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This is utterly cool. The gamer in me naturally jumps to the d20 parallels — what sort of RPGs did the ancient Romans play?

This is very cool — from 1860, using a phonautograph.

It’s a French woman singing, “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit” (”By the light of the moon, Pierrot replied”)

Now, the quality isn’t great, but the reason why is because of how it was recorded and restored. Go here for more information.

This morning, we finally got my laptop configured with my videophone connection. We use Cisco VoIP phones here at The Firm and some of us (mostly the trainers and some IT people) are now using the Cisco Unified Video Advantage as well, basically piloting the system for The Firm. I have a little webcam on top of my monitor that now automatically kicks in if the person on the other end also has one of these cameras.

I have to say, this is very, very cool. I do, indeed, feel like George, although as of yet, no one has called me to berate me on it. We have done some calls with people though, just to see how it looks with multiple people on a call, as well as testing its compatibility with AIM, which is excellent.

So where’s my freakin’ flying car?!?!?

I cannot wait, originally uploaded by Kyrion.

’nuff said.

For the font geeks hereabouts.

Simply because it’s graphical and nothing but doppler images all put together showing the lower 48 in one swoop. Very, very cool.

Confusing as all fuck.

I must be too old for it, or something, because it’s taking me forever to grok this. Whatever happened to plain old blogs??

Oh, sweet.

Original link found at Stupid Evil Bastard.

I’ve seen this before, but it’s just nuts: these guys take a 50 cal. machine gun and fire it at a katana sitting in a vice. The reason? They want to see if a katana could actually deflect and split bullets fired at the person holding it.

Remarkably, it does. Sure, it eventually breaks, but in the slow-motion replay, you see it taking on a massive amount of bullets before doing so.