Category: Entertainment

  • Internet Archive of spiders

    The Internet Archive contains hundreds or thousands of movies. Today, they show a list of movies specifically about spiders. Weird, isn’t it?

  • 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0, prohibited number

    Since the AACS (the protection of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray against copying) is technically broken, there was only one lock left: after unlocking tools, there was the need for the publication of the needed key to allow easy operation. The MPAA tries to ban this famous key number from the Internet while it keeps popping up…

  • Thelonious Monk on video

    While looking around in a search engine, you may find a few nice things. Today, I stopped by the quite large list of videos listed on Google search engine for the keywords “Thelonious Monk”. The guy was one of the most inventive jazz players. The first time I heard him, I was nearly rocked off…

  • DirectX 10 on WinXP

    Microsoft promised that the new graphics standard for Windows (DirectX 10) will not be applied to anything older than Windows Vista. This was enough to push some people in looking for ways to make it work on Windows XP (WinXP), or on Mac, or on Linux. A guy, named Cody Brocious from San Diego, California,…

  • Genius in the subway

    The Washington Post recently asked Joshua Bell, internationally acclaimed violonist, to go play his Stradivarius in the Washington subway at rush hour. What did you think happened? Nearly nothing, of course. A few bucks of pocket change for a violonist more used to big checks, a few passers-by stopping for a short time, one admirer…

  • Google finds MP3 (legal or not)

    A neat trick that was hanging around the Internet but that I found in Transnets. How to search with Google for the MP3 files of your artist of choice. Use the following search phrase (replacing Roumazeilles with the artist name): {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Roumazeilles”}

  • Matrix 4 – The ATARI-Pong prequel

    Matrix 4 – The ATARI-Pong prequel

    Thanks to XKCD

  • Railroad Tycoon – a simulation game for free!

    If you are interested in the simulation games like Civilization, you may be interested to know that 2K Games is hiding a free download link for the (slightly older) Railroad Tycoon, on the home page of Railroads! web site. Download Railroad Tycoon. Have fun, be free.

  • 5 minutes to kill yourself

    5 minutes to kill yourself

    On a Friday afternoon like today, in the office, you said that you would kill yourself if you were invited in yet another meeting. Unfortunately, the boss invited you to another meeting in 5 minutes. To be true to our word, you have 5 minutes to kill yourself. This is the task assigned to you…