For the Windows Vista launch, Microsoft decided to build an ice house in downtown Toronto. Never the ones to shy away from some free promotion, the Ubuntu Toronto chapter decided to bring a giant Tux, the Linux penguin, to the event and place it across the street. They were even giving out copies [...]

This gallery of high-speed movies is pretty impressive. Lesson of the Day: bees have wings that flap, instead of my original hypothesis that they hovered in an anti-gravity field created by magnets they eat circling in their stomachs of copper wire. Who knew?!

(Thanks Evan)

I know everyone and their mothers (if they have blogs I suppose) have already seen this crazy-assed shark, but LOOK AT THIS THING! WTF!

I’ve been resisting blogging this for a couple weeks now, mainly because I hate Tiger Direct a little more than Futureshop, and only the former sells this. But I broke down this morning, so here we go: a secure digital (SD) card from Sandisk that you can fold into a USB adapter.

My digital [...]

Everyone who knows me, knows that I’m a geeky fellow. I love gadgets, upgrades, product launches, dongles, and cords. I have a MacBook, an HD television, a DVR, an iPod, 5.1 surround sound, wifi, and a 5MP digital camera.

But my phone outshines them all. I have an LG TM520: the newest flip [...]

I finally called Rogers Cable on Friday about my Rogers-branded Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 digital video recorder being all wonky (it routinely stops recording shows midway though and jumps to live TV when I’m watching a recording). They told me that they have started rolling out firmware updates to all their DVR boxes on [...]

Ever wonder what you’d get if a cylon f0ked Mrs. Clause? Well, you would probably get this crime-against-nature Snowbot. He may not be atomically correct, but he’s all SnowMAN under his frosty exterior.

And yes, I realize my blog is slowly becoming a shill for ThinkGeek

ThinkGeek :: The ThinkGeek USB Snowbot

I think I remembering seeing this months years ago, but I just saw it again and *DAMN* if I don’t want it Seriously, could this thing be any cooler? I want it to sit on my bed-stand and read me RSS while I go to sleep. I hope it has one [...]

Now you can have all the fun of riding a horse, without the horse…or the horse shit. Hey, maybe this isn’t so stupid after all
iGallop Horse Riding Simulator and Exercise Device Now in the U.S. - Gizmodo
Yes, the iGallop, the exercise device that sort of simulates riding on a horse, has been [...]

moderation swarm [mod-uh-rey-shuhn swawrm] -noun
Commonly called: mod swarm

Interactive Web 2.0.1 community content-moderation platform
Prioritization of content based on number of flags/approvals/ratings/diggs based on a sliding statistical average of unique visitors

[Origin: The Box, July 12, 2005]