Yahoo maps on your Pod

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): "Now, I love Google Maps. Since its inception, it's been my default online maps site. I view it as the logical evolution of the industry which started with MapQuest and melded into Yahoo! Maps which gave rise to Google Maps. At various times of my Internet chronology, I've been an enthusiastic user of each.
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wanna play?

Aleph One :: Marathon Open Source Project: "Do it yourself downloads
Mac download game files download Aleph One and place Aleph One in game files folder
Win + Tux download game files download Aleph One and place game files in Aleph One folder

Mark Newland's (aim samlowrybr) quickstart guide
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Break.com - Funny Pics, Hot Chicks, & Cool Flicks

VERY funny song. Great video!

Break.com - Funny Pics, Hot Chicks, & Cool Flicks: ""

GameFAQs - Video Game FAQs, Cheats, Codes, Reviews, and Message Boards

GameFAQs - Video Game FAQs, Cheats, Codes, Reviews, and Message Boards: ""

Video Game Rentals: Rent or Buy PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, GBA, DS, PSP Games

Video Game Rentals: Rent or Buy PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, GBA, DS, PSP Games: ""

AND PSP movies?

(Via .)

Game Cube LAN online thingy

: "What games can I play online with my Nintendo GameCube?
In order to play online with the Nintendo GameCube, you firstly need a game that will support network play.

Currently, the only "true" online games that have been released for the Nintendo gamecube are the Phantasy Star Online games. These also are the only games that will support both the Nintendo GameCube Broadband Adapater and the Nintendo GameCube Modem Adapter. This is primarily true because all responsibility of hosting and supporting the Phantasy Star Online games is Sega, and they have chosen to run these games as an MMORPG, which implies an additional monthly fee to gain access to their servers and online component.

However, for those that have a game that supports a LAN mode for play, there is an alternative to allow you to play against others online, thanks to Warp Pipe!"

ScummVM :: Home

ScummVM :: Home: "ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!"

PC and Mac applications that every gamer should have

PC and Mac applications that every gamer should have: "

With the next-generation of game consoles just around the corner, the line between PC and console gaming is becoming increasingly blurred. Consoles like the Xbox 360 are borrowing standard PC features like media playback and packaging them in an appealing box, at a lower price than an equivalent PC or Mac. The Xbox 360 is also standardizing features like online game purchasing and wireless controllers. It’s easy to see a future where game developers stray away from the PC as a games platform and stick exclusively to consoles with their simple interfaces and standard features. However, there are still several areas in which the PC has the advantage over game consoles. Some things you can’t do with a game console: create machinima exclusively on the console, download cheat codes, take and share screenshots and chat with large groups of people simultaneously.

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: "In fact, several scientists said, the new work shows just how small a biological difference is reflected by skin color. The newly found mutation involves a change of just one letter of DNA code out of the 3.1 billion letters in the human genome -- the complete instructions for making a human being. "

JesusDressUp.com

Ahahahahahaha!


Fun!

JesusDressUp.com: ""

w e e b l s - s t u f f : P S P

Go here on your PSP and download flash cartoon goodness!

w e e b l s - s t u f f : P S P: ""

Rolling Tiger's Mail back to Panther

Pesky little exercise

Rolling Tiger's Mail back to Panther: "

Filed under: OS, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends

On occasion we've noticed that not everyone is happy with Tiger. Some people have issues with warm PowerBooks, others just don't see the benefit to the hot new features. Fair enough - but what if you're a Mail user? Apple changed the way Mail stores mailboxes and messages with Tiger, and unless your accounts are all IMAP and you're up for re-downloading everything, moving back to Panther's Mail can result in some painful headaches.

Fortunately, Hawk Wings tracked down a thread at Apple's discussion boards that produced a few solutions. The first is a dedicated freeware mailbox converter, the second is an archive script that's part of Mail Scripts, a whole set of handy add-on scripts for Mail which I know we've blogged here before, but I can't find the entry.

Hopefully, these solutions can help you out if Mail was the last piece in your plan for moving back to Panther.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

news @ nature.com - Internet encyclopaedias go head to head

WikiPedia as accurate as Britannica?

news @ nature.com - Internet encyclopaedias go head to head - Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.: "However, an expert-led investigation carried out by Nature — the first to use peer review to compare Wikipedia and Britannica's coverage of science — suggests that such high-profile examples are the exception rather than the rule.
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(Via .)

