Star Wars pic caption contest

Filed under: Cool Sites — ej2 at 12:14 pm on Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Silly little Jedi…

(found via TraviBlog)

Old school gaming

Filed under: Cool Sites,Retro Gaming — ej2 at 11:58 am on Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Liberated Games has tons of free games to download! All 100% legal! Great classics like: Doom, Quake, Civilization: Call to Power 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Grand Theft Auto, and lots more. Anandtech has a similar list with different games.

Debunking the 9/11 Conspiracies?

Filed under: Conspiracy Theories — ej2 at 4:36 pm on Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Popular Mechanics examines popular conspiracy theories about Sept 11th. I have written about some of these theories before. Page 6 of the article addresses the Pentagon attack. It amazes me that one little picture of a scrap of metal is consider enough evidence that an 80 ton 757 airplane hit the Pentagon. The Progressive Mind examines the PM article and finds a number of flaws in their arguments. rense.com also has a write up on the PM article:

The Pentagon parking lot video tape (which strangely fails to show a large Boeing aircraft) does show a huge white explosion-the unique sign of high explosives. An aircraft laden only with fuel gives off the red and black signature only-nothing white or bright.

There are lots of unanswered questions about the attacks on September 11th and PM doesn’t answer any of them. They focus on debunking only those theories that are the weakest and fail to address any of the difficult questions.

Found via metafilter (excellent discussion can be found here too)

More links to info on 9/11 Conspiracies:
pentagonstrike.co.uk
911review.org
cassiopaea.org
WhatReallyHappened.com

History of Morrowind

Filed under: Game Development — ej2 at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Metafilter has some great links and discussion on Morrowind and it’s obscenely gargantuan backstory. That game is truly awe inspiring.




MS Conspiracy

Filed under: Conspiracy Theories — ej2 at 1:14 pm on Monday, February 7, 2005

We all know Windows has more than it’s share of bugs and security holes. But have you ever wondered, if:

1. Microsoft, was secretly spying on end-user machines?
2. Big Brother deployment scenarios were real?
3. M$ Windows was a type of bugging device?

Then Top 47 Windows bugging functions, is for you my friend.

The author suggests that alterations to M$ Windows may have coincided with antitrust cases and the reversal of the ruling to split Microsoft into two companies. Which then leads him to the question was Microsoft hijacked by the US government, CIA or NSA?

Some of the points he brings up are definitely true and easily provable. Some require futher research to validate. If anyone knows of any articles or research that can prove or disprove any of this article, I would love to see them.

And for those who are still running Windows 9x: Microsoft’s Really Hidden Files

Better be safe and switch to Linux… or OSX