Category: Geek

Tech­nol­o­gy, Sci­ence, etc.

Gary Gygax Passes Away at Age 69

From Wired: Gary Gygax, one of the co-cre­a­tors of the Dun­geons & Drag­ons role-play­ing game, died Tues­day morn­ing at his home in Lake Gene­va, Wis­con­sin, accord­ing to Stephen Chenault, CEO of Troll Lord Games. Gygax designed the orig­i­nal D&D game with Dave Arne­son in 1974, and went on to cre­ate the Dan­ger­ous Jour­neys and Lejendary… Con­tin­ue read­ing Gary Gygax Pass­es Away at Age 69

How To Behave on the Internet

This pret­ty much sums up, well, every­thing. Even if you think you know how to behave on the inter­net, you should prob­a­bly watch it any­way. How To Behave On An Inter­net Forum

Yea, Sony?

Cable and tel­cos side with Com­cast in FCC Bit­Tor­rent dis­pute. From ArsTech­ni­ca: But oth­er parts of the pri­vate sec­tor have sent the FCC urgent requests for pro­tec­tion from poten­tial­ly unfair ISP behav­ior. Sony Elec­tron­ics, which now offers a wide vari­ety of legal con­tent for its web-enabled TV sets, wrote to the Com­mis­sion on Feb­ru­ary 13… Con­tin­ue read­ing Yea, Sony?

Classic Unboxing P@rn

For those of you who could­n’t get enough of my iMac and TiVo unbox­ing, let alone the radio inter­view I did the top­ic of unbox­ing porn, feast your eyes on this: the unbox­ing pho­tos of a clas­sic Apple //c com­put­er. Is it me or did it just get a lit­tle warm in here?

What I’d Like To See Happen With The Apple iPhone

Ini­tial­ly, Angela was pret­ty excit­ed about the Apple iPhone when we watched Steve Job’s pre­sen­ta­tion on the day of it’s announce­ment. The abil­i­ty to have all of her elec­tron­ics in one easy-to-han­­dle device was very appeal­ing to her, even with the high price tag and required cell provider switch (which we did, with some regret… Con­tin­ue read­ing What I’d Like To See Hap­pen With The Apple iPhone

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Ed Coleman Leaving Gateway After Acer Acquisition

CEO (and cousin) Edward Cole­man will leave Gate­way at the end of Jan­u­ary, Acer’s Rudi Schmi­dlei­th­n­er will be tak­ing over the inte­gra­tion of Acer and Gate­way after this year’s acqui­si­tion. Well, here’s hop­ing that Edward and his fam­i­ly move back East. I sure look for­ward to talk­ing to him some­time about his expe­ri­ences there.

Freakosecurity

If you only read one inter­view with secu­ri­ty and cryp­tog­ra­phy expert Bruce Schneier today, make it this one host­ed by Freako­nom­ics co-author Stephen Dub­n­er, with ques­tions sub­mit­ted by his blog read­ers. Loads of great links to posts and arti­cles by Schneier on issues of secu­ri­ty, most of which comes down to ques­tions of eco­nom­ics (and… Con­tin­ue read­ing Freakose­cu­ri­ty

The OS Triathalon

Wednes­day evening, I final­ly got around to upgrad­ing my iMac to OS X 10.5 (“Lea­pord,” a word which only appears to occur in the instal­la­tion screens). As I’ve had a num­ber of wonky things hap­pen­ing after upgrad­ing my hard dri­ve last month, I sim­ply decid­ed to do a back­up and then the “Erase and Install”… Con­tin­ue read­ing The OS Triathalon

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Where’s My gPhone?

Google, along with a num­ber of mobile hard­ware man­u­fac­tur­ers, announced the Android mobile OS today. What became painful­ly obvi­ous, though, from read­ing Engad­get’s live-blog­ging of the con­fer­ence call is that the press mem­bers that were allowed to ask ques­tions have no idea what any of this means. Repeat­ed ques­tions of ‘so when is Google going… Con­tin­ue read­ing Where’s My gPhone?