Category: Cool

WAR!

Google War

I just saw this on Tech Drool tonight.

GEwar is the first truly interactive game built using Google Earth. The game itself is fairly simple, but should provide some fun entertainment for you.

The basic idea of the game is this: You build armies to go around the world and capture cities. The cities all have a “value”, which is based on their population. The total value of all of the cities in your control is called your “total value”. The person with the highest “total value” is the one that is currently winning the game (and on top of the top players list). You can attack (and capture) cities using your armies. Armies (and other items) can be purchased using “Geos” that you can earn.

Once I get my PC that runs Google Earth up I’m so playing this.
Google War

OS X on x86

Apple

I’ve founds a bunch of links on how to install the Apple OS X opperating system on a regular PC from from the MAKE blog and from Hackaday. I’m sure there are others out there but if your wondering what all the ruckus is about you can all the details there. Pretty much with some files downloaded from the ‘Net you can cajole a PC into running the developer version of Apple’s OS. Sounds pretty cool to me, except that I don’t think I own any hardware that would run it. I have mostly older Intel chips and what I have that is newer are AMD. I’ll have to do some reading and see if any would have a chance. Not that I’ll act on it, I simply don’t have time these days. Still, it is a cool idea. I have an Apple logo on my laptop’s cover and it would be pretty nifty to have the OS on it too.

Mac OSX x86 on PC
Build Your Own Mac for $199
How-to: Install OS X x86 natively on your PC!
OS X PROVEN hacked and running on an ordinary PC

DIY, mod, hack

A ‘Smart’ Bio-Nanotube

nanotube

Not on the market right now, but once they are treatments that use tools like this could be used to pinpoint toxic drugs directly into a tumor without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue. I suppose that they could also be designed to stay closed until enough of a certain chemical is present in the blood stream or tissues. Think of how that could help an athlete – just as they are starting to cramp up after a very strenuous activity the nano tubes detect the fatigue poisons and open up releasing their payload of refreshing drugs.

The nanotubes are “smart” because they can open or close at the ends, depending on how the researchers manipulate the electric charge on the two components. So in principle, a nanotube could encapsulate a drug or a gene, and then open on command to deliver the cargo where it would have the best effect.

A ‘Smart’ Bio-Nanotube

medical, bio, nano

C64 Animation Gallery

Wheee!

Some are weird, some just don’t make much sense. All bring back fine memories. 🙂

The C64 Animation Gallery is a site that has gathered a lot of different animations from various Commodore 64 games, and also produced some of their own. They also have a section called ‘The C64 Animation Awards’ with prizes for Best Death, Best Dance and Best Explosion among others.

C64 Animation Gallery

Commodore, C64