Stalking Venus

There’s a nice nostalgic trip down memory lane over at Wired, for any nerds, geeks and computer nutters out there.
WarGames was the movie that inspired generations of hackers, and more or less brought the concept of hacking into mainstream awareness.
In the movie, David Lightman (played by a very young Matthew Broderick) hacks into a military [...]

“Then there’s the enemies… There are a hell of a lot of enemies! Skeletons by the kazillion, zombies, big ugly rotting creatures that explode when you kill them and turn into scores of serpent-like beasties that bite…”

When I was a small child, there was a relatively small handful of author’s names that I knew: Roald Dahl, Alfred Hitchcock, Enid Blyton, A.A. Milne, and of course, C.S. Lewis.
I didn’t read all of the Narnia books, because frankly even at age seven, I found them to be a bit preachy. I was reading [...]

Many top-end car interiors look as if the designers have taken a page out of science fiction and tried to make their cabins look as high-tech as possible, stuffing them with bright lights and shiny gadgets. The FBG instead maintains a minimal, but badass look, making the driver’s experience about driving the car.

The FBG has the same 1001-bhp V-16 quad-turbocharged engine as the ’standard’ Veyron. This, according to the factory, enables it to go from standstill to 62 miles per hour in 2.6 seconds.

Now here’s a bunch of people with a great idea: A website that allows employees to post anonymous reviews of the company they work for, including the salary that they are being paid.

The website then compiles these reviews and cross references them with reviews from other companies. In this way, a visitor to the site can quickly see who’s earning what and where, as well as how happy the person is there.

If you’ve ever hacked-and-slashed your way through the mind-numbing tedium of an online roleplaying game, even one as good as World of Warcraft, you’ll like this. Greg Costikyan, has designed and developed a parody of WoW that fondly takes the piss out of the entire genre.
He’s created a flash-based side-scrolling game with his tongue placed [...]

The incredibly simple and unbelievably useful Foxmarks plugin has finally been updated to be compatible with Firefox 3 beta.
This means that you can now keep your bookmarks synchronised easily across all the computers you use without having to stay in boring old Firefox 2.
Foxmarks allows you to easily create a bookmarks account on either their [...]

Gospel twisters use their latex rubber arts to explore Biblical characters and teach Bible lessons to kids, whereas the ‘adult twisters’ on the other hand, use their latex rubber creations to explore each other in interestingly and not altogether appropriate ways

Richard has been doing various forms of what he calls ‘Guerilla Gardening’ for years. He started by planting some flowers in the grounds around his block of flats and started a blog about his experiences.

Something in what he was doing has captivated the interest of others around the planet. Richard’s blog is now the electronic flowerbed for a ‘growing movement’ of people to coordinate and execute their floral attacks on ugly wasted common space.

When I was just a geeky little kid, I once removed all of the drawers from the large dark oak desk that my parents had bought me to use for school work, and strapped the case of our old (then new) PC to the space created by the missing drawers. I punched a rather messy hole in the back panel of the desk behind the drawer space and shoved all of the cables through it, being careful to neatly staple the one for the screen along the back of the desk and up to where I placed the monitor. Then I sneaked the drawers out to my dad’s workshop…