The Smidgen

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

Browsing Posts published in August, 2010

TweetFor those of you that have played Bioware’s Mass Effect games, you already know what we’re looking at here.  For those that haven’t, that’s the M8 Avenger rifle used by Commander Shepard and his (or her) crew to clean up the galaxy, by shooting it.  This particular M8, however, is made of wood.  Lovingly crafted [...]

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TweetThough it may be hard to believe, Neptune, once again the farthest planet from the Sun (in our solar system) thanks to Pluto’s demotion, completes it’s first orbit around the Sun in two day’s time.  What that means is that on August 20th, Neptune will have traveled fully around the Sun for the first time [...]

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TweetCellphone GPS navigation is nothing new but it is admittedly awesome.  Carry around a pocket-sized device that makes calls, checks the internet and emails and tell you to make a left on James A. Musto bypass?  Nerdy, cool, but can it be moreso?  Hell yeah, so long as you don’t need certain things like the [...]

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