Andymatic

Category: Tech

  • Tivo Commercial Skip: Select Play Select 3 0 Select

    To access the hidden 30-second skip feature in Tivo: Press Select Play Select 3 0 Select Then you’ll press the ‘skip to next track’ button to jump ahead 30 seconds. That button looks a bit like this: ->|

  • Discovery Channnel's Before the Dinosaurs

    If you get a chance, catch Discovery Channel’s Before the Dinosaurs. I rarely ever go nuts over a special like this but it is VERY VERY good. The creature animation is absolutely stunning. Tons of detail for the behavior of these pre-dino animals. Very much worth catching. I love the animation – and the virtual […]

  • Researchers Recreate Sense of ‘Being Watched'

    Reported in Nature: When the patient sat up, leaned forward and clasped her knees, she felt that the figure was also sitting, embracing her in its arms – a feeling she described as “unpleasant”. The temporoparietal junction is known to be involved in creating the concept of ‘self’, and the distinction between ‘self’ and ‘other’. […]

  • Do You Remember GEOS?

    GeoWrite running on GEOS with C64 Emulator CCS64

  • Lode Runner on the Commodore 64

    Lode Runner on the Commodore 64 Originally uploaded by andymatic. Lode Runner running on the WinVICE C64 emulator for Windows and downloaded from C64.com.

  • Congress Considering Adding MySpace to Data Retention Requiments

    Again, What about the children! and The terrorists will win! are invoked: In those meetings, Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data retention was necessary to protect children–and claimed it would aid in terrorism investigations as well. During Wednesday’s hearing, politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing enough to verify that […]

  • Chernobyl, 20 Years Later

    I always remember the grainy video images of Chernobly and the feeling that finally the evil Soviet Union had screwed up and that they were letting their own people die and keeping the world unaware while they tried to contain the situation. I vaguely recall American scientists going over and ‘saving the day.’ The 1,000 […]

  • Immediate Action Required: Online Business at Risk

    I’m breaking from the usual blogging tips of my newsletter to bring you a public service announcement crucial to anybody that does business online. The foundation of business online is open and free access to the complete internet: no limits, no fences, no boundaries. This is called ‘Net Neutrality.’ Over the past two decades, the […]

  • Darwin Exhibit Having Trouble Finding Corporate Sponsors

    Darwin Exhibit Having  Trouble Finding Corporate Sponsors

  • Kansas Rewrites Definition of Science

    Real nice ya choads: The board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena. Just what in the hell is that supposed to mean? The studies of phenomena outside of natural explanations is called theology. How backwards can we get? I think it […]