Blu-Ray. 1,500$(USD). Is it my imagination, or are the manufacturers of these devices confused on which century we’re inhabiting?
Back in 1980, high end electronics were low yield, expensive to produce, largely small run items. ICs (integrated circuits) hadn’t taken the playing field quite yet and devices required many components.
Currently you only need […]

Someone told me that the face of new media was here. Gone are the old, trite, boring days of finite production and mass consumption, the push model.
Ushering in this new era of small run media are the darlings of personal distribution, Google Media and YouTube. Of course, if Google’s new “hits” list is […]

This mornings study was to look for the recent history of comic books.
You know you read them. Be it the overly trite heroics of Superman, the angst ridden Spiderman (aka Peter Parker), some of the more anatomically incorrect women in comics (Top Cow may have pioneered the artform…), humouros yet homicidal JTHM (produce, Vasquez, produce!), […]

Carpenter bees are not your friends.  At least they’re not my friends.  Your experiences may vary.
For instance, they’re especially unfriendly when they’re boring straight through your new PT wood deck.  And you thought a bit of arsinic would deter them… not so!
So I was forced go turn to the state of CT website, which has […]

Crypto (a friend) showed me an excellent WoW Dragostea Din Tea (aka Numa Numa) choreography. Produced by the fine human directors over at the WoW Film Actors Guild (used to be filmactorsguild.tk) the choreographed bits they pull off in the confines of a commercial game are pretty astounding. If you’re wmv non-able (like […]

Nicholas Negroponte was previewing a working model of the 100$(USD) laptop for every child laptop.  Apparently it stole the MITX spotlight.. but with a feature rich laptop coming in at 100$, you can probably imagine why.
Now… why they can’t crank these puppies out mass-production style and use the sales to subsidize the cost on the […]

Suzanne Cooper, it seems, is a big Omen fan.  So much so that she was gunning for about as many sixes in her newborn Damien’s birthing as possible.
Considering he was born at 6AM on 06/06/06 and came in at 6lb 6oz, if I had an award to give for most obsessive fan behaviour she’d take […]

Now, I’m a little skeptical of some of the reasoning in this article about a new auto concept.
But the idea behind how the car is built is sound.  Even if their eye in the sky rhetoric is a bit goofy, the design ideas seem sound.
Basically, they’re going to lighten up the car, decouple the motivating […]

Once upon a time words like “noob” could be counted on to be the domain of script kiddies or slung about on IRC goofing on the same.
No longer.  I was actually a bit surprised to hear random people bandying the term around as some kind of generic insult on anyone they wanted to try and […]

Although the author of the below misses the fact that P in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PERL) doesn’t stand for PHP (or didn’t.. the P is now interchangable PERL/PHP/Python) we’ll skip that for the moment.
Instead, we’ll focus on his vague allegations that Apache is only so-so, but the best of the bunch (which I’ll heartily […]