The Smidgen

Everything you never needed to know. Ok maybe not everything, that would be ridiculous.

Browsing Posts published in February, 2009

TweetThe computer gaming industry is certainly no stranger to rumor and one of the most recent, and juicy, involves speculation on the PSP2.  Keep in mind, none of this information has been mentioned or confirmed by Sony.  It’s a rumor, remember? Anyway, Acclaim developer, David Perry, started this whole thing off with a message he [...]

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TweetThe Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals laid the smackdown on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s law restricting the sales and rental of violent video games to minors.  By unanimous vote, the three-judge panel ruled that the law was too restrictive and violates free speech guarantees, upholding the same ruling by the lower courts of California. Bo Andersen, [...]

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TweetWell, it’s Monday and that means the start of a new work week and I couldn’t be angrier.  Let’s get rolling. What the hell happened to television episodes?  Recently I’ve been watching a lot of old school Trek and it has forced me to realize the shift that has taken place in the world of [...]

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TweetScientists at UMass Amherst and UC Berkeley have developed a new way to align nanoscale block copolymers using commercially available sapphire crystals.  Got that?  No?  Well let me see if I can break it down a bit. Block copolymers, which are two or more chemically dissimilar polymer chains linked together, have this habit of organizing [...]

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TweetI have added a social bookmarking link to each post like any good blog, not that this one really qualifies as such, but yeah I did it anyway.

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Just Palm It

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TweetIt’s just so pretty.  The up-and-coming Palm Pre, the first phone from Palm to feature their new webOS operating system, has become the object of my obsession. It’s more than just the looks, however, this new phone has a lot going for it.  With a big, multi-touch screen, a full web browser with page zooming, [...]

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G-Money

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TweetLogitech may have gone completely insane.  Announced for a release in May is the G19 keyboard, an upgrade to the popular G15, the first keyboard to contain an LCD screen on it.  For the most part it has a lot of the same features as the G15, the macro keys and all of that, with [...]

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By It’s Cover

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TweetSomeone once said, “You can’t judge a book by it’s cover”.  I don’t know who the hell it was but lets say Abraham Lincoln, he gets credit for all kinds of crap he never said so why not, right?  Anyway, while we might not be able to pass sentence on said book based solely on [...]

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Rebirth

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TweetI honestly can’t tell you how many times I’ve started and restarted a blog so that I may share with you as much of the useless information I find as possible.  It’s probably like 3 but I just don’t feel like counting.  Well here we go again anyway with a shiny new host, a user [...]

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