Just came across this hilariously bad anti piracy ad on Google Video: Back in 1992, piracy was rampant. What could possibly stop it? An ad that you would swear was from the 80s? A horrible rap song? If the current atmosphere of easy piracy thanks to p2p networks and bit torrent sites is any answer, [...]
Entries from November 27th, 2005
Anime Music Videos Forced To Remove Close To 2000 Videos
November 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Anime
Anime News Network reports that AMV have been forced to remove close to 2000 clips because of copyright violations: Popular AMV site AnimeMusicVideos.org has been served with a cease & desist order by an unnamed record label in regards to AMVs using music from Evanescence, Creed, and Seether. According to AnimeMusicVideos.org admin “Phade” the copyright [...]
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Google Worth Shitload Of Money
November 18th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Google
MSN Money reports what we all already know, namely that Google is worth a shitload : Google stock tops $400, worth $117 billion Investors clamor to buy the search engine’s stock because they believe it is revolutionizing advertising. How high can the shares go? When Google (GOOG, news, msgs) went public last August at $85 [...]
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Cool Photos Taken From International Space Station
November 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Flight & Space Travel
While we’re on a roll here’s another quick link to some cool photo’s taken by the ISS.
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Check Out The Air Traffic Over The US
November 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff
Just a quick blurb to link to a cool movie that shows what the air traffic over the US looks like on a certain day.
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Google Releases Web Stats Package
November 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Coding & Web Development, Google
In what should be of interest to a lot of webmasters (including this one), Google’s newest foray into world domination is Google Analytics, a web stats package: Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your [...]
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Ship That’ll Flip You The Bird
November 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
Just came across this research vessel that is just too crazy to be believed: Meet FLIP, a very strange piece of oceanographic equipment used by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. FLIP isn’t a ship, even though researchers live and work on it for weeks at a time while they conduct scientific studies in the [...]
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Grand Theft Auto III Ported To NES!
November 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Video Games
It seems some incredibly cool guy has ported GTA 3 to the NES: “Grand Theftendo”:http://www.grandtheftendo.com/ is a port of Grand Theft Auto III for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is Grand Theft Auto III running on an 8 bit, 256×240 resolution, 2 bit colour x 2 bit palette, 1.79 Mhz system, written entirely [...]
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Worst Bugs In Computer History
November 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Security
Wired has made a list of what they think are some of the worst bugs in computer history: Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars’ gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly. But unlike the large-scale auto recalls of [...]
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Risk Via Google Maps
November 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Google
In what I proclaim to be the “cool hack of the day”, someone has modified Google Maps so you can play Risk on it. The dude that created it says the following: A For some reason I decided a bit after the API for Google Maps came out that it would be awesome to be [...]
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