Because it is required by law for each web site or blog administrator to post a holiday entry for each important holiday, I present, for your Halloween enjoyment, some of the coolest, scariest, funniest pumpkins that have ever been carved… Or whatever.
Heh heh… The big one is munchin’ on the small one! Heh heh.
I think this one qualifies as both scary AND amazing!
And this one would be the most… Um… Fast-Foodable?
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Anyone who uses a digital camera deals with the hassles of getting the pictures off the camera and onto a computer. You can use a slow cable connection, a built-in memory reader, a USB memory reader, etc.
Now there’s a better (or at least cooler) way! The new Eye-Fi memory cards have wireless capability built right in, so you can read the camera’s memory from any computer on your wireless network!
AND they work in any standard camera, how awesome is that?
Who would have ever thought that cameras would start adding features through their memory cards?
Some people, you know, like me for instance, can’t manage to build a straight line with one toothpick. Other people, like Chris Gilmoure, have the ability to take what most of us would consider trash and build wonders of of it!
Some of his cardboard creations have to be seen to be believed… You’ll find yourself telling people about this later, but in the end, you’ll have to point them at the page to see for themselves!
I don’t think this works, but I wouldn’t bet on it!
This little model isn’t so little, like most of Chris’s models, it’s life sized!
Okay, this piece isn’t so impressive - it only has three wheels!
Oh… Wait…
Take a look at today’s pictures - Can you guess as what it is they’re showing?
Some sort of distopian, future city?
A scene from (the awesome) Red Dwarf?
I know, something from one of the Alien movies?
If you guessed any of the above, then A) You and I have never met, and B) you’re wrong. Are you ready?
Believe it or not, these are all part of a modern, Japanese sewer system! That’s right, my friends, this sewer system is a nicer space than most of us live in (probably doesn’t smell as good though).
More pictures at the link.
If you’ve kept up on the news of such things, “real” space travel (like in the scifi books) is just around the corner. There are already a couple of Spaceports underway, the best known space tourism company, Virgin Galactic is expecting to launch in 2009, etc.But have you ever considered the BIG question? What will you wear?Okay, the reality is that these are expected to be used by the pilots, not the tourists, but my way made a more interesting intro, right?
The “Industrial Suborbital Space Suit-Crew” or IS(3)C from Orbital Outfitters
It’s true! Tomy (the Japanese company) has released a high-tech air guitar! Basically, you have just the top of a guitar neck and you strum underneath that - it reads your finger movements and plays the strum!
The video on the page is, unfortunately, in Japanese, but you do get to see it demo’d at least.
I want one for shear cool factor of being able to HEAR my AIR GUITAR!
The New, higher-tech Air Guitar PRO!
I like webapps, partly because I like to keep a handle on what the industry is doing, but also because I can access them from nearly anywhere, even if I didn’t know that I might need to.
I also like my brain, even when I use it for storming. Bubbl.us is an online brainstorming app that is very nicely implimented. I didn’t see what purpose it served until I tried brainstorming an idea with it. Here are the (very quick) results!
Here’s a normal-sized view of the Bubbl.us app at work, you can scroll around just by grabing a blank spot on the screen and dragging.
Here’s a very zoomed in effect to show the level of control you have while working.
After “finishing” the work I was doing, I obviously wanted output that showed the whole document - I exported the results to a JPG, and here’s the result.
It’s been a while since we’ve reviewed an MMOG, and as usual, we’re focused on the stuff that doesn’t COST you anything.
Of all of the free MMOGs that we’ve looked at, Metin2 is the highest quality one we’ve seen, from the graphics, to the game stability, to the control this game is top notch.
If you give this one a shot, make sure to read the “Cartoon” on the main site, it provides a lot of good startup info!
Here’s the character selection screen - they all look cool, but the choices are limited.
Here my newb warrior, Sterling, receives his first quest.
The buy / sell interface showing an item detail. Note the distance from my character compared to the previous screenshot - it’s controlled by the mouse scroll wheel.
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RTP = Random Time Period, e.g. I’ll put ‘em up when I find ‘em!
Enjoy!
For anyone who wanted to be a Baloon Veterinarian!
From the article: “You can say that this was written in the Bible—but the Bible is a text and texts can be played around with. This is physical evidence.”
The Temple Mount, or Solomon’s Temple, associated with a number of Old Testament events, has never been open to excavation, making artifact retrieval unlikely. However, maintenance workers performing routine work happened upon the recently discovered cache that may lead to conclusive evidence of the use of the area during some of the “suspected” time periods.
“These artifacts may be the first physical evidence of human activity at the site during the first Jewish Temple Period, which lasted from the sixth to eighth centuries B.C.”
