Comment Re:Motorola? (Score 1) 224
Boid Twitter App
Comment Re:Chrome vs IE (Score 1) 212
Take a look at the feedly extension for chrome. Great way to read RSS feeds.
Comment Re:Why not (Score 2) 1091
My 15 year old daughter crashed the hard drive in here laptop by throwing it around. She also lost all the installation discs that came with it. I put ubuntu on it and she never complained once. But yeah it took me awhile to get it setup right, the wireless network card gave me a bit of trouble until I figured out what drivers I needed.
Comment Re:Threads (Score 1) 140
I fall into the tinkerer category. I just built a robot using an Arduino as the brain. This would have been useful for some of the servo and sensor inputs I was trying to do.
Submission + - A Look Into China's Web Censorship Program (msn.com)
kev0153 writes: MSNBC is offering a good article explaining some of the details behind China's web censorship program. "Google’s face-off with Beijing over censorship may have struck a philosophical blow for free speech and encouraged some Chinese Netizens by its sheer chutzpah, but it doesn’t do a thing for Internet users in China. Its more lasting impact may lie in the global exposure it has given to the Chinese government’s complex system of censorship – an ever-shifting hodgepodge of restrictions on what information users can access, which Web tools they can use and what ideas they can post."
Submission + - Solar Powered Augmented Contact Lenses Cover Your (su.pr)
ByronScott writes: Want eyesight that could put your neighborhood cyborg to shame? Well, University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on solar powered contact lenses embedded with hundreds of semitransparent LEDs, letting wearers experience augmented reality right through their eyes. If their research proves successful, the applications — from health monitoring to gameplay to just plain bionic sight -could be endless.
Submission + - Ultima Online developer's lost lunar rover found! (wired.co.uk) 1
Lanxon writes: The guy behind Ultima Online once bought an old Russian rover, despite it being lost on the moon somewhere. And now, using images released by NASA, it has been located on the moon's surface after nearly four decades of being MIA, reports Wired. Richard Garriott, who created the Ultima Online multiplayer game, bought the Lunokhod 2 in a Sotheby's auction in New York in 1998. And so new was the discovery of his lost possession, he hadn't even heard that the craft had been discovered when Wired spoke to him.
Comment Re:How many zombie movies have you seen, exactly? (Score 1) 193
If it bleeds we can kill it
Comment Re:Hockey games everyday? (Score 1) 356
There are hockey games on Christmas day here in the USA. My son played in one last year and we live in Southern California. Trust me the rinks are open 365 days a year.
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