Curt’s Basement

The latter half of the talk is actually paraphrased from his second book: More Information Than You Require.

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Some people ask me “Why bother to collect old newspapers? If I want to read dry, boring history, I can just get a history book.” My answer to this is that even the best of history books leave out some mighty interesting aspects of historical events. The only way they can be re-discovered, is through [...]

Brian Ashcraft, from Kotaku, wrote this interesting piece for Wired about the process he went through to have his cellphone blessed by a Shinto priest. I’ve come to the 1,270-year-old Kanda Shrine in Tokyo to purify and bless something very near and dear to me: my cell phone. I’ve had hellish luck with mobiles over [...]

This man is a God! via Publick Nuisance – Score One for the Home Team.

Now this is cool. It’s a bookmarklet or extension (whichever you prefer) that takes paginated web pages and combines them into one big page. PageZipper – Life’s too short to spend clicking “Next”

Well, I’m thoroughly creeped out now.

You’ll never convince me to use IE8, but this ad still made me chuckle a bit.

via Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

We need an impartial jury of peers. My brother and I are fighting over which console to get. Xbox 360 elite or the PS3 at the same price, $399. In your experience which ones have you found to be the superior system. We are looking at a couple of key issues with each system. Most [...]

What better way to test security than to have hackers try to break it? During a contest at the CanSecWest event, security researchers competed to exploit vulnerabilities in web browsers. Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer were all successfully compromised, but Chrome was able to withstand the first day of the competition. I think what’s most [...]

This is so awesome, I’ve gotta try it out!

This gave me a good chuckle. It’s a bunch of the more creative 404 error pages from the Intertubes. I found a really good one awhile ago that I actually saved a copy of, I’ll need to dig it up sometime or see if I can find it online. Regardless, you can check these out [...]

Two big communications satellites collided in the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station. NASA said it will take weeks to determine the full magnitude of the crash, which occurred nearly 500 miles over Siberia on [...]

No batteries required! Amazing! Can you imagine how well this works? I’m suddenly reminded of the following video. via Neatorama

I’m not a big fan of F1 racing, despite being a racing fan; but this video is seriously cool. Especially the 3d animation while they explain it all.

And before you ask, no it’s not compatible with regular Lego. Earlier this year Lego and Digital Blue announced combined efforts that would yield a variety of Lego-centric electronics aimed at kids. Slated to be released by this Summer, the announcement included details on a digital camera, a walkie talkie and an MP3 player – [...]

This is too cool to describe. It may be alot of technobable for some, but I think it’s still worth a look just the same.

The 1997 book Predicting the Future looked at past and contemporary predictions of the future and assessed their accuracy. A 1995 prediction by Bill Gates about “the internet as a self-publishing medium” was met with great skepticism due to the lack of editors and, believe it or not, a Dewey decimal system on the web. [...]