appeared in 1958, a two-player tennis game using an oscilloscope as a display!
The First Video Game
December 10th, 2005Sony’s Back In The News!
December 10th, 2005(via Rocketboom)
Sony is allegedly paying kids to spray PSP-related graffiti on walls all over the country.
More: Wired reports that Sony is paying the building owners for the use of their walls.
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
December 5th, 2005Check out the Electron Microscopy Snow page, especially the stereo images.
Y’all Remember This Cereal, Right?
December 3rd, 2005For you young ‘uns, the original box.
Best Christmas Lights Ever
November 27th, 2005(via rocketboom)
Best Christmas Lights Display Ever
Snopes is cautious, calling its status ‘undetermined’, but it seems like something that would be doable with a few thousand dollars worth of light-o-rama boards.
Okay, I’d like to be their across-the-street neighbor for maybe one day. After that, not so much.
Time-Lapse Figure Drawing
November 27th, 2005More On Sony Malware
November 27th, 2005Remember the Sony ‘CD’s that installs a trojan horse program (rootkit) on your PC?
Well, it turns out these bastions of copyright protection (Won’t somebody please think of the content creators?!?) may have used copyrighted code in violation of the license.
Sony is no longer selling the malware discs, and will be pulling them from store shelves.
In the meantime, virus writers found out about the trojan’s file-hiding capabilities which now infects computers on a href=”http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,69573,00.html”>a half a million networks. Sony issued a patch to remove the trojan – the patch stays on your computer, allowing any website you visit to download and run code on your computer. Sorry, pal, you don’t own your computer anymore.
Lovely. Just lovely.
They’ve even
Insist On Genuine TIN Foil Hats!
November 27th, 2005How Many Punch Card To Store An MP3 Song?
November 27th, 2005Sony Music CDs Install Trojans
November 2nd, 2005(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.
Rocketboom on Dress Codes
October 29th, 2005Archimedes’ Death Ray
October 20th, 2005Salt ‘n Pepper
October 20th, 2005This year’s winner of the Visions of Science Photographic Awards.
The I/O Brush
October 20th, 2005Bush’s Approval Rating
October 9th, 2005You’ve Seen Google Earth…
October 9th, 2005… now take a look at Google Moon, showing the Apollo landing sites.
Hint: Zoom all the way in.
Online pedometer
October 9th, 2005Using the Google Maps API, measure your trips by marking locations on a map.
As predicted by Prot
July 31st, 2005Our solar system has a new planet!
It’s name for now? 2003 UB313
Milk Panic
July 8th, 2005Some boingboing links to some online games including a
cow-milking game
Automatic backups for your Palm
July 8th, 2005A handy hint from PalmAddict
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