This is simply amazing. Popular Science reports that cloning operations in China have already created a fake copy of the Apple iPhone. “The country’s ability to produce indistinguishable replicas of any moment’s must-have item is legendary: Manufacturers have serviced knockoff air conditioners as if they were their own; stores have refunded bootleg purses without batting…Continue Reading…
I was on the third hole of Albatross18’s White Wiz course. Albatross18, for those unfamiliar, is an online multiplayer golf game. It’s a fun game to play with my sisters. I pressed the spacebar to begin my shot. Suddenly, I got the much-dreaded blue screen of death. This is not a common occurence. I use…Continue Reading…
I just got back from the JEOPARDY! 2007 College Championship here at the University of Southern California’s new Galen Center. Here’s an awesome little towel they gave us.. I taped my free admission ticket to it and hung it up in my dorm room in Marks Hall.
A short audio clip (about one minute) from This Week in Media episode 46. I thought it was amusing :) [mp3]http://www.intelliot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/twim46cut.mp3[/mp3] “My daughter looks at it a couple times. At the time, she’s like 10 years old. ‘I think it’s pretty good, but there’s this black fringing around the edge of it…’ We went to…Continue Reading…
Tonight I went to a midnight showing of Disney’s latest computer animated movie, Meet the Robinsons (G). It was a 3-D showing– with 3-D glasses, dual projectors, etc. I was very impressed, and not just because of the superb presentation. It’s also a compelling storyline, and it’s told in a very entertaining way. Academic types…Continue Reading…
On April 12, 2003, I read this comic in my Daily Dilbert email. This was back in the days when I still used gengar56 as my handle, instead of present-day intelliot. This was also back in the golden age of GizmoBytes. My, how things have changed :) Being the geek I am, I went and…Continue Reading…