Follow Raph Koster to the rabbithole and also check out his Theory of Fun

"If you suspect that a commercial CD will install software secretly, which you won't be able to remove and which, itself, may increase the already-great security problems of your Windows PC, would you continue to buy CDs?" Full story at pcworld.com

Worldwide database and mapping wireless networks, since September 2001

Yes, we also offer our own feed from icerocket.com now! Check the bar on the left! That "add it to your myyahoo-button" on the bottom is new as well and I finally registered at technorati.com.

Or is it just a new browser?

Interesting new search-engine at snap.com. Worth a try!

Wunderkinder from New York. Some very unusual short animation-clips filed under projects to check out. Via shesaiddestroy.org

"A recent survey suggested that hi-tech jargon is proving tricky for many people to understand. Find out how technically smart you are with our quiz that tests how much you really know about the world of the web and computers." ->BBC

I got 8 out of 10!

"ROME (Reuters) - Sony has apologized for an advertising campaign for its PlayStation game console which featured a young man wearing a crown of thorns with the slogan "Ten years of passion".

Some Catholics were outraged by the adverts, which ran in newspapers and magazines to celebrate the product's tenth anniversary."

(Reuters)

Macgamefiles.com has the demo of Doom 3 with 3 levels.

Old ads for Lisa and her friends. Also hosting: the complete »Lost 1984« clip collection!

Bei mac-essentials.de gefunden, die gerade in die Google-News aufgenommen wurden.

Send a bloody mail!

"If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part."

-> googleblog

Hier: Episode 3, Sega hat was zum lachen und Hillu hat zuerst gelacht.

Wait a minute, is that Chad Kroski?

Ok, nothing new, but great fun over at flickr.com

"Back to the early 80's when the Commodore 64 the most powerful personal computer on the planet and the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a bitter Cold War. Raid Over Moscow played right off these fears and concerns and became one of the best Cold War video games ever made."

I used to play this a lot...

Author Cory Doctorow will do an "in-game virtual booksigning" on July 24: "To do that, readers just have to bring their copy of his book to the event, and set it on a small table in front of Cory. To autograph it, Cory simply has to mouse-click the book, which causes a digitized picture of his real signature (with author's dedication) to be superimposed on the cover. So signing the virtual edition of his book requires about as much effort as it does when he takes pen in hand to autograph the tree-based version."

Dude, that's the punkiest flash i've seen yet! Amazing sound control! Thanks to brante.de for sharing this with us!

"Three North Asian countries are closer to signing a deal to codevelop an open-source operating system to replace Microsoft Windows, according to a Japanese news report. The agreement is likely to be announced this week by Japanese Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma at an economic ministers' meeting in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the report in Japan news daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said, quoting unnamed sources.

The deal is expected to bring together China, Japan and Korea in efforts to develop the software. Representatives from both private and government agencies will meet later this year to discuss the collaboration's terms, according to the report."

taken from cnet

The old computer has a collection of (low quality Real Player-format) TV advertisements from the 1970's and 1980's.

I case you were wondering how to do this! It sounds pretty easy, ha, ha...

Get the original fonts for your own mock-versions of products like Coke, Pepsi, Burger King, McDonalds, Pez, The Matrix etc. Great free collection for Mac and PC. Go to DaFont

"The Chaos Communication Camp is an international, four-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms. The Camp features three conference tracks with interesting lectures, workshops and other stuff.

7/8/9/10th August 2003 near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe)

You can participate! Bring your tent and join our villages. The Camp has everything you need: power, internet, food and fun. The 60.000 square meter areal features enough space to camp and a nice lake to swim and do nautic experiments.

Get in touch : announce@camp.ccc.de Official announcements by the Camp crew giving details on the Camp. To subscribe, send mail to announce-subscribe@camp.ccc.de. This list is read-only.

discuss@camp.ccc.de General discussion about the Camp. To subscribe, send mail to discuss-subscribe@camp.ccc.de. Every subscriber may post."

Get your boarding-pass right here!

Look over here: Voidstar explains feeding your RSS and everything you need to know

Badasschick has developed a way to stop this: "Are you sick and tired of people hot linking your Webam or other images and costing you every month in bandwidth fees? Here is a simple and effective way to put a stop to this using a little known mod in Apache Webserver called mod_rewrite."

Hey, I liked kartoo.com! It uses a bit of Flash, but it makes sense! You get your search-result as a little map with additional info in a side-bar. Give it a try!

One of the most underestimated formats is Quick Time Virtual Reality or QTVR. Even though it's pretty easy to stitch panorama-pictures together and create hotspots for navigation, I haven't seen much original stuff in QTVR. There were some nice experiments with moving pictures inside a QTVR-movie two years ago. Does anyone know what happened to that? Anyway, boingboing.net has posted some cool links with great QTVR-stuff:

Cang Xin - Performance at Casula Powerhouse,

Boy in a bubble,

QTVR blog with more great shit

The inside of someone's mouth

Anatomical QTVR at it's best

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The weather is so bad that I had to get myself a Weatherpixie