This is one of the coolest tech demo videos I’ve ever seen. This is a very different method for human computer interaction (HCI). David Merrill gives a demonstration on “Siftables: The Smart Blocks.” View the Siftables demonstration video here. (via TED.com)

“Epic Games has seen an influx recently in the number of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games in development that utilize its Unreal Engine 3 technology – an engine that was not originally designed for MMO games. The latest entry in this Unreal MMO games category is the new subscription-based NASA MMO game, Astronaut: Moon, Mars [...]

The Apollo 12 mission was the second ever to land humans on the Moon. The mission was dedicated to studying the Moon, developing techniques, and developing instruments that could be used in future lunar landings. View the photo here. (via nasa.gov)

Here is a small Javascript that I wrote to hide the advertisements in Ask.com search results. Ask.com shows textual advertisements and lately a “Nascar toolbar’ advertisement. This Greasemonkey (firefox addon) script will hide these. You can visit this page on userscripts.org to view and install the script or use this Javascript code:

Today you can find the brand new Shwuzzle Linux Store! It is planned that there will be many of the latest and most popular Linux distributions and other open source software. There may be other things there in the future, but for now you can find professionally mastered distributions of Linux. The prices are very [...]

A very each how to guide for turning your Linux box into a streaming media center with GNUmp3d. Check it out here (via maximumpc.com)

“This manual provides an introduction to the GNU C and C++ Compilers, gcc and g++, which are part of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).” Check out the eBook here!

On February 13, 2009 at 23:31:30 UTC, the Unix time number will reach 1234567890 seconds. Unix time is also known as POSIX time and is defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight on January 1, 1970, not including added leap seconds. Read more about Unix Time here (via wikipedia).

This article from microsoft.com provides a list of a ton of Windows XP keyboard shortcuts. At the moment I rarely use keyboard shortcuts, but they can be very useful if you know how to use them. There are quite a few extremely useful ones that I have picked up on. Check out the article here. [...]

“Every evil genius needs a lair from which the run all of their daily affairs: everything from selecting the color of the company letterhead to plotting world domination. Even though Lucas may not be an evil genius just yet, he ’s still forged his own sprawling, secret base from which he controls his empire.” (via [...]