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Two Words: Nazi Dinosaurs
Steam’s Dino D-Day is a multiplayer game in which the Nazis have resurrected dinosaurs. Destructoid has a rather wonderful gallery of “propaganda posters” set in the milieu. (via Rue The Day!)
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Toccata and Fugue in D: Drive
It’s not uncommon for computer hobbyists to use vintage floppy drives* for uses other than they were originally intended. George Whiteside has connected four drives to a micocontroller and uses them in a rendition of “Phantom of the Floppera.” This is the kind of thing geeks do to amuse ourselves. (via Neatorama) *As someone who…
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The Chase
Intel created this video to illustrate the performance capabilities of its new chip. I like it. (via Dark Roasted Blend)
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Institute for the Future: Map of the Robot Renaissance
via Boing Boing Last week, my colleagues and I at Institute for the Future held our Robot Renaissance conference, where we presented our research on the future of robotics. As part of this year-long project, we developed the above map to summarize our big forecasts and present some striking signals, present-day examples of technologies that…
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YouTube Time Machine
One night Justin Johnson was chatting with his friend Delbert Shoopman, thusly: I was regaling him with the tale of my previous night, in which I had been up very late watching Michael Jordan videos from 1996. It made me feel so awesome deep down inside … like it was Sunday afternoon, and I was…
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Geek Mom
Wired’s popular GeekDad blog has spawned GeekMom, a new site aimed at moms who are geeks and moms who are married to geeks. Ken Denmead announced the site’s launch on GeekDad: Ever since I took on the job of Editor at GeekDad, and would meet people at events like Maker Faire, the question I kept…
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EXODUS
Visual arts student Alexander Lehmann spent three years working on this film as his graduation project. It’s a music video for a Dutch band called NOISIA, and it’s kind of amazing. (via Whatever)
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This is Uncomfortably Plausible
How to access the internet…in 2025. Before signing on, please ensure you have received your RealIdentity card from local authorities. Signing on to the internet without identifying yourself has been ruled illegal in the Stop Anonymity Act of 2012, and you need to be sure to associate your comments, emails, posts and more with your…
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Moonbase Alpha
NASA has developed a commercial-quality video game called Moonbase Alpha, which requires players to get a lunar base’s life support back online running before everyone suffocates. The game imagines a base in the year 2020; a meteor strike disables its life-support systems, and one or more players must get it running in 25 minutes. The…
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“Captives of the Eidolon of the Unthinkable”
From Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual comes Cornelius Zappencackler’s Pulp Sci-Fi Title-o-Tron. Keep refreshing the page and thrill to Strange Space Beast of Europa, gasp at The Forgotten Perisphere of Earth, and be amazed by Transformed by the Atomic Creature. The rest of the site is pretty cool, too. I especially like their Ask…