Monthly Archives: January 2008

Gizmodo Pranks CES By Turning Off Displays Using TV-B-Gone

Wow, the Interwebs are exploding over Gizmodo’s prank at CES where they turned off a bunch of displays on the expo floor using TV-B-Gone devices provided by Make Magazine. Their prank, instigated by Richard Blakeley, ended up getting him banned from the conference. A gadget blog got themselves banned from the biggest gadget show in [...]

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Bill Gates’ Last Day At Microsoft & Exit Interview

Here’s the hilarious video of Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft that was featured in his keynote Sunday night at CES 2008. Engadget’s Ryan Block caught up with Bill yesterday and did a great exit interview with him.

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ANSI Art Gallery Show at 20 Goto 10

A gallery show featuring ANSI art from legendary artists Somms and Lord Jazz of ACiD is taking place this Saturday, January 12th at 20 goto 10 in San Francisco. ANSI art is a computer artform using text characters on computers with MS-DOS (before windows) which was popular in the late 80’s and early to mid [...]

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New Mac Pro’s

Apple’s got a second release that just hit the wires: A Mac Pro with two intel 45nm Quad-Core Xeons at up to 3.2GHz each. An 8-core config is standard. The front side bus is humming along at 1600MHz now, and RAM at 800MHZ. The computer also comes standard with ATI HD 2600 XT graphics with [...]

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