Monthly Archives: August 2002

Vote For Your Movie In Japan

Interesting little idea mentioned over at IMDb.com. Seems that Sony Pictures Entertainment of Japan is going to try a movie going experiment next month: you vote for the movie and we play it. Moviegoers will hit the Sony website and … Continue reading

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Newseum – Frontpage To Sept. 11

Since we are getting close to the 1 year anniversary of Sept. 11, it’s interesting to see how we reacted to the attack. I received a link to a page called Newseum in a newsletter and it’s a bit sobering. … Continue reading

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Mario Shining In My House

Picked up Super Mario Sunshine and the jury is out right now. I only played a few minutes of it, and it does seem like another Miyamoto Masterpiece, but I can’t make the call yet. It seems to be an … Continue reading

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New Matrix Shots And Animatrix Trailer

Are you ready to see how deep the rabbit hole goes? Then get thee to the official Matrix website. A few new pics have been added, and a first trailer for the Animatrix is up. Very, very cool stuff. After … Continue reading

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Dead To Diamond

Ok, this falls under the ‘creepy, but cool’ category. A new report on MSNBC says that a new company by the name of LifeGem will take cremated remains and turn them into a diamond. Yep, take ol’ Aunt Ruthie, send … Continue reading

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Window Shades 2.0

Messing around with a new pop-up stopper. I was using Pow from AnalogX, who BTW has some of the best utilities on the net, but was looking for something that would allow me to configure it a bit more. Yesterday … Continue reading

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Me And My Blog

This site is going a bit slowly at times, and I’ve decided it’s because I’m being a bit picky about what I post about. I usually find all sorts of cool links and software, but never post about any of … Continue reading

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Jurassic Park in Siberia

CNN.com reports that Japanese scientists are planning on cloning a wooly mammoth to display at an Ice Age exhibit in Siberia. Seems that Crichton wasn’t that far off…

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The Weapons Of PlanetSide

One of those games that I’ve been watching for a while is PlanetSide, from Sony. Think of it as a Everquest, but in the future and with weapons Well, those weapons have been revealed on the PlanetSide website. Head on … Continue reading

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RIP: Alba, the Glowing Bunny

It seems that Alba, the rabbit famous do to it’s ability to glow in the dark/under black light, has died. The animal was part of an experiment involving splicing the genes from a jellyfish with the rabbit to make it … Continue reading

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Where do I find the “Any” key?

If they ask (and you know they will), then send them here. This is probably one of Compaq’s more popular FAQ pages

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Music from TV Commercials

Looking for that piece of music you heard in a commercial jingle, but can’t quite figure out what it is? Then head to Songtitle.info. They have listings for quite a few commercial jingles, as well as the discs you can … Continue reading

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GameSpy Talks With Mario

GameSpy.com has an interesting interview posted with Charles Martinet, better known as ‘It’s a me, Mario!’. Yep, Charles it the guy behind the voice of most of the Nintendo universe. Think of him as Nintendo’s Mel Blanc.

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Rustboy

Cool, homemade computer animation. Check out Rustboy for a sneak peak at the short film in the works.

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Unreal Fortress Gold

A few of you know that I play Unreal Fortress and have been trying to tell people how great of a game it is. Well, it seems that ModSquad agrees. They just gave it a 10 out of 10. While … Continue reading

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Crickler

Interesting little work games over at Crickler.com. They take words from current events news and put them in puzzle format. Each word is separate, but when you finish a word correctly, the letters that are in that word are filled … Continue reading

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