Been messing with fractals, the last few days.  Here’s one I particularly like.

(click to see it ocean-sized)

ghosts in the machine by ~rosicrux on deviantART

old.

I still get that twinge of jealousy with all his equipment that would have cost a pretty penny back then.  Not to mention his parents never seem to care about him wardialing thousands of calls on their line.  My parents freaked out everytime a computer would dial me.  But how else would I join those wionderful BBSes and get my TradeWars on?

WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars

And I do mean old. I will say that I had almost this exact same dot matrix printer that I used for many many years. Kudos on using the Spectrum, but the amazing thing to me is that the hard drives act as speakers.

Here it is… the remix of Radiohead’s “Nude” :

Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.

I’m not an escalator!

Wiki Articles of the Day. My attempt at making the wikipedia chain addictions into something (anti-)productive for you, the reader! (Henceforth tagged as WAOTD.)

Hedy Lamarr - Talk about a Renaissance woman. Not only a gorgeous and celebrated actress, but also an award winning scientist.

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress. Though known primarily for her great beauty and her successful film career, she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum encoding, a key to modern wireless communication.

I may slot these into the extrinsic posts instead.

ubiquitous super mario theme

tetris theme

zelda theme

and a little more… range

A little fictional Wiki-esque discussion page of a time travelers group:

Wikihistory

11/15/2104
At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl’s cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!

One of the fathers of science fiction has passed away. He was one of the very few science fiction authors to have actually written about things that eventually came into existence, surprisingly within his lifetime. After all, he was also a scientist, himself. The most notable of these is probably geostationary orbiting satellites. Perhaps more Clarke futurisms will come true in the years to come.

2001 is a film remembered by all, whether you are a science fiction fan or not. Clarke somehow outlived Kubrick, but the masterpiece of those two minds collaborating is one of the greatest movies ever made. But, everyone should definitely read the book, as there is so much more crammed in those pages… stuff that makes one gasp at the possibilities of our own creativity as men. Like the movie, Clarke’s stories, while possessing fantastic creations of science and physics, were more about how man evolves alongside technology and scientific discovery, and how society and morality adapts to the future.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Yes, this is quickly developing into a Youtube meme, but that is because it is good.

A 3-year-old girl explains Star Wars succinctly, in less than 2 minutes:

The format war is over.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.

Now we can finally all go buy a damn movie player. Even though we won’t notice that much difference over regular DVDs. And now Microsoft can scramble to change their XBOX360, or not.

click the link at the top or the link below to see the full press release.
continue reading "Sony avoids another Betamax - HD DVD is officially dead"

Finally, a Guitar Hero for people who actually play guitar. Not to say Guitar Hero isn’t a blast, but there was always that twinge of something missing. That feel of actually playing the music. Now a development group called Gametank is releasing details of just such a game: Guitar Rising.

This will be a PC game, and it is due out before the end of the year.

Here’s the teaser clip:

I’ve had this video favorited on YouTube for many a month and I love to go back and watch it from time to time. This is one of the least well-known gems from one of the least well-known bands of the decades that my life has spanned.

Ghostalk by Cabaret Voltaire: