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I was actually at the last DARPA autonomous car event in 2007. Weird stuff: driverless cars wandering through an abandoned, burned-out Army base in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Junior was there, but I never saw it do anything like this. They’ve come a long way.
I didn’t even know about this. Maybe it’s because they didn’t want me to know.
Last weekend I was supposed to be doing something, and while I was supposed to be doing it I was actually playing GeoDefense. Specifically I was playing Level 13 (out of 14) in the Hard group of levels.
I feel like the current catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is establishing THE model for how we globally experience and respond to disasters.
Ah, armor: accessory of choice for the unsuperpowered. Herewith our picks for the best ever.
I have no idea how long this will stay up, but it’s quite watchable, despite being shot in amateur unsteady-cam. Almost makes me wonder if it’s a deliberate leak. Apparently this is not a Cloverfield prequel …
Today a quiet but interesting change occurred. ICANN, the organization that manages Web addresses, opened up the first top-level domains (you know, like .com and .org and such) that include non-Roman characters.
I want you all to know that the headline for this piece was supposed to include the word MILF, but that was deemed inappropriate for the family-oriented website we’re trying to run here. I explained to them that it stands for Mom I’d Like to Friend — you know, like on Facebook! But that cut [...]
When I was a kid I would sometimes buy those pulpy old science fiction novels you come across in second-hand bookstores. I wasn’t on some hipstery pulp nostalgia trip — I don’t think stuff like that was even cool yet. It was just that we didn’t have the Internet, so you couldn’t order stuff off [...]
I don’t think “trove” is too strong a word to describe the large number of Iron Man 2 toys contained within the box you see on the screen before you.
I think it was John Wayne who once remarked, ‘you never really know a man till you’ve seen his bar.’ Or maybe that was just me talking in a John Wayne voice. If so it was a pretty good John Wayne voice.
