Like the penguins said,

Grand Coulee Dam!!

Hoth Adventure!

My eight year old son has a zillion little stubby Star Wars toys and he decided to write one of his stories down. He showed it to me and asked if he could make it into a little comic. I showed him the tools we had and helped him a little with a few of the fiddly bits, but for the absolute most part, this is all his! He used photoshop, bryce and comic life. (Click on the image for full size...)

Easter iPods

Return to Dark Castle

Many more years ago than I care to admit to, I played Dark Castle at my friends house on his old Mac Plus. Now, finally, we can Return to Dark Castle! Follow the link to either download a demo or purchase the full game.
Don't have a Mac? Well you can still visit their site and see just what you're missing, and have one more reason you need to switch. =)

Pac Man Jacket

Here's some photos from a jacket I got way back in December. I got it because I thought it was cool, obviously, which makes me a dork, obviously. =) Something I found interesting though, is that when I wear it around town, I get positive comments from people of ALL ages. Old people recognize it and say how "neat" it is. Little kids at my sons school recognize it and say how cool it is. Actually they yelled really loud how cool they thought it was. You can have all your fancy dancy graphics and your blu-ray discs and all the other bleeding edge tech, but it seems you'll never be able to match the love given to the little yellow 8-bit dot and his (and her) 4 little coloured buddies.



note: that's not me in the photos, they are from the Hot Topic, where I got the jacket.

intellectual property

“Over protecting intellectual property is as harmful as under protecting it. Culture is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new. Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Over protection stifles the very creative forces it’s supposed to nurture.”

- Judge Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in the White v. Samsung Elec. Am., Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993) ruling.

Tabbed browsing in Firefox on iPod Touch

So you've seen the iPod touch. And you've probably seen it hacked and all the cool programs you can run on it. Well here's Firefox running on an unhacked iPod Touch.



Okay, okay, it's not really running on the iPod, it's running on my MacBook. I'm just using a web based VNC to see my MacBook's screen. Pretty awesome. Something else that I thought was cool, is that I can use my iPod touch to take a photo with the camera on my MacBook, all without the people around the MacBook knowing they just got their photo taken. Pretty sneaky. =)