For those of you who own Nvidia graphics cards and still somehow haven’t played Portal, Nvidia is now offering, free of charge, an extended Portal demo cleverly titled Portal: First Slice.

Much to my dismay, while First Slice does offer more gameplay than the previous demo, it offers no new content to those who have already played the full version of Portal.

To get your hands on First Slice, head to this webpage.

The site will automatically scan your PC for Nvidia products, and once you’ve been verified you’ll be given the option to download Portal: First Slice to your existing (or newly created) Steam account.

Additionally, Nvidia users can also download Peggle Extreme, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and the Half-Life 2 tech demonstration level The Lost Coast free of charge from that same site.

Two of my favorite things growing up as a kid were playing with my Lego’s and watching Monty Python.

As time passed and I was no longer a kid, my Lego’s got passed down to my younger brother and I found new things to do with my time. Computers and girls

Even though I didn’t have my Lego’s anymore, I still had Monty Python. My VHS tapes are pretty much toast now but they’ve since been replaced with modern DVD’s.

This morning I went on a quest… a quest for the Holy Grail… hehe… run away! run away! and I found this awesome nugget of two of my fondest memories as a little geek:

Yeah. My day will now be complete that I’ve had my fill of both Lego’s and Monty Python.

Side note, for those who care, today is also my birthday. Feel free to send Lego’s or back up copies of Monty Python videos.

Jada’s Air Guitar Rocker is exactly what it seems to be: an air guitar made real.

“We took the air guitar phenomenon and put it into an amp,” says creator Nitrous Roxide, who demonstrates it well in this video.

The belt buckle detects strums of the air plectrum, while the belt unit plays the sounds.

The songs, stored on little expansion packs, are divided into each note: all the player must be able to do is keep to the track’s tempo, and he or she can rock on.

“It’s Guitar Hero on the go.”

The cheese-grater Power Mac tower is just perfect for holding a dot matrix display, and it looks like Anders Lundberg thought the same thing:

In proper hacker style, Anders took an old alarm clock, threw away the extra parts and from there, designed a circuit board.

The clock needs an external AC power supply, but what’s one more trip to Walmart?

Best of all, he’s selling kits, starting at $70 for a self assembly red LED set and $85 for the ready made.

Source: MAKE

Flashback to 1986 – I’m 14 years old and sitting in my room with my Commodore 64 hooked up to my 13 inch black & white television, typing in a 7 page long basic program from a computing magazine.

I knew IBM “clones” existed, but I knew I had it made with my trusty C64. If you weren’t around then or if you were a Commodore hater, you missed some really cool years of computing.

Early Macintosh snobs were always cracking on C64 users, granted I learned on Apple II computers in 2nd grade elementary school.

Yes, the Macintosh had better graphics, a mouse, a user interface, etc but, the C64 world had something even better: game/program trading galore or as some would call rampant piracy.

Now, I know people have always copied this and that, but I remember C64 trade fairs where you’d leave with a shoe box full of 5.25 floppies packed full of goodies.

It would take weeks to go through all of it. Ah the memories.

If I had seen this commercial back then, it would have probably driven me to IBM clones much sooner.

Fortunately this is (or was) a TV commercial for the Commodore 64 home computer that aired in 1985 on Australian television and well, I’m from the USA.