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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
| Time |
Event |
| 12:27p |
Amazing Crap: Math Pictures, Google Talk, Katamari Damacy
 
"Google just dropped an all-new widget for its personalized homepage: the Google Talk Gadget..."
(Mashable) "Google Talk, long a fixture in Gmail, can now be added to your Google homepage as a gadget."
(Lifehacker) "Google Talk Gadget — We're thrilled to be launching a new way to use Google Talk today. The Google Talk Gadget is a web-based module that you can add to your Google Personalized Homepage, letting you see your friends and chat with them — all on your homepage."
(GoogleTalk.BlogSpot via Techmeme)
The Ten Coolest Numbers
Cam McLeman from University of Arizona has an interesting page about ten coolest numbers including the golden ratio, the Feigenbaum’s constant, the oddest prime 2...
(haha.nu)
"Scientists are now able to wipe a single, specific memory from the brains of rats, leaving other memories intact.
(Neatorama)"
"Math proves that the Buffy universe harbors no more than 512 vampires"
(collision detection)
  "This giant Gigaball is big enough for an adult to clamber into and roll around inside, though it's marketed at kids."
(BoingBoing) | | 7:50p |
Amazing Crap: Video Games, Psychic, Vista
"Korean start-up Xtive claims that they've developed a subliminal audio sequence that can help cure videogame "addiction." They suggest that game companies integrate the system into game machines so it can be triggered it after a preset period of time."
(BoingBoing)
 "It’s not everyday that you see a working computer stuffed inside a whisky bottle, so enjoy these interesting projects, as some just might surprise you."
(TechE Blog)
"In January, James Randi secured a mystery item in a specially designated locker in his Florida office, and challenged clairvoyants everywhere to use their remote viewing skills to divine its nature and claim a million dollar prize."
(27B Stroke 6)
"It appears that crackers need not break Windows Vista activation because Microsoft has done it for them! Brian Livingston of Window Secrets writes in Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation about how to allow you to keep your Vista box running indefinitely without activating it."
(Daily Cup of Tech)
"NBC Universal Digital Studios will produce a broadband show on Break.com called Breakers, which will feature “beautiful women finding creative ways to break different objects.”"
(Lost Remote) | | 8:58p |
Amazing Crap: Meaning, Zelda Wii, 300
I've been asked a couple of times in the last day or two what exactly I mean when I use the tag "Amazing Crap". Let me try and answer that by saying that it holds no exact meaning to me. It, in fact, holds many different and sometimes contradictory meanings and I think an examination of the various apparent parsings can lend some light to this. One of the most obvious parsings of "Amazing crap" is that I am saying that the stories and links I pick out are what ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) munntendo jokingly calls "Astounding Feces". That is not the case. It's not that these stories are bad; they are quite the opposite. All of the stories and links I pick out are interesting spots on what can be a very boring read of the latest news stories. So before you go on to read my latest entry tagged with "Amazing Crap" let me say something: Crap? No! It's amazing!
 "If you really really like the Legend of Zelda, you might like this Wii case mod spotted on eBay: Nintendo Legend of Zelda Console mod"
(MAKE: Blog)
"Last week, the Department of Justice Inspector General's office released a damning report documenting the FBI abusing its powers under the PATRIOT Act and violating the law to collect Americans' telephone, Internet, financial, credit, and other personal records about Americans without judicial approval.
It appears that not everyone at the DOJ got the memo."
(EFF: Deep Links)
"Goodness, Rahm Emanuel certainly did kick up a fuss when he told freshman congressmen to avoid The Colbert Report..."
(No Fact Zone)
 "In honor of Lucasfilm buying off the U.S. Postal Service for a promotional stunt, 400 mailboxes have been decorated with shrink wrap that vaguely resembles the possibly fictional droid R2D2. A few of these “Star Wars” mail receptacles will be placed in 200 cities so we can all dream of a postal service run by cute helpful tireless servants rather than surly incompetent civil servants."
(Wonkette)
"New work by a pair of theoretical physicists studying an odd quantum mechanical effect may reveal a new state of matter, and if their model is shown to be accurate, it will completely change how we view the universe."
(Ars Technica)
"The governor of Utah signed a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday that calls on the US Congress to do something about the rising tide of Internet pornography, preferably using technology to stick it in a ghetto where those who don't want to see it don't have to do so. The resolution, which passed both houses of the Utah legislature, was backed by CP80 ("Clean port 80"), a group founded and headed by Ralph Yarro. CP80's plan to cleanse the Internet isn't the only controversy that Yarro's involved in, though; he also happens to chair the board of directors for SCO."
(Ars Technica)
 "300 is a film that managed to slip almost completely under my radar until the very last minute. When I first caught the TV spots for it, I remember saying to myself, "that looks so stupid." I wrote it off as just another mindless action movie that would gladly substitute blood and glitz for drama and emotion. Then, a few weeks back, I saw the ad again and caught the words "From the creator of Sin City." That's when it clicked. I was off base in assuming that it was just going to be another barbaric gorefest. It was so much more than that. This was Frank Miller's barbaric gorefest, and I needed to see it. It may seem strange, hypocritical even, that I would make a complete 180 in my opinion of the film based solely on Frank Miller's involvement, but if I learned one thing from 2005's Sin City it's that Miller does over the top violence like nobody else can. And luckily, writer/director Zack Snyder does a commendable job of translating Miller's story into a hyper-stylized epic for the big screen."
(Munntendo) | | 10:28p |
Amazing Crap: Link, 300
"However, as a film fan that loves kickass movies, I was quite happy to see 300 doing very well this past weekend. I was also amused that the "old guard" film critics were thumbing their nose at its awesomeness - and declaring it as nothing but a video game cut-scene that will be forgotten instantaneously." "In Warner's Top Secret polls - 60% chose the Internet as what brought them to the theater.
And at IMAX - that number grew to 68%." "Too often the media in general downplays the internet - using it as the blame for why movies like SNAKES ON A PLANE didn't perform up to expectations - but what this shows is how the internet can take a film of general interest and successfully turn it into an amazing hit."
(AICN)
 "Everyone has seen those little sticky/grip pads for a car, but those things work as well as an ice cream sandwich in hell. This dashboard tray can definitely hold your gadgets regardless of how reckless your driving is. Renault calls it the "Grass Mat" dashboard, and this mat is actually integrated into their vehicles. Hey, Honda. Take a hint from Renault and put something like this in your vehicles. I'm sick of my phone sliding around and falling on the floorboard."
(Gizmodo) |
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