Kettle-chip purists (or those who disdain Pringles) may not like this recipe for clear potato chips but it certainly makes for a distinctive-looking appetizer, no ( Read more... )

The Xbox 360 motion sensor suite will be heading into space, probably later this year, as part of the semiautonomous cube satellite program STRAND. It'll be used as a low-cost 3D imager for navigation and docking ( Read more... )

Paleontologists have unearthed fossils in China from an adult Tyranosaur that show evidence of a down coat. In the past there was evidence of juvenile T-rexes with down feathers, likely for insulation, but so far as I know this is the first time that adults have been shown to have them too.

-- Steve'll have to keep a closer eye on those chickens

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Among others, I too apparently have been picked by Xbox Rewards to get a footer bar thanking me for my years of Halo devotion... the email thanked me for being in the top 2% for Halo Gamerscore and the top 4% for number of Achievements unlocked. Hmm ( Read more... )

During a slow period at work I did some Googling, and stumbled across a citation of something I wrote in TVTropes.

-- Steve's debating whether or not to link to it, and thereby cost his readers innumerable man-hours.

Firstly, I just found out that a bunch of spam in Arabic going to my public email address is obstensibly from an electrical engineering firm in Jordan. As interested as I am in the Middle East and in technology, I am decidedly unfluent in Arabic and do not hold an engineering degree. Sorry, guys. ("Guys" being a mostly-safe bet, though Jordan ( Read more... )

So I've got my new Xbox Slim running, and my new Kinect sensor calibrated. The thing is about a third of the way through transfering the contents of my old hard drive to the new one. And I'm breathing a sigh of relief ( Read more... )

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