Monthly Archives: February 2008

Cosmic Explosions | Popular Science An astonishing look at some of the universe’s most violent events. Well, less astonishing, more like WOW, COOL!!!!!!!! (tags: pictures astronomy physics universe science space interesting) Time Team | Archaeology | Channel 4 | Tony … Continue reading →

The Reality-Based Community: Byte me IBM introduced the hard drive (RAMAC) in 1956; it stored 5 MB in an enclosure the size of a refrigerator, and cost $150 thousand. So, today you can get a 1 TB drive for $300 … Continue reading →

Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload | Techthrob.com Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system, & observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application … Continue reading →

APOD: 2008 February 24 – NGC 4676: When Mice Collide These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart. Known as ” The Mice” because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passed through the other. … Continue reading →

Hardy Heron Alpha 5 Test Release | Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 5 is the 5th alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, & with this new alpha release comes a host of excellent new features. The final stable version will be released … Continue reading →

Cool Stuff: Hollywood Blockbusters as Russian Fairy Tales | /Film The following illustrations by artist Andrey Kuznetsov envision Hollywood blockbusters as Russian folk fairy tales. Very very cool! (tags: cool movies illustration images film art) Electrons In Some Compounds ‘Gain … Continue reading →

Meet the Fource I think the drugs needed to make sens eof this would blow my mind too much. (tags: microsoft humor wtf funny marketing vista fun geek bizarre code clippy crazy coding)

The Buffalo News: Entertainment: ‘Mythbusters’ take ‘MacGyver’ challenge for 100th episode Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters,” decide to put some of MacGyver’s more creative escapes to the test, in the show’s landmark 100th episode. WANT!!!! (tags: … Continue reading →

Format War: Toshiba Kills HD DVD, Official HD DVD has been pronounced dead on Tuesday, February 19, 2008, even before the press conference has started, according to our Ichiroo, from Gizmodo Japan. Toshiba’s press release is out in the wild. … Continue reading →

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC revives 1960s satirical show Satirical 1960s TV show The Frost Report will return as a one-off special featuring Michael Palin and John Cleese, the BBC has confirmed. ohmigod. ohmigod. ohmigod!! (tags: montypython johncleese michaelpalin … Continue reading →