Allen Lew’s Thoughts

Gizmodo has a nice gadget guide to becoming a superhero. Namely, an exoskelton, hearing aids, a grapple gun, and a car equipped with a Tesla coil.
Forbes also had an article on
being Batman for about $3,365,449. And if you want more elaborate details, there’s The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual.
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Nike is planning to unveil transforming Megatron and Optimus Prime shoes. They sound cool, but could be painfully uncomfortable to wear. (via Boing Boing)
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(Update: I’ve changed plugins to provide OpenID. See this post.)
Comments can now be signed with OpenID, thanks to this plugin.
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Thanks to a plugin by Alex King, this blog now has a Mobile edition, so it’s readable on a PDA. To get the plugin, check out his plugin page.
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In Superman Returns, Bryan Singer tried very hard to recreate much of the classic look and feel of the earlier Superman movies. Singer succeeds quite well in doing this right from the opening credits. His casting of Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel was surely meant to remind people of the late [...]

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NY Times:
“Dr. [Richard] Gross, a professor of chemistry at Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn, is turning plant oils, of the kind already used to make biodiesel, into “bioplastic.” The plastics can be films or rigid, as are commonly found in food packaging. Then he uses a naturally occurring enzyme to break down the plastic into [...]

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I’ve reimplemented asides on this blog, thanks to this tutorial on implementing asides with Cutline. I’ve talked about making asides briefly before.
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A demo playing two Nickelback songs shows them to be nearly the same song. Sadly, this can probably be done with way too many popular music acts today. (via Kottke)
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So I just got a Palm T|X from work at Los Angeles Urban League. One of the downsides of working in this part of LA is there isn’t a lot of free wi-fi points to make use of the Internet capabilities. Meanwhile, my current favorite app for the handheld so far is Google [...]

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When I first heard about the movie Wordplay, I thought it was about the New York Times Crossword puzzle itself and the people who solve it (the regular people and the famous like Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, and Bill Clinton to name a few). Don’t get me wrong, while the film is about the [...]

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