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Dumbing Down the News
So I see this article today, and I get to the third paragraph… Huh? What?? Mass is “like weight”??? A 5th grader could probably tell you mass is not “like weight.” A two second Google search for the definition of mass reveals that mass “the property of a body that causes it to have weight…
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Weighted Companion Cube Gingerbread
My buddy Mogebier turned me on to a post on Kontaband for Gingerbread Houses for Geeks. Pick your geekiness… there are 11 to choose from. Whether you are a fan of Portal, or Doctor Who, or Star Wars, there’s something for everyone. The TARDIS and K-9 gingerbread look great, although I’d have used more icing…
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Free Comics
Comic book lovers, rejoice! There are some legit, free digital comic books available online, if you know where to look. Newsarama.com has a tradition at the end of each year to publish first issues of some Image comics, and this year is not exception. They have first issues of War Heroes, Pax Romana, Dead Space,…
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Speak & Spell
I saw a link on Kotaku the other day to an interview on Vintage Computing and Gaming with one of the creators of the Speak & Spell, and finally got around to reading it. Very interesting read! The initial focus groups were interesting: it was never clear that they really understood how appealing a talking…
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Papercraft Friday #22: Airwolf
This week’s papercraft has a bit of an 80’s inspiration. The “kids” these days probably don’t even remember Airwolf, which ran from 1984 to 1987. It’s rarely even syndicated. But if stealth, supersonic helicopters are your thing, well you’re in luck! DPileggi is hosting William Aldridge’s excellent Airwolf model. You can download instructions and the model…
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Be safe, and may 2009 be your best year ever!
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Free Time
Who doesn’t enjoy a little free time? Well, today you’re gonna get it. At 11:59:59 Universal Time (6:59:59pm EST), atomic clocks around the work will add one “leap second” to the day. The last one was December 31, 2005. Do you remember what you were doing when it happened?? No?? Well, make plans now to…
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Frozen Zune, Anyone?
Looks like some Zune lovers woke up to a surprise this morning. Apparently, at 2am this morning, every 30GB Zune on the planet crashed at the same time. Froze up. When they’re rebooted, they just display a loading bar. Oops. Some are calling it Y2K9. Too funny. Sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie.…
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Zark’s Top 10 Games (I Wish I Played) in 2008
At the end of previous years, I published my Top 10 list of videogames for the year. This list was always based on games I actually played very far through or finished, not just a list based on what IGN or Gamespot or Kotaku say were the best games of the year. This put me…
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Calvin & Hobbes vs Nostradamus
This strip has been circulating around for the past couple of days. You mainly see people attribute it to being 15 years old, but I haven’t found an actual date for it. Given that Bill Watterson published the last Calvin and Hobbes strip 13 years ago tomorrow, the 15 year attribution could be correct. In…
