Portable Rotary Phone

For those of you out there with a nostalgic itch to use a rotary phone, check out the Portable Rotary Phone ($500). Made to take SIM cards, it works on the 900MHz/1800MHz/1900MHz GSM mobile range,...

jTip - The Jquery Tool Tip

jTip - The Jquery Tool Tip first posted by babyking43 tags:javascriptjquerytooltipcssajax

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Two of our favorite things come together again in this second installment in the LEGO Star Wars series. Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy ($35; Sept. 2006) allows you to play as more than...

FeedHole

I've been using Feed Hole for a few days, and been enjoying the experience. What is Feed Hole? Well, it's an RSS aggregator put together by The Brothers Pugh that lets you customize what RSS feeds you'd like to check regularly, or even what RSS searches you'd like to check on regularly. It's still all ...

Rock out with Guitar Hero tournaments

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, RhythmLast month, RedOctane teased visitors to the Guitar Hero MySpace page with a graphic cryptically promoting something called G.H.O.U.L. Earlier this week, they revealed the project as the Guitar Hero Organized Underground League, a set of sponsored tournaments where ...

THE ZORB EXPERIENCE - TAKING EXTREME SPORTS TO A NEW COOL LEVEL

Ditch your tired old roller blades, chuck out your skis. Extreme sports have taken a new direction and its encapsulating, literally. The (http://www.thecoolhunter.net/lifestyle/A-NEW-SPORT---BOSSABALL/)from Belgium and Rio's bike bus by Billy T

Why jQuery's Philosophy is Better

There have been a whole bunch of posts on this blog about the differences in code size between jQuery and Prototype. The basic premise of those posts (which I agree with) is that because of the way jQuery code is structured, all sorts of typical Javascript design patterns are rendered shorter and simpler ...

The Web Developer's List of Resources

The Web Developer's List of Resources first posted by saidin tags:webdesignajaxresourcesweb2.0links

Double-Walled Beer Glasses

Here's a classic beer glass with a twist — it's insulated to keep your beer cold and the glass from sweating all over you. Like the insulated iced tea glasses from last year, these double-walled...

Mariah Carey can't forget

I wouldn't be able to forget that either.

Toon Crisis!

Another wee flash game to fill the long minutes between popsicles, Toon Crisis is a marketing effort by Walkman, but makes up for it by featuring the fantastic music of Gogol Bordello. From Killer Viral comes this excellent rail shooter, an advergame for the Sony mp3 Walkman Flash--but don't let that ...

New Half-Life 2, Portal, and Team Fortress vids

Filed under: PC, Fighting, First Person Shooters, Online, Video, Competitive GamingYouTube continues to prove its worth as we've just been tipped to a whole bunch of new Valve-related videos from the Leipzig convention in Germany. With such good physics gameplay, it's certainly hard to play favorites ...

Stephen Colbert's Lightsaber Challenge

Add effects to Colbert's recent Green-Screen Lightsaber moves and get your video on The Colbert Report. Download the source video and then spice it up with your own background and action.

Crysis multiplayer to feature 10-hour matches, multiple day/night cycles

Filed under: PC, Action, First Person Shooters, OnlineinCrysis.com has posted a detailed summary of the multiplayer modes featured in Crytek's upcoming FPS Crysis. The basic outline looks bland: 6-8 maps, 32-player support, 4 game modes, weapons, armor, vehicles, blah, blah, blah ... but digging deeper ...

Facebook Releases Notes

After only one week of releasing Badges, Facebook does it again and releases Notes.

Ikaruga, The Flash Shooter

Some are delightful, but face it, the vast majority of flash games are "meh." But this one is different, this one is Ikaruga! As far as shmups go, there's Ikaruga and then there's everything else. Japanese game developer Treasure released this classic shooter back in 2001 on the Dreamcast and then the ...

Sweet Child of Mine Hits Guitar Hero 2

You know, typically I wouldn't post about every little detail of a game, but everyone at Kotaku is addicted to Guitar Hero, so we tend to endlessly write about it. So, sorry, here's another little tidbit. Gamespot UK has a cool little video up showing a chunk of Sweet Child of Mine being played on Guitar ...

High Resolution Image of Naboo

Beautiful image.

Dark Matter Exists

olclops writes "It's a big day for astrophysics. After much speculation, scientists now have conclusive proof of dark matter. This result doesn't rule out alternate gravity theories like MOND, but it does mean those theories will have to account for exotic forms of dark matter."

First Person Shooter Glasses

Oh yeah, Jack Thompson is going to love these glasses that make it seem like you're in a First Person Shooter all the time. Is it me or is the gun on the wrong side?– Jason Chen First Person Shooter [via Screenhead]