Have you played Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS? If not, it is a game created so anyone can create music with it no matter how much musical experience you have. Well, its creator, Toshio Iwai has created a new musical instrument called the Tenori•On. The concept is similar to Electroplankton, a new musical interface for [...]

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I’m an anime fan. So, I remember when we hardly had any to watch on a regular basis on television outside of the marathon that would run on the sci-fi channel during July every year. One of those first shows was the highly edited Sailor Moon. Well, now you can relive those old, odd, and [...]

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Herein lie facts that we tend to take for granted. I was pretty sure everybody knew this, but I’ve had several conversations with people who’ve had some pretty far-out notions about the space program. There are people in space. (Crazy! I know!) There is gravity in space. (However, there is weightlessness in orbit.) There is [...]

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Ok Strong Bad fans pull out your Lappy 486′s! That’s right homestarrunner.com has released yet another funny Strong Bad Cartoon. Check it out Click Here Technorati Tags: Home Star Runner, Strong Bad

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Great video showing anchor cross talk following an interview segment. Wait for the punchline… it’s worth it.

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To say that Jerry Lerma & Terry Hogan are big fans of the Simpsons animated series is probably an understatement. Since 2001 they have been building a map of the fictional Springfield and surrounding areas. The result can be found at MapofSpringfield.com. If you’re a fan, it’s pretty freakin’ cool. Technorati Tags: the Simpsons

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An interesting story out of corporate America… Steve Case, founder of AOL says in a Reuters story today that he’s sorry he did the merger with Time Warner. “I’m disappointed and frustrated that it hasn’t developed in the way that we all hoped at the time it could,” Case said. In a somewhat related development, [...]

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Two recent articles make for some interesting speculation on the future of Apple’s iPod. The first is from AppleInsider, and reveals some documents pertaining to a touch-screen patent that Apple has applied for. Seems as though the iPod may be inching closer to an all-in-one device like a Treo or Blackberry. The other article, from [...]

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For those of us who think that weather, unless people are dying in mass numbers, is never news, Tom Ferrick Jr. of Philly.com has a brilliantly written column just for you. “In addition to telling you it was hot yesterday, we can also tell you many interesting tidbits about the heat. We call these sidebars. [...]

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I know you’ll find this hard to believe, but young, very attractive lesbians making out draws attention to whatever it is you want attention drawn to. In this case, apparently it’s to protest alleged corruption in the investment industry or some such.

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A long long time ago in a galaxy far… sorry, different background story. The origin of TubaPants goes like this: Several of the contributors to this fine endeavor also happen to be performers with ComedyCity – De Pere, an improv troupe in the Green Bay, WI area. A few years back, the club’s owner, Mike [...]

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