6/23/2008

Nothing is sacred: air hockey and robots

Filed under: Technology — Tim @ 11:39 pm

It was only a matter of time before someone decided to take all the fun out of air hockey:

Thus, reports of AI disappearing are greatly exaggerated.

When will foosball, ping pong, and billiards fall?

When will you digitally recreate your house?

Filed under: Culture, Technology — Tim @ 11:16 pm

So, looking for someone to recreate the world of South Park, Futurama or Family Guy in a video game? Then hire these guys:

And some other interweb news, id software will be releasing a browser-based version of Quake 3 for free in a little bit (probably around QuakeCon in August). It’s called Quake Live and will hopefully be the beginning of a new trend towards more cloud FPS gaming.

Also, if you thought that map was cool, here is the direct link to the download location.

Question of the day: foodstuffs

Filed under: Culture, Debate — Tim @ 2:49 am

Even at the grocery stores here in azn land, you cannot escape products and isles erratically labeled “organic.”

It really makes one wonder, is everything on the other isles and in other packages… inorganic? Up until this past decade, have we all just been eating tofu-ish matter (and soylent green)?

Speaking of spin marketing, here is The O’Reilly Factor re-spun into 60 seconds: