Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle

I got to know of Neal Stephenson from a good friend in the winter of 1999, some months after Cryptonomicon was published. He used to read it during the long boring lecture days at Imperial and over the course of a couple of weeks I got to catch a glimpse of the interweaved stories Stephenson […]

Apple Event: First Impressions

Perfectly timed just before the start of the school season, just when most people already are or are soon going to be on holidays (at least wherever people do go on holidays) Apple announced their new redesigned iMac and the long-awaited iLife and iWork updates. It also gave .Mac a badly needed ‘Web 2.0’ update. […]

Hacking the Original XBox

Here is a truly fantastic Google eduTalk on the original XBox security system by the founder of the Xbox-Linux project. If you were or are casually interested in hacking this is great eduTainment. Don't miss it.

FoundItemClothing

Ok I guess these guys deserve a mention; founditemclothing sells t-shirts, like many other people out there do. But their shirts are quite far from those ye olde t-shirt online retailers sell. Their shirts are accurate reproductions of those worn by characters in cult movies and TV shows from the 1980s and 1990s. For example. you can get the shirts that Val Kilmer wore on the 1985 movie 'Real Genius' or a longsleeve shirt that 'The Dude' wore on Big Lebowski when visiting his synonymous millionaire, the skeleton shirt from 'This is Spinal Tap' and scores of others from movies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Shaun of the Dead, Happy Gilmore, Brain Candy and shows like the A-Team along with many others. The quality of the shirts is excellent --- the shirts themselves are 'American Apparel' and the service is decent. Shirts cost about $22 (€16) and there is a $6.00 surcharge for international shipping. I am not affiliated in any way with this company. This is not a paid advertisement, but my personal opinion based on my custom with them.

BBC High Quality Video for Everyone!*

* International users may get some ads along with the content. After almost a decade of relying on BBC News Online as a main source for news and two years of being stuck in Hellas with the miserable 30-50kbps videos available to 'international users', ads are absolutely fine by me! Yay!

IEC Fusion and Polywell.

Dr. Robert Bussard is a former Assistant Director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The video that follows is a presentation at Google from late 2006. This is a fascinating lecture on the alternative to thermonuclear fusion research and the revival of an older idea, that of Inertial Electrostatic Confinement. Fusion is a hot subject, […]