Mike Parsons surfs a gigantic wave at JAWS Bay Maui, off the coast of Hawaii at the World Two-in Champsionships. "Jaws" is an underwater ridge that acts like a "giant magnifying lens," bending and enlarging Pacific Ocean storm swells to soup up monster surfing waves as high as 70 feet.
read more | digg story
Friday, December 21, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
More Windows Errors Take Over the World
Reports all over the world confirm the worst: the best Windows error ever was just the beginning of a planetary invasion by alien forces using time-space-twisting software code. There's no other explanation for this gallery of demoniacally absurd errors [PICS]
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Saturday, November 17, 2007
22 Mathematical (and Physics) Curiosities in 'Futurama'
Just because it's prime-time animation, doesn't mean you won't learn a thing or two. (Some entries are in Spanish-- See! You're learning foreign languages, too!)
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Friday, October 26, 2007
Windows 7 taking shape
A senior Microsoft engineer recently demonstrated the core of the next version of Windows, codenamed Windows 7, at the University of Illinois. Microsoft admits that its work is cut out for them, thanks to virtualization, multicore, and more.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
WARNING: device driver updates causing Vista to deactivate
Microsoft has confirmed: something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
If you spent $399 on AAPL instead of an iPod in 2001, it'd be worth $10,000
Even if you waited until April 2007 to buy, you're up about $100 per share. Happy Birthday iPod.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)