A blow by blow account of jousting by people who joust today. Oddly enough they haven’t changed the armour technology at all – I guess they want to be true to the spirit, but lighter and heavier duty armour (maybe Kevlar) sounds like a plan to me.
These guys have raised rocket jumping to a new art form – the blast of the rocket launcher in Quake 3 propels the avatar skywards. It’s a truly awesome display of the fundaments of snooker being used in a complex fashion in a computer game and seriosly worth a look for the effort these guys Read more about Rocket Jumping Zen[…]
A presidential hopeful, Dennis McCauley has had a campaign stop in Second Life, to talk to the citizens there. Apparently there is room for improvement, but considering this is the first time it’s been done, I’d say it was a bold move. The political commentary is all about whether this is genius or suicide, which Read more about Campaigning MMOs[…]
China’s First Auto Works (FAW) has built a car that can drive itself up to 93mph. Damn, I was hoping that technology wouldn’t work – I like driving my car irresponsibly!
Plenty of ways to watch television on the PC, and plenty of ways to watch the webcasts, but what to watch? Lifehacker has a nice list of links to visit.
A nice aticle on how to build a solar cell which yeilds around 0.43V / 1mA/cm2