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Category: Supercool

  • StarCraft II announced by Blizzard

    OMG! Yesterday, at the Blizzard Invitational in Seoul, South Korea, Blizzard announced that they’re working on StarCraft II. If that doesn’t send shivers of unearthly delight through your spine, then you really need to go and read a bit more about the original Starcraft. In fact, why don’t you go out and buy it and…

  • gotAPI.com adds J2ME, mobile world rejoices.

    Q: Can the awesome API reference site gotAPI.com get any awesomer? A: Yes, since it’s just added J2ME at the request of yours truly. I love the (Lazy) Interweb.

  • “I Love Me, Vol. I.”

    OMG. I love palindromes. Say it backwards, say it forwards. It’s the same! Get all your literary goodness every day from Jim Kalb’s Palindrome Connection. I’m, alas, a salami! UPDATE: I love them so much I made a cute little palindrome generator. Go to https://uberthings.com/palindromic for your word of the day. UPDATE2: I am such…

  • Chumby Devices Handed Out at Foo

    Michael Arrington from Techcrunch writes about an interesting new hackfriendly mobile device called the Chumby. Chumby Devices were handed out at Foo Camp to about 100 lucky Foos (I’m looking at you, Raffel) to prod, poke, develop world changing applications and generally hack to pieces. I’m not going reprint the technical specs verbatim, but the…

  • Starcraft Origami

    OMG. If you’ve ever spent hours building up your puny Terrans and mighty Protoss forces to withstand a Zerg rush – you know what I’m talking about. Here are those same terrifying pixels, gently shaped and folded to look something like this – 야후! 이미지박스. I should have guessed that it was a Korean who…