Quadrant 99

Just what it says.

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Animal Crossing gift available for download - DS Fanboy - It’s goofy stuff like this that make me want to try this Animal Crossing stuff.

DS Wireless stuff is pretty neat. A buddy of mine finally has a DS and we unlocked a Nintedog with each other recently. Kinda cool, but I didn’t like the dog I got! He got a cool mini-daucshund out of the trade.

How to Use Notepad to Create a Log File

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Bitpress - Pretty cool movies of bullets going through stuff in slow motion.

LEGO.com Star Wars Anakin Animation - Must see Lego TV

Spacewar! - This was probably the first video game I remember playing. The link here shows the orginal game before it was turned into a quarter sucking fest. A link at the site has a java applet that plays the game too.

I used to play this with my grandfather whenever we went to the mall for arcade games. Each quarter upped the time limit to the match, if I remember correctly. It even had a ship that looked like the Asteroid’s ship and another ship that looks like the Enterprise.

I’ve yet to see a remake that emulates it like the arcade. Nothing has come too close yet. (sounds, parts of the ship blowing off, etc.) The arcade version let you blow up part of the ship and still play (ie. an engine could be blown up, but you could still fire.) Not sure if the above applet has it because it’s hard to play alone before the other ship gets sucked into the sun.

Motion Induced Blindness Wow - this is freaky.

I’ve seen stuff like this before, but this one creates the illusion better than the others.

Google Sightseeing - This has to be one of the neatest weblogs out there.

It’s a site that uses Google maps to view some nifty locations.

M&M’S® Chocolate MPire M&M’s… Star Wars… lol

Found this via a mailing list.

Mac Rumors: Apple To Buy TiVo?I typically don’t believe the rumor mill stuff. This; however, would be the coolest thing and just plain fun to imagine. I have similar fantasies about that Apple cell phone (iPhone or whatever.)

Imagine the possibilities with Apple’s product design and my favorite PVR. Who knows what they could come up with.

Perhaps an iTunes like thing for movies and watching on the TiVo. If they jumped into On Demand HDTV programming with a simple interface, I think they’d have a neat market.

After all, iTunes worked. It’s very successful. The could completely replicate the business model. Down to the point of being able to burn DVD’s of the movies (just as we are able to burn normal audio CD’s of iTunes Store music).

If I keep fantasizing like this, I am going to need a paper towel.

Mattel Armor Battle - I had one of these!! Very cool to find photo’s of the game. My unit was left out in the car while at a water park in Florida. It didn’t survive.

A buddy of mine had the submarine one I think. Mattel Sub Chase His was in the car too, but I don’t the sun melted his. This was a long ass time ago and I barely remember.

Update: I also had this one… Mattel Football II. It was pretty cool too. These were all about the same time frame. It might have been in the car too :-). It survived and I may even still own this one. There are plenty more pictures and descriptions at this site. Electronic Handheld Game Museum

World of Warcraft Community Site - World of Warcraft (WoW) has been released. I played the open beta and was very impressed with the interface and the gameplay.

There is a couple of guilds that are comprised of gay or gay friendly member already. I may seek them out, but for now, I’d just like to meet some other players and nothing too formal like a guild yet.

So, if anyone is gay or gay friendly, drop a comment here and maybe we can all hook up (heh) in the game.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger due on June 30, 2005? | MacMinute News - Well, I guess they are playing it safe. Nutz, I was looking forward to that rumor about January. Then I Amazon had it set to March 30th.

Paper Mac’s Origami “Make your own Mac” @ The Apple Collection

Apple extends Panther promo; Tiger due in January? | MacMinute News - This would be great news. Java 5 or 1.5 (or whatever the freakin’ thing is called) is supposed to be available with the Tiger OS X release.

CreativeBits: OS X: Zoom in on your screen - It’s neater than I thought it would be. The link also mentions how to do the negative colors thing. Really nice for black background web sites that drive me nutz!

eBay item 2256298346 (Ends Jul-31-04 01:00:00 PDT) - The K.I.T.T. car from Knight Rider - I want him :-).

Found via: Photo Matt » Unlucky In Cards

I am connected to the web, via my bluetooth phone (Nokia 3650) and my PowerBook. This gets the geekiest thing I’ve done in the past month award.

Q&A: Performance Art from Microsoft

I want this mouse! - It symmetrical meaning I can use it with either hand (yes, I go both ways. :-))

It even comes in orange, as well as blue. The strip down the center lights up, too.

News - How much longer will people stick with Microsoft with stuff like this out there? I’m sure the virus writers focus on Microsoft due to popularity, but I really think Microsoft makes it easy for them. I am glad the article points folks to other browsers though. I do not think a majority of internet users know there are alternatives.

Security experts noted that users can avoid the exploit by using alternative browsers such as Mozilla and Opera. Users could also turn off the “Javascript” feature on their Microsoft browsers, though doing so cripple functions on some sites.