Saturday, December 31, 2005

Return of Whatever Videocast 12-28-05

A shot from the videocast
Amit and Herb got a chance to get together and recorded a videocast a few days after Christmas.

You have to have Quicktime 7 to view it. Herb will put it on google video in a few days.

Return of Whatever 12-28-05 videocast 20 megs Quicktime 7 mov

Links:

Facebook

Myspace

Become our friends:

Herb's Facebook page
Herb's Myspace page
Herb's Myspace artist page

Amit's Myspace page

And yes those are the stairs in "Death Stairs". You know you want to watch Herb fight a trash can.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 30 (12-25-05)

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!! The Kool-Aid is only two parts this week again. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 30 12-25-05) 21.2 megs mp3

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Links:
Online AJAX word processor
http://www.writely.com

Savings With Open Source in Schools
http://spidertools.com/oss.php

Make your own info web page
http://www.protopage.com

Herb's Protogage
http://www.protopage.com/herbertmidgley

Infinite Bandwidth Everywhere for Free
http://nocat.net/

Build your own Linux distro in minutes
http://www.rpath.com/

SCO has to show proof
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1904737,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Google to start renting videos?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=59

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard At Macworld ?
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/12/23/could-we-meet-10-5-at-macworld-06/

Free PC software links
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/alp.htm

iTunes and the 7-burn limit
http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/ipodblog/2005/12/7burn/index.php

First Clear Picture Of The Center Of Our Milky Way Galaxy
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6693

The "Must Have" Toys of Christmas Past
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2005/12/23/rear-view-mirror-the-classics-of-christmas-past/

Herb's favorite Christmas present
http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/800xl/800xl.htm

Getaway the coolest game on Atari 800XL
http://www.atariarchives.org/APX/showinfo.php?cat=20195

Mark Reid interview (He made Getway!)
http://www.qlam.com/atari/s_getaway.html

Amit's favorite Christmas present
http://www.vgmuseum.com/systems/nes/

NES clone
http://www.estarland.com/index.asp?page=NintendoNES&cat=&product=22535&q

Old radio programs
http://radiolovers.com/

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 29 (12-18-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week again. Dan was out fighting dragons we think. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 29 12-18-05) 18.7 megs mp3

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Links:
Child's Play
http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplaycharity/index.php

Microsoft drops IE for Mac
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And The Invention Of The Computer
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/books/review/18johnson.html?ex=1292562000&en=1147f35e13b48b65&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

PC and Mac applications that every gamer should have
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000900072697/

Google spending $1 billion to get 5% of AOL
http://news.com.com/AOL+to+stick+with+Google/2100-1030_3-5998600.html

What Google REALLY gave up to get AOL
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/5042

How Google woos the best and brightest
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/18/GOOGLE.TMP

Electronics 101
http://www.ffldusoe.edu/Faculty/Denenberg/Topics/Electronics/Alex_Pounds/Index.htm

Theater owners want cell phones blocked
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051217-074635-6362r

U of Minnesota newspaper does online parody version in Windows XP style
http://www.mndaily.com/finals/2005fall/index.php

Webpage guesses what band/singer you are thinking of, in 20 questions!
http://music.20q.net/gse

HOW TO: Run Other OSes On Your PC
http://linux.wolphination.com/?p=18

Disabled Fans Shut Out of Star Wars Galaxies
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1308320

Powers of Ten
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5555313278261147278&q=powers+of+ten

A Photoshopped Magazine Cover
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=14537


Pi Trainer
http://x42.com/cgi-bin/pitrainer.cgi

Have a Nerdy Christmas! The CD!
http://herbertmidgley.blogspot.com/2005/12/have-nerdy-christmas-cd.html

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 28 (12-11-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week again. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 28 12-11-05) 17.7 megs mp3

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Links:
Answers.Yahoo.com Goes Live
http://answers.yahoo.com/

Wikilaw: Your free legal resource
http://wiki-law.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

How to: Build a Webpage
http://www.pingmag.jp/2005/12/09/the-website-development-process/

Students raise funds for roommate sued by RIAA
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/12/09/news/14093.shtml

What is accessing my hard drive when I'm not using my PC?
http://www.help2go.com/article251.html

A free-for-all gets people on planes quicker than starting at the back.
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051205/full/051205-11.html

Intel calls MIT's $100 laptop a 'gadget'
http://news.com.com/Intel+calls+MITs+100+laptop+a+gadget/2100-1005_3-5989067.html?tag=nefd.top

FireWire not dead, but it's on life support
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=57

New record speed for bandwidth 150 gigabits per second!
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/network_prize_release.html

Free Guitar Lessons for iTunes and your iPod w/ video
http://www.iplaymusic.com/

Auto-lock your computer on start-up
http://www.geekbb.com/showthread.php?t=494

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 27 (12-4-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 27 12-4-05) 17.7 megs mp3

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Links:
Firefox 1.5
http://www.mozilla.com/

Macromedia RIP
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200512/120105MACRAcquisitionClose.html

French government lobbied to ban free software
http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html

Need a discount on an iPod? Just create your own barcode!
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3270764

Is eBay going to be shut down?
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/28/hncourtebay_1.html

Take a Screenshot of DVD Player in OS X
http://highschoolblows.blogspot.com/2005/11/take-screenshot-of-dvd-player-in-os-x.html

"Stuff you can Make" Gift Guide
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/12/makes_mostly_under_100_gift_gu.html

Play Sega Genesis, Nintendo, & TG16 Online
http://www.thesmartass.info/index.php?main=genesis

Play doom and doom 2 online Free
http://www.codeimp.com/connector_tutorial.php

Head-over-heels in love? You'll get over it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10252428/

Car Shuts Down if you dont pay the bill
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-11-29-tech-repo-man_x.htm

HOW TO: Survive worst case scenarios!
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/worst_case_scenario/

Funny - Network Traffic Ticket
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/ticket.gif