brainwagon

A giant list of LiveCD projects. Hopefully I’ll have one joining the list soon.

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Those gents over at Lambda the Ultimate have a nice list of online computer science archives. I read stuff like this for fun, so I thought I’d archive this here so I can find it again. Incidently, does the following character: — λ — look like a lambda to you? In Bitstream Vera Sans, it […]

My blog is mostly a lark. Someone once said that sports were invented just so men would have something to talk about besides themselves and their feelings when they congregate in groups, and this blog serves much the same purpose. But some people think bigger thoughts, and I enjoy reading their blogs too. Again, I […]

I met Brewster Kahle a couple of years ago at Hackers, when he brought the Internet Bookmobile and printed attendees copies of Alice in Wonderland and let us bind and cut them for ourselves. Here is an episode of IT Conversations where he talks about the ideal of providing accessibility to all knowledge for everyone. […]

This guy walked around CeBIT with a headmounted video camera and a portable MPEG4 video recorder, and then made the CeBIT 2005 video coverage available via BitTorrent. Cool!

Remember the Honda advert? Perhaps with less flair but still pretty damned cool, here is another Rube Goldberg contraption. Yeah, I know, it was on Slashdot, so sue me.

Marco Monster has a nice tutorial article on Car Physics (mirrored here) that’s worth reading if you are thinking about writing your own version of Grand Tourismo. There is also a ton of good links at the motorsport sim Wiki. Addendum: Brian Beckman’s Physics of Racing series can be found here as a set of […]

While I may have struck Slashdot from my sidebar, I do still read it on occasion. And occasionally reference to a pearl drops from its mollusky interior, such as this article from Slate by Fred Kaplan on how Warner Bros. does high quality DVD masters from its film library. Cool.

You’d think the brains behind Spaceship One would take some time off, maybe consider going to Disneyland, but Burt Rutan’s off on another spectacular venture: the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer is a go to begin its solo circumnavigation of the globe today. Good luck to Burt and to pilot Steve Fossett.

Check out Stencil Revolution for some cool tutorials on how you can create your own stencils and use them to make art, either in the form of graffiti or just T-shirts.

For some reason, this old Dr. Fun comic popped into my head. I found out that ibiblio.org keeps these all archived, complete with a search engine.

Apparently now Everquest (lovingly referred to by those in the know as “crack on a CD”) will allow you to order Pizza Hut with just a simple few keystrokes. I’m not sure how you are supposed to answer the door when they arrive with your piping hot pepperoni, though. Might actually have to get up […]

It’s just too cool.

Mark Hughes reacts in much the same way (but far more entertainingly) than I have to the cheerleading that Scoble is doing for his corporate puppet masters. The best part: Robert, you haven’t been fired for what you say because you’re not a “journalist”, you’re not any kind of respected voice, you’re just a dancing […]