Fluffernutter? I hardly know her!

There's an awesome media page on the Fluff site dedicated to the glory of a Fluffernutter sandwich. Try playing all the files at once for a surreal experience.

Inform 7 (Beta)

If, like myself, you are a nerd and over the age of 30, chances are you played a few text-adventures like Zork or The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy in your day. Well, now-a-days these games are referred to as interactive fiction, and there is quite a community of modern-day nerds who are still making text-adventures that rival and even surpass the games from the Infocom heyday.

The modern development language for Infocom, or Z-Machine, type games was created by Graham Nelson and is called Inform. Z-machine games can be played on almost every computing playform including Palm handhelds and iPods! I got my first exposure to object-oriented programming by playing with Inform 6 in the late 90s. Well, in the last month, the first major upgrade to Inform in many, many years has been released.

Inform 7 unlike most programming languages, has been developed based on natural language. So instead of a cryptic list of curly brackets and functions, you simply type stuff like, "The Armoury is a room. The sword is in the armoury." And the compiler does the hard stuff. The development enviroment is really slick, and includes full documentation (Graham Nelson's Craft of Adventure is required reading for anyone even remotely interested in video game design). So if you have an abundance of free-time and a few clever puzzle ideas, start programming and you may be the next Will Wright!

2,002 Honest Fonts

From now on, I'm doing everything in "Retardeder."

Hot or 'Stache?

FoH8 Ryan D. busts out the flavor saver. Why? Only Ryan (and possibly Melinda) knows.

Spelling Bee kid does Napoleon Dynamite impersonation

That's two great Big Media hacks in one week. First, Anil Dash wears a goatse t-shirt for his NYT photo op, and now this... Ah, to be 13 and on television...

(Warning: If you just moved out of a cave, found an Internerd connection and don't know what goatse is, consider yourself warned. Once you see goatse, you can never unsee goatse.)

The Evolution of Icons

Anyone else out there longing for those System 1 icons?

Lightning Bolt Redux Redux

Boing Boing makes my Friday.

Has it really been over 2 years?

Bon Jovi Remix (3.8 MB WMV)

Merry Christmas™

Don't worry, I have a YuleCo EULA.

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Star Wars Episode IV, in ASCII

This is really weird geek sh!t, but what the hell...

Open your terminal in OSX.

Type the word telnet. Return.

Type the word open. Return.

Now paste this in:

towel.blinkenlights.nl

Sit back and enjoy Star Wars Episode IV, the original, in all its ASCII glory.

Big is the new Small

Dorkbot looks for gigantor cellphones thinking it'll help him pick up chicks.

"Imagine this: I'll walk into a bar and ask for a girl's number, then break out my phone," he said. "How could you say no to that?"

Uh, Eugene, like this: "No, gigantic cellphone dork."

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My Dinner With Bill

Intern describes a visit to Bill Gates' house... sounds like an interesting place...

Lightning Bolt Redux

Unfortunately, no audio on this one, so just make it up your own damn self.

1MB .mov of a bunch of Orcs and shit whalin' on each other with foam weapons.

More hardcore role-playing nerdery here.

And of course, the video that inspired hours of snort-laughing across the nation.

(Thanks, Jim!)

Retropod

I might actually have one of these lying around somewhere. I'd be more impressed if they'd hacked it so the original Walkman buttons still worked.

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Nigritude Ultramarine

Silicon Chip Art

Where's Waldo?
He's on a MIPS microprocessor

If you had a microscope you might find that there's more in your computer than you think...

Great Googly Moogly!

Here's the lowdown on how they do it.

It's damn interesting to us geeks. The rest of you can go to Starbucks while we oogle google.

This just in:

google-watch for those who fear the power of google.

google-watch-watch for those who fear the power of those who fear the power of google (ie. the author of google-watch)

Google in Hacker?

Google currently offers the following interface languages:

Continue reading "Google in Hacker?" »

BMW's Easter Egg

Just about everyone knows that most software contains 'easter eggs', or hidden surprises, if you know the right code to release them.

There's a cheat code in the software running the BMW M3's sequential manual gearbox (SMG): Press the right buttons in the right order and the car will launch you from a stop after revving the engine to 5,000 rpm. But don't look for a how-to in the owners' manual—this feature is undocumented, an inside joke of sorts.

Human-to-human TiVo/PVR suggestions via RSS

I first glanced at this proposed PVR RSS code earlier today, but didn't really have time to fully absorb it. Now there's a more detailed description, and it's a really cool idea.

My TiVo manages to suggest something I might watch perhaps once a week at the most*. I'm probably being generous with that estimate. I'd much rather have people I know send me shows I may want to watch but may not be aware of because I'm TiVo'ing through all the commercials. (All hail the 30 second skip.)

