You can’t get a much geekier coffee table than this giant NES controller table built by Kyle Downes from the “Ultra Awesome” blog.
The controller actually works and the whole thing opens up to provide storage for all your gaming rigs.
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Fancy yourself as a foosball champion? I bet you have never played on a table like this.
As a publicity stunt coinciding with the European Champions League Finals, Amstel built this giant foosball table big enough to accommodate 2 football teams (22 players). w00t!
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Ubuntu 8.04, aka Hardy Heron has been released and is available for download now.
Some of the new goodies in this release include Gnome 2.22, Xorg 7.3, Firefox 3 Beta 5, Transmission BitTorrent client, Inkscape for native PDF support and Wubi which allows windows users to install ubuntu as an application, without the need for a dedicated partition.
If you haven’t tried Ubuntu yet, do yourself a favour and check it out.
Grab it here
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Every “He’s Dead Jim” line from Star Trek, a great collection.
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breathingearth.net is a fascinating real time display of the birth rate, death rate and carbon dioxide emissions for countries all over the world. It’s mesmerizing to watch and interesting to compare the stats for various nations.
e.g. In Greenland, 1 person is born on average every 9.8 hours compared with 1 every 1.3 seconds in India.
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Microsoft’s next-generation web browser, Internet Explorer 8, has arrived. In a surprising move, after the demo of IE8 and its new features at today’s session of the MIX08 conference, the startling announcement was made: “It’s available for download now”. The new browser showcases many new features and improvements, like Facebook and eBay integration, standards compliance, and the ability to work with AJAX web pages. What’s most notable about IE8, though, is more than a sum of its parts. If anything, this launch shows that Microsoft is not taking Firefox’s creep into browser market share lightly.
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This is definitely one of the coolest desks I have ever seen.
We had someone looking for a highly unique desk with a space or SW theme for his home theater/home studio office. I created several designs and eventually hit upon the idea of using a Han in carbonite as the top of an combination desk and art piece.
I did the initial concept and sketches and Richard handled the details, worked with the metal shop and did the final build. Two RPF’rs also contributed resin detail pieces (where better to go than the RPF for the best parts around?).
The main “box” for the desk is custom metal, as are the computer cut side boxes which both light up with an orange glow. The piece is finished with a 1/2″ thick glass table top.
Awesome. I want one!
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Toshiba, the creators of the HD-DVD format have announced that they are shutting down the manufacturing facilities and pulling the plug on the format, leaving the market wide open for Sony’s Blu-Ray technology.
The move will likely put an end to a battle that has gone on for several years between consortiums led by Toshiba and Sony vying to set the standard for the next-generation DVD and compatible video equipment.
The format war, often compared to the Betamax-VHS battle in the 1980s, has confused consumers unsure of which DVD or player to buy, slowing the development what is expected to be a multibillion dollar high definition DVD industry.
Whilst many may argue that HD-DVD is a superior system, much like Betamax is superior to VHS, I always backed Blu-Ray to come out on top. Simply because “Blu-Ray” just sounds so much sexier and geekier than “HD-DVD”.
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I must say that it was an awesome dive by that guy to get out of the way, and that plane rocks!
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Surely this is a miracle, RAmen!
Excitement is growing in the Northern England town of Huddlesfield following the news that a local man saw an image of the Big-Bang in a piece of toast.
“i was just about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring. however the direction and splatter patterns of the crumbs as well as the changing shades emanating outwards from this black hole were very clearly similar to the chaotic-dynamic non-linear patterns that one would expect following the big bang”. “it’s the beginning of the world” he added excitedly.
;)
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This “smiley face” crater was imaged by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last week.
The unnamed crater is about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) across. It is located among the Nereidum Montes, north of the Argyre basin, near 45.1°S, 55.0°W. North is toward the right and sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper right.
Credit: NASA / JPL / MSSS
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Sign in a computer store window.
“Of all the signs we put up there the last two years, at least, we probably got the most response out of that one. A lot of people coming in.”
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