Who can possibly keep up with all the feeds from digg, del.icio.us and other “social” networking places - I can’t.
Luckily the guys at popurls.com provide a combined view into a lot of the popular sites on one page. Whether we are talking about the latest Google Videos, YouTube entries or audio from Odeo, popurls.com references them on one page.
Now even you can start your own personal crusade right from the comfort of your desk! Thanks to Left Behind: Eternal Forces you can do God’s work on your PC. This is taken directly from their feature list (I did not make this up) for the game:
- Conduct physical & spiritual warfare : using the power of prayer to strengthen your troops in combat and wield modern military weaponry throughout the game world.
- Recover ancient scriptures and witness spectacular Angelic and Demonic activity as a direct consequence of your choices.
- Play multiplayer games as Tribulation Force or the AntiChrist’s Global Community Peacekeepers with up to eight players via LAN or over the internet!
The game is based on the hugely popular “Left Behind” series of books, where ultra-right-wing Christians fight anything and anybody who does not belong to them. I hear that the Bush administration is going to equip every preschool with a computer and a copy of the game …
It’s close to seven years now that kahunabuger.com is online. I decided to write down some historical information about this site and created a new “About kahunaburger” page.
Not enough bad news today? How about this one: Germany’s “Der Spiegel” reports in it’s online edition today about some surprising finds from two different American research teams, when they simulated a nuclear war between countires like Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India or North Korea and one of it’s neighbours (ok, probably not China).
The conclusion? Although everybody (means every American) thinks that those war fronts are far, far away from the US, a war in those regions would have devastating effects all over the world. Not only economically, but more importantly, the weather all over the world would be affected (which again would have a signficant economic impact). First, go over and read ” Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear terrorism”, which was prepared by a team of scientists around Own Toon at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Next check out “Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts” a study conducted by researches around Alan Robock at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Chilling …
How come I did not hear about this neat little application before? During one of my Stumble Upon sessions I ended up at http://www.schmap.com/. It was the first time I heard and read about this application.
Schmap has a little “player” (pictured above) and about 200 city guides from all-over the world to download. Those guides will appear in the Schmap player. For each city they have historical/background info, restaurants, attractions, useful links and other information. There even have “tours”: for example, for Santa Fe they give you a list of galleries that are worth visiting and show an animated tour on a local map. Very cute!
Going to download the map-packs for a few cities and see how good they are. Wish I could transfer this stuff directly to my iPod or U10.
I would give my right leg to get an opportunity to stand behind the camera in this shot … (click on the image above to see the full panorama on NASA’s site).
Looks like we are going to have grandparents appreciation day today. After posting the other Pia photos, I decided to add a few more from yesterday afternoon: Pia and I went on the special Santa Train Ride. Mindy, Gregg and Nico joined us. They even had special “local” rates - make sure you show your NM drivers license when you purchase a ticket.
Just like two years ago, we departed from Santa Fe and went towards the Galisteo basin for about an hour. After a short stop there, we returned back to Santa Fe. It was sunny, warm and snowy, cold at the same time. The weather here seems to change more often than my underwear. Good they serve hot chocolate on the train and if you ask nice they may even add a shot of something to give it a kick (just make sure you remember which one of the two hot chocolates has the “kick”; otherwise you’ll see a three-year old looking rather funny when she tastes the wrong hot chocolate …).
When it started snowing I felt bad for the dogs who were left at home in the kennel, but it turned out that they were doing fine when we arrived back home at 4:30pm.
Enjoy! I did and I’m sure you will as well.
Nope, it’s not raining outside (at least not yet). The other day I read about a new game developed by Quantic Dream, a French software development company that specializes in “Interactive Cinema”-type games. I remember seeing their title “Fahrenheit” a few years ago and I was surprised by how well the implementation of this title had turned out.
Months ago I saw a trailer (released during E3 2006) of a new title called “Heavy Rain” from the same company, however just yesterday I made the connection between the trailer and “Quantic Dream”.
I’m fascinated by the performance of the CG-character in this trailer. Watch it on YouTube and see if you feel the same way …
I’m getting increasingly annoyed with web-sites that ask for my email-address and verify that email-address when all I want to do is to read a story on the site. Don’t get me wrong: if I think that a site offers enough value, I will certainly sign up with them and use the same (permanent) email-address that I use for other sites. If you are in the same position as me, here are two tips that you may find useful:
Some of those services above even offer extensions for Mozilla’s FireFox, which means that the generation of a random email is only a few clicks away. With more and more people using those disposable email-address services, web sites that require registration have also begun to filter those addresses and reject emails that point to nowhere. Just keep on trying with different providers and you’ll eventually find one that has not been black-listed yet. This del.icio.us search for “disposable email” should give you a list of all current services and there’s also an up-to-date list on listible.com.
As with disposable email-addresses, some sites that require registration started to monitor BugMeNot as well and automatically add usernames that appear on BugMeNot to a list of no-no addresses. If you find a certain username/password combo does not work, keep on trying: BugMeNot usually has a whole list of usernames/passwords to try. And if all fails, you can still go back to the technique outlined above.
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