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March 31, 2008
Last day in March Forum Tidbits!
MMKK shows off his New glasses!, ... Snaggy had fun with the light out, ... YaYawoman Needs help answering son, ... and geekygoddess wonders can anyone recommend a screen calibration?
Posted by Snaggy at 12:20 AM
March 29, 2008
Elephants painting... wow.
This is really fascinating. Watch as an elephant paints a picture of an elephant. (Located in Maesa Elephant Camp, Chaing Mai, Thailand.)
Lots more elephant painting videos here too.
In the YouTube comments, someone claims the elephants are just trained to paint the same picture over and over again, and that this enterprise is exploitive to elephants. This painting here is very similar. The web site of the Elephant Artist Gallery is here. Check out the Gallery, and you will find many are similar, but some are quite varied. What do you think?
Posted by Snaggy at 10:20 PM | Comments (4)
March 28, 2008
Aw geeze, this is... awww geez... hilarious... droolz!
Posted by Snaggy at 08:56 AM | Comments (3)
March 27, 2008
Friday's Forum Tidbits!
babyblue wonders Where do all the geeks hide in Seattle?, ... crazyarlo thinks it's A Sad Day For McDonald-ites, ... garlicguy sees Hillary vindicated about Bosnia trip, ... CrawGator asks anyone use Perian?, ... and Snaggy discovers the oldest sound recording? and Stupid Big Dog.
Posted by Snaggy at 09:09 PM
3D Star Wars poster now available!
Synthetic Dimensions 3D Star Wars poster is now available for ordering! This unique, deep 3D poster is 47cm x 67cm (18.5" x 26.5" approx) and since it's a lenticular, you don't need 3D glasses, nor do you need to stare at it funny. Very cool, and only £12.99 plus shipping.
May the Force be with you as you freak out to this Quicktime...
Posted by Snaggy at 09:39 AM
March 26, 2008
Forum Tidbits for Wednesday!
crazyarlo wishes you a happy OS X BIRTHDAY!!!, ... The Famous Druid asks Can you guess?, ... Steen says Meet my OCD , ... geekgoddess wonders if it's Breakup season? and 4000 is not a joyous Milestone.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:05 AM
March 23, 2008
Forum Tidbits for Chocolate Bunny Sunday
Last chance to enter our Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors Giveaway!, ... Aditu Does the bunny hop, ... littlefish says Look at the size of that!, ... Panda Bare *Waves Hello* and starts a new Photography thread!
Posted by Snaggy at 01:00 PM
March 20, 2008
Joy of Tech in Portuguese!
É com muito prazer que anuncio que o MacMagazine acaba de firmar parceria com a Geek Culture, da Nitrozac e do Snaggy, criadores do famoso Joy of Tech.
And we too are pleased to announce that the Portuguese-language Mac site Macmagazine.com.br, will be running translated Joy of Tech comics! Selected comics will be running every Sunday... you can check out the first one here.
Posted by Snaggy at 11:21 AM | Comments (0)
Thursday's Forum Tidbits
Huicho was first to report that Arthur C. Clarke is Dead, ... Colonel Panic rants over Hillary's Lies About Michigan Vote , ... YaYawoman sees some Jaw dropping FED action , ... The Famous Druid is pretty sure there's beer in this story, ... Jace Raven drinks Energy Drinks and Nitrozac wishes a Happy Belated B-Day for macmcseboy!
And in SuperFan Clubhouse Tidbits: Snaggy offers the Superfans another chance to win in the Jayce giveaway!
Posted by Snaggy at 12:23 AM
March 19, 2008
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors Giveaway!
Time for another great giveaway! And this time we are giving away TWO 4-disc sets featuring season one of the action packed '80's cartoon Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
What's Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors? It's a cartoon series based on the popular line of Mattel toys, and scripted by acclaimed writers such as J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5). Essentially, it's about a science experiment gone wrong, one that creates Evil Mutant Plants out to conquer the galaxy. Whoa!
Don't remember Jayce? Check out the media... Streaming Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors Volume One trailer: Streaming clip from Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors Volume One: .wmv | .mov
OK, I want that. How do I enter?
Easy! All the details are here, but basically all you have to do is post a reply to this Forum thread, and you're in on the giveaway. And, if you are a SuperFan, you can enter again in the SuperFan Forum and you get twice the odds to win!
Posted by Snaggy at 09:16 AM
March 18, 2008
Sir Arthur C Clarke, RIP
It is with sadness we learned today of the passing of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the great science fiction writer and space visionary.
Arthur was a hero of ours, and his cartoon self found his way into many of our comics over the years. It was a great thrill of ours when a few years ago, we learned from an acquaintance of Arthur's, that he had seen our work and thought it was "well done".
Among his many legacies are Clarke's Three Laws:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Thanks Arthur, for bringing both advanced technology and such wonderful magic into this world.
Below are Arthur's 90th birthday reflections...
Posted by Snaggy at 04:36 PM | Comments (1)
BigDog robot video.. WHOA!
A great video of Boston Dynamics's BigDog quadruped robot... this thing is amazingly life-life. Watch it walk over rubble and in deep snow, recover from slipping on ice, and keep its balance when someone tries to kick it over, all while carrying 120 pounds of payload! BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine driving a hydraulic actuation system, all controlled by an on-board computer. You can find more info about it here.
