Now you can fly around cities like New York, London, Tokyo, and Paris with this flight sim. All powered by Google maps. Oh yeah, you can fire at the ground with the space key.
Category: Computers
WEB2DNA – Convert your website into DNA art
Quite cool.
The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of structure.
H1 is brighter than H2, which is brighter than H3.
TABLE is brighter than TR, which is brighter than TD tags.
Images and flash elements appear as 70% white.
New HTML tags like STRONG and EM is brighter than older ones like B and I
UL, OL and DL is brighter than their LI, DT, DD
DIV layout is brighter than table layout
Basically a semantically rich site will appear brighter than one with messy old-style code.
What a clever way to check a web page’s design structure out.
[via MAKE]
Millions of OLPC Laptops Ordered
I’m all for kids having the option to better themselves through technology but these things have access to the Internet right? And a million of them have been ordered by Nigera? Umm, can you say ‘biggest scam mill on the planet? I hope not. I’m sure this won’t happen but you have to admit, it makes good Internet…
Four countries commit to buying 4 million Linux-powered OLPC laptops
Classic Plastic – Handheld Games of Yesteryear
This site brings back some fond memories of trying to get and LED from one end of a screen to another. Hey, it was fun when I was a kid.
[via ektopia]
HANDHELDEN © 660 handheld and tabletop games from the 1970s and 1980s
Valve’s Portal
This should make the game play a bit more fun in a first person shooter. The gun shoots doors. no, not like the gun will only blow away doors, it makes doors that are connected. Shot one makes the exit, shot two makes the entrance. See? Check the video out if you don’t understand it.
(Thank you Kevin for this link, there’s an extra clip and a med pack for you on the break room table.)
Automating Bit Torrent Downloads
Not that I’d ever suggest that one should infringe on a copyrighted work, but if your going to do it you might as well do it with gusto. This is a short tutorial on how to set up your favorite bit torrent down loader to automatically grab torrents that are hit by a filtered feed of a servers RSS feed. This is aimed at getting anime shows but I think you could adapt it to your tracker of choice. I bet if you did this and left home on a long weekend your computer would run out of drive space. That’s just a guess.