16
Aug
2008
15
Aug
2008
3
Apr
2008
Dual Guitar (not duel!) and game themes, too
ubiquitous super mario theme
tetris theme
zelda theme
and a little more… range
28
Feb
2008
A summary of Star Wars - from a decidedly younger reviewer
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:
4
Feb
2008
Waterfall printer
Technology from the University of Wisconsin to “print” images in the air with a cascade of water droplets. They call it AquaScript.
The Youtube comments suggested exactly what iw as thinking… that this is a really neat technology, but the true genius of it would come out if they had a matrix of valves (instead of a line) and thereby created 3-D images.
20
Jan
2008
<3 Cabaret Voltaire
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:
5
Jan
2008
24 - if it were in 1994
The hell if I ever used AOL, but man I sometimes forget how much has changed.
I miss BBS’s though.
27
Dec
2007
Asus LCD takes a nail, hammer, and a crossbow
In soviet russia, the monitor shoots you!
31
Aug
2007
23
Jul
2007
Space Invaders low tech
Long before CGI there was the wonderful world of stop-motion filmmaking. What better way to recreate a computer game!
17
Jul
2007
Breaking News: The Internet is Down
Yes, the entire Internet. I don’t know how you are reading this article, but anyways:
11
Jul
2007
G4 Left 4 Dead video
Finally a clear video with some extended gameplay:
5
Jun
2007
War Never Changes - Fallout 3 Teaser Up
The Fallout 3 teaser trailer has been released, along with a general release date announcement of Fall 2008.
28
May
2007
xkcd comic creator speaks at MIT
Randall Munroe writes xkcd, one of the very few webcomics that I can truly laugh at, connect to, and that I never get tired of. (I love dangling prepositions!) He’s a very smart and insightful guy, and often interjects math and science into the strips, as well as purely philosophical ramblings. He gave a talk at MIT a few weeks ago.
Here is a link to some pictures from the talk.
And here are some videos of the event, including him being pelted with plastic balls (which is homage to one of his strips about the nature of becoming an adult.)
and you can find a few more by using this xkcd query to YouTube.
20
May
2007
Apple ][’s made a generation of programmers
This video is of a 7 year old back in 1982 talking about programming on some local access show. He demonstrates coding BASIC on an Apple ][.
This strikes a chord with me, because around the exact same time, at around the same age, I went to a summer camp for budding computer nerds in the deserts of southern California. It was the same scenario too, we were kids learning BASIC on Apple ][. Our imaginations were fueled by shows like Whiz Kids and movies like WarGames. Not to mention the explosion of science fiction novels at the time. I still have the binder I used to map out my programs and keep printouts of them some 25 years ago.
I’ve never shaken that love of computers and programming, and I’m glad I got to grow up with it. Now that computers are ubiquitous, “hackers” aren’t such special snowflakes, but I still feel the nostalgia of when it was a budding science and I was still a bud myself.
Man, this website really is turning into a blog. So be it.
