Today’s youth needs to understand the value of a hard day’s princess kidnapping.
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The Cake that Made the Kessel Run in Less Than Twelve Parsecs [Pic]
Om nom nom nom. Oh, and yes, we’re very much aware that a parsec isn’t a unit of time, but of distance.
Solo was not referring directly to his ship’s speed when he made this claim. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cluster, thus making the run in under the standard distance. By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs. [Source]
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Honest Game Trailers: Diablo 3 [Video]
Large Hadron Collider For Sale!
[Via Fake Science]
Epic PHP Tattoo: Nothing risked, nothing gained, nothing lost, nothing learned [Pic]
100 Worthwhile DOS Games of the 90s [Pic]
While surfing Reddit I found this image that depicts 100 of the best DOS games of the 90s and it makes me want acquire many of them to relive the nostalgia of my early PC gaming days.
Here is the poster, but you will have to click on it to see the full res version.
I love how the images are sorted on stylized floppy disk templates. I kind of wish this is how the games were presented back in the days instead of on black or beige floppies. It also staggers me that these disks each held 1.4mb. That’s with an “m” there kiddos. Megabytes. While most of these games did come out on multiples disks (and some on Cds too) it puts a lot in perspective when we consider our smart phones are now more powerful than the computers that ran these games.
On this list, the most nostalgic of them for me has to be Betrayal at Krondor. I played the crap out of that game. And the hidden gem Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure and its sequel Twinsen’s Odyssey took up a lot of my time too.
Day of the Tentacle and Carmageddon were also pretty amazing. And it was Descent that earned the honors of being the first game to actually give me motion sickness with its 3D environments and 6 directions of travel.
Of course there are classics on this list that have franchises even to this day, like Elder Scrolls. However, Duke Nukem was better back then as the new long awaited version sucks.
I recently bought the Jedi Knight collection on Steam, which included the DOS version of Star Wars: Dark Forces from 1995. My monitor now supports six times the resolution that this was intended for, so I had to run it in windowed mode. The game was 72MB, so it downloaded and installed in a snap!
Some great nostalgia here as well as a potential poster for my wall!
Consider the Following: How Can We Find New Planets? (Ft. Bill Nye)
Astronomers have discovered hundreds and hundreds of exoplanets–worlds circling faraway stars. Bill shows us one of the ways they find these planets that are still too distant to be seen by even the most powerful telescopes.
Webcam: A Short Film About The Dangers of Webcam Hacking [Video]
Warning: Do not watch this at work, and while there is nothing inappropriate with the video, some scenes could attract unwanted attention if someone sees you watching this.
“Webcam” is based on actual events and was shot entirely on a computer’s webcam. The filmmakers hope that it will make people think more about the technology that we use every day and the effects it can have on all of us.