Some of you may already know this game: Line Rider. If not, check it out, although I must warn you of extreme addiction potential.

Then, take a look at this and mourn the days and weeks somebody must have spent doing this:

Translation the easy way

Nice.

clipped from www.overheardintheoffice.com 9AM The Global War on Terror Hits Another Snag Tech #1: There. Translations are done. All nine languages. Tech #2: That was fast. I didn't even know you spoke Arabic much less any of the others. Tech #1: It's easy -- just highlight the text and change the font. Tech #2: What?! Tech #1: Yeah. We should hear back from the Army in a day or so. I went ahead and sent the new files off. Tech #2: [Huge sigh.]

Discovered this yesterday (even though it's been around for quite some time) and think it's pretty cool: Twitter is basically a mini-blog you set up where your posts can't be longer than 140 letters and are supposed to be answering the question "What are you doing?"



You then hook up with friends and can see what they're doing pretty much in real-time, depending on what you want (too many friends and it might be information overload - you can just scale back then). For example, I learned today that Mikey is trying to learn Spanish on his way to work. Nice.



The idea is simple enough that I could easily see it becoming the Next Big Thing™.



Anyhow, sign up and then add me as your friend so we can keep each other updated on what's going on. :)



See the "badge" at the top of my sidebar to see what I've been doing all day, for example.

For a couple weeks now I've been using Lifehacker's Trusted Trio method to keep my GMail inbox clear, and it's worked great - one more reason why Lifehacker has become one of my favorite blogs to date! The idea is quite simple:



For every single email you get, you as soon as possible get out of your inbox and place it into one of three "bins" (which can be folders in Outhouse Outlook, or, even better, labels in GMail): Action (stuff I need to read and/or reply to!), Hold (stuff I need to be able to keep on the back burner and keep an eye on, like emails I'm waiting on a reply for), or Archive (pretty much everything else that isn't spam or "funny" jokes forwarded by co-workers, you can just delete those). Since placing an email into one of those three options doesn't take a lot of time at all (meaning you usually don't have to even read the whole email to be able to categorize it) - poof! Your inbox is cleared very quickly, also you have a nice handy email "to do list" lying in your Action bin for you to "get done".



Check it out, this is what an empty inbox looks like - beautiful, isn't it?

Some smart guy somewhere figured out Google can sometimes have a higher resolution of satellite images than what you can access on the Google Maps tool. If you manipulate the URL a little, sometimes you can zoom even further in.

For example, get ready for your jaw to drop. Hwhoah.

Now just think what the military can see if they want, I bet they could count my nostril hairs if I looked up like the guy near that well. Of course, I do have a pretty big nose.

NETBible

I just discovered the "NET Bible", a Bible translation specifically developed in order to be a freely quotable, online or downloadable Bible.

I just read their Daily Reading today, which was Judges 1-4, and was pretty impressed by the translation. It seems to have been designed to be first precise, then readable, but with great commentaries any time any translation is disputed in any way.

They have tons of other cool stuff, like really awesome word studies, also you can download the whole thing for free.

Check it out:

NETBible

Well, wonderful - using the Clipmarks apparently got me marked as a spam blog which means I can't post posts until Almighty Google Man checks to make sure I'm not a spam blog. I think the reason is that their wonderful and good-looking AI (you listening, AI?) detected that the clip was copy-pasted automatically from a different page.

Anyhow, what I was GOING to post was a link to this pretty cool physics flash game where you keep removing sticks from a tower built of sticks. The tower responds in real-time. Anyways, check it out (whenever this post gets posted):

Stick Remover

*sigh*

Gotta love it when you're at the receiving end of a false-positive anything.

This is just a test of the Clipmarks plugin (http://www.clipmarks.com), let's see how this works. ;)

The idea of the plugin is pretty dang cool, this lets me clip and paste from within Firefox directly to the blog and also my own clippings page.

clipped from www.quotationspage.com

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

Samuel Goldwyn
US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 - 1974)

Family Picture 2/2007

Family Picture 2/2007
Originally uploaded by epaga.

This is our latest family picture. Enjoy.

This is just too cool - a group at the University of Washington made a tool which can create 3D-views of things, say the Notre Dame, by automatically extracting 3D details from pictures. You can then view the object from any perspective and the tool interpolates between the pictures.

Frikkin' awesome. Check out the movies especially. Photo Tourism