March 31 04
And now, P2P sharing will probably be labelled a criminal offence too. Time for me to quote Ayn Rand. “Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against . . .We’re after [...]
March 31 04
Exploding head syndrome – just something I found last night while exploring Wikipedia in a sleep deprived state.
March 31 04
Project Looking Glass Sun Microsystems has been developing a new ‘concept’ Desktop System that’s called Project Looking Glass. From what they have demoed so far, the main focus seems to be an attempt to bring 3D capabilities to the desktop to make the process of using applications more intuitive. An interesting concept is the ability [...]
March 30 04
Notes on Indian Popular Cinema Philip Lutgendort has this wonderful site devoted to Indian fillums that provides a rare insightful glimpse into this amazing genre of filmmaking. What’s really wonderful is the range of movies that Philip along with Corey Creekmur has reviewed in this site – it covers almost all the sub-genres of Indian [...]
March 18 04
How does yer hankerin’ t’read this? The dialectizer does a great job of converting text and pages into some really funny dialects including Redneck, Moron, Jive, Elmer Fudd, Cockney and Pig Latin! If you wanna see how this page look like in some of those dialects, use the ‘Translate this’ pulldown at the bottom of [...]
March 17 04
Dihydrogen Monoxide Alert!!!! City officials in Aliso Viejo, California fell victim to this long running hoax about Dihydrogen Monoxide commonly known as H2O, or water! There are dozens of hoax websites that look official enough to convince people – [google search]. Next time you read a report about some serious “study” about the “dangerous” effects [...]
March 11 04
Distractions at work… If you want to chill out for a while, check out these really simple flash games at Orisinal. The games are really simple, but are highly addictive. Especially this egg game. If you want more, here’s this nice game of Smack the Pingu.