Archives for October 2006

Legos and LEDs

Published on 29 Oct 2006 at 3:25 pm. 8 Comments.
Filed under Tech, Lego.

Last week Dan pointed me to an article on EvilMadScientist.com about putting LEDs into Legos.
I don’t know anything at all about electronics but it seemed pretty straightforward so I figured I’d give it a shot.
My first attempt was good old Zombie Timmy. I’ve created him in so many different media at this point it seemed […]

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Splinter Cell Double Agent

Published on 26 Oct 2006 at 8:43 pm. 7 Comments.
Filed under Video Games.

The new Splinter Cell game is out, but to cut to the chase: it’s very disappointing. The graphics are great but I’m sort of past being blown away by graphics at this point. I feel like they changed the camera. It seems much closer to Sam and is sort of hard to see what is […]

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Beer Trek Lives Again

Published on 13 Oct 2006 at 8:34 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Site News.

Well, I didn’t get it done in time for Star Trek’s 40th anniversary as I had planned, but the redesign of Beer Trek, our Star Trek drinking game, is finally done.
Beer Trek has been online for over 10 years now, and for the last few years it has been barely alive. I hope this breathes […]

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Stardust@Home

Published on 12 Oct 2006 at 12:40 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Astronomy.

I’ve been participating in the Stardust@Home project. It’s in the same spirit as the SETI@Home project, except you’re actually doing something instead of just donating computer cycles.
The Stardust spacecraft flew near comet Wild2 in January 2004. Returning to Earth in 2006, it brought back particle samples from the comet’s coma.
The Stardust@Home project has scanned the […]

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