There is only one (okay two) TV show I watch. The Daily Show. This is largely due to the fact that we don’t own a TV yet, but that’s besides the point. I just watch the episodes over at Comedy Central’s website the day after they’re broadcast - ad free! All in all, it’s […]

I’m not sure where all the new subscribers have been coming from given our past dormancy, but to everyone new, welcome! Our beloved professor Mark Chang has a great piece on multi-touch surfaces over at his blog. Well I suppose that since we’ve graduated, he’s technically not our professor anymore and just “a terrifyingly […]

Upon seeing that element 118 had been synthesized, I decided to peruse Wikipedia for more info on that element, and other theoretical, yet to be made or discovered ones. What I found was astonishing, and something never taught in schools (at least none me or my friends have attended).
It turns out that there’s this […]

I check Reddit pretty regularly in order to see what’s new in news. It’s nice because it keeps me a little more connected to things that I otherwise might hear nothing about. (Politics, for example.)
Over the past few weeks, I noticed a rather humorous thread of posts on Reddit. The first was a post […]

Sometime around noon this past Friday, the highly anticipated global thermonuclear war strategy game DEFCON was finally available to play. (The game’s website is everybody-dies.com.) I had it pre-purchased and pre-loaded through Steam, which for the most part I consider a functioning content distribution system. Not today. Not this entire weekend, in fact.
Steam exploded, […]