News 2003-2004
12-31-04
WoW Talent Calculator
12-29-04
Another WoW site, includes locations of NPCs
The
effects of nuclear weapons in space
12-27-04
A good World of Warcraft map site
12-02-04
U.S. Govt. Stipulates Free Annual Credit Reports
11-30-04
Mutual Fund cost calculator
* Also, The 300 Club, and
100 Science related things to do before you die, one of which is to have the
carbon in your remains crafted into a diamond,
woah, I'm not sure I want that... sounds neat though.
11-22-04
Word of the day:
Meme (rhymes with 'dream')
11-12-04
voluntary micropayments,
they're finally getting the point!!
another link
11-11-04
mojoworld, a fractal terrain
modeler capable of generating whole planets.
10-27-04
The worlds first
genetically modified hypo-allergenic cat
10-26-04
movie review search engine
10-25-04
randomwebsite
10-16-04
COH badge descriptions
10-15-04
An interesting
bunch of articles about unix history, by steve parker.
10-11-04
Whew, a long time since I've written. Got a new DSL connection up, and it's fast!
Next project: move cybergoon over to a better, cheaper hosting provider.
Here is an open source tool to translate java
to .NET (also creates .dlls from .jars!)
Another link on what great hackers
are.
10-09-04
I've seen this guy driving around our office
complex in his home made segway, cool!
08-24-04
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Java is the best thing since sliced bread,
but I do think it has its merits, some say that
it
will soon be faster than C, if not already. I still wouldn't write a game
with it though, maybe in another couple of years.
also,
city of heroes guide index
08-17-04
One-Time Pad,
a symmetric, unbreakable cipher.
08-16-04
what NPC's are good for in City of Heroes. Yes, yes,
I know I'm addicted to this game, but I can't help it! :-)
Also, an interesting TP bind:
/bind lshift+lbutton "powexec_name Teleport"
Also,
COH XP table
08-10-04
chat bubble coloring in COH
08-04-04
dvdshrink, a free alternative
to dvdXcopy.
07-23-04
The Physics of Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations
06-29-04
One guys opinion on why micropayments won't work:
Micropayments won't work for 3 reasons:
First, there's too much free content out there. Why the hell would I want to pay to read one assholes opinion, when I can get a hundred free? Moreso, if I want to pay for some assholes opinion, I'm not going to pay a 5 tenths of a cent to view it. I'm going to go out and pick up a newspaper, at least then I know what I'm getting.
Secondly, the cost of hosting a website is decreasing dramatically since technology is getting better and better, while the tech we use to host websites isn't getting any younger. 10 years ago, everyone had dialup. Now most people have DSL. In 10 more years, everyone will have a T1 or better. In 20 more years, everyone will have a T3 or better. Think about that one: I could take thus uber l33t pimped out gaming rig and turn it into a webserver, and just wait for slashdot to try to turn it into smouldering dust on a home connection costing no more than $50 a month.
Finally, and most importantly, it can be hacked. Once we stopped trading with physical objects, nobody knows where the money goes and how much of it is out there. Moreso, how hard would it be to hack the encryped token or anything else that's sent too and fro? Overhead on the server is going to be big. How are they going to stop people from reposting their articles on a mirror? Would royalties get involved then, and then manditory laws for spying on users?
found here,
on slashdot.
06-25-04
factcheck.org, a site devoted to checking the
truth of political advertisements, quotes, etc.
06-16-04
The old new thing, a blog about
technical experiences in microsoft.
06-14-04
City of Heroes zone level
hunting guide, from:
here
*
more stuff
06-10-04
Realism in games is not always good,
another one (also
available from the first link)
06-08-04
lluna, a virtual webpage presence program, based
on the jabber protocol
05-29-04
scripts the ORIGINAL tribes.
05-25-04
dieoff.org, the inevitable end of fossil fuels.
another one: peakoil
05-21-04
super realistic
survival RPG, shareware, but supposedly gameplay up the wazoo!
Also,
getting paid to play games, a quote:
A measure pro-gamers use to gauge ability is APM, or actions per minute. APM is the average number of maneuvers a player can execute in 60 seconds. In Starcraft, most casual players have an APM of between 50 and 70. Mr. Lim has been known to hit 400 APM at some games, or 6.66 moves per second.
05-17-04
Lunarpages.com, a good jsp/mysql web hosting site,
recommended by top10webhosting
05-14-04
future of
weapons
* a home test for parallel universes
* and globalsecurity.org
05-12-04
selling open source
05-11-04
an article on
computer graphics
05-05-04
Word of the day: confabulation
Also, the
nocebo effect
Some old info on the
capital gains tax.
capital gains calculator
04-29-04
michelson-morley experiment, and relativity
04-27-04
Illusions of superluminal
objects
04-24-04
open source games
links from CARP discussion:
04-19-04
more
RISK
stuff
04-14-04
truthout.org
04-12-04
lewrockwell.com, from my buddy scott.
