I was originally going to feature an anti-microbial touch-sensitive keyboard in this week’s Things I Didn’t Know Existed Until Today but then I came across these ridiculous Star Wars costumes for dogs.
WHAT THE FRAK?!
These poor animals.
Dogs do not want to wear costumes. I’m looking at you, …
Well, this is insanely brilliant. Via Kotaku via GameSetWatch and 30 other blogs, probably: current movies as Atari 2600 game box art.
Full size version is here. It’s worth the click.
You can see it all now: a world that might have been, where Cameron’s first feature was Avatar instead of Terminator, and they blew all the money on …
Like most of you, I immediately thought of Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? when news broke (you know, when HTC filed the device with the FCC) that the Google Phone would be called Nexus One. There’s an obvious connection to Dick’s Replicants. That much is obvious.
When Lev and I were looking …
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
Happy Google Chrome for Mac and Linux Day!
Extensions are also available for Windows and Linux users.
More on Time.com:
Electronic Arts may be sticking by their man for their video games, but Toys ‘R’ Us is bailing. A reader at toy blog Tomopop spotted a bunch of Tiger Woods toys on clearance. If you can’t make it to your local Toys ‘R’ Us, the sale is also online.
(And be sure to pick up some Bratz dolls as companion pieces.)
Perhaps it’s just a …
Just when you thought Google did everything, the search engine giant silently pushed out Google Dictionary. Googlers are presented with a long list of usage examples along with standard dictionary-like features such as definitions and synonyms. Google Dictionary also displays related phrases, related languages and Web definitions from …
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the name NASA, I think of shuttles, telescopes, astronauts and outer space. I think of sitting down to the computer and flipping through high-res images of stars, nebulae, or the surface of Mars (seriously, check these shots out.)
But apparently today’s kids need something more than the …
So we heard a little grumbling after we unveiled the new name for this site. You know, the name that wasn’t Nerd World. Some of that grumbling may even have been coming out of my mouth.
But naming a website is harder than it looks. We couldn’t get Nerd World. And when you’re attached by a hideous Giger-like umbilical cord to a …
Faithful TIME.com blog-readers may have noticed something odd today: the blogs kind of disappeared. Long story short, we’ve had major server problems, and as a result we’ve had to re-launch all of our blogs on WordPress. The upside is a faster, better, more stable platform. The downside is we’ll need a few days to get our archives back …
This past Tuesday the countdown clock at the39clues.com stopped counting down, and the site went live. The 39 Clues is a new series for 8-12-year olds from Scholastic, the company’s first major launch since the end of Harry Potter. Elsewhere on this website I have taken a whack at it.
I felt bad about doing so, because Scholastic had …
It’s always in the last place you look.
Re: the whole will-it won’t-it question about the Large Hadron Collider, an e-mail from commenter dennitzio reminded me that Larry Niven has a short story called “The Hole Man” about something like this. It’s a murder mystery, where the murder weapon is a quantum black hole that some demented …
Laura Miller — who may be even more of a Stephenson superfan than I am — weighs in here at the L.A. Times. The Wall Street Journal reviewed it today. Both raves. The only negative piece I’ve seen is in the Washington Post, where Michael Dirda compared it to Harold Brodkey’s Runaway Soul, which I think is totally unfair, and anyway …
