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Browse by category →- Arcade Games at Home
Interesting article on NYT, Remember When You Wanted Your Own Ms. Pac-man? on the growing popularity of owning your own arcade games. I’d still love to have a decent condition 80’s style game, but …
- I've been had!
Turns out that fella who used X10 gear to let web users turn his christmas lights on and off was just pulling our collective leg, here’s the skinny. An interesting read, how clever and elaborate his …
- CNY Heatwave
The thermometer in my car reported 24 degrees (fahrenheit) this morning. After the last few days of subzero temps (-7F and -3F at the same time the last two days), I was about ready to lose my winter …
- Free Google/Firefox Plug
Was watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent on Saturday night, Detective Alex Eames strolls over to a PC and googled some random factoid in the Mozilla Firefox browser. True to TV silliness, she typed …
- Comfortably Numb, disco style?
Thanks to Jay for passing on info to the Scissor Sisters’ cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb performance on Saturday Night Live. Very trippy.
- Pogo Sticks go High Tech!
Saw the Flybar Model 1200 on amazon.com; the pogo stick, evolved. So what’s so special about this $299 toy? Thrusters! Activate all 12 of the independent rubber thrusters and you’re capable of …
- PS2 Portable Now!
This crafty fellow put together his own Sony Playstation 2 portable using the guts of a one of the new low profile PS2 consoles, a PSONE LCD screen, and portable DVD player battery. It also has one …
- A Quiet PC for DVR
Hush Technologies specializes in fanless PC designs for noise conscious applications like living room PVRs. Their latest effort looks pretty sweet. Unfortunately, at about $2500, I’ll be sticking to …
- Next Time I'm Rich...
Here are some awesome (both in terms of beauty and expense) prints of Pink Floyd artwork at RockOptic (like the name!) On their site they also have some background stuff on the artist who does Pink …
- Festerhead Radio
Stumbled on the Festerhead online radio station this morning. Was looking for some good Hawaiian music (missing Maui, sniff…) Usually I tune into Hawaiian 105, which I listened to alot when tooling …