Link Round-Up: Geeky Stuff

Just some nerdy stuff that I had kicking around this weekend:

• Giant
  robot dinosaurs. These are going to look ridiculous in 15 or 20 years,
  but right now they’re pretty impressive. Note that these aren’t for a movie–they’re
  actual functional dinosaurs that can walk around and roar at you.
• Blogger receives
  accreditation (New York Times decaying and registration required link)
  for the White House press corps. Here’s a little known fact: the White House
  press corps isn’t a particularly sought-after posting among journalists. It’s
  tedious, stories never break there and suffers from wall-to-wall rhetoric.
  Here’s a
  related New York Times piece.
• Witness the power and versatility of CSS.
• Jeremy and I talked
  to Stowe Boyd for True
  Voice, and the podcast has been syndicated to IT
  Conversations. Presumably the scheduled guests got food poisoning. We’re
  talking about "The Profession of Blogging".
• I had a great time at Gnomedex last year, but I really didn’t care for Lake
  Tahoe. There were threats that next year’s Gnomedex would be in Las Vegas,
  which was also underwhelming. Instead, it’s
  going to be in Seattle. Seattle’s a poor man’s Vancouver, but at least
  it’s close. I’ll definitely be attending.
• I’m not buying Steve
  Rubel’s argument that blogs could convert MS Office 97 and 2000 readers
  to 2003. The convergence between people with a eight-year-old program and
  blogs has to be extremely small today. After all, 60%
  of online Americans have still never heard of blogs. That’s "online
  Americans"–there are no doubt lots of Office 97 and 2000 users who aren’t
  online. I mean, blogs are great and all, and their readership is growing,
  but let’s keep some perspective.
• It’s a dating site for gamers
  (via Wonderland).
  "I enjoy long walks, sunsets and evenings spent in the glow of my PC, wielding my +4 Shellaleigh
  of Shellacking".
• Speaking of online games, Lord Vader pitches up in Star Wars: Galaxies.
• CBC
  starts podcasting. Hurray for Quirks
  and Quarks–I grew up on Bob McDonald (figuratively speaking).