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| Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:20 AM |
| All Diggs are Dugg |
 by Fëanor |
- Download Squad has posted a pretty cool security option for those of you who don't like to post your emails for fear of spamming: SpamFreeze. Now, anywhere you'd normally put your email address, you can instead put a special URL which, when visited, will display one of those "type the letters shown here to proceed" things. You know, a human-checker. A Cylon could probably beat it, but as far as I know spambots can't.
- Knitters and gamers, follow this link to fun! You'll find two super-cool items of interest - a Super Mario Bros. 3 scarf and a Space Invaders tote bag. Sweet!
- Speaking of sweet swag, check out this 10GB hard drive that's so small they have to use millimeters when giving its dimensions (40mm x 30mm x 3.5 mm - wolf whistles would be appropriate here). It weighs only a little over 10 grams and, even better, it's part of the Dragon series of hard drives. That's hot. (Via Digg)
- I really like Anthony Freda's paintings. Very cool stuff. Check it out. (Via Backwards City)
- McSweeney's has posted sequels to a few of its old favorites: Klingon Personal Ads is the follow-up to Klingon Fairy Tales, and Journal of a Seasoned COBRA Veteran is the follow-up to Journal of a New COBRA Recruit. I don't think either of the new articles is as funny as its predecessor (although, to be fair, it would be hard to top Klingon Fairy Tales), but their very existence is interesting and amusing in itself, so link them I shall. (Via Backwards City)
- Somebody pulled a fast one on a couple of the major news outlets Sunday and snuck in a story about how Narnia walked out of recent WTO negotiations in Hong Kong. Check the link for more details. Funny and geeky!
- This is pretty cool - a quick and easy search engine specifically for finding album covers. Handy if you want to track down the art for that one CD that you lost the case for, or for that album you bought some tracks from off of the iTunes Music Store. (Via Digg)
- Apparently John Woo's He-Man is still in the works, and its Skeletor is going to be played by John Glover (I forget why, but Yagathai was trying to help me remember who this guy was a few nights ago; all you had to do was say Gremlins 2: The New Batch, man! When I was on a cruise ship one time, I watched that movie like four times). The Movie Blog has a particularly bad picture of the guy for some reason (I didn't recognize him and had to look him up), but I think he could probably pull off Skeletor very well (although Sarcasmo is no doubt wondering, can he sing karaoke?). Speaking of which, I think it's funny that Brunton goes on about how Glover's too good an actor to stoop to being Skeletor in a He-Man movie. Um, dude is Lex Luthor's Dad on Smallville! Was in Gremlins 2! I mean, I like the guy and all, but it's not like it was this or Hamlet at the Globe.
- Another fun iPod accessory! (Via Digg) Maybe I should make a separate blog just for these? Anyways, this time it's special gloves that you can keep wearing even while working the click wheel on your iPod, so you don't have to take them off and expose your hands to the cold when changing the volume or something. Pretty neat idea, and they even look kind of cool, like something from Tron. I'm still waiting for the iPod remote, though, so I can change the volume, skip songs, etc. without having to unzip my pocket, take out my iPod, remove the protective sleeve, unlock it, do the thing, then lock it again, put it back in the sleeve, and then put it back in my pocket.
Oh wait, here's one. Heh. It's a little expensive, though...
- Your FPS sniping skills could use some work, eh? Why not take the quick and easy path (which will get you to the Dark Side eventually, but you were headed that way anyway, so whatever) - draw a crosshairs on your monitor! So simple, and yet so clever.
- The Movie Blog has a link to a very short, very creepy teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro's next movie, Pan's Labyrinth. It's hard to get a real feel for the movie as this teaser includes no dialogue or story, just a few unsettling images and sounds. Still, looks promising.
- How awesome is this? We have a plasma thruster!
The HDLT uses solar electricity from the sun to create a magnetic field through which hydrogen is passed to make a beam of plasma, powering ships through space.
While the plasma thruster has a fraction of the power of the rockets that launch the space shuttle, it uses far less fuel and gets more thrust as a ratio of the fuel it burns, making it ideal for interplanetary missions. Like a mission to Mars, for example. Awesome. (Via Digg)
- Retrievr lets you search for photos on Flickr by sketching them. After fiddling with it a bit, I think the technology's a little clunky and inaccurate as yet, but really it's kind of impressive that it works at all. It's fun to toy with, too. (Via Digg)
- Now that I've mounted the BitTorrent train to large file-ville, I'll need to be able to search for Torrents. The Torrent Search Engine Searcher looks like a good way to hedge your bets and search for them all over the place. Thanks again, Digg.
- The reviews of Hostel are looking surprisingly good. My interest in seeing the film has increased slightly more.
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