Quadrant 99

YouTube - Silent Star Wars

• Spiderman 3 - May 4
• iPhone - June
• WWDC - June 11
• Harry potter book - July 21
• Leopard - Oct

Test post from TextMate. TextMate has a blogging bundle and I had no idea .

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WP Themes .Info : WordPress Themes for Free Download ! : » MistyLook Version 2 - The new theme and this entry is an aside :-).

I put a new theme up (for those with RSS readers, you will have to visit the actual web site *gasp*!).

The new theme has asides, which I like, but have been too lazy to ever put them in. So the theme has em already.

360 HD-DVD for $200 in U.S. - Kotaku

Microsoft has confirmed what a lot of us suspected today, the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player will sell for $199.99 here in North America starting in “mid-November.”

OneMoreLevel.com - The Package - This was fun. It’s a flash game and you have to defuse a bomb. My guess is you’d have to be a geek (or nerd ) to get this.

I played twice. The first time I made it to the end, but got it because I guessed. The second time, I figured it out. Guessing isn’t any fun, so try and figure it out :-). I ain’t talkin’!

Found via digg.com

OKCupid! The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test -

The real question you have to ask yourself, however, is: what are you? Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Yes, friends, there is a difference, and this test will ultimately, finally and conclusively answer that question in the eyes of God and man.

A buddy of mine were talking about this very issue yesterday. He’s lost his geekiness (me thinks). Hopefully, he’ll see this post and take the test himself. That is assuming he still uses a web browser for fun.

Found on digg.com

See my results after the break

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This is pretty neat. Just grab a mouse and draw. Anyone else on the same web page can do the same thing. I drew a silly smiley face and someone else followed suit.
Eric Deis - Beauty and Chaos - Online Drawing

found via digg.com

The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II for Xbox 360 Review

And, yes, the big surprise is that here’s a real-time strategy game that works on a console, and the world didn’t come to an end.

I am very pleasantly surprised. Playing the demo with the tutorial really shows that a console controller can do an RTS game. I didn’t think there was anyway in heck it would work well.

Try the demo before you buy though. It’s very different than a keyboard and mouse. There’s a chance you may not like it (that’s what demos are for.)

Miss me? I’ve upgraded to the latest WordPress and cleaned up a few draft things I had been working on. Also, played around with some themes and even tried this new fangled widget sidebar things. I have to say, I like the widgets. Very neat idea although installing was a bit of a hassle (nothing major, just detailed in where stuff had to be copied). Hopefully, widgets will be standard in 2.1.

Perhaps, I’ll post more now. Maybe not ;-).

I figure I should give this a whirl. MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software if enough people create a blog entry.

The software they are giving away (again, if there’s enough entries) is SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys. If you’d like to participate, all the information can be found here: BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com

I used to use SubEthaEdit when it had a different name and sadly, my memory has glitched up and I can’t remember what the thing was called. If ya know what it is, put it in a comment for me.

Anyway, if you’re a blogger go read Maczot and make an entry in your blog with their requirements, so we can get freebies :-).

INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK ||| MONO*CRAFTS

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

gHacks » 5 Best Freeware Games of 2005 - Free games that look interesting. One works on a Mac and the others look like it’s windows only.

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.

Hello out there.. is this thing on? (tap tap)

This place has been pretty dead except for comments and comment spam. Stupid fart knocker spammers. I spent alot of time deleting and cleaning up the comment system and even shutting it off until Matt from WordPress created this plugin: Akismet. I stuck that puppy in and it took most all the work out of managing the comments.

I even tried a new theme for awhile, but since most of my friends use RSS readers, that was rather pointless. It was mostly to see how the themes actually installed (I hadn’t done one before.)

Next up, WordPress 2.0 was released. The new features are very nice along with a great update to the admin panels. I won’t bore you with all the details, but it’s definitely worth the upgrade time and effort (it’s free :-)).

I’ve installed it and it even comes with the Akismet plugin already build it. You just have to activate it. So for now, all is well. (Crossing fingers and one eye for luck.) I may even update the theme again.

Entertainment News Article | Reuters.co.uk - I wonder what this could mean for folks with a bad eye.

Will this new 3-D moving making thing be so big, that in 10 years everything will use it? Having only one functional eye, prevents me from ever finding out what is so great about this.

I suppose it’s selfish, but part of me doesn’t ever want to see this happen. I will probably never be able to experience or enjoy them and they could be so popular (who really knows at this point?) that movies of today could go away (like black and white).

Knowing full well that’s the wrong attitude and that it could be an experience millions could enjoy, I do hope they have some provision for single eye’d folks to be able to enjoy these films.

Have you ever watched a cheesy 3D movie released on TV? or closed one eye while wearing those blue and red glasses from hell?

This was taken in July of 2003. It is the tire to my Ford Explorer with a cute couple parked on it.

It kinda looks like they are 69′ing :-). Click on the image for a bigger version.

If I ever see two of these bugs that are the same color connected to each other…