I’ve known for a while that Wil Wheaton (AKA, Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation) has his own weblog (and a darned good one, actually). But now I’ve just discovered WilliamShatner.com
Monthly Archives: February 2002
High Def High
So does anybody have HDTV yet? No? Here’s a possible explanation why
Dartboard IP
When you’re drinking in a pub, you’re going to want to play darts, right? And if you’re a geek like us, you’ll want to use a high tech dartboard!
Serious LEGO
Whoah. JP Brown’s Serious LEGO page is da bomb.
Beer Bottle Pipe Organ
This is so incredibly Gunterish…. The beer bottle organ. Don’t miss out on the MP3 of the Star Wars theme performed on the BBO.
- Yes, the sound is actually produced by blowing air over the tops of real bottles.
- No, you don’t have to keep re-tuning the bottles due to evaporation. (We use a mineral oil.)
- Yes, you can play it with a keyboard OR as a MIDI device.
Cough It Up, Dino
Okay, so you’re a caveman having a pool party. All your friends are over, and you’re grilling some bronto ribs, tossing back a few homebrews, and somebody decides that it would be fun to pour a bunch of beer in the pool that your pet ichthyosaur lives in. What happens? Dinosaur vomit.
The Ultimate Diet Pill?
Scientists in Australia say they’ve come up with a new pill which could help drinkers lose that beer belly. They found the new drug while investigating the causes of diabetes.
Google Programming Contest
Those Google guys are at it again. They’ve begun a programming contest with a $10K prize. They’ll supply you with the raw and parsed data for a 900,000 web page sample, and source code to start from (APIs for ripping content, clustering data, etc.)
It should be quite interesting to see what people come up with.
It’s not what’s outside, it’s what’s inside
Today’s entry is a simple quiz. Complete this sentence.
One day, our home camcorders will be small enough to:
A. fit in our pockets.
B. wear on our wrists.
C. swallow and take pictures of our insides.