RISK board game odds, reprinted here:
Attacker: one die; Defender: one die:
Attacker wins 15 out of 36 (41.67 %)
Defender wins 21 out of 36 (58.33 %)
Attacker: two dice; Defender: one die:
Attacker wins 125 out of 216 (57.87 %)
Defender wins 91 out of 216 (42.13 %)
Attacker: three dice; Defender: one die:
Attacker wins 855 out of 1296 (65.97 %)
Defender wins 441 out of 1296 (34.03 %)
Attacker: one die; Defender: two dice:
Attacker wins 55 out of 216 (25.46 %)
Defender wins 161 out of 216 (74.54 %)
Attacker: two dice; Defender: two dice:
Attacker wins both: 295 out of 1296 (22.76 %)
Defender wins both: 581 out of 1296 (44.83 %)
Both win one: 420 out of 1296 (32.41 %)
Attacker: three dice; Defender: two dice:
Attacker wins both: 2890 out of 7776 (37.17 %)
Defender wins both: 2275 out of 7776 (29.26 %)
Both win one: 2611 out of 7776 (33.58 %)
04-06-04
A
thought-provoking Iraq article, which, if accurate, puts this whole
thing in perspective. My friend was telling me the other day that he has
a brother in Iraq, and whenever news comes back that an American soldier
was killed, his mom sheds a tear, not knowing if it was her son or not.
This little story is not something that politicians can glaze over or
mangle with double talk, this is something that HE told me directly. This
is a real example of how the war affects our lives. Often times, we
easily forget that this is still a WAR that is going on over there in Iraq.
04-05-04
The cost of the Iraq war
04-03-04
The martial arts of paintball?
suprnova.org
04-01-04
Real Men, forwarded by Lictor.
Army Field manuals, from the same site as 'Tank Platoons', below.
03-31-04
Surviving
without a parachute
03-29-04
running a ssh server on windows
03-28-04
Modern Tank Platoons
03-19-04
GURPS webring
03-09-04
How about this for a unix CLI prompt:
PS1="\w: \`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo :-\\\); else echo :-\\\(; fi\`\\\$ "
gurps character generator
* official one
03-07-04
Guard
impacts in Soul Calibur II
03-05-04
how long would it
take to get to Alpha Centauri?
03-04-04
An interesting bit on memorization
03-03-04
Element based RPG'ing. Following are the elements (emotions):
Anger
Fear
Inspiration
Wonder
Fervor
Lust
Power
Hatred
Peace
Suspense
Foreboding
Anxiety
Panic
Courage
Admiration
Revulsion
Confusion
Worry
Confidence
Guilt
Trust
Joy
Relief
Denial
02-12-04
Medieval: Total War and the Viking Invasion Cheat codes:
.worksundays. = fast build mode. Must have all your build queues empty for this to work. *
.badgerbunny. = all buildings and units are available. You can still only build the units relevant to your faction, even though you appear to have all types available. *
.deadringer. = gives 1 million florins *
.conan. = take control of the rebels
.matteosartori. = reveal the whole map
.viagra. = puts iron in all your provinces
.mefoundsomeau. = puts gold in all your provinces
.mefoundsomeag. = puts silver in all your provinces
.mefoundsomecu. = puts copper in all your provinces
.kidsmode. = makes the AI very easy
.nuttermode. = makes the AI aggressive
02-06-04
good medieval total war unit descriptions
02-05-04
portknocking is an interesting
way of securing your computer from unauthorized users over a network,
another interesting article
01-30-04
The Encyclopedia of Arda
01-29-04
This quote has been circulating around recently:
"In related news, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat
ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it
wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod
as a wlohe."
01-28-04
starcraft strategies
01-26-04
Total Annihilation Maps
* Starcraft replay cafe
12-31-03
good medieval war site
12-24-03
a pretty good political news site
12-22-03
Papercraft,
putting together complex orgami models, sponsored by yamaha, so lots of
motorcycles. Also, groklaw.net.
Also, unix history graph
12-19-03
interesting graph of
the federal deficit. Also lulu.com,
a place for digital content publishing.
Also, a brief history of sword
fighting styles
12-16-03
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the Paranormal
12-08-03
A good interview with Mark Andreessen, the founder of Netscape. A
quote I like from him:
And that's my point about innovation. The trick is finding that one crazy idea.
The problem with crazy ideas, though, is that for every one good crazy idea,
there's a thousand bad crazy ideas. Being insane helps in tech to a point.
But completely insane and you can't get through the day.
12-04-03
An interesting article on software bounties, that is, people post monetary rewards
for implementing certain software features in their favorite software.
11-26-03
humor *
computer-style
11-25-03
Soul Calibur 2 move lists
* another one.
Also, Hibernate, a free persistence
framework for java, like EJB.
