Have you guys seen what they're doing over at the One Laptop Per Child program? These ain't no Thinkpads they're distributing--they're ruggedized, kid-friendly computers designed to have higher-resolution screens, more powerful wireless cards, and lower power requirements than practically anything available in the US market. They're also ( Read more... )

Oh hey, I just realized I should share the kick-awesome game reviewer madmarty introduced me to. Bloggers and netizens, may I introduce Yahtzee, the caffeine-enhanced author of Zero Punctuation, a weekly Flash-based game review series. Zero Punctuation is what you'd get if you crossed the Flick Filosopher with Twitchy the Squirrel. Yes, it's that good ( Read more... )

Nursing home cat predicts patients' deaths with uncanny accuracy. I wonder if Oscar can see something we can't...

Here's the article written about Oscar for the New England Journal of Medicine.

Here's a top-flight article about the relationships that grow between soldiers and the robots they use. Best article I've read this year. (Through collisiondetection.net)

I was going to post this on my birthday but I forgot. So, apropos of nothing, here's one of my favorite Flash animations. (It may make more sense after you've seen the first one.)

From America's finest news source. Be sure to click the slideshow halfway down.

This game is very well-conceived. Quite relaxing to play, too.

Watch this and watch your day get better. :-)

Best WoW music video EVER!

Also, here's a video which obviously took much less work but is arguably just as hilarious. Both can be watched over...and over...and over.

"Elizabeth Ann" -- or "Welcome to Planet Stupid". How many simultaneous ways can we get a fanfic reviewer to tear her hair out?

BONUS FEATURE: "What Fresh Hell"--the Flick Filosopher's utterly scathing review of Little Black Book. Not to be missed.