Thursday session: Golden Compass, Halli Galli Extreme After clobbering Hannu in Sunda to Sahul, it was time for Golden Compass. We had full table, four players, and off we went, on our trip to the other universe. The card playing mechanism was definitely more interesting with… […]
Clive Thompson on the Benefits of Being a DIYer [DIY]
Wired writer Clive Thompson has a thought-provoking piece in this month’s issue on the general decline in fixing and tinkering and how it affects our ingenuity, our thinking, and even our spending habits:
You see this on a personal level. If you can’t get […]
How Dirty and Gross Is Your Tech Gear? [Question Of The Day]
I was working on my 24-inch iMac today when I noticed my cursor moving a little bit erratically. I didn’t know what was wrong. The computer is almost new, I haven’t installed anything recently, and the mouse itself looked ok, as […]
Plan and Plant a Kitchen Garden [How To]
Spring is just around the corner, and financial weblog The Simple Dollar details how to save tons of money and live healthier by planting a kitchen garden.
A kitchen garden merely refers to a garden that consists almost exclusively of plants intended to be eaten. Although […]
How it’s Made: Hacksaw Blade
Optimize Your Spotlight Searches [How To]
By almost every account, Spotlight on the Mac has improved tremendously in Leopard, so in an effort to re-introduce the usefulness of OS X’s built-in desktop search application, the UsingMac weblog dives into the nitty gritty of building precise and powerful searches in Spotlight. Fantastic tricks […]
Digital Converter Boxes Are for Cheap Fogies, Not Sony Customers [Digital Switchover]
As much as Sony is looking forward to the Feb. 2009 analog broadcast cutoff, the opportunity to sell millions of government-subsidized digital converter boxes isn’t why. Sony isn’t even touching that mess, or the low-end consumers who want them. Talking about […]
IE8 renders the acid 2 test I’m not sure why I don’t see that many people talking about the fact that IE8 renders the acid 2 test perfectly now. It really seems Microsoft is starting to move forward again, after starting to feel some pressure from the open source world. Will they be able to […]
Audiosurf Tops Steam Charts [Valve]
Independent developer Dylan Fitterer’s Audiosurf put a walloping on the rest of the Steam catalog last month, outselling everything else, in terms of dollars and units sold, Valve announced today. The IGF nominee was released mid-month, which makes the accomplishment even more impressive. We’re sure that $9.95 US […]
5 Cool CSS Hacks & Tricks 1. Create a stunning 3D push button… Nowadays, we can see 3d push buttons nearly everywhere. Most of them are achieved via JavaScript. The main problem […]