Sierra Point-and-Click Adventures: From the Web to your iPad [Gaming] With the advent of touchscreen gaming, point-and-click adventures are experiencing something of a rennaissance. Thanks to a cunning soul, now you can play Sierra On-line’s classic line up of point-and-clicks straight from the web on your iPad. Titles like Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest and […]
5th annual thing-a-day It’s that time of the year again! February is Thing-A-Day month: Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint where, every year in February, participants commit to creating one new thing a day and post it on a collective blog.Sign-up now to get inspired and fight the mid-winter blues! Registration opens Jan 21st and […]
January 15, 2011
SparkFun Free Day returns Last year, SparkFun held a free day where they gave away $100,000 in merch to anyone who could refresh their browser fast enough. This time they’re upping the ante with $150K in swag: On January 13th, 2011, Boulder-based SparkFun Electronics will give away $150,000 worth of products in the second annual […]
January 13, 2011
Stereotypical People I Find Uncanny “[The Uncanny] is closely related to Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection where one reacts adversely to that which has been forcefully cast out of the symbolic order. Abjection can be uncanny in that the observer can recognize something within the abject, possibly of what it was before it was ‘cast […]
January 8, 2011
A Decade of Fear Made Pretty by Liz Colville The data-makeover blog Information Is Beautiful strikes again with a colorful chart of ten years of fear-mongering media crazes, many of which just won't go away, even when given ten years to do so. It's not as scary as the witch-bat-ghost triumvirate that caused the bird […]
January 7, 2011
TV Documentary The Joy of Stats: Now Available Online “The world we live in is awash with data, that comes pooring in from everywhere around us. On its own, this data is just noise and confusion. To make sense of data, to find the meaning in it, we need a powerful branch of science: statistics!” […]
January 6, 2011
Micachu and The Shapes Gregory Mitnick at Cool Hunting writes: Following British musician Micachu through the aisles of a hardware store and along the streets of NYC, our video on the 23-year-old documents how she builds her experimental instruments. We also learn how her classical training compares to songwriting and get an impromptu performance with […]
January 4, 2011
Mykea Offers Custom Skins to Personalize Your IKEA Furniture [Stuff We Like] As great as the cheap and modular furniture from IKEA is, it’s a bit lacking in personality. Mykea offers custom skins that personalize your bland IKEA furniture to spice up your office and living space. More » Digest powered by RSS Digest
January 3, 2011
Site to Phone Shares Links Between Any Browser and Your Smartphone [Webapps] Shared by jftesser For Daniel. Maybe better than qr codes? Most browsers and smartphones: Google’s own Chrome to Phone is great for sending links to your phone, but is restricted to Chrome and Android. Free webapp Site to Phone works with any browser, […]
December 23, 2010
Your Guide to the Darkest Day in 372 Years [Astronomy] Late Monday night—well, actually, early Tuesday morning—the moon will move into the earth’s shadow, causing a lunar eclipse visible to anyone in North America. Even better, it’s happening on the Winter Solstice, for the first time since 1638. Now, obviously, you already have your Winter […]
December 21, 2010
#260; In which a Plan ends poorly Enjoy this Classic Wondermark that originally ran on December 26, 2006! Digest powered by RSS Digest
December 18, 2010
No Gay Sex at the World Cup [Sports] Shared by jftesser 🙁 The 2022 World Cup is being held in Qatar, a country where being gay is illegal. But Sepp Blatter, the president of soccer’s world governing body, has a simple solution for gay soccer fans: Don’t have gay sex! Yes, that is what Sepp […]
December 16, 2010
