TOS on CBS
CBS.com has full episodes of Star Trek (the original series) here. Hopefully kids everywhere will discover this seminal sci fi series.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Archive for March, 2008
Remember Melissa?
The worst computer viruses of all time.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Our Sci Fi Future
From Popular Mechanics: The ten most prophetic science fiction movies, ever.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Healthy Recipes
SparkRecipes is a growing database of healthy diet-friendly recipes from the folks at community diet site SparkPeople.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Image Editing In The Cloud
With Adobe releasing PhotoShop Express, online photo editors get some street cred. Picnik is another popular online photo editor. I’m still skeptical of online apps in general (email not withstanding), but they certainly seem inevitable.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Come On Down To South Park
Every episode of South Park is now available online at South Park Digital Studios.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How I Blew My Google Interview
Facing rejection in a Google job interview is apparently a badge of honor.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sirius Buyout of XM Radio Approved
Merger details:
The Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio’s $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio on Monday, saying the deal was unlikely to hurt competition or consumers.
The deal was approved despite opposition from consumer groups and an intense lobbying campaign by the land-based radio industry.
The buyout received shareholder approval in November. The companies [...]
Cheap Laptops Get Better
The Dell Vostro 1000 laptop has a starting price of $399 with free shipping. That seems to be the normal “every day” price, but a bundle is now available for $429 that ups the ante with a fast dual core cpu, double the memory, a battery upgrade, and a DVD burner. Nice.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gamma Ray Burst Lights Up The Universe
Really, really energetic:
Scientists have detected an interstellar explosion so bright that it was briefly visible to the naked eye—from 7.5 billion light-years away.
Viewers looking at the right patch of night sky on Wednesday would have seen several afterglows from the massive gamma-ray burst, slightly brighter than the faintest visible stars.
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Gamma-ray bursts occur when massive stars [...]
HD DVD RIP
The 10 Video Formats HD DVD Will Meet in Heaven.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Centro Sales Success Won’t Save Palm
The Palm Centro is a big hit, but can the company actually make money off a $99 smartphone? Probably not. Palm has maybe one chance to come out with a serious iPhone competitor if they hope to recapture even a small amount of their former glory. I hope they pull it off, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Classmate PC Coming To America…and Europe
Intel wants everyone to have a computer:
Up until now, both Intel’s Classmate PC and the OLPC Foundation’s OLPC XO laptop have been explicitly targeted towards poor students in developing countries. Intel plans to change that focus with the second generation of the Classmate PC, however, announcing that future versions of the laptop will be available [...]
Be A Star
The NY Times asks: So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Arthur C. Clarke; Dead At 90
Arthur C. Clarke has died.
Here’s Clarke’s WikiPedia entry.
Hack Your Life
Get organized, motivated and incredibly efficient! The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hulu Goes Public Tomorrow
Online video site Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC, opens to the public tomorrow, March 12. I’ve been a beta user for a while, and Hulu has a lot to offer. The Reuters blurb sums up Hulu’s depth of content nicely:
At launch, Hulu will offer full-length episodes of more than 250 [...]
Free 50gb Hard Drive
From WebWare: online Storage newcomer ADrive offers “a whopping 50GB of storage for free, with the only bandwidth limitations being in the size of the files you can upload, which are capped at a reasonable 2GB.”
ADrive
Crazy Cool Home Theaters
Via deputydog: 10 of the best themed home cinemas on earth.
The sci fi themes are awesome, but I really like the Titanic room.
In The Year 2525
Cleopatra 2525 was short-lived camp sci-fi series from 2000-2001 — think Xena, only set in a post-apocalyptic future. Full episodes are available online via Hulu.
Firefly fans might enjoy seeing Gina Torres playing “Helen”.
Here’s more background on the series.
MacBook Rebates
Amazon is offering Apple MacBook rebates of $50 - %150.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Vista Fallout
One year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to “upgrade�
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