Something for when the trails are too wet to ride … “Building a Home Theater PC”

DAMN! This is so true … My room was exactly the same (including the Atari 800!) and the author must have been in a near-by ‘hood’ because those prefixes look awfully familiar …

“Back in the day, phone prefixes mattered. Flat rate local calls meant the boards in your local zone were free — not phree, which was different. I had a list of them posted on my wall, for a while, but soon enough I never really needed it. I knew my zone. 992, 667; 665; 464 — they were my ‘hood.”

Fun for the entire family …
http://www.audiovisualizers.com/madlab/lcd_proj.htm

Ban Donuts!

Ok, this is my kind of PDA …
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/17/modular.computing.ap/

Interesting … Sentient Computing Project: “What could we do if computer programs could see a model of the world? By acting within the world, we would be interacting with programs via the model. It would seem to us as though the whole world were a user interface."

“A full-size fully functional virtual keyboard that can be projected and touched on any surface is shown by Siemens at CeBIT”

Funny! “Here’s how WaterNet works — We’ve developed a unique client-side nozzle (CSN), which functions just like a conventional modem. It connects an ordinary PC to a regular household water faucet, providing an always-on Internet connection.”

“what woman couldn’t resist a nice terminal server built into a toaster oven?” [more here]

So cool it gives me heartburn …“If you can eat a big can of stew, you can make a high performance antenna” [more here]