NASA Bombs the Moon
Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by rubber chicken in News, Tech, Video
NASA bombed the moon this morning. Yep, that’s what I said. NASA shot an LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) into the Cabeus crater on the south pole of the moon Friday morning in order to create a debris cloud from which to collect samples. The purpose of the mission is to search for [...]
Google Wave
Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by Chuck Rocker in Dis & Dat, Tech, Video
Were you one of the lucky 100,000 people to get an invite? Me neither. Fortunately, this super savvy video breaks down the awesomeness that is Google Wave. (Did you know that email was invented 40 years ago?)
Google Celebrates Bar Code Anniversary
Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by rubber chicken in Dis & Dat, Tech
Google has replaced its logo with a bar code for the day to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the bar code patent by inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver in 1952. The lines on the Google page (see right) spell out “Google” in Code 128, which TechCrunch describes as “a standard way of encoding ASCII [...]
Wireless Charger (yep, no wires)
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Chuck Rocker in Dis & Dat, Lifestyle, Tech
Let’s take a moment to process that… It’s a charger with NO WIRES. How can it be you ask? Well the good folks at Powermat have found a way. Its called “electromagnetic induction”. No it’s not magic…but damn close! And, if you want to impress your friends, it’s a technology you should know about! “Electromagnetic [...]
Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded
Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by rubber chicken in Comedy, Dis & Dat, Tech, Video
The organization Improbable Research held its 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Thursday night at Harvard University. The awards, handed out by Nobel laureates, are given to the year’s best “research that makes people laugh and then think.” On Saturday, October 3rd, the winners will explain their work at a lecture program held at M.I.T. Not [...]
MMORPG Aion Begins Open Beta Test
Posted on 06. Sep, 2009 by rubber chicken in Tech, Video
NC Soft’s Aion has begun Open Beta testing today in hopes of unseating World of Warcraft as the world’s most popular MMORPG (massive multi-player online role playing game). In a letter on Aion‘s website, producer Brian Knox says: Overall, we are very excited for Open Beta – it is a culmination of a lot of effort and [...]
Gmail Down
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by rubber chicken in Dis & Dat, News, Tech
The Internet is abuzz with panic because Google’s Gmail is down. And it’s not just in the United States; according to PC World, users in Europe and Asia are also unable to access their email. But the outage is spotty; Some people, like me, are able to use Gmail with no problem. Google has not issued [...]
Skype to be sold to Andreeseen Horowitz Investor Group
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by jessica in Business, Dis & Dat, News, Tech
The winner for the most pressing digital sales news this week goes to the upcoming sale of Skype to investor group, Andreesen Horowitz. Sources such as Brad Stone and Claire Cain Miller claim that the deal will be publicly announced today. For those of you unfamiliar with Andreesen Horowitz, here are a few key facts: Marc Andreeseen [...]
Guitar Legend Les Paul Dead at 94
Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by rubber chicken in Entertainment, Tech, Video
Les Paul, who changed music by inventing one of the first solid-body electric guitars, passed away today in White Plains, New York, due to complications from pneumonia. He was 94. Paul is best known for the Gibson electric guitar that bears his name. But he also innovated sound recording by using overdubbing, delay and phasing [...]
Space Shuttle Landing – VIDEOS
Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by rubber chicken in News, Tech, Video
The space shuttle Endeavor has touched down safely at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its seven astronauts successfully completed a 16 day mission to the International Space Station, which included five spacewalks. In addition, the shuttle delivered a new crew member, flight engineer Tim Kopra, to the Space Station and picked up Japanese astronaut Koichi [...]
