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Welcome to my childhood
A site devoted to handheld games from the eighties, that you can actually play. Now that's awesome!
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Overdrive is going MP3s
I have been asking for this for quite a long time. Overdrive, the library's long time choice for online audiobooks, is finally stopping the blocks that have made using the product a pain in the neck....
View ArticleHow to Watch Obama's State of the Union Address Online
Mashable did a summation of the online places to watch the State of the Union address.Not much to add to this, other then, get the popcorn ready.
View ArticleA story about the loss of a very wanted twitter handle
In all reality, this is a story of how "hacking" works. Hacking can be a serious amount of social engineering and as you will see from the article, that is the simplest way to get into an account. Just...
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Timing is everything
Today, I did a lecture about how to predict the next big thing in technology. I mentioned technologies written about by sci-fi authors that is all coming true. An article just showed up on my news feed...
View ArticleWould it be possible?
I've been toying with an idea of a virtual server that worked like a virus, infecting, then duplicating itself by piggybacking on other virtual servers. It would be a website free of the possibility of...
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Google is on the move
Never mind watching San Francisco's coastline for new amazing inventions, coming out of the google barge. They are being forced to sail on.
View ArticleFrom Ars technica
This is a very welcome and needed addition to an already great browser.Google engineers have added a new feature to the Chrome browser that automatically warns users when browsing settings have been...
View ArticleThe future of libraries?
A good article from Boing Boing about the Toronto library creating a MAKERS space.
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Got comcast? Change your passwords
Comcast Allegedly Hacked, Change Your Passwords NowA hacking group known as NullCrew claims to have hacked Comcast's servers last week, possibly gaining access to user account information. You should...
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Join Now!
Today, February 11th 2014, Thousands of Websites are Protesting Surveillance.THEDAYWEFIGHTBACK.ORGReddit, Mozilla, Tumblr, Imgur, and over 6,000 other websites are protesting NSA surveillance. Join them.
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Amoeba's Rare Vinyl Archive, Now Available Digitally
This is freakin amazing for audio people. Digitally converted rare albums for an inexpensive cost. The albums range from old jazz to strange novelty albums, like an interview of Lee Harvey Oswald. It's...
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Not sure how useful this is...yet
Thinking about going to the hospital? Check the wait times firsthttp://projects.propublica.org/emergency/
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Pure Jurassic Park nerdery
Try out the computer from Jurassic park, along with an old system 6 from Apple.Also, remember the magic word
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Bored and have some extra time?
Try some surveys. NPR just did a decent story on Mechanical Turk. Very cool way of getting surveys for all sorts of things filled out. From stores wanting info to PHD students finishing their work. You...
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Watch the Snowden speech
TDLR has the link for the Edward Snowden's speech at the SXSW festival. The video is choppy but the audio is fine but echoey. Edward Snowden is the whistleblower who let everyone in on what was...
View ArticleRead this and think before you use Google docs
Here's a snippet from the story.A very tricky phishing scam that takes advantage of Google Docs is making its way around the web. And since it uses a google.com URL and even makes use of Google's SSL...
View ArticleVR is back!
From the Oculus to Sony's Playstation to the Xbox, all are going Virtual reality. In 1993, I attended a VR conference in Boston. These were the barest rudimentary setup for "Virtual Reality". They had...
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