Interesting and cool stuff I find out on the web
First off, if you aren’t a Homestar Runner fan (although who isn’t?!), this post isn’t for you.
For everyone else, I discovered a great site today — the Homestar Runner Wiki! It’s got literally EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about Homestar Runner, the site, etc. as well as a ton of stuff your probably didn’t even know you wanted to know. lol
If you’re a fan, make sure to check it out. 🙂
As mentioned on their blog, Google has released Google Mars in celebration of Percival Lowell‘s birthday. It’s a lot like Google Moon which I mentioned 7 months ago and Google Maps, i.e. very cool.
Shame they didn’t release it as a plugin for Google Earth though. It woulda so very cool to fly around Mars in 3D. 🙁
This post was originally posted on March 7th, 2006 at 4:17 PM. However, I busted my blog by upgrading to the wrong version of WordPress and had to revert to a database backup. That resulted in the loss of this post.
I was watching a Discovery Channel show that I downloaded today called “Ultimate 10 Military Machines” and it featured this crazy plane called the Airborne Laser (ABL) for short (see right).
It flies around above the clouds in friendly skies looking for enemy missles. It then locks onto them with a bunch of low power lasers and then uses a bigass chemical powered laser that’s 1000 times as powerful as the sun to basically burn a hole in the missle.
How futuristic and crazy is that?!
You can find out more about it at Boeing’s website.
This photo mosaic of Dick Cheney in full hunting garb is comprised of screenshots of several hundred news websites covering the story of his February 11, 2006 shooting of hunting companion Harry Whittington.
It’s pretty cool and you can find it here: http://www.urlyart.com/gallery/cheney-hunting
Found this online:
So I built a funky alarm clock out of an old Nintendo console. Why? Because I was at Value Village with my girlfriend and my sister, and while they were browsing through miles of clothing the only thing of interest I could find were two broken Nintendo units without paddles, and I had to do something with them.
Check it out here: http://www.mavrinac.com/projects/nesclock/
How kickass would it be to have Mr. T as the voice on your navigation system? I know I’d love it. 😀
Read the story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10038326/
Yep, TVTAD is back from the dead! It was dormant for a while, but now Kn00n has released an all new version, v1.00. You can download it at the official site.
For those who don’t know what TVTAD is, it’s a auto-downloader for torrent RSS feeds. You add as many torrent feeds to it as you want, pick some favorite TV shows, and it watches the feeds for your favorite shows and then automatically downloads the torrents and gives them to your BitTorrent client to download. It’s an awesome program.
Check out this thread if you’re looking for some TV torrent feeds: http://www.tvtad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=10
Yet another cool thing from Google — “Google Reader”, a web-based feed reader. It’s very kickass, powerful, and of course free.
Check it out here: http://reader.google.com/
As a celebration for their 5th anniversary, DivX is giving away their “DivX Create Bundle” that allows you to make DivX videos. Normally the software is $19.99, but for the moment, it’s free. Hurry though, it’s ending soon (their “one day” promotion is currently in it’s 2nd or 3rd day).
[edit] The promotion has ended. 🙁 [/edit]
I just had one of these for the first time a few weeks back and oh man are they good! The “Hard Berry” (blackberry) ones are especially tasty.
If you haven’t had one before and they’re available in your area, I definetly say you should go out and buy a 6-pack. They’re about as expensive as beer and about the same amount of alcohol (5.2% by volume).