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I just wanted to show you guys a short documentary featuring Duke Kahanamoku, the man who made recreational surfing famous. He is a native Hawaiian who lived in the early 1900s and hung out on Waikiki Beach with his friends, the Waikiki boys, at a time when Americans were just starting to escape to Hawaii for fun & sun. He is a legend well worth paying homage to on BBG surfing day.

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A bit of surf history: The Waikiki Beach Boys

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This time from Cory . Now, here’s what I’d like to see: a PC case modeled on this thing, with one side bristling with miniature “valves.”

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Want to pound some turdy looking power pellets? Then buy this $12 set of Pac-man candy and rot your teeth out! Then go to the dentist to get them fixed. But don’t forget to bring a hidden camera in case he tries to grope you while you’re out. Our fave classic video game now in edible form! This set of three sweet tins will have ya enjoying Pac-Man’s power pellets, blue raspberry ghost sours and cherry ghost sours. Each keepsake tin is approximately 2.5″ Cool. Weed would look cool in those. I would fill one with weed and another one with booze and then swallow them and try to get on airplane. But then when security tries to stop me I’ll blast off with my jetpack and probably get a JWI because my booze ghost leaked. Pac-Man Candy For a Retro Geeky Sugar Fix [uberreview]

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OM NOM NOM: Pac-Man Candy

8-Bit Today has a collection of 10 8bit music videos . The first one may remind you of something.

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Music videos made mainly of pixels

Remember ” Mars in Crayon ” yesterday? Curator Dan Goods has put more images from JPL online, including this comparison of the pastels sketch and the actual decoded TV image above. Though he used a brown/red color scheme, the thought that Mars was red did not enter his mind. He really was looking for the colors that best represented a grey scale, since that was what they were going to get anway. It is uncanny how close his color scheme is to the actual colors of Mars. It’s as if they came right out of current images of the planet. I’ve seen some of the other color schemes he tried and it could have been green or purple!

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K.C. (a.ka. “Phreakmonkey”) has a Livermore Data Systems “Model A” acoustic coupler modem, a 300 baud modem from the ’60s—”one of the oldest modems of still in existence. It was given to me by the widow of an IBM engineer.” So, so awesome. If I were a fiction writer, I’d do a short story about an alternate present where broadband never came to be, but the entire world was connected through analog, low-baud modems. [via Waxy Waxy Waxy! ]

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Video: Connecting to the internet with a modem from 1964

Honestly, the IEEE’s 125th anniversary celebratory event ” Engineering the future ” leaves me a little bit flaccid, what with all the globes and shiny fireworks and young folks with limpid eyes staring out of their Productivity Well, but still…it’s the IEEE, bitches! And such! Congratulations on your anniversary (officially on the 13th of May) and here’s to 125 more. Here’s something more my density: Their IEEE 125th anniversary photostream has a bunch of ancient beardos and old engravings showing the power of the light bulb. Once you skip past the first couple pages of engineers that are alive , it’s damn near worth viewing image by image.

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Happy 125th, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers!