Browser Wars
The top five web browsers, tested and ranked by Tom’s Hardware. The major browsers are all pretty good now, but I’m currently a disciple of Chrome (with Opera a close second). Whichever you use, make sure your using the latest release (especially important with IE).
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Popular Science Archives – Free
PopSci has partnered with Google to offer the magazine’s entire 137-year archive for free online.
Play Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online For Free
EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online game is in open beta, and it’s a lot of fun. The graphics are good (especially for a browser based game), it’s not a huge download, and the course selection is pretty amazing – Pebble Beach, St. Andrews, Sawgrass, etc. It’s designed to be a multi-player social online game, but the other players don’t get in your way and you can just do your own thing. One other thing about Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online — it’s challenging (at least it is for me – but I haven’t played many golf video games). I played the front 9 at Pebble Beach, and let’s just say my score was probably close to what my real score would be at that course.
Apple II Gets New Digital Music Synthesizer
As a former Apple II enthusiast (owned an Apple IIc and Apple IIgs in the late 80s), I think it’s awesome that there’s still a fan community out there developing for the platform. Engadget posted about a new Apple II digital music synthesizer.
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Macmillan’s Price Fixing Scheme
Macmillan is forcing Amazon to go along with their e-book price fixing scheme. Price fixing is usually illegal in this country, but there are often loopholes and exceptions to laws. I guess calling booksellers ‘agents’ who don’t get to set their own prices and receive a fixed commision is a pretty good one. That doesn’t make it any less sleazy.
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Meat Is Murder…Delicious Delicious Murder.
Is vegetarianism dead? Maybe not, but it doesn’t seem as trendy and popular as it did a few years ago.
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Just Don’t Wear A Red Shirt On Away Missions
From Digital Spy, hands-on with the upcoming ‘Star Trek Online’ MMO game.
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Car Thief Suspect Found Playing Grand Theft Auto
Finally, proof from the AP that playing Grand Theft Auto will lead to a life of crime…or possibly vice-versa:
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sheriff’s deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the “Grand Theft Auto” video game, and they later charged him with just that.
Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango arrested 30-year-old Michael Ray Ekes on Thursday. They found the SUV outside a Haines City home. Ekes was inside in the house, playing the popular video game.
Like New Soviet Fighter – Only $5 Million
Via Wired’s Autotopia blog, buy a fully functional SU-27 ‘Flanker’ Soviet fighter jet for the low low price of $5 million. Finally get revenge on Maverick and Goose.
The Besler Steam Plane, circa 1933
Steam powered flight! From the YouTube description:
A Travel Air 2000 biplane made the world’s first piloted flight under steam power over Oakland, California, on 12 April 1933. The strangest feature of the flight was its relative silence; spectators on the ground could hear the pilot when he called to them from mid-air. The aircraft, piloted by William Besler, had been fitted with a two-cylinder, 150 hp reciprocating engine.
[via Make: Online]
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
A very cool sea slug – it produces chlorophyll and can live indefinitely on only sunlight.
A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It’s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.
The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they’ve eaten. With [...]
Calorie Confusion
NY Times: Claimed calorie counts often wrong:
Anyone who counts calories by using the figures on menus in fast-food restaurants or on the packages of frozen meals may want to count again. When researchers tested the food served in 29 chain restaurants and 10 frozen meals sold in supermarkets, they found that their calorie content averaged [...]
Get Lost On Hulu
Seasons 1 – 5 of Lost are available on Hulu. I lost interest halfway through season 1, but maybe it’s time for a second look.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Windows 64 vs. Windows 32
Via Lifehacker, a comprehensive overview of the differences between 64 bit and 32 bit Windows.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What To Watch This Year
Midseason TV 2010: January premieres and notable returns.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Audiences feeling blue after seeing Avatar
Seriously?
James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
Migraines and Light Sensitivity
Researchers may be close to understanding why bright light worsens migraine headache pain.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Netflix Agrees To Warner Bros.’ 28 Day Waiting Period
This agreement will encourage piracy more than it will protect Warner’s lagging DVD sales. Hopefully, it will at least open up more movies to streaming.
Warner Bros. has signed a new agreement that will bring the studio’s new releases to Netflix in DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming form—a month after the original DVD release.
[via Ars Technica]
