My Slice of the Globe

Month: April 2006

  • The Ultimate Showdown

    It’s Friday, my work computer’s hard drive has crashed, and so it’s time for a little levity. A friend emailed this out earlier this week, I had never heard of the group before and the song is catchy as well as the flash animation to go with it. So Happy Friday (Be sure to use…

  • Davinci Code Lawsuit Judgement Contains Secret Code

    Apparently the judge who presided over the Dan Brown plagiarism trial decided to have a little fun in the wording of his judgement. The Judge decided to embed a secret code in it. An article concerning this can be found at : CNN If you would like to take a crack at decrypting the code…

  • Help take a stand against the RIAA madness

    The EFF is putting together a petition to take to Congress that will hopefully help stem the RIAA lawsuit rampage. If you are interested in taking a look at the Petition and/or signing it, please go to : https://www.eff.org/share/petition/ If you are concerned about having your name shown on the internet, just check the “Do…

  • Smithsonian sells U.S. History to Showtime

    In an attempt to make money from its archives, the Smithsonian has signed an exclusive deal with Showtime Networks. This deals gives Showtime exclusive access to the Smithsonian film archives. All filmmakers wishing to use this “public domain” material must get the material through Showtime and create it through them or not use the material.…

  • Google : Calendar

    Looks like Google launched their online calendar program this evening. Seems pretty spiffy. You can find it at : http://calendar.google.com Quick Feature Rundown : Imports  from: Microsoft Outlook Yahoo! Calendar Apple iCal Notifications : Email Pop-up, if app is open SMS, text message General : You can create multiple calendars You can share a calendar…

  • 50 Greatest independant films

    It’s the weekend and if you’re looking for a movie perhaps this list may help you setup your netflix queue, blockbuster visit, Tivo, or even next possible purchase. Empire online put together this list of the 50 greatest indie films, which I originally noticed sometime this week on digg.com. I’ve only seen a handful of…

  • On a “Dark Miracle”

    As seen on WilWheaton.net, Joshua Ellis, who is an independant journalist, went to the Trinity Test Site (the site of the first nuclear bomb test), this year to go take a look. The site is open to the public 2 days of every year. He describes what he saw in pictures and words, and has…

  • Davinci Code Lawsuit has no merit

    A British court has thrown out the lawsuit against Dan Brown. Here is more info from the LA Times. </center>

  • Zombie Scenario Survival Test

    Time for another quiz. Are you ready? Here is my result : Official Survivor Congratulations! You scored 78%! Whether through ferocity or quickness, you made it out. You made the right choice most of the time, but you probably screwed up somewhere. Nobody’s perfect, at least you’re alive. My test tracked 1 variable How you…

  • Phosphor : A FPS In your browser

    As seen on HardOCP.com, ever want to play a first person shooter, in your browser. Well some one has coded up a 7MB shockwave execcutable and yes it does include multiplayer among other features. Take a look over at :  http://www.rasterwerks.com/game/phosphor/beta1.asp

  • Google : Romance

    Just when you thought your contextual relationship needs were not being met, Google comes to the rescue : http://www.google.com/romance/