Geekfoolery

I have a very long commute every day, which is made slightly more bearable by the vast number of excellent podcasts that are available. A couple of new ones have come out lately, and I thought I would share my current drive-time favorites with you.
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Oscars are coming. It’s an event that never really did much for me, primarily because the Academy has traditionally ignored my favorite genre of movies, the “Things Blowing Up” category of cinema. So screw them. For today, I just want to look at some of the unsung stars of the action movies… the guns and […]

Listen to me, you little whippersnappers, when I was kid, there was only ONE kind of Star Trek, not counting that cartoon. When you talked about the Captain of the Enterprise, no one asked if you meant Kirk or Picard, and Star Wars hadn’t been invented yet! And when Star Trek was on the TV, […]

What was once shocking and cutting edge inevitably becomes mainstream, even kitsch or quaintly nostalgic. Harleys. Tattoos. Rock and roll. And so it is with the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
I can clearly remember that cold New England February in the 1970s when Cheryl Tiegs arrived in mailboxes and newstands wearing a fishnet one-piece bathing suit. […]

I ran across a website in my bookmarks the other day and was reminded once again of how cool it is. The site is called Sodaplay, and it allows you to build and animate bizarre wireframe sculptures. You control a handful of parameters: whether to use rigid or fixed sticks, how strong the gravity is, […]

Apple, Inc. (have to get out of the habit of saying Apple Computer) was in music news twice this week. One headline would have been a stunning revelation 5 years ago, but it almost an afterthought today. The second item was far more important, but probably slipped by most people’s radar unnoticed.