Not terribly surprising, but the West Wing is ending with this seasonI've liked the campaign storyline well enough, but the de-emphasis on the characters that have been around since day one (or at least since season 4 or so) is kind of starting to grate. And a season with a new administration would just seem tacked-on, in the grand scheme of ( Read more... )

Put a charge on your credit card, get nothing in return. It's art, because it's inspired by 9/11!

(via We Make Money Not Art, appropriately enough.)

I like that Apple is starting to build cameras into its new machines, just above the monitor -- it's one step closer to Jetsons-style videophones where you just look at the screen and chat.

I'm currently looking for a good excuse to buy either an iMac or a MacBook, but nothing's coming to mind.

Turkey diagnoses human bird flu

It seems like everybody I encounter is glad to see 2005 go. Me, I thought it went okay enough for me, but 2006 will probably be okay too ( Read more... )

Via alessarFrom 1up's Essential 50 Videogames. Italicize the ones you've played, bold the ones you've beaten (or played to such a sufficiently high level that you could routinely beat the scores of your average joe). Make a note if you didn't actually play it on its original platform, but instead played it on a MAME emulator or some "Greatest Hits" ( Read more... )

Your conspiracy for the day:

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) -- Army Lt. Walter Haut, who issued a news release in 1947 that said a flying saucer landed in Roswell, died there Thursday, his daughter, Julie Shuster, said. He was 83.

He blew the cover on the UFO crash -- and died a mere 58 years later! It can't be coincidence!

In case you're on SETI@Home and didn't get the email, it's moving to BOINC, which is a pretty cool project which allows you to run one program that can divide its time between a number of distributed computing thingies (you can choose how much, like if you want to devote 99% of your spare cycles to searching for aliens and only 1% to silly things ( Read more... )

Tinfoil hats: defensive measure, or just another tool of the conspiracy?

Fifty years ago today, Dr. Emmett Brown conceived of the idea for the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible.

(They were showing Back to the Future on cable today, and I wonder if that was a coincidence or if somebody at the network was also nerdy enough to observe the occasion.)