Besides, this also opens the door for all sorts of potential friendly TiVo hacking via RSS suggestions. What? You mean you didn't want to watch that Punky Brewster marathon?

* I admit I probably don't use the Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down as much as I should to get desired results.

The Bone Phone

Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of internet-capable and picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world's first mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls inside their heads - by conducting sound through bone.

Micro-UAV Flies Like an Insect

At the recent biennial 2003 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, Seiko Epson Corp unveiled the world's lightest and smallest UAV helicopter, the Micro Flying Robot, which Seiko said it plans to be the vehicle for an equally small flying camera. Surprisingly, the machine looks a bit like a scaled-down version of DeVinci's unrealized 16th century plans for a helicopter.

Not if you was the last hobbit-dork on earth...

I've griped previously about how nerdy the Lord of the Rings movies are, but the english language lacks a word that captures the magnitude of dorkiness contained in the image below; 3 fanboys attending the premiere in Jackson Michigan.

The only women this trio will ever get near are their mothers.

(jpeg shivers in revulsion...)

Oh yeah? Can your grandpappy do this?

I'm not up on the finer nuances of modern Japanese culture and social scenes, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say these guys probably have a lot of free time on Saturday night. Amazing. Be sure to stick it out for the ultimate combo of geek Japanese culture, yo-yos and breakdancing.

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Google Pigeon Ranking... Who Knew?

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subscribe.feedster.com

Give it an RSS feed, it gives you similar sites.

Interesting idea. Not surprisingly, feeding it House 8's RSS results in no similar blogs. That might be a good thing...

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Fast Chat

Walkie-talkie type messaging on your cell phone (via software). Not earth shattering, but still kinda cool.

Did you miss Dragon*Con 2003?

Well, check out their AWESOME photo gallery full of sweet sweet memories. Remember - image tiling RAWKS!

While you're there, check out the 2nd Annual Dragon*Con Parade

In case of poisoning...

Read this. WARNING: Do not attempt any of the practices listed on this site. You will likely have your ass handed to you.

Hipster Bingo In Practice

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Git yo bling on

Useful (?) Photoshop tutorial for acheiving that "Bling Bling" effect all those rapper guys are always talking about. Bookmark it for your next redesign of the St. Lunatic's website, or creating the word mark for your neighborhood up-and-coming rap artist.

Yeah, I think it's time for a redesign...

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Can't quite get motivated today?

Take a break and zone out to Hektor the wonder spraypaint-inkjet printer. Watch the movie.

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Oops!

Apple jumps the gun a bit on offering G5 towers... at G4 prices!

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One meter per pixel...

Calling all nerds.... if you liked the Megapenny Project that was posted a few weeks ago, then you'll love this.

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Your Name Will Make a Deep Impression on a Comet

Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA plan to send a satellite to crash into a comet in 2005 and aboard the craft will be a CD with the names of perhaps thousands of Earthlings.

Deep Impact will be the first mission to make a spectacular, football-stadium-sized crater, seven to 15 stories deep, into the speeding comet.

If you'd like your name on the CD, submit it here.

You get a nifty certificate too...

Sims orgies

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Screw the new iPods

I'm gettin an AK-MP3! Think anyone on the train would tell you to turn down your music with one of these on your hip?

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Safety Sign Builder

Great friday afternoon fun...

We don't need no stinkin' GameBoy Advance...

Atari 2600. Wood cases. From Wisconsin. Geek nirvana?

A graphic designer at Jim Greeley Sign and Awning in Richland Center, Wisconsin, Heckendorn builds the units on lunch breaks. Each one costs him about $200 in parts and 10 hours of labor. He uses the company's tool shop (with the boss's blessing), routing and cutting out cases from solid plastic and oak.

Fry your Hard Drive

Foreman grill for your USB port. Satisfy two urges at once.

Blue Ray

Japan's Sony Corp said on Monday it would start sales next month of the world's first DVD recorder that uses blue laser light and can pack a two-hour high-definition TV program onto a single disc. It won't be cheap, with a retail list price of 450,000 yen ($3,800) while low-end DVD recorders using conventional red lasers go for as little as 50,000-70,000 yen.

Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats, but not those using the DVD-RAM or DVD+RW formats.

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Someone ought to send out an internal email:

The music industry this week condemned the launch of two recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc. The launches, from electronics giants Sony and Philips, are being seen as a potential pirates' charter.

"It's a no-brainer. Anything which lets people pirate more music like this has to be very bad news for the music industry," says a spokesman for Britain's record industry trade association, the BPI.

Why Sony should want to launch a recorder that might make piracy easier may seem surprising, as its Sony Music division makes and sells CDs. While Sony Music did not want to comment on its sister company's launch, Mike Tsurumi, a president of Sony Consumer Electronics in Berlin, insists that the move makes sense. "The music companies need to change their business model," he says.