Lately on my Gentoo Linux laptop I’ve been using one of the newer screensavers in the XScreenSaver collection, Pacman. Edwin de Jong hacked together an impressive visual display that feels like the classic Pac-Man arcade machine we all know and love.

Thanks, Edwin! But no thanks for the crummy AI! Come on Edwin! Let’s see […]

Is, once again, StarForce. I should’ve heeded my own advice about it in my previous post, but Trackmania was just too tempting. And now I’m down one DVD writing drive. That’s right, the rumors you’ve heard online about StarForce royally messing up systems to the point that drives fail are totally true, and I […]

You know, there is nothing quite like a good comment thread. Sean’s Customizing Lightbox post is at 86 comments and counting - but our comment threads are nothing compared to the one’s you’re about to see.
MIT Hopefuls Hijack an Admissions Blog… and Talk About Girls
Someone at school pointed us to an MIT admissions blog […]

How many of you actually chat with people you don’t know at all online? Except for in non-realtime communication like Blogging, commenting or web forums, I don’t really. The only exception to this is when I play World of Warcraft. And after a certain amount of time spent with people in-game, […]

A gorgeous music video by artist Fredo Viola. The video is composed entirely of 15 second clips taken on a Nikon Coolpix 775 and post-processed in Adobe After Effects.

It’s one of those things where you go… huh. Why didn’t I think of that?
The rest of the post got cut off for some inexplicable reason… […]