Category: Cool

I now know what I’m going to do with this USB key that I have. Thanks to linklog and Jon for this.

What else do you folks do with your keys?

Now you have. Via Fark.

The EFF took submissions a while back to name the 10 most ridiculous patents that they could dedicated to help bring down. They’ve now named their 10 targets, and there are some ridiculous ones.

Slate, the Microsoft-owned online publication, has a good article about why they like FireFox better than MSIE (and who doesn’t?). Link via kottke.

And if you ever wanted to know what all the jerseys mean, how the guys pee, and other pressing questions, visit this site. If you’re a junkie like me, know how it all works, you just want the news, visit this site, or this kick-ass interactive Flash, or even this blog.

A simple little quiz: Look at these 10 images, and guess which ones were computer generated, and which ones were taken with a camera.

I mentioned some tool typewriter art before, but this rock art is pretty damn cool, too.

Have some fun with some fireworks — the virtual kind. Please don’t be one of those bastards that are trying to upstage the fireworks show on the Butte and keep me up all night. Some of us have to work tomorrow — and today for that matter — and if you wake up me or my 11-month-old or my 4-year-old, there’s going to be an ass-kicking coming somebody’s way.

That’s how much Ken Jennings has won in 22-straight wins on Jeopardy. Needless to say, in his last win, he said that for the first time, he was in favor of the Bush tax cuts. The only record this guy hasn’t claimed is the single-day winnings: That record stands at $52,000.