Casiello Family Weblog

21 boxes of cards, a stack over 5 1/2 feet tall.

(via ZDNet)

Sony apparently installs a rootkit when you try to play certain CDs on your Windows PC as part of their DRM scheme.

Be very careful when buying any CDs, once you open it, very often you can only return it for another identical copy of the deliberately broken CD.

Especially check otu the demonstration of inappropriate dress – I have one of those TI’s!

The feasibility study.

This year’s winner of the Visions of Science Photographic Awards.

(via Rocketboom from October 4th.)

The I/O Brush, from the MITs Medial Lab.

Check out the video.

Georgie

… now take a look at Google Moon, showing the Apollo landing sites.

Hint: Zoom all the way in.

Using the Google Maps API, measure your trips by marking locations on a map.

Our solar system has a new planet!

It’s name for now? 2003 UB313

Some boingboing links to some online games including a
cow-milking game

A handy hint from PalmAddict

How to automate Palm backups with two freeware apps

(via Eric Gunnerson)

Simply amazing!

An implementation of Lemmings in Javascript.

(via s-t)

If all stories were written like science fiction stories

A FREE program to do those lightsaber effects

with Cuke Skywalker and Darth Tader

How to make lightsaber effects using Premiere and Photoshop.

A 1961 article tells what ‘scientists know’ about life in the year 2000

Some excerpts:

You will be whisked around in monorail vehicles at 200 miles an hour and you will think nothing of taking a fortnight’s holiday in outer space.

The family car will be soundless, vibrationless and self-propelled thermostatically. The engine will be smaller than a typewriter. Cars will travel overland on an 18 inch air cushion.

Make a death ray!

(via hackaday)

Make a 35mm camera!