Archive for April, 2006

The Origins Of Letters

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

If true this is interesting. Some people are now thinking that the shapes of letters have their origin in shapes in nature. [LINK]

Bridge Construction Kit

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

This is pretty neat, although I haven’t tried it yet. A Bridge Construction app that lets you test out your own designs for bridges.

Tomb Raider Legend’s Inspiration

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

In the latest Tomb Raider game “Legend” you play Lara Croft who finds out that her father was looking for King Arthur’s sword excalibur. By the end of the game you find the sword. Now…
Rewind back to 1997 when a little known game was released called Excalibur 2555 A.D. which is about:
Excalibur 2555 AD is […]

Videogames I liked

Friday, April 28th, 2006

A friend asked me today to recommend a game for her to play so I made a list of games I’ve played that I really enjoyed. These are in no particular order.
Eternal Darkness - Gamecube
Maniac Mansion - Commodore 64
Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders - Commodore 64
Tomb Raider 1 - Playstation
Tomb Raider 2 - Playstation
Duke […]

Marilyn Monroe Exhibit is a FRAUD

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

There’s a traveling exhibit proclaiming to show some of Marilyn Monroe’s personal artifacts that’s going around the world as of late.
It’s a fraud.
Read about it here.

Advertisement Disclaimers

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

I was doing an advertisement for a VERY large company and they asked that a very specifically worded disclaimer go after the video advertisement and emailed me the copy to dump at the end of the clip. Reading this disclaimer made me realise just how much large companies will distance themselves from ANY liability at […]

Lara Croft and Repairman Jack

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Ok this is an overly geeky thought but I’d really like to see a crossover novel with Lara Croft (those novels sucked however almost as much as the film adaptations) and Repairman Jack.
Geeky yes. But if F. Paul Wilson wrote it it would be a lot of fun since Lara and Jack deal with […]

Message Board’s and Silly People

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

I stumbled across this on a message board and it struck me as incredibly silly.
“As one of the few people on Earth who undrstands The Matrix, I find it easy to believe that the ‘Real World’ itself is also a simulation. In fact, the movies practically shout it out to you.”
Ha.

Crow makes a hooked tool

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

This just blew me away. A Crow not only uses a stick as a tool, something fairly common amoung animals, but this one bends the end into a hook.

Welcome to Moe’s!

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

If late one rain threatened Friday night, Taco Bell pulled up to a curb starkly lit only by one dying streetlight and rolled down it’s window as a lace-net stocking clad and pleather-wrapped 46 year old woman named Subway saunted up and asked if he was looking to party, then after a violent sweat-glistened 14 […]