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Classic Games
If (as I did) you spent any time back in the eighties playing Scott Adams adventure games, you might want to surf over to here and download the games. I remember playing Voodoo Castle on an old Apple ][, and Secret Mission on my Vic 20. Ah… nostalgia…
Ook
2005 Edge Question
The 2005 Edge Question. 120 of the worlds smartest people answer the question “What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It?” Absolutely facinating.
Minty: A free mp3 player
Minty: FOSS hardware and firmware for a tiny mp3 player. I would love to build something like this, but I don’t think my soldering skills are up to such fine work. (Via Adam Curry)
It does exactly what it says on the URL
Still Alive
I’m sorry that this blog has been rather neglected lately. I’ve not died or anything: I’m just rather busy. Normal service will be resumed soon. In the meantime, enjoy the silence.
Happy Solstice everyone!
Our Shame
BBC: “A child still dies of hunger every five seconds”.
Thats 17280 dead children every day. Six world trade towers every day. One every fours hours, day after day after day. Just stop what you’re doing, close your eyes and count the seconds. How did it feel when you got to five?
Now maybe go to here or here or here and make a tiny, insignificant, hopeless difference.
Trouble
We are in big freaking trouble. That the earth has been shown to recover eventually is philosophically comforting, but will be of no practical help to many hundreds of human generations. (Via Slashdot)
War of the Worlds
Heres an interesting archive of classic shows from Orson Welles’s ‘The Mercury Theatre on the Air’ radio show series, in MP3 format. It includes the notorious broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ (mp3) that started mass-panic in parts of the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_radio_broadcast (Their server seems kind of slow, so be kind to it if you intend to download a lot of files)