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Friday, September 30, 2005
Go to this page and download the "Interactive Virtual Materials" file called "PhysicsDemo.zip". Unzip it using Winzip. Click on the physics.exe file. Then, Bezzy, who passed along the link to me, has some simple instructions:
...load the "cowfracture" file, and then press and hold shift while left-clicking to tug the poor thing apart.
Goofy fun for a Friday afternoon, right until the point People for the Ethical Treatment of Virtual Animals kicks your door in.
(You should probably spend a few minutes looking around the site of Matthias Mueller, too, since he was nice enough to create the demo and post it on the web for random people to download.)
Low Tech Sensors and Actuators, a fun guide to disassembling toys and devices to make use of the simple tech therein (via digg.)
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Finally, in the New York Times, I have a more cogent explanation than I've ever been able to provide about why I'm happy to be a renter rather than a homeowner (via Waxy.)
NG: I always loved, most of all with doing comics, the fact that I knew I was in the gutter. I kind of miss that, even these days, whenever people come up and inform me, oh, you do graphic novels. No. I wrote comic books, for heaven's sake. They're creepy and I was down in the gutter and you despised me. 'No, no, we love you! We want to give you awards! You write graphic novels!' We like it here in the gutter!
JW: We've been co-opted by the man.
Time interviews Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon.
Worth reading for many reasons, not least of which is when they get Time (or at least its appointed representative) to admit to wanting Wonder Woman porn.
"When Batman first got the call to join the Justice League—which I think they were originally calling "Superman, Aquaman and Associates"—he didn’t take to it too kindly. But to be honest, Batman never really took anything well. We could be having a perfectly pleasant dinner at Chasen’s when for no reason his eyes would go dark, his mood would abruptly change and suddenly everybody was either a "traitor" or a "douche bag.""
Excerpts from the Book "Live from Metropolis: An Uncensored Oral History of the Justice League" (via Making Light.)
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
GameGame, the game about game design, released its 1.0 version yesterday. Downloaded, and I hope to play it sometime in the next couple days.
Yon renowned fellow, let us kick it
Ho, everyone, cease, I prithee listen
Thor hath returned with a new invention
Something taketh hold of me most tight
Floweth like a harpoon day and night
Shall it ever end? I doth not know
Conjure the darkness and I shall glow
To great measure, mine voice is as a vandal
Brighten mine surroundings and snuff a life as though 'twere a candle
Yon mystic dance doth boom like a storm in motion
I bring death upon thee as like a black potion
Lethal, when I doth serenade thee
For any lesser tune wouldst be a travesty
Art thy affections roused, are dost thou flee?
Thou shouldst aim well, lest I forsake thee
If there be any ill, I shalt resolve it
Look thee upon mine hook while mine DJ revolves it.
The Mighty Thor sings the hits (via Fanboy Rampage.)
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The awe-inspiring and terrifying Star Wars Technical Commentaries, cataloging everything from the seven different Death Stars to the seemingly inevitable Endor Holocaust. Many fine geeks went irreversibly pasty bringing us this information.
More belated links:
A few weeks ago, while at a Katie Davis show (Katie is rocking both acoustic and electrical these days, and if you live in the Seattle area expect me to pull you to a show by the ear at some point), I ran into a trio of local cartoonists. Website addresses were exchanged on napkins...and I promptly lost mine until today. Go check them out:
Somehow I neglected to post about how I not only met MC Frontlot at the Penny Arcade Expo and saw his mysterious visage, but I bought a copy of his new album! Pretty kickass; about the only thing I don't like is the remix of "Which MC Was That?" I just plain prefer the original. You can listen to samples over on Front's site, and even download the entire first track, but as he says in that song:It's true--Frontalot's destitute
I need you / to buy my CD so I could buy food
Help an MC out, won't you?
Ever since I clued in to podcasts a few months ago, I've been looking for a good comics podcast. I've finally found one in Word Balloon--great conversations with comics pros. I particularly enjoyed the interviews with Mark Waid and Joe Casey.
My post a few days ago about RFID hacking is probably a good example of why new tech should be out on the free market and examined by the technically adept and mischevious before being used in more critical applications--like, say, fingerprint recognition scanners in prisons.
Monday, September 26, 2005
If this armored toilet seat came with a hasp for a padlock, I'd finally be able to sleep at night without worrying that the CHUDS were going to crawl up the pipes into my apartment (via Making Light.)
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