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- Taun Taun Sleeping Bag
- A way to put classic video game sounds in your music
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News
- Linus Torvalds a Nobel Prize Option? – http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2009/11/18/a-northwest-nobel-option/
- BTW, the Large Hadron Collider is working…again. Now where’s my quantum singluarity? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2740855/LHC-is-switched-on-again.html
Hacks & Strange Stories
- Dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years – Minneapolis / St. Paul News – City Pages – The Blotter – http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/11/dinkytown_dad_s.php
- Awkward Microsoft Store Dances Are Why I Shop Online – http://gizmodo.com/5406546/awkward-microsoft-store-dances-are-why-i-shop-online (from Encaf)
- Bacon Flavored Envelopes – http://gizmodo.com/5405947/bacon+flavored-envelopes-your-bills-will-now-make-you-poor-and-fat (from Encaf)
Remember When
- Chip Sounds brings back audio from the classic systems – http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/17/chip-sounds.html
- A real life replica of Lunar Lander – http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-10/you-built-what-real-life-replica-videogame-lunar-lander – Michelle
Media Corner
- Topless Robot – Hey, a Doctor’s Got to Pay the TARDIS Bills Somehow – http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/11/hey_a_doctors_got_to_pay_the_tardis_bills_somehow.php
- VOTD: Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars | /Film – http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/18/votd-making-of-the-computer-graphics-for-star-wars/
- Klingon Christmas Carole – http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/a-klingon-christmas.html
- Portal – Still Alive typography. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCt2nZF2nLk
- Taun Taun Sleeping bag: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/action/
What the Kreg!
- I got a Blu-Ray player with the Star Trek movie and UP!
Geek Library
- From Tom Posz
Top wireless turkeys of 2009
in order of not so turkey to lots of turkey
(Marv thinks the Skype spinoff should be in there too)
- The BlackBerry Storm
- Nokia’s North American version of the 5800 Xpress Music
- Verizon’s Hub
- Windows Mobile 6.5
- The Garmin nuvifone
- Microsoft loses Sidekick users’ data
- Nortel Networks
- History of the Internet in a nutshell – http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/ – Jorge
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