Archive for March, 2006

Oblivion

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

On Friday I finally got my copy of Oblivion (thanks Amazon for taking so long on this one…). Anyway, I’ve been a big fan of the previous Elder Scrolls games (starting with Arena about 13 years ago) and really look forward to playing this latest installment. Rather than bore everyone else with this (as I [...]

Who needs P2P when we have Google?

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Here’s a cool way of using Google to find MP3s. Essentially, it’s a simple matter of using a query like the following:

intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”Keyword” -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified”

(replace Keyword with the name of an artist, song, etc.)

There are a whole bunch of similar (and other) Google tricks on this website.

Update: The following two [...]

Google Mars

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

It hasn’t been officially announced yet, but as reported by this blog post, Google has launched a new service: Google Mars

It’s just like Google Maps, except that it allows you to view Mars (doh!). There are three different views: Elevation, Visible, and Infrared. There are also clickable landmarks for the various successful and unsuccessful Mars [...]