Rex on hold for present.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that NBC have put David Tennant’s US pilot Rex is Not Your Lawyer on hold. There were reports that it was under consideration to fill a 10pm slot this spring, to help fill the space on the network caused by moving the Jay Leno show out of primetime. However it now […]

Why should I shoot my Stack? Isn’t that bad?

Just remember, if you find something on your system, and you don’t know what it is….  Don’t immediately panic, try to understand the situation first. I just read a startling account, of someone thinking that StackShot, was direct evidence of their Macintosh OS X system being rooted by some evil HACKER. Stackshot is a built-in […]

Schlock Mercenary, the Online Comic Space Opera

Oh, this is nice….  I nearly didn’t get it…. There’s a nice in-joke in Sunday’s Schlock Mercenary comic…  Namely the last panel’s quotes: Now these points of data make a beautiful line. And we’re out of Beta! We’re releasing on time! Anyone recognize it?  If so, very good.  All I will say is that I […]

HubbleSite – Holiday Cards

It’s getting to be the holiday season again…. Yes, I know I’m early, but this actually was meant as a post for the previous holiday season… So I figure, early is better than later… Nasa has a site where they use stellar pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, and make them into holiday themed cards…. […]

Gas in Space?

Oh my…  I was reading Irregular WebComics today, and noticed this annotation…  All I can say is…  The thought of carbonated Soda in space has me nervous now… I was thinking about this, and realised there would be immense problems with carbonated drinks in space. Without gravity, the bubbles wouldn’t rise to a surface and […]

The Upside Down Mac [Featured Workspace]

Lifehacker reader Kurt emailed in a fantastic little kitchen setup. Kurt had an iMac G5 on hand, and a great idea for turning a desk in his kitchen into a workspace. The design is extremely simple thanks to the all-in-one design of the iMac. (View the rest of the article at The Upside Down Mac […]

SETI Picks Up Regular Laser Pulse Emanating From Space [Aliens]

Ragbir Bhathal works with SETI to scan the skies for possible communications from extraterrestrial intelligences. Unlike most SETI facilities, which look for radio signals, Bhathal’s looks for laser pulses. And now he’s found one. Several years ago Bhathal, a researcher at the University of Western Sydney, suggested that a likely form of extraterrestrial communication would […]

Retrospect 8 Beta 2 console log?

Folks, What do you think this means? 4/30/09 2:12:09 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] #3> DLLoadLib: no id resource in “/Library/Application Support/Retrospect/RetrospectEngine.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libretrores.dylib”, skipDyloCheck 0x1 4/30/09 2:12:09 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] #2> Command line is /Library/Application Support/Retrospect/RetrospectEngine.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RetroEngine 4/30/09 2:12:10 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] #1> 4/30/09 2:12:10 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] This Retrospect Beta software has expired. 4/30/09 2:12:10 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] For information, please contact: 4/30/09 […]