Archive for August, 2005

Biggest Spider I’ve Ever Seen

A huge camel spider has some lunch. This one’s for Skeenes. read more | digg story


TRUE hi-res photos of Katrina

I have seen several stories about “high resolution” photos of Katrina. This is a real high resolution photo, 6200×8000 pixels. It’s one of several photos of Katrina located in this gallery http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/ Be ready to wait on that one though. It took me awhile to get. It is 8 meg in file size. read more | digg [...]


Highlights of Hollywood’s Fall Film Lineup – Yahoo! News

Link: Highlights of Hollywood’s Fall Film Lineup – Yahoo! News. This is a nice little rundown and synopsis of the upcoming movies for the next couple of months.


Apple Wants You To Try a Mac Mini for Free for 30 Days

Yes, you read that right, yep, Apple is offering a 30 day money back guarantee on the Mac mini. Good if you want to try a unit out. read more | digg story


Lifehacker

Link: Lifehacker. I have only recently found this site. I had heard of it before, but had not ever actually looked into it. It is a really great site. Here is what it says on their site as to what they are all about.     Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends [...]


Katrina: things get worse in New Orleans

Link: Boing Boing: Katrina: things get worse in New Orleans. Here is a link to an update about the storm as well as some links to pictures from people near the storm. Rough stuff down there.


New Orleans web cams

Not to be a ghoul, and I do certainly hope and pray that everyone stays safe through Hurricane Katrina. That being said, if youâ��re interested in seeing the fury of mother nature first hand, here are some working web cams in the area. read more | digg story


Memoirs of a Geisha Trailer

Link: Memoirs of a Geisha Trailer. It looks like a good film. It is one that I will keep my eyes on for sure.


Steve Carrell Might Rule the World

Link: Cinematical. Yes, he is the 40 year old virgin, but he was in movies before that. One such movie is Bruce Almighty. And it looks like there is going to be a sequel to Bruce Almighty that Steve Carrell might be the star of. Sweet.


The end of VHS Tapes

Link: Cinematical. Neat article about how it the VHS tape isn’t long for this world. I am phasing out my VHS tapes quickly.