Archive for February, 2008

links for 2008-02-29

Star Wars: Death Star Hotel in Azerbaijan Is No Moon
This isn’t a gadget per say, but it is way too cool not to share. The comments alone are pure gold…
(tags: StarWars)

links for 2008-02-28

The 10th anniversary of the Newton’s death - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Wow - the Newton died so long ago that I don’t know what happened to mine. It was a really fun toy though. I seriously had one - the 100 model - but I cannot remember what happened to it for […]

WoW Hacking Update

I know it has been a while since my World of Warcraft hacking story but I wanted to give everyone an update.  After about a week I had everything restored to my account - the person in the department at Blizzard responsible for account restoration was actually quite friendly and helpful.  The whole experience made […]

Adventures in HD DVRs Part 2 | TiVo HD Guest Review + TiVo Tidbits

I thought Drew’s comment explaining his purchase and modification of the TiVo HD was thorough enough that I’m publishing it here on its own. My own TiVo HD is currently en route from wherever Amazon was holding it hostage over the weekend; I’ll post my impressions after I get it set up.
Drew says:
I can […]

The Waiting Game

HD-DVD is dead. Yet again, my strategy of waiting it out seems to have been vindicated. I’m still not interested in a Blu-Ray player, but if a movie or a deal were compelling enough, I now feel that I could pull the trigger on HD movies without locking myself into a potential dud. […]

links for 2008-02-26

Wii Shows Up At Oscars
While the A-list audience was laughing, do you think they were thinking about the fact that the video game industry makes nearly double what the movie industry does? (And growing!)
(tags: oscars gaming wii)

You Kids and Your… Growing Up!!!

So there’s this writer at The Times Online (British Times, not New York) who seems to be the latest graduate of The Kevin McCullough School of Irresponsible Pseudo-Journalism. The gist of her latest article is that many adult men are basically grown-up babies, unable to emerge from their youth because of their silly predilection […]

Adventures in HD DVRs Part 1 | TiVo Series3 HD

As a brief disclaimer this post was written about two months ago and I never had the time to finalize it - given the Series3 units are now on close out I figured I should post this in draft condition or it would be fairly useless by the time I posted it a few weeks […]

links for 2008-02-13

GTA IV: Reinventing a World
This teaser got me excited for GTA IV all over again. Can’t wait!
(tags: gaming gta-iv games article)

links for 2008-02-05

Progress: Intel Doubles Capacity of Phase-Change Memory, the Next Step After Flash
This sounds pretty interesting - It would be great to have computers with combined memory for fast access and long term storage if they can make it affordable…
(tags: Memory)