Much digital ink will be spilled about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie this weekend. I saw it this evening with more than a little trepidation. I’m a huge fan of the books. In fact, I make it a point to re-read them at least every two years. With that in mind, the movie […]
MAKE, a occasionally interesting “hacking” blog, came out with a whopper of an article Monday detailing how to turn an old PC into a DIY TiVo/music server/gaming console. If you have an old PC and the console gaming stuff, it’s a pretty cheap solution. Aw heck, it looks like fun to build, too. It even […]
Because Microsoft is coming for them, targeting one of Adobe’s flagship products. Later in the day, Microsoft also unveiled “Metro,” which can be best described as an alternative to or replacement for Adobe’s PDF. Metro is an XML-based document specification that covers creation, viewing, and printing. Windows applications will be able to create Metro documents […]
Much has been made of the upcoming release of Windows, still called Longhorn. (Can we possibly get someone in Microsoft Marketing to stop that stupid Office campaign [warning: Flash site] and come up with a name for the next version of Windows?) While I’m not convinced that Longhorn is simply a bunch of “fixes and […]
…this could come in handy. The Clamptite: “It transforms any old wire into the tightest clamp you can imagine.” Sounds like $24 well spent. [via Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools]
You know why I love del.icio.us? Because I dump stuff there I would never have bookmarked before. Maybe it’s the niche nature of the tool, or the buzz, but I do like using it. Plus, it let’s me find stuff like The Always Amusing Euphemism Generator. Now, Lord only knows where I ran across that […]
From Instapundit: MICHAEL BARONE LOOKS AT religion and politics in America: But whether the United States is on its way to becoming a theocracy is actually a silly question. No religion is going to impose laws on an unwilling Congress or the people of this country. And we have long lived comfortably with a few […]
Much is made lately of the problems at NASA. While some of that criticism is well-deserved (the shuttle program in particular), NASA often gets the shaft when it comes to the projects they got very, very right. Projects such as the Hubble telescope. Yesterday was the Hubble’s 15th anniversary, the projected end of its service […]
Tons of cool toys and tools for whatever color hat you wear. Use a good browser since some of the sites linked have nasty pop-ups (some got around Firefox). Link
I’m a basic computer user who happened to have grown up in a technology-rich world. Computers were everywhere for me beginning about 2nd grade. The kids of the ’90s, those who are now starting college, are steeped in technology in a way that I can’t even imagine. To have never seen a record player (pre-clubbin’), […]