Posted by Snaggy at 08:12 AM
March 17, 2008
Monday's Forum Tidbits
TheMoMan wonders How you'll use the rebate, ... MMKK gets New glasses!, ... Snaggy wonders Anyone planning on Earth houring? and says Damn Commies, ... Dr Watson seeks Tibook compatibility, ... and Colonel Panic calculates Early Easter.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:21 AM
March 14, 2008
Friday's Forum Tidbits!
Snaggy jams Rock on GMx!, ... and finds a Cool real time Flickr view, ... Cap'n Vic wonders How observant are you?, ... password has a File Property Issue, ... TheMoMan talks about a stupid P.E.P., ... Anovadea says 'ello, ... and Sxeptomaniac loves Neighbours.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:55 AM
March 13, 2008
GMx: rocking out on the cover of LEO!
Long time Forum member and Superfan GMx is featured in the cover story of the alternative weekly Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO). It's a great interview, spanning Greg's humble origins growing up by a cement plant, covering his early music and influences, to his "Great Dry Spell" where he took a hiatus from music and explored graphics design. It was here he was introduced to computers, and that, along with the emergence of the iPod, re-awakened the music in him.
Greg is making up for the dry spell, and has a ton of projects going. "I have an album called Kerry that I want to put out, because it's been sitting around for about two and a half years, and I just want to get it out. Also, I have another album waiting to be released called F**k Singer that's folk- and country-oriented originals and some covers. Right now, I'm working on something called Recycler. It's harder edged and loud with a big beat."
His current release, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is a collection of his early material and live performances. It's available at Barnes & Noble's Hurstbourne Lane, Louisville, Kentucky locations, as is his album Goin' Down To Rahway (also available in downloadable form at iTunes, Napster and Verizon.)
Check out the interview here, and the podcast here, and be sure to visit Greg online at MySpace, or just say hi to him on the Forums! And of course, he made an appearance in one of our Joy of Tech comics too!
Posted by Snaggy at 12:27 PM | Comments (0)
March 11, 2008
Tuesday's Tidbits!
Snaggy's proud JoT's on AllThingsD, ... but thinks DST sucks, ... CoffeeSmack says No X-Files 2 Thread? For shame!!!, ... Colonel Panic adds up The $3-Trillion War, ... and snupy seeks an Ip changer? and goes Halleluja!!
Posted by Snaggy at 12:58 AM
March 10, 2008
The Joy of Tech is on AllThingsD!
In case you haven't noticed already, The Joy of Tech comic is now featured on the highly regarded and always entertaining AllthingsD.com! That's right, you can find us prettying up the Voices section, with a new comic appearing a few times every week. (RSS feed here).
What exactly is AllThingsD? Well, it features opinion and reviews by the mighty Walt Mossberg, the sassy blogger and IT news-breaker Kara Swisher, and hilarious commentary on the tech industry by the funniest dude in Silly Valley, John Paczkowski.
The site is wholly owned by Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, but run autonomously as a small online start-up, so that gives them high journalistic standards to live up to, but a ton of freedom to push the boundries of New Media.
It's a great mix, and we're big fans of the site. It is an honour and a privilege to find ourselves there, and we hope you'll make it regular stop too.
Posted by Snaggy at 02:41 PM | Comments (0)
March 07, 2008
Forum Tidbits for Friday!
Colonel Panic wonders Is This Cartoonist Channeling The Famous Druid?, ... meanwhile The Famous Druid exposes The Sydney Harbour conspiracy, ... soulshine asks anyone play Urban Dead, ... and TheMoMan gets a New Twist?
Posted by Snaggy at 12:24 AM
March 05, 2008
Wednesday's Forum Tidbits
Steen's sad Gary Gygax died, ... Colonel Panic wonders Why is Canada meddling in USA politics?, ... CoffeeSmack is baffled by Leopard Prohibiting Data Copying From DVD, ... Callipygous digs Panic in the village! and is in search of the perfect cup of coffee.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:20 AM
March 03, 2008
A Saul Bass Star Wars
What if Star Wars had been made 20 years earlier...
(courtesy of Andy Ihnatko!)
Posted by Snaggy at 01:53 PM | Comments (1)
March 02, 2008
Start March off with Monday's Forum Tidbits!
MMKK reveals his crazy plans, ... it was GMx's birthday, ... stevenback7 is heading for Paris, ... Spungo spots Geekculture.com on Jeopardy!, ... Snaggy likes the Redneck mansion, ... and Moe Monkey bids RIP Jeff Healey.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:36 AM
March 01, 2008
We were on Jeopardy!
Hey cool! Spungo alerted us to the fact that we were mentioned on Jeopardy last night! And indeed it is true, as Ashitaka found in the Jeopardy Archive. (Check out the Double Jeopardy section... What's that on your head for $400.)
Of course Alex Trebek was probably just returning the favour, since we featured him in our Joy of Tech comic a few years ago... :-D
And since you are reading this, you might as well check out the object of Alex's affection... our World Famous and now Game Show Famous propeller beanies!!
Screen shot of the Jeopardy show (thanks Paul!) after the jump...
Posted by Snaggy at 08:36 AM | Comments (0)