I mentioned earlier that I was really excited about this new book by Charles Yu, and I’d been planning to save a review until closer to the release date, in September, but since Yu has been generating a lot of …
Continue ReadingEasy decision: Chocolate or Vanilla? Medium decision: peek in somebody’s medicine cabinet or not? Tough decision: play with a time machine, a memory-transference device, or the Killitron 2000? These are just a few of the choices that Jimmy will face …
Continue ReadingIf you’re a GeekDad or GeekMom, chances are your life is pretty busy. You’ve got kids to take care of, maybe a full-time job on top of that, and any time you have left over is easily filled with your …
Continue ReadingWhat would you do with your very own time machine? Go back and forth in time, collect a few artifacts, make some changes to history that will result in a better present for you … same as everyone, right? But …
Continue ReadingIf you’ve read about all the troubles scientists at CERN in Europe have been having getting the Large Hadron Collider to work, you must have had the same sort of thought about the failures as some such scientists have: Obviously, …
Continue ReadingGoogle has released an "Ancient Rome 3D" layer for their popular Google Earth geographic browser. The new layer shows many of the buildings, structures and topography that made up the city during the rule of Constantine the Great. Some of the buildings even have interiors. The Ancient Rome 3D feature was created in conjunction with […]
Continue ReadingTED just posted a talk by John Hodgman (of pretty-much-everything fame, but most notable as "PC") that should cut straight to the heart of any geek. I could say that it involves lost time, aliens, a summer day, tourism, Liberians, the reliability of buses, and true love, but that wouldn’t do it justice. Just watch […]
Continue ReadingFrom the Flickr photostream of Argyle, just get it up to 88 mph and you’re good to go. Not clear if it’s storeboughten (as they say in Little House) or DIY. Via Cruft.
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