The most valuable supply of worthlessness on the web
(via TechEBlog)
But is shorely do look t3h purty, don’t it? I’m easily impressed by this kind of stuff.
Igorshmigor from DeviantArt created this incredible 3D-rendered Seiko watch using Rhino 3D 2.
Click the image for a full sized view.
[tags]Virtual objects, Realistic rendered art[/tags]
In case you forgot or haven’t picked up on it from other postings on the site, I’m a gamer. Currently, I’m hooked on City of Heroes, but I veer off on other paths on occasion, and like to try plenty of other genres. I especially like the whole retro scene. I still like playing a lot of those old games – thank heaven for MAME. With that in mind, this PBS history of gaming site caught my eye. I’m still working through reading it, but it’s pretty neat.
Over the past 30 years, video games have become an integral part of our culture, and the video game industry has become a multi-billion dollar behemoth. Follow the journey of video games from university laboratories to our living rooms.
The site has an interactive timeline of gaming, a retro corner for downloads (wallpapers and other miscellany), and a listing of some of the best and worst games of all times.
[tags]PBS, History of gaming, retro gaming[/tags]
(via Lifehacker)
Tons of downloadable/printable flashcards for all kinds of things you need or want to learn. Personally, I’m considering it these for the work on my older son’s reading skills. But I can also see some usable categories for my own study. Just look at some of the high-level categories with printable cards:
There are a few more areas of study in addition to those above. I do think they need to fix that spelling error in the first category though. 🙂
[tags]Flash Cards, Study helpers[/tags]
(via Lifehacker)
Get out and build a kite for fun project. This is the kind of thing I need to work on with my children. They’d love having a kite, especially one they got to make themselves. Yes, I’m turning my children into geek/DIY-ers.
[tags]DIY, kite[/tags]
(via Joystiq)
Wired magazine has a fun and funny article about some of the things in history which were considered a corrupting influence on children before adults had videogames to blame. Of course, we all know before videogames, it was Rock and Roll corrupting children, but did you know that the telephone, the waltz, and novels were also considered bad for children?
The Waltz
“The indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced … at the English Court on Friday last … It is quite sufficient to cast one’s eyes on the voluptuous interÂÂtwining of the limbs, and close comÂÂpressure of the bodies … to see that it is far indeed removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was conÂÂfined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is … forced on the respectable classes of society by the evil example of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion.”
– The Times of London, 1816The Telephone
“Does the telephone make men more active or more lazy? Does [it] break up home life and the old practice of visiting friends?”
– Survey conducted by the Knights of Columbus Adult Education Committee, San Francisco Bay Area, 1926
Some of the major bad-things of the past are covered in the full article.
[tags]Corrupting influences, Think of the children[/tags]
(via MyVogonPoetry)
This is one of many such clocks – watch a clock, updated by the second, tracking time. Why is this one worth my mentioning? Because it’s updated via blocks. That is, every second, a stack of blocks is added to, until the stack has 9 blocks. Then, that stack is knocked over, the next column gets another block added, and the seconds blocks start stacking again. Easy to watch, and somehow mesmerizing.
[tags]Clock, animated time[/tags]
Following are a few recent food items from the ReadyMade magazine blog. All of these caught my eye for various reasons. Let me just say now that I plan on making the last one with my kids some time (as in, I plan on getting my kids to help me make them, not I plan on using my kids as the ingredients necessary to make them).
This selection comes to ReadyMade from the Vegan Lunch Box blog. Perfect for all you ingredient conscious twinkie consumers.
This is the one I need to make for my kids. Of course, since I work nights, my wife might not appreciate me making some on the week-end with the boys and then leaving her to hold the children off the marshmallows during the week. And I am certain they don’t need more sugar in their systems after she gets home from school with them.
Since every techie site in the web-o-verse is covering this, I’ll just pick one and let you dig for more info from there. With the announcement of Apple’s Boot Camp, you can now easily load Windows XP on your X86 Mac. Some sites are reporting the the Vista install and Debian install processes start up, but those same people have been a little gun-shy trying the full install. No word, therefore, on whether you can actually get other operating systems running, but it looks promising.
[tags]Mac, Blue Screen, XP on Mac X86[/tags]
Well, at least close to what I consider affordable. You can now pre-order the Samsung’s YM-P1 portable/personal media player for only $370 according to the Samsung page. And it’s t3h sw3ck-See.
The YM-P1 features a 16M-color 4″ TFT widescreen display, 20GB of storage, MP3 / WMA / OGG / AC3 audio playback, MPEG-4 / DivX / WMV video playback, JPG / BMP photo viewing, line-in video recording, voice recording, FM tuner, SDIO memory card and expansion slots, USB host functionality, and a 15-hour battery life (6 hours for video). The domestically released YM-PD1 includes the addition of T-DMB TV reception.
[tags]Samsung, PMP[/tags]
(via Engadget)
I know sooooo many people who need this. It amazes me how much trouble people have parallel parking.
Vehicles that are able to parallel park themselves while drivers sit and relax behind the wheel are coming to the United States, according to a Local 6 News report.
New Toyota hybrid cars are now available in Britain with a $700 “parking assist” option.
Local 6 news showed video of a driver sitting and allowing the car’s steering wheel to turn on its own as it pulled into a tight parking spot on a London street. The reporter never touched the wheel as the car parked itself.
[tags]Self-parking car, Toyota[/tags]
(via MAKEzine blog)
If 
you find your shoelaces just don’t have to pep they used to, maybe you are tying them wrong. Why not visit Ian’s shoelace site and learn how to to a better job with those shoelaces?
Slipping Shoelaces?
Do your shoelaces always seem to come undone? If so, you’re probably tying a “Slip” knot, and one simple change to your technique will turn it into a “Reef” knot that stays secure. Note that my “Ian Knot“, the World’s Fastest Shoelace Knot, forms a secure “Reef” knot!
[tags]Shoelaces, Knots[/tags]
That’s the message from the Australian government to Muslims who might prefer Sharia law to the democratic law Australia currently lives under. It is my opinion that we Americans should take the same stance with people who live her that don’t like our style of government or our national language. But I’m sure that’s just crazy talk on my part.
CANBERRA AUSTRALIA: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown.
[tags]Australia, Muslims, Good leadership[/tags]
