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These are some links from a while back that I've wanted to share but had misplaced on ye olde junk drive.

Grenade Mouse. Very very cool. The pic alone is worth a look. Awesome mod.

March 17th (1948) happy (now belated) birthday to William Gibson, father of cyberpunk, and the coiner of the term "cyberspace".

Syence Fyction? The scifi channel now "syfy ( Read more... )

The amount of bullshit spewed by Kronos (Nee Unicru) not to mention the employers in this article is truly astounding.

I stumbled across this story a few days back and I've been meaning to post it. The cute, it burns.

I have a lot of links that I've been wanting to share here, both for my own personal record, and to share with whoever reads this. There's gotten to be quite a collection of them this time, so here goes.

First, there's this honest R&B song. I usually don't like hip-hip / R&B / Rap parodies, since I'm far from the biggest fan of the generes in the ( Read more... )

Today, we mourn the passing of a legend.
Arthur C. Clarke Dies At Age 90

Ah, Russians. A truely priceless story. I'm half tempted to see if I can't get a bottle of the stuff imported. $12.50 isn't all that expensive, and it'd look really cool in my collection.
New ladies' vodka gives doctors a headacheAnd I've been sitting on this one (yes, both ( Read more... )

Some interesting links... first, there was this on Slashdot... how to make a powerful portable laser "pointer" from a DVD burner's beam emitter and the battery housing of a mini Maglite. Pure awesomeness.

Then, I ran across this a few days later: apperently, Microsoft has decided to discontinue Netmeeting. A sad day for us fans of the free video ( Read more... )

I also haven't mentioned the new "toy" I bought myself... not so much a toy as it is a prosthetic replacement for my shitty sense of direction. Much as a calculator is for my lack of math skills. At the suggestion of prostudent42, I ended up with a Magellan Maestro 4000. And so far, I've been quite happy with it. It's not without it's quirks, but it hasn't ( Read more... )

Another dump of links I've been wanting to share with you for a while.

At last, pay-per-channel for non-premium cable channels. Now I can get just Spike, Scifi, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, TLC, and Discovery... and not pay for crap like ESPN, the Golf channel, and all those useless foreign language channels.

This is way funnier than it ( Read more... )