When I wrote that I couldn’t live without my Vudu box, I already had a Linux HTPC hooked up to my TV and still thought Vudu rocked. Why was that? There was no easy interface for me to work with all of the media files I had on the HTPC. Using a keyboard and mouse to navigate through Nautilus an...

Title: Cold Iron, Blessed Lead, and Silver RoundsAuthor: roguebitch Rating: PG13 for some cussin’.Fandom: Supernatural and The Dresden Files (book’verse).Dramatis Personae: Sam and Dean Winchester, Harry Dresden, Karrin Murphy, Molly Carpenter, Michael Carpenter, and a cameo by Bob.Summary: “W...

In the midst of prayer (Part 3)-------------------------------- He embraced the dream. Watching the solar systems grow old, the inner planets skirting a yellow sun turned a baleful red. The red sun expanding, engulfing worlds once full of life and turning them into cinder covered graveyards as their...

Fjordman files the final part of his history of optics. Part 5 is here, and part 4 is here. According to Michael Kennedy, "Max Planck, writing in 1931, stated that while neither Faraday or Maxwell 'originally considered optics in connection with their consideration of the fundamental laws o...

by Trowbridge H. Ford Whenever a sovereign nation is conquered by another, its inhabitants, whether they be from its elite or dregs, ultimately have a hard time adjusting to foreign occupation because they don't know how long it will last, and what it may be replaced by. The process is made more dif...

I WUV 'OO, 'OO WUV ME? Happy VD y'all, and just because I love each and every one of you reg'lar BLOG TO COMM readers soooooooooo much I decided to go ahead and post my usual weekend writeup rather than not post one I guess. And that means write, edit and publish a thought-out, informative and enter...

The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna.For a complete Fjordman blogography, see The Fjordman Files. There is also a multi-index listing here. This essay is the fifth of six parts. Part 4 is here. The refracting telescope as an efficient research tool depended on technol...

In an early test of the OLPC XO in Nigeria, the student users dropped every laptop several times a day. Despite the laptops' rugged construction, they occasionally needed fixing, and a group of six-year-old girls opened up a "hospital" to reseat cables and do other simpler repairs. Mary Lou Jepson, ...

According to several designers, it's going to be cloud computing: Specifically, the rumored introduction of Google's G-Drive, sometime this year. The G-Drive promises to make your hard drive obsolete, providing web storage for all your documents, pictures, applications, and media files. Design Week ...

Direct3D comes with an explicit concept of vsync. OpenGL does not. There's many raging debates that you can google over across the internet on this, but let's cut to the skinny of it. You can do vsync in OpenGL using extensions and extensions exist for all the platforms. What is VSync? Well in the o...