Become One: The Racing Documentary On Kickstarter That You Need to Back
One of my best friends is a very talented videographer. He’s been producing a lot of amazing karting and motorcycle racing videos, usually around 5 minutes in length. Now he wants to do a full-length documentary about the sport of kart racing and needs $40,000 to do it right. If you like racing, you need ...
I’d like to welcome our taco delivering drone robot overlords
5 years ago, if you would have told me I could tell flying robots to deliver me tacos to wherever I was in the city of San Francisco… I would have believed you and said this is what technology is for. Can’t. Control. Excitement. TacoCopter is apparently coming soon.
On Practice and Persistence
I just started Learn Ruby The Hard Way, a book on learning to program in Ruby. It has a great couple of paragraphs in the introduction on practice and persistence that I thought were well said and applicable to most things in life. While you are studying programming, I’m studying how to play guitar. I ...
Kickstarter record broken… and then broken again.
Just as the Elevation Dock set an all new Kickstarter.com record ($1,000,000 raised)… Tim Schafer crushes it in just over 24 hours with his new adventure game by Double Fine. Well, not yet but he’s about to. In just 24 hours he raised $900,000+ with 33 days left to go. The Elevation Dock has 45 hours ...
Nano Drones
Science fiction writers need to come up with some new material. People keep inventing their old stuff.
My Dad found a time machine in his motorcycle catalogue
This received 2856 up votes on Reddit and made it to the top of the front page of the WTF section. Click the image to enlarge it and read the fine print. It’s only $7980.21 and can look ahead from 5 seconds to 3 minutes into the future (adjustable of course)