Comment Re:Are we there yet? (Score 1) 159
Thanks for the link!
Comment Are we there yet? (Score 1) 159
Anyone know how long it will take the probe to get there? They didn't make any mention of the travel time in the article.
Comment In Japan... (Score 2, Funny) 280
In Japan, super tuna eat you!
Comment Re:Great, more product placement in future games (Score 1) 232
Maybe the new armor in the next expansion will be branded by Nike.
Hmm... For some reason I don't get the feeling that a union of Nike (an athletics company) and video game playing nerds is likely to be a hot marketing synergy.
Comment The Lure of Programming (Score 1) 1095
Initially it was the idea of programming games that caught my eye back when I was in middle school/high school in the mid-late 90s. I started off making simple games in Basic which provided a great environment to learn the basic. I later graduated to C++ when programming became more of a fun puzzle/problem solving activity than just a means to create games. There are now several pseudo programming languages out there that are specifically geared towards learning programming concepts and creating games. Depending on the age of the child these may be appropriate or they may be too simple.
Movie Review, Hellboy II 277
Although I'm not sure the corporate overlords will let me retroactively expense a movie ticket, I wanted to take a few minutes to write my review of Hellboy II. It's been a pretty good summer for movies already: but Wall-E and Iron Man were pretty much perfect A movies. I was a big fan of the original Hellboy comic, the first movie, and of Pan's Labyrinth- my fear was that it could only go downhill. And I was wrong. VERY wrong. Read on for my review which will be mostly spoiler free.
Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History 266
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has an exclusive video and feature of one of the most heavily guarded secrets in Lego: the security vault where they store all the Lego sets ever created, new in their boxes. 4,720 sets from 1953 to 2008. Really amazing stuff and a trip down memory lane to every person who has played with the magic bricks. All combined, the collection must be worth millions, not only because of the collector value, but also because Lego uses it as a safeguard in copyright and patent cases."
Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can 261
n3hat sends along an item from the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles... that he asked his family to bury him in one. His children honored his request. Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can — along with a regular urn containing the rest... Dr. Baur, a retired organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble, died May 4 at 89... He developed many products, including frying oils and a freeze-dried ice cream, for P&G... But the Pringles can was his proudest accomplishment, his daughter said. He received a patent for the package as well as the method of packaging Pringles in 1970."
