Monthly Archives: December 2004

Fun & Games December 1, 2004 posted by

Art.Com

Art.com’s ArtPad is cool, not just because you can create masterpieces online with very little effort. But also because you can triumphantly email the results to all your friends and display them in a museum setting all framed up nice and lovely. Totally addictive fun. See how good the Ferret is? (it’s the middle piece, silly!)

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Bookmark This! December 1, 2004 posted by

Music Map.

Music-Map. Very cool. Like MusicPlasma.  The closer two artists are, the greater the probability people will like both artists. (needs a little time to organize) Click on any name to travel along.

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hmm..interesting December 1, 2004 posted by

Arcade to go.

Next Arcade offers an interesting twist for gamers. It’s basically a downloadable arcade game service which offers arcade games via a Game Club. For $6.95 a month payable annually you get a free controller to plug into your PC, and a choice of games to download and buy. Problem is that I didn’t see any real hotshot games, but maybe that’s because it’s early days.  The Desktop Game Manager is designed to deliver the most exciting downloadable games to your computer, and…

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Bizarre December 1, 2004 posted by

Flap n’ Fly.

Da Vinci’s Ornithopter almost airborne? Yowsers.  Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized a self-powered flying machine that would achieve both lift and thrust with flapping wings alone and named it the “ornithopter”…Once the prototype has flown, and some five million additional dollars raised, the group plans to build an entirely new thoroughly flight tested machine specifically for the Olympic Games in February 2006.

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hmm..interesting December 1, 2004 posted by

Reality check.

The Reality Clock.  For several years World Alert, LLC, has been gathering statistics on all kinds of information, from the most serious issues challenging the world, to the mundane and absurd.

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