Gateworld brings us the sad news of the passing of actor Don S. Davis, best known for his portrayal of General George S. Hammond in the TV series 'Stargate SG-1'.
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"The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet. And, in other cases still, you’ll learn that some proprietary programs are real gems, but that the open source advocate can replace those gems with equally shiny objects from the open source repertoire."
Matthew Wegner has a frakkin' great List of Physics Games to while away those lonely hours.
The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks: Endless hours of amusement…
A simple but quick and always amusing prank is putting the screen rotation hotkeys to uses Microsoft never intended. Just run by a co-worker’s desk, reach over and hit Ctrl-Alt-up or down to rotate their monitor orientation. If you have some alone time, you can one-up it by also going into the Control Panel and setting their mouse to left-handed. They’ll spend 10 minutes with their head tilted sideways trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
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My youngest son certainly knows the way to his dad's heart: a collection of Star Trek Bloopers…
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The TV series "Stargate: SG-1" featured a race of alien mechanical adversaries called the Replicators. Well, humans have just built the first real-world replicator, in the form of a machine called a RepRap. We're doomed.
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Steve Davidson isn't a big fan of cable's SciFi Channel, and so he's put together the his own Classic Science Fiction Channel — a collection of links to streaming videos for many classic SF movies and TV series. Some of what he's got here looks interesting, but… Cleopatra 2525?
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