Geekfoolery

Just a quick update tonight on the wrap-up of the Northrop Grumman X-prize challenge in New Mexico this weekend. Geekfoolery’s been rooting for our good friends at Speedup World and their lander Laramie Rose, even though they decided in September that they were only going to give their vehicle a demonstration hop at the event […]

*headline stolen shamelessly from the Philip K. Dick story.

Pleo is toy dinosaur made by a company called Ugobe that is expected to hit store shelves sometime next year. I’m sure if the marketing people had their way, it would be in stores in time for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, with visions of Cabbage […]

I am not quite of the age that grew up in fear that the Soviet Union (always the aggressor, of course) would one day get pissed off and nuke the living hell out of us. Backyard bomb shelters and nuclear air raid drills were a bit before my time. I remember discussion of proposed shell-game […]

Forget getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. George Takei, known to Trekkies as Hikaru Sulu of the Starship Enterprise, has an asteroid named after him now. The rock was first spotted in 1994 by Japanese astronomers and as we all know was named 1994 GT9. It’s going to take a while to […]

The simplest, most obvious move can often be the boldest.
Amazon.com is now selling plain vanilla MP3 downloads from their web portal. Although the move follows Apple’s deal with EMI to sell DRM-free tracks for 30 cents more earlier this year (Apple’s iTunes Plus tracks are also recorded at a higher bit rate for better sound […]

First, despite Microsoft’s claim to have sold more than a million Zunes, a figure that’s worth about 10% of the hard-drive based player market, I have never, ever seen a single person using one in public. I began Zunewatch on Jan 1st to see if it would be worthwhile for me to get a Zune […]