article with videos at Wired.com.

Uh, Star Trek icons. Now where can I get a Federation ring? ThinkGeek is offering a Star Trek spork. I want one…for my Wolf Brand Chili. However, the plain one is cheaper and appeals to my inner Scrooge. Now these icons are free.

on Flickr.  Article on Wired.

ThinkGeek has thought up some imaginative products and listed them in today’s newsletter. Too bad they are fakes.

The USB pet rock is the best idea on here, if it concealed a battery.  It looks better, and conceals it’s purpose better than external batteries. The Portable USB Power Supply is so mundane by comparison.  What ever happened to the USB Fondue Set or the George Foreman USB iGrill?  Wouldn’t those be so cool?  Well, USB offers only so much power.  The USB Plasma Ball is real.

The Squeeze Bacon is sure to be popular with coworkers.  It is extraordinarily popular.  One guy ordered a burger with some fifty pieces of bacon.

This sleeping bag would be just the thing for young Jedis.

Try this in IE: Chrome Experiments (News.com)

I have to remember to allow the JavaScript.  Firefox has capable JavaScript, but I disable it with NoScript.  Richer stuff without Flash is great, but sites should still be functional without JavaScript.  Weather.com is just broken without JavaScript.

William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931. (wiki, wired, .com).

Star Wars asciimation — telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl (port 23)

– from telnet.org

See also asciimation.co.nz.

Amazing Apple Collection is for sale.

Someone must be trying to encourage me to upgrade when they email a picture like this:

Wood Powered Brain

As of this writing, that comic is the current image in the comics displayed at macnelly.com.  I’ll content it’s advanced because it has an integrated power source.  Most desktop today needa’ be plugged in to run.

Mac First Aid isn’t returning my calls and WordPress is still reminding me to upgrade.  ooyye.

Does the stimulus package include funds for beer pouring robots?

And what does that make me?

Get Your Cyborg Name

Ytterbium Neohuman…lifelike.  Funny, I was thinking about dressing up as Lt. Cmd. Data for next year’s Kansas City costume dance.  Data is logical; logical in his learning, too.  Contrary to my first thought, Google does have a definition for Ytterbium.  It’s an element named after a Swedish town.  Maybe I should get the periodic table on a shower curtain.

Blame Rakkav for this latter diversion.