11-21-03
medieval total war site
with good tech-trees. * Also an
interesting blurb on how morale is calculated.
* A list of
undocumented features of MTW
11-19-03
an english to latin translator.
The TOAD's blog (aka Ray)
11-13-03
Surround sound without all the speakers. Available for only $800
here
11-12-03
Equilibrium, a cool dystopian
society movie with lots of cool gun battles!
11-05-03
Cougaar, a distributed agent architecture, originally
funded by DARPA for logistics planning, but with many other applications, cool stuff!
10-31-03
WinSCP, a secure sftp/scp windows program.
10-30-03
short range FM
transmitters, local area music broadcasting, cool...
Also, a mp3 player
with similar capabilities.
10-28-03
HiJackThis, A good program to get rid of
random windows registry problems.
10-27-03
good 3rd party site on
Medieval Total War.
10-23-03
Some collected links:
10-08-03
Good freeware image editing program
09-12-03
Here is a good article on
why software
patents are BAD. As much as I like to see the underdog do well against the big
guy, I really don't like this whole IE patent thing:
on slashdot. I mean
I REALLY, REALLY don't like it. Patents should be granted on a HOW, a PROCESS, not a
WHAT, like how most software patents seem to be.. *sigh*...
09-11-03
projectcensored.org, a site devoted to
publicizing important news stories that have been suppressed by mainstream media.
A socialist news website, with a lot of conspiracy
theory articles. I don't know if they are true or not, but if so, help us all...
An interesting blurb
on depleted uranium from the WHO.
09-10-03
nilaihah records, from
an article on slashdot about the RIAA and their suing a 12-year old girl for copying
music. Also, the RIAA radar.
09-09-03
Freenet, a free, encrypted, anonymous
publishing network. Free speech forever!
Also, SVASE, Silicon Valley Association of
Startup Entrepreneurs.
best places to retire, according to MSN... maybe good locations to invest for real
estate.
09-08-03
nebula device wiki
09-05-03
Andrew Sullivan's website, a political blog.
low cost web host
that suports jsp and MySQL.
09-02-03
The Matrix Background Stories
An article on
the rebirth of comics, online style.
Also, a listing of Online Comics Sites
08-29-03
An interesting article
highlighting the engineering process as it relates to the columbia shuttle.
Also,
George Lucas Raped My Inner Child
mailinator.com
08-28-03
popcap games, home of the insaniquarium!!
08-21-03
what cybergoon's currently running on (from netcraft)
Also, how the company Ernie Ball
got fed up with MS, and switched to linux
08-20-03
Some info about Instant Runoff Voting, at fairvote.org.
08-18-03
This is a pointless waste of time
08-14-03
Someday, I'm going to buy my own island:
vladi
* islands for sale
Also, here's an interesting proxy server with content filtering:
privoxy
08-08-03
Finding and dealing with package dependencies in the various linuxes:
- Red Hat: up2date
- Mandrake: urpmi
- Debian: apt-get
- Gentoo: emerge
- SuSE: yast2
Also two sites that offer to help in the creation of a corporation/LLC/
other company: bizfilings *
legalfilings
08-05-03
lots of jokes
07-28-03
corporate pollution watch *
corporate responsibility watch
07-22-03
More micropayments sites/articles:
And an unrelated link, emule.
Also, those stunts in the matrix aren't
that hard to do.
06-18-03
With all the rukus about Gov. Gray Davis, I did some searching on what seems
to be one of the main issues, the energy crisis:
California politics *
on the energy crisis *
time line *
genesis of a crisis
06-13-03
05-29-03
Many more misc links:
05-05-03
Some links that I've accumulated over the past 1/2 month:
04-15-03
experimental info on bell's inequality.
here is another good article on the topic. There is also always
wikipedia
04-11-03
A lot of people have endorsed Deepak Chopra's views recently, myself being more
of a skeptic, have done a little digging for other viewpoints, and come across
the following. I'm not
sure which is "real", and of course, no one can "prove" either viewpoint, in
the end it is a matter of faith...
03-22-03
baghdad blog *
official documents pertaining
to the dropping of the first two nuclear bombs in WWII.
03-18-03
effects of nuclear weapons,
seems like most of the damage is due to the shockwave, I wonder how much less
effective they would be in space?
03-15-03
world of ends, an interesting article
about what the internet IS and what it ISN'T.
java sketchpad, an interesting set of math graphs that you can manipulate.
03-08-03
Some links:
Galactic Civilizations, a good alternative
to moo3.
An interesting
article about pricing, or how companies determine the prices for their
products.
02-06-03
private venture to build a space elevator NICE!!
01-28-03
buskpay.com, an interesting micropayment site
01-23-03
guide to lockpicking
* top 10 web-design mistakes
01-16-03
dual booting redhat linux and windows xp
* another potentially useful link
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