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Portal is updated with new ending; teasing Portal 2?
By admin on March 7, 2010 | No Comments
Take a look at the new ending below, but remember it’s spoilerific if you haven’t completed the game yet.
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High-Speed Video Free With High-Def Photography
By admin on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
bugzappy notes a development out of the University of Oxford, where scientists have developed a technology capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. The researchers started out trying to capture images of biological processes, such as the behavior of heart tissue under various circumstances. They combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors. What’s new is that (more…)
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John Daly Tells the Golf Channel He Is ‘Done’ With Golf
By admin on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
Did Big John just retire??? What the hell: Asked, “So, is this it,” Daly answered, “pretty much.”
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Boost a Weak 3G Modem Signal, With a Saucepan
By admin on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
modeca writes “Using only commonly available kitchen equipment this guy demonstrates the amazing powers of an ordinary metal pan to boost the 3G reception of his USB modem. It really seems to work, check the right hand side of the graph in the video.” It’s not that crazy: cheap antenna boosting (for USB WiFi dongles, Bluetooth, and more) has been elevated to a fine art in New Zealand.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Saboteur Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards
By admin on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
An anonymous reader writes “So far, there are over 35 pages of people posting about why EA released Pandemic Studios’ final game, Saboteur, to first the EU on December 4th and then, after knowing full well it did not work properly, to the Americas on December 8th. They have been promising to work on a patch that is apparently now in the QA stage of testing. It is not a small bug; rather, if you have an ATI video card and either Windows 7 or Windows (more…)
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Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets
By admin on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
An anonymous reader writes “Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF’s Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow’s Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear’s Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in the same way a carbon-footprint is offset). The profits are donated to Free Software projects which work (more…)


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