Technology
Doomsday Seed Vault Opens
A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened a few weeks ago. The seed vault is buried deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.[Show as slideshow]
This facility will serve as a backup for hundreds of other seed banks around [...]
New Information about the Universe (Amazing)
An amazing astronomy blog had some profound news in the last few days from NASA’s WMAP project.
WMAP Results
A lot of this information was determined a while back, just a couple of years after WMAP launched. But now they have released the Five Year Data, a comprehensive analysis of what all that data means. Here’s a [...]
Marketing to different Cultures: Old Nintendo - Legend of Zelda Commercial
Haha. What a world, what a world.
Fisher Price PXL-2000 Video Camera
The Fisher Price video camera is something I have always wanted to capture highly pixellated black and white pictures. You can buy modified “bent circuit” PXL-2000’s on Ebay anytime for around $3-$400. The videos online never do it justice, it looks much better on regular quality. It has a ghost like quality. A toy from [...]
A Q & A with Phil Western
What is your musical background? How did you get started? Where are you from? Where do you live now? Do different places inspire different kinds of music from you?
My background, for going back to the very beginning, is as a drummer. A lot of drummers end up making music, because when you play drums [...]
Jott
Jott.com is a handy tool for folks on the move who write but aren’t always able to take notes the old fashioned way.
Like most web 2.0 applications, Jott is free to sign up for and free to use, aside from your mobile phone minutes. I discovered it because I was looking for an alternative to [...]
Robotic Elmo
Wow. Pretty soon he will be able to process simple tax returns, make a good batch of salsa and play some rockband or guitar hero.
Digital Pursuits
I was born in 1969, which means I was around the right age to play many of the “first” video games as they began arriving in arcades and — as consoles — in the early 1970’s. Those were heady days for poor kids with a jones for the latest video games, and we fed our [...]
Princely Holograms
I found this news quite interesting. We have all seen holograms before in Star Wars in 1977, - you know - back when Han shot first.
Britain’s Prince Charles had received some criticism for the environmental aspects of his trip to America last year, and decided to send himself in the form of a hologram (!) [...]
Go To Zero
Darkroom is a tiny piece of software that does one thing really really well: It allows you to edit text in a closed off (Dark) environment.
It doesn’t pretend to offer anything more then this, and that is precisely why I like it.
As a writer, lyricist and blogger, Darkroom is ideal for getting my words from [...]
