Archive: September 2, 2008

Don LaFontaine, who recently passed away at age 68, is seen here in this undated GEICO commercial making a normal car insurance claim sound inter-galactic. Man, this guy’s voice is wonderful!

spore-box-art

It’s only a couple of days before Spore gets released officially on Mac and PC, but already, the PC version is available to download via torrent. It’s apparently a big hit (no surprise there). This release comes a full 5 days before the game is even on store shelves.

mister-rogers

Beginning on Monday, September 1, 2008, PBS will stop airing daily episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on their network to make room for new programming. PBS is making this decision partly based on the fact that Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is no longer bringing in the audience required for it to continue daily broadcasts. PBS is [...]

rainbow-swiss-tools

This set of L-shaped Allen keys is colored-coded for size reference. [via] Perfect for those situations where you’ll need an Allen key that’s more colorful than somebody else’s. Perfect. Just perfect! I want a set.

oreo-flash-jumping

This is truly remarkable. Share this in your Google Reader’s everybody! THIS IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING!

google-chrome

For those who haven’t heard, Google made a huge announcement today by releasing an open-source web browser to the [Windows] masses. I had the opportunity to test the new web browser called Google Chrome and it’s definitely simple and fast. The browser is based off of the previous work from the teams behind WebKit and [...]