The Legend Of Zelda (1987): Hyrule High [Video]

In this charming critically-acclaimed tale of first love, Link (Jon Tomlinson), an eternal optimist and adventurer, seeks to capture the heart of Zelda, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student (Zane Bauer). He surprises just about everyone-including himself-when she returns the sentiment. But the high school’s over-possessive, megalomaniacal Principal Ganondorf (Dominic Moschitti) doesn’t approve […]


Camera Tricks and Neat Zelda Music[Videos]

While Youtuber Sp0ntanius may have a hairstyle more hip than me, he does have a knack for recreating  Zelda songs with style and neat camera tricks that are really entertaining. From playing the Palace theme in stop motion with guitar and tearing paper, to playing crystal glasses for the Song of Healing, you have to […]

Bone puts the arch into archeology

We already knew that our direct ancestors were by no means a bunch of knuckle-draggers. Now fossil analysis suggests they walked permanently rather than swinging from trees. The findings come from a fossilised footbone from an Australopithecus afarensis, which was a hominid. That’s the family which eventually developed into humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and gibbons. The […]

Smartest Machine on Earth to Take on Jeopardy! Grand Champions

This week, an episode of NOVA covered Watson, the IBM supercomputer designed to interpret and understand natural human language, with all its ambiguity: wordplay, puns, double-meanings, intuitive differentiations and subtlety. Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is the result of the DeepQA Project, the goal of which is to create a computer system […]

Phantom of the Floppera [Video]

Four floppy drives plus MIDI-tone Toccata and Fugue equals Castlevania flashback. YouTube’s spankin’ new innerwebz star, FunToTheHead, has rigged up a system comprising “two 3 1/2″ drives and two 5 1/4″ drives connected to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller. It interfaces to any MIDI source via MIDI over USB. Straight MIDI would also be possible with an […]