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Great idea from Chris Williams and the Twin Cities XNA User Group : The Twin Cities XNA User Group is throwing their first ever charity event! Admission to this event is $10 (ten bucks!!) and that covers entry into what just might be the biggest Halo
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Bunch of stuff I’ve been meaning to blog about recently, in no particular order: The SideShow Team Blog announces the availability of a beta release of SideShow gadgets for Windows Media Center . View guide information, schedule recordings, control media
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In my last post, I mentioned taking a family trip to the Baltimore Zoo . For folks in the area who haven’t been there, I’d definitely recommend making the trip, as there are great opportunities to get up close with animals that you will rarely see. Here
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If you own a Tablet PC, or a UMPC, or even if you have a desktop PC with a graphics tablet and the tablet extensions enabled, this app is a must-have: Video: InkSeine from Microsoft Research - The Official Video InkSeine truly reinvents the pen-based
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...courtesy of hulu.com : Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot Between this and Ultra Man, many after-school hours were well-spent. Thanks to Frank La Vigne for helping me find yet another way to lose hours from my day. And yes, I'm in a "fun-post"
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OK, so Pete tagged me , and now I guess I'm it: How old were you when you first started programming? I would say around 10 or 11, judging from the release date of the Commodore PET , which was the first machine that I wrote code for. How did you get started
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event , a rather large explosion in Siberia, for which there is still not a definitive explanation (though most scientists favor either the meteorite or comet theory). The blast, estimated as somewhere
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Just a quick reminder that the Geek Dinner with Shawn Wildermuth will be held tomorrow night at Damon's in Chantilly, VA. If you haven't already, please RSVP by email to hold your spot (and help us get an accurate number for the reservation). It's shaping
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Shawn Wildermuth , one of the luminaries of the Silverlight world, is in town next week teaching a course on (what else?) Silverlight 2, so we thought we'd plan a little get-together for eats, drinks, and tech talk. The Geek Dinner will be next Tuesday,
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The XNA Creators Club website has a nice step-by-step walkthrough of creating a game for your Zune , including a cool sample game with very nice graphics and play style: Are you ready to start programming games for your Zune? All you need is the XNA Game
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If you're going to either week of Tech-Ed this year (or even better, both), here's an event you'll want to check out, courtesy of Joe Healy, aka DevFish : ]inbetween[ weekend, June 7/8, Orlando Convention Center Attending Teched and looking for something
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Show it this Sunday : Geek Pride Day is celebrated May 25th. The date coincides with the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977. Geek Pride Day has been celebrated since 2006, when it originated in Spain. It also coincides with Towel Day, which
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IsTwitterDown.com is now saying "of course," with the text linking here . As a reluctant twitterer (tweeter?), I find this just too amusing. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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OK, so now I'm torn...should I pine for the day when I can have my own Surface device in my living room, or instead transfer my geeky affections to this incredible 3D LED animated display: I wonder if someone's already hard at work on a Quake 3 port to
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Take a look at the video here , and see if you don't think this is potentially one of the most revolutionary things to happen to music in...I don't know...forever: Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time
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