half-life

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Science

Confirmed: CERN Is Just A Huge Half-Life Level

9:00AM John Herrman | Plenty of people have given CERN and Half-Life’s Black Mesa research facility the This Thing Looks Like That Thing treatment, but this tour of the facility’s deepest bowels is just too much. Steam geysers? Endless corridors? Rusty valves? Slime growths? More »
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Games

CERN’s ‘Gordon Freeman’ Employee Receives Crowbar, Starts Murdering

4:00AM Jason Chen | Do you remember that photo of the Large Hadron Collider that showed an employee looking suspiciously like Half Life’s Gordon Freeman? The clowns over at Reddit sent him a crowbar, a headcrab and a book, allowing him to go to town on the alien infestation. The very happy alien infestation, by the looks of that photo. See him in action after the jump. [Reddit via Kotaku] More »
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Computers

Geiger Counter PC Casemod Looks Good In Places That Can Kill You

11:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | This Russian Geiger Counter casemod (technically an Ion Detector) won’t let you know if you’re standing waist deep in nuclear radiation, but flick the power switch and the meter jumps to life, letting you know the relatively weak CPU housed inside is working properly. As for the specs inside the box, there’s a 300 MHz CPU, 256MB of RAM and a 4GB Compact Flash card for storage. That’s more Pong than Half-Life, but it still looks sharp. Just be sure not to mistake it for your real Geiger counter when you’re packing for that vacation trip to Chernobyl. [Modding.ru via Technabob] More »
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