Absolutely horrible predicitons. Most are not predictions at all!!
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Steve Jobs being sick rumor re-emerges. Digital certificates cracked by hackers. Windows 7 Beta downloaded to an extreme. LG coins new Trumotion moniker. Uses scanning backlight. Negative wordage aimed at Microsoft analyzed. Home server coming from Apple. Self-parking car comes from Lincoln. Top 9 skills for 09.
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Microsoft designs a pay-as-you-go patent. Sony PS3 not catching up? HP gets PC and MAC server. So? Extra second added to the year. Windows 7 to come out early, now leaked. Nothing special they say. Will websites have to be rated. Photo frames have malware. Merry Christmas. Verizon wins $33 million from squatter. Apple, Google, MS sued over icon previews.MMO patent emerges. Gov’t sets up call center for analog to digital changeover. Texting while driving finally becoming illegal. Seven most under-reported stories of 2008.
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Happy Holidays from For The Love of Geeks!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from myself and the For The Love of Geeks staff. 2008 was a great year for geeks and 2009 is going to be ever better. We have a lot of exciting things planned for the next year so stay tuned and we are looking forward to the future!
- Nicholas
Santa being tracked by Norad. Notebook sales outpacing dektops. Finally. HP geared up to sell 18 million laptops in 2009. Windows 7 to be out in 2009. The Digital Cliff coming your way. Steve Jobs spirit suddenly "insitutionalized" within Apple. Today’s list. "4 things Microsoft got right in 2008.
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First of all.. WOW! This is by far, the most awesome item ever covered from the desk of Awesome.
What you are looking at is a 5 foot by 10 foot lego recreation of the battle at Hoth, from Empire Strikes Back. Created by the extremely taleneted [ Mark Borlase’s ], the entire display consists of nearly 60,000 pieces and has cool features such as 50 real lights and a remote controlled mechanism that deploys troops from the AT-ATs. The entire creation took over 4 years in the making and consumed about $3000 (that’s a lot of white bricks!). This creation won the recent Star Wars building challenge and was featured in the official LEGO Magazine. Mark, you are AMAZING, and seeing this makes me teary..
Here are a couple of pics from the Mark’s flickr page, but there are a ton of SUPER cool pics, so go look at them : [ Mark's Flickr Page ]
The interior of the hoth base, complete with the Millenium Falcon, and X-Wing hanger.
The seriously awesome outside of this includes a snow speeder that is in process of taking out an AT-AT.
Another amazing aspect of this creation is the side view of the mountain that has windows into the medical bay, the command center, and even the hallway that Han strolls down…
Any lego creation is pretty cool, and something of this magnitude is especially amazing, BUT, what makes this truly awesome is the amount of detail all the way down to the footprints in the snow that Luke leaves in the snow running toward the base. (seen in the first pic).
Mark, you are AWESOME!
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Unless you aren’t a geek, or live in a cave playing WoW, you know that Majel Barrett Roddenberry passed away on December 18,2008. This was an especially sad day for all geeks, and especially the trekker/trekkies of us. Having the distinction of having been apart of every single Star Trek series and movie, she really was what helped define an era of science fiction.
Married to Gene Roddenberry, and labeled the “first lady of Star Trek”, Majel helped to launch the series as the number one officer of the Enterprise serving under Chirstopher Pike. Later in a different role, she played the ever vigilant Nurse Chapel, who never could quite get over her love of Spock. Also as the ever famous voice of “the computer”, she not only helped direct hundreds of crew members to the right hallway, but supplied millions of geeks with a complete set of sounds to make their own computers a little more futuristic.
Majel Barrett, an actress under her own right, started her career in the 50′s with roles in such popular shows as “Leave it to Beaver,” “Bonanza” and “The Lucy Show”. She will however always be remembered as the exuberiant and often misunderstood Luwaxana Troy.
I enjoyed a comment made by Wil Wheaton on his blog when asked to recount a story about her :
“Since we got the news yesterday, a lot of people have asked me if I can tell a story as a way to remember her. I’ve dug around in the attic of my mind for hours, and the best I can do is: We always had fun when we were working on Next Generation, but when Majel was on the set, it was a party. “
Majel Barrett Roddenberry died, at the age of 76, of leukemia at her home in Bel Air with her son. She will be missed, but never forgotten.
I picked up some flameless (LED), battery (CR2032) powered tea light candles today and I have to say I am pretty impressed! I took some pictures of the whole ordeal, check em out below.
Flameless candles in the package.
Tea light holder.
Flameless tea lights in action!
All-in-all I definitely like the effect these create, they are supposed to last 60 hours per battery and there is absolutely 0% chance of burning your house down. Hands down these are a win-win.
- Nicholas
Microsoft update story continues. More interesting is the fact that Firefox may have huge vulnerability. Toshiba debuts 512 GB SSD at CES. Probably very expensive. Expert expects 25-percent penetration by 2011. Sim City on the iPhone. NASA may give shuttles away from free. Graphite memory coming? Top ten over-hyped products from VNUnet. Sponsored by Budget.com/tech.
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