The Daily Plate is a free food diary and more. This new site allows you to track what you eat each day, helping you manage your diet and hopefully achieve your weight loss goals. A neat idea, well executed.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )From HowStuffWorks.com, “How Space Elevators Work.” Now you know.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )According to Wired, a dolphin who lost its tail in an accident may get a prosthetic tail.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )From Reuters:
The “multilayer dual optical disk” would have one layer of data in the standard CD or DVD format, a second layer able to play one high-capacity format and a third layer for the competing high-capacity format.
This sure would make life easier for early adopters.
A top ten list of side scrolling video games, over at XYZ Computing. My vote — Sonic the Hedgehog. The article doesn’t go back far enough in time, though. What about Pitfall or Defender on the Atari 2600? Awesome games!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Via Neatorama, a hobbit house people actually live in. It looks awesome.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Popular tech blog Engadget has gotten a face-lift, along with some new features.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Strange Horizons, the online speculative fiction zine, has a massive short story archive available–with 345 stories listed as of today.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The Baen free library offers great sci fi and fantasy ebooks at no cost. Three new titles were added last week:
James P. Hogan, Inherit the Stars. This is the first volume of the Giants Series
James P. Hogan, The Multiplex Man
James P. Hogan, The Two Faces of Tomorrow
There are now more than 80 title [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Ten robust CSS layouts, on StrictlyCSS.com.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The Nintendo Wii, available in the U.S. on November 19, wasn’t priced below $200 as many had hoped, but $250 isn’t bad. The system will include one wireless Wii Remote, one Nunchuk controller, and a copy of Wii Sports, according to Punchjump.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The armadillos are coming.
“We’ve got them in Nebraska; that’s as far north as we have any records,” said Lynn Robbins, a biology professor at Missouri State University. “They’re adapting, filling in so many places.”
Armadillo is Spanish for “little armored thing.” For your convenience, here are some recipes.
Star Frontiers was never as popular as Dungeons & Dragons, but we were obsessed with this sci-fi pen and paper RPG for a while back in the early ’80s. All the original rules are available online here, in html or easily printed pdf format. The game holds up pretty well after 20+ YEARS.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Weird Tales was one of the original pulp magazines, and an incubator for Howard’s Conan and Lovecraft’s Cthulhu strories. You can see a gallery of covers, going back the the first issue in 1923, here.
And Weird Tales is back in print…check out the official website.
How to make big money blogging, from Business 2.0.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )AT&T is launching a TV over the Internet service that will include about 20 channels, such as the History Channel and FOX News. The service will be available to anyone with broadband, not just AT&T broadband customers, and will cost $20 per month. Ten bucks a month would be a better price for just [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Just finished reading: Old Man’s War, a great Heinlein-esque read.  Just started: Lady of Mazes, a post-singularity novel set on a ringworld. Think Charles Stross meets Larry Niven. So far so good.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Good write-up about the world-wide success of World of Warcraft, over at Newsweek.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The Nintendo Wii game console may only cost $150, according to rumors. An affordable next-gen console? That would be seriously cool.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )From the Guardian Unlimited:
The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries.
Jimmy Wales, one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine, challenged other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that [...]
Tom’s Hardware just posted a review of Intel’s new 4 core cpu, the Core 2 Quadro, which is essentially two Core Duo chips spiced together.  Conclusion:
For me, working with one of the first quad core systems was amazing. No matter how many applications you run at the same time, the system reacts to [...]
A less than glowing review of Amazon’s movie download service, Amazon Unbox.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )From the Guardian:
The iPod, the digital music player beloved of everyone from Coldplay’s Chris Martin to President George Bush, is in danger of losing its sheen. Sales are declining at an unprecedented rate. Industry experts talk of a ‘backlash’ and of the iPod ‘wilting away before our eyes’. Most disastrously, Apple’s signature pocket device with [...]
BMW is testing hydrogen powered combustion engines, with plans to begin selling a production hydrogen-powered auto in 2008. Hydrogen combustion is a different approach than the hydrogen fuel cells being developed by other companies, and may allow the engines to run on either hydrogen or gasoline.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Microsoft’s Front Page replacement, Expression Web, looks like it’s going to a powerful, standards compliant web development product. In other words, everything that Front Page wasn’t. For all it’s faults, though, Front Page was easy to use — something Microsoft Expression Web doesn’t appear to be. Check out PC Magazine’s look at [...]
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