My brother and I have put up a blog discussing our messings with lasers, webcams, wiimotes and python. If you saw his talk at Pycon, and want to play with the code, you can find it there. I recently made the laser stuff work in Linux (hence the title of this post) (should be straightforward to port for windows folks). For those who didn't see his talk or BoF session, there's some videos there now explaining exactly what the games do.

A narrative history of Lego; the toy, the company and the Kirk Christiansen family, year-by-year, from 1891—1973

Emotiv Systems threw a press conference in San Francisco this week to show the latest enhancements to its futuristic gaming system, which lets players control objects on the screen using only their thoughts.

God of War creator David Jaffe is making some waves over on his blog this week by suggesting that the videogame industry get together and decide on one hardware platform, rather than put competing boxes on the market and split up consumers and software publishers.