternoon daily newspaper with the April 26 issue and become a daily internet paper, with additional twice-a-week free distribution of two new print editions — one for news and opinion, and one for entertainment. The announcement on their website didn’t knock the ball out of my ballpark. The caption said, “The Capital Times...
WatchThe Deuce Has Dropped — Internet Superstar Episode #2 — Revision3
Scientists Created Sperm from Bone Marrow of a... →
No thanks to University of Newcastle scientists, us men are about to be no longer necessary when it comes to human reproduction (Boo, science!)
The University of Newcastle team that has achieved the feat is now applying for permission to turn the bone marrow of a woman into sperm which, if successful, would make the method more practical than with embryonic cells.
It raises the possibility of...
Dot-com pioneers--where are they now? | Webware :... →
“REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 1, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today announced...”
– Microsoft