Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics

  • More Zelda

    [The new Zelda game for the DS is looking very, very good: 39/40 from Famitsu](http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/20/famitsu-loves-zelda-gives-phantom-hourglass-near-perfect-score/). (If you didn’t understand that sentence, then you don’t need to know).

  • Making phones less usable

    The [most unusbale, but cool, phone design around](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wrong-number/this-is-how-superman-dials-a-phone-271073.php).

  • Fandom & children

    Sometimes goes way too far: [a stroller shaped like an AT-AT](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/the-empire-needs-you/star-wars-stroller-gives-lucky-kid-galactic-treatment-270761.php).

  • Not your average tablecloth

    [A tablecloth made of fiber optic cables](http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/24/fiber-optic-tablecloth-the-new-candlelit-dinner/). Probably not as pretty right next to you.

  • Flash drives as art

    New from Levedev: [a USB thumb drive shaped like a folder icon](http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/art-lebedevs-finger-folder-flash-drive/).

  • Grafitti as art

    The [Canberra projct to distri bute LED throwies](http://the-riotact.com/?p=5195). Personally, not a big fan of this kind of thing.

  • The 1001 uses of wood

    Number 524: [Wooden robots](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/wood_robots.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890)

  • Canberra the game

    [A strange looking game called Canberra](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5854538) ([Via](http://the-riotact.com/?p=5167)).

  • Saturday papercraft

    An easier papercraft for a change: [Make your own Sony Cat](http://kotaku.com/gaming/kraftaku-break/sony-cat-papercraft-270253.php).

  • Harry Potter and the Penultimate Evening

    One more night until Book 7. The only real purpose of this post is to provide fair warning: as of Sunday morning, I may be posting spoilers to this blog. I won’t put anything on the main page or the feed, but be warned that any Harry Potter post from Sunday may have spoilers for…