Today CBS revealed the official contestant lineup for Survivor All Stars. It’ll be nice to see Rudy on TV again. That guy cracked me up.

This morning Disneyland officially announced the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror merchandise event. Tickets go on sale February 9th at 9am, although at $125 each I think we’ll not be participating.

The Hyper Rescue Robot T-52 looks a little cooler than those yellow cargo haulers from Aliens. Click the links at the top of the page for images.

This year I had the first real Christmas tree I’ve ever had. Living with my parents we always used fake trees and that’s what I grew up with. Tammy’s family was the opposite though, and so I decided to try out a real tree for once for our first married Christmas. It’s not so bad….

NPR’s story on numbers stations is worth a listen. Even though I know what numbers stations are, listening to them still creeps me out to no end.

Download the public version of Maestro, the very same software that NASA uses to interact with our Martian rovers! It’s written in Java so of course it’s butt-slow. Windows, Mac, and Linux downloads are available.

“President Bush will announce plans next week to send Americans to Mars and establish a permanent human presence on the moon, senior administration officials said Thursday night.” He may not know how to handle illegal aliens, but when it comes to space aliens we’ll be ready! I actually think this is really freakin’ awesome. I…

Today is day one of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. If you’re wishing you were there, the gadget weblog Gizmodo has some great photographic coverage.

I spilled paint on my shoes a few weeks ago, so I’ve been thinking about getting another pair. Right now I wear Trekkers from Lands’ End, and I’ve been really happy with them. I guess I’ve had them for exactly one year because I remember ordering them before Christmas of ’02. They’ve held up really…

Apple announced the iPod mini today. $250 for 4GB? Are they joking? Fifty bucks more gets you a 15GB iPod! $250 is way too much for way too little. Honestly, I was counting on Apple to help destroy the market for flash-based and/or low-capacity mp3 players. As far as I’m concerned, tiny mp3 players like…