Projections | Ourmedia

An amazing work by high school students in response to the tragedies in Darfur.

Projections | Ourmedia: ""

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Play this, but only if you have time:

Best Flash Game EVAR: ""

(Via Warren Ellis.)

New York Loves "Brokeback" - Dec 12, 2005 - E! Online News

Movies To see:

New York Loves "Brokeback" - Dec 12, 2005 - E! Online News: ""

(Via .)

Recorded dog laughter calms dogs

Dude, dogs laugh?! I've never heard that before. wild.

Recorded dog laughter calms dogs: "Cory Doctorow:
The dog 'laugh' (a kind of panting made by happy dogs) can calm other dogs when played over a loudspeaker:

They say the long, loud pant is the sound of a dog laughing, and it has a direct impact on the behavior of other dogs...

When they played the sound of a dog panting over the loudspeaker, the gaggle of dogs at the shelter kept right on barking. But when they played the dog version of laughing, all 15 barking dogs went quiet within about a minute.

Link

(via Neatorama)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Free B-Movies for IPod

This is so totally for Royce, Sean, and to a lesser degree, LisaBunny™

Free B-Movies for IPod: "


Public domain Torrents has links to more than 500 movies in the public domain available for download via BitTorrent. Most are compatible with the video iPod.

There's a lot of silent-era stuff, but also a rich vein of kitsch trash, including clunkers from Ed Wood (Plan 9 from Outer Space), George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and a Russian psychotronic/cult/camp sci-fi oddity called Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.

King of Kong Island seems typical.

Glimpses—The Uncanny Valley: "Japanese roboticist Doctor Masahiro Mori is not exactly a household name—but, for the speculative fiction community at least, he could prove to be an important one. The reason why can be summed up in a simple, strangely elegant phrase that translates into English as ‘the uncanny valley’.
Though originally intended to provide an insight into human psychological reaction to robotic design, the concept expressed by this phrase is equally applicable to interactions with nearly any nonhuman entity. Stated simply, the idea is that if one were to plot emotional response against similarity to human appearance and movement, the curve is not a sure, steady upward trend. Instead, there is a peak shortly before one reaches a completely human ‘look’ . . . but then a deep chasm plunges below neutrality into a strongly negative response before rebounding to a second peak where resemblance to humanity is complete.

This chasm—the uncanny valley of Doctor Mori’s thesis—represents the point at which a person observing the creature or object in question sees something that is nearly human, but just enough off-kilter to seem eerie or disquieting. The first peak, moreover, is where that same individual would see something that is human enough to arouse some empathy, yet at the same time is clearly enough not human to avoid the sense of wrongness. The slope leading up to this first peak is a province of relative emotional detachment—affection, perhaps, but rarely more than that."

A more positive view, which I also resonate with:

The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: C.S. Lewis: The way to Narnia: "Above all, the book's central image captivates: a portal into another world, through something as prosaic as a wooden wardrobe filled with stored fur coats and mothballs. Lewis died in 1963, a few years after the last Narnia book ('The Last Battle') was published, but his stories continue to inspire generations of children to enter closets and tentatively reach for a back wall, hoping to feel a gentle drift of Narnian snow."

Poor Aslan. So maligned. And yet, so much i agree with. i always hated the idea that this set of books, that I loved as a child and young adult, were straight allegory of the christian mythos. ah, well. it can still be a fun adventure!

Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | 'Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion': "Over the years, others have had uneasy doubts about the Narnian brand of Christianity. Christ should surely be no lion (let alone with the orotund voice of Liam Neeson). He was the lamb, representing the meek of the earth, weak, poor and refusing to fight. Philip Pullman - he of the marvellously secular trilogy His Dark Materials - has called Narnia 'one of the most ugly, poisonous things I have ever read'.

Why? Because here in Narnia is the perfect Republican, muscular Christianity for America - that warped, distorted neo-fascist strain that thinks might is proof of right. I once heard the famous preacher Norman Vincent Peel in New York expound a sermon that reassured his wealthy congregation that they were made rich by God because they deserved it. The godly will reap earthly reward because God is on the side of the strong. This appears to be CS Lewis's view, too. In the battle at the end of the film, visually a great epic treat, the child crusaders are crowned kings and queens for no particular reason. Intellectually, the poor do not inherit Lewis's earth."