Archive for November, 2005

Mossberg Likes My Computer

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Walt Mossberg, the big daddy of tech writers, wrote in a recent column that... We've been testing this new iMac, and our verdict is that it's the gold standard of desktop PCs. To put it simply: No desktop offered by Dell or Hewlett-Packard or Sony or Gateway can match the new ...

Why Chris Berman Sucks

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

I'm not sure how much of our readership enjoys watching ESPN, or for that matter EPSN. I watch ESPN a lot, and thought I'm not convinced its exactly a TV channel squeezed from the birth canal of Satan, there are some things that I absolutely HATE about EPSN. ...

Daniel Geer Has Some Rockin’ Mutton Chops

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

On the great but oddly domain-ed CNET site, news.com.com there is a nice opinion piece on the state of Massachusetts' new edict to require all government documents to be electrically saved in the OpenDocument format as opposed to the proprietary Microsoft Office format by Daniel Geer. As far as ...

Do Less Work, Practice Making Drinks More

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

A web design firm called Liquid Light threw together a little game they call: "The Right Mix Cocktail mixing game" Its a fun little flash game where your job is to mix the right cocktail. You have to do it all, pour the right amount of liquids, add ...

Xbox 360 Ups the Ante For Xbox Hacking

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Remember when I said I would only buy a Xbox 360 when its officially hacked? Well it seems that task is going to be a infinitely more difficult that hacking the original Xbox was. Engadget has compiled a quick list of the road blocks in the way to ...

Misha Barton Is Dead

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

My mistake. I thought Misha Barton died today. It really was an honest a mistake. Here's the deal: I saw this picture, and the headline say it died. So naturally, since that picture is clearly of Misha Barton, I assume she died. You would ...

Japanese Matrix Table-Tennis

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

This is too bizarre to explain fully. These people do an incredible job at recreating bullet-time and slow-mo super-fast fighting action, all while playing ping pong. Link to Google Video: Matrix Ping Pong

Mike and His Brother Take a Road Trip

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

In the words of the immortal Tenacious D, "The road is f*ckn' hard. Its also really f*ckn' tough!" My brother Lil' J and I, in our quest for complete cheapness, will be taking a road trip from St. Louis, MO to Isle of Palms, SC to meet our ...

The Xbox 360 Is Released, and the World Wets Itself

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

I know I'm a little late to the "Lets Write Something About the Xbox 360 Party" but I figured I would chime in anyway. Has anyone noticed the complete insanity over these things? There are guys that would beat and pee on an orphan just to get one! Of ...

Why I’m Tired Today: Fedora 4 and Samba

Monday, November 21st, 2005

[ Attention: Geeky post ahead! ] So I wiped out my last machine running Windows Saturday night and turned it into my primary Linux server, which now runs Fedora Core 4. Everything was great, except for Samba. I couldn't get Samba to work at all. I set up ...