Rob and Margot online

I'm a big fan of the web comic, Sheldon.  One of the main characters is a talking duck named Arthur, to whom I can particularly relate.

In a previous post, I mentioned a shirt with a built in graphic sonic frequency analyzer.  I was morose because it wasn't machine washable.  Too much work was necessary in keeping that garment in a presentable and working state. Now I am tormented by a new offering in animated clothing: the Animated Retro Table Tennis Shirt from ...

I know the Pong category has suffered from long-standing neglect, but I've found a site that moves pong to the next level. Massively Multiplayer Pong. You and a bunch of your worldly neighbors join up at this site, and are randomly assigned to one side of the board or the other.  Each bit of lava-lampy blob is the cursor position of one of ...

Another in my long line of pong based obsession: The chaos computer club has come up with a delightful use of cell phones and light switches.  They've created a computer controller that can control all the lights in an eight story building in Berlin.  This alone is cool. That you could then dial a number on your cell phone, and play ...

Margot directed me to this site where I was able to find out what kind of sheep I am. No surprise there. Which flock do you follow? this quiz was made by alanna

I've posted tangentially about pong before.  Now /. (slashDot) has an article (artikal?) about some germans who have made an electromechanical version of the venerable game. No transistors, no cathode ray tubes; just relays, motors, strings, rails, and good clean fun. The ''blip'' and ''blorp'' sounds we know and love are made by wood ...

I received an e-mail today that instructs one in how to generate one's silly name from one's real name. I was so amused, I wrote a quick Silly Name Generator to automate the process. I often wonder whether I'm too subtle.