Bug found in Apple's Cinema display

Not what you're likely thinking. Poor Matt has a bug in his screen—literally. Poor bug too.

80's MTV memories

Courtesy of JWZ

Somebody with waaay too much time on their hands has compiled a listing of 80's music videos on YouTube.

I just listened to a mix of ZZ Top, Aha, and Wang Chung and Yello's "Oh yeah" is currently buffering. Ah, sweet nostalgia.

Laserdisk games

Anyone remember Dragon's Lair (YouTube video) or SpaceAce?

These were basically choose-your-own-adventure movies billed as arcade games. Despite the obvious limitations of strategy and interactivity, I still loved "playing" them.

I must've spent over 100 USD during one childhood vacation trip just on Cobra Command.

If the animation style of Dragon's Layer looks eerily familiar, it was one of Don "Land Before Time" Bluth's early works.

Wrightspeed X-1 ? Looks like an electric Ariel to me

I don't don't see the real innovation in the Wrightspeed X-1.

Somebody's taken the chassis from an Ariel Atom and stuffed it w/ batteries and an electric motor where the engine and transmission used to be.

Ariel isn't even credited anywhere on their website for the chassis design. Claims about "optimizing electronics" etc. are old hat and have been around for literally a decade. We used just such a setup on my university's solar car back in 1993. Electric motors develop their peak torque at zero rpm and are relatively simple beasts to tame compared to the rather byzantine control over air, fuel, spark, timing, and manifold paramters of an internal combustion engine.

This is most definitely not a step in the right direction for the environment and simply an exercise in clever marketing.

Sad.

Targeted web service

Wow, talk about narrow-casting "web services", check out Is Lost a Repeat.

It's a wee bit of a lark, but as strange as it may seem, this represents more of the Web's future than any Web 2.0 app I've yet to encounter. With the exception of a sprinking of CSS, it uses only Web 1.0 technologies too.