Monthly Archives: June 2008

Reaping the benefits of cellular cloning!

Spore, the long-awaited game from the SimCity creators in which you evolve and develop your own creatures from cellular organisms all the way to intelligent space-exploring beings, is offering a free download of their Creature Editor. Looks fun!

Awesome French weaponry. This video joins the pantheon of funny weapon videos, which also includes this classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axk76-LS6uc

I recently had some shipping problems with Amazon Prime. But this seems a bit worse!

Be sure to watch Vader’s performance at the end

“Oh my God, I’m having a stroke! I’m having a stroke! But then my brain was saying to me, ‘WOW, this is cool!'”

It’s gonna be spending a lot of time digging, baking, and sniffing. What a weirdo.

During software development, programmers post (or commit) their changes to a centralized repository. This video brings the history of those commits to life. (Credit: Ryan)

AMAZING set of photos of Earth taken from orbit. When can I check in to the orbiting hotel?!?

“In 2001, Nicholas smoked so much marijuana during a flight on a private jet between Orange County and Las Vegas that the pilot had to put on an oxygen mask, the indictment states…”

Very interesting story mentioned in this week’s TWiT about famous Linux programmer and convicted murderer Hans Reiser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

/Film is making two new Wall-E clips available. The 3-minute long clip is from the movie. The other clip is a vignette of Wall-E interacting with a fire hydrant.

This is similar to the remix of Radiohead’s song “Nude” using old computer hardware: http://xrl.us/bmn39 (which gets going around 1:09)

Makes screenshots of your site using many different browsers, so you can see what they look like to different clients. Very handy. I saw this a few years back but it didn’t work for me. It is working better now.

Anyone know what the trick is? (Thanks, Christina, for the link)

“Services Overview: We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the ‘Rapture’ of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period.”

Thanks, Ryan S, for finding this addicting puzzle game.

A scene from Tron done in cardboard. VERY creative!

When you put in a bogus domain, it says “Huh? doesn’t look like a site on the interwho.”

I’m surprised by how useful Microsoft’s mapping tool is. The bird’s eye view is an extremely handy way to visualize maps. Check out Vegas: http://xrl.us/bmjr6

A new character teaser video, and some extremely gushing early reviews. JOHNNY FIVE IS ALIVE! Wait, wrong robot.

Nifty movie of part of the dynamic, toxic atmosphere on Venus.

Trent Reznor continues his noteworthy quest of offering free, high-quality digital music downloads.

Apophysis (http://www.apophysis.org/) is the incredible software front end for the fractal flame generator used by the Electric Sheep (http://www.electricsheep.org/) evolutionary art project.

Joins other noteworthy space-related microblogs such as http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix, http://twitter.com/LRO_NASA, and http://twitter.com/NASA.