April 2006

The Archives

• History & Anthropology

  The dead city of Pripyat

  04.26.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. I was unaware of this until I heard it this morning on the radio while driving to work. Completely by coincident, a friend of mine and I were looking at pictures of the dead city of Pripyat yesterday, a city in northern Ukraine. Pripyat was evacuated [...]

• Gaming Culture

  My favorite video games list

  04.22.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I was sitting at Meg’s the other night looking through her rather extensive game collection. Lately she’s been on a retro-gaming kick, snatching up all the classic rpg’s she can get her hands on. She’s been wading through sites like Amazon and Ebay searching for those obscure titles such as Suikoden I & II, Secret [...]

• Humor

  Firefox commercial. Too funny

  04.14.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I laughed my ass off for five minutes straight when I saw this. I had to post it. I suppose it may not be quite as funny if you don’t use Firefox. Then again…

  Firefox commercial

• Cyberculture & the Net

  The Google Calendar is finally here

  04.13.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  And it looks pretty good. Check it out for yourself. I’ve been messing around with it for the past 20 minutes. I really like the interface, smooth and silky. The only thing I didn’t see was an iCal feature. But then again it is only hour one of its release. I’m sure Google has a [...]

• Life Unplugged

  The new command center

  04.08.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station. Well it’s not quite as cool as the Death Star, but it’s got about as much computing power.
  If you recall, back in October, I experienced the great cellar flood of 2005 which single handedly wiped out three of my four computers. [...]