2008-10
§ nVidia Geforce graphics cards - free promotional download for Unreal Tournament players (Oct 2008)
> see "the force within" technology promo site (U.S.A. focused) @ http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/
Also, FYI, newEgg is doing some good deals on nvidia cards right now : lots of rebates from $30 to $60 and up...
§ Free Personal Web Server (Oct 9, 2008)
Recommended utility / free download of the month: The Abyss Free Web Server
file under: freeware, utilities, tools
Even if Windows _didn't_ decide to remove the web server from most versions of Vista, this free software would _still_ be worth the download! (as MS's web server was always an unnecessarily-difficult-to-configure piece of garbage anyway...)
. . . READ MORE > (+ download link )
2008-08
§ at&t : The Magic Revenue Model of Hidden Fees ( Aug 21 , link fixed: Sept 9 )
§ Fable 2 Screenshots (official site)
§ Venture Brothers
The Venture Brothers (on AdultSwim) has, in Season 3, gone from 'interesting-and-sometimes-amusing' to often bordering on brilliance !
Let me give you an example. A recent episode featured or referenced the following:
- Oscar Wilde
- Allister Crowley
- Eugene Sandow, a.k.a. Friederich Wilhelm Müller
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Mark Twain
- The Da Vinci Code
- The painting that was used as a basis for "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"
- et al.
There's actually many, many more cool puzzles and references; you should tune in and see how many you get.
bonus: Doc Hammer's work (mostly oil painting) at the "deviantart" website.
§ New NIN Albulm, "The Slip" : available now
| Buy the Album: |
Listen / Buy mp3: IE users: click twice to listen! |
§ Horray! I win again!
Search Engine: Google Image Search ;
Search Terms: "old white castle" , "Xiphos" [ http://www.google.com/images?q=xiphos ] , et al. :-)
April 2008 -
Some filler TV (I'll turn this into something eventually, honest):
What is Amazon Kindle?
It's like a Tivo for books ...
Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight.
Update, MAY 3rd, 2008: KINDLE IS NOW ACTUALLY IN STOCK
AND SHIPPING FROM Amazon!
Unlike the last 5 months, you can actually order (and get) this product now.
Kindle customers, no matter where they are in the U.S., can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store and download new content all without a PC or a WiFi hot spot. Amazon pays for Kindles wireless connectivity so there are no monthly wireless bills and no service commitments for customers. The Kindle Store contains over 90,000 books that can be purchased and delivered wirelessly to Kindle, each in less than a minute. Customers can choose from hundreds of top newspapers, magazines and blogs and have their subscriptions auto-delivered wirelessly. All New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
At 10.3 ounces, Kindle is lighter and thinner than a paperback book, holds two hundred books in memory, and includes built-in access to The New Oxford American Dictionary and wireless access to the Earths biggest (but most dubious) encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org.
see also: lyberty store
March 2008 ~ Rest In Peace, Netscape Web Browser...
.... sorry about your association with AOL. You really were a good browser, back in the day...
(figure: click to enlarge)
February 28, 2008
Google has officially announced the launch of "Google Sites for Business" by moving the project out of Beta... (I haven't checked yet, but this probably means it's no longer free.) » Watch Features Video.
As you may or may not recall from my blog (or other sources), there's a small group of people who have been waiting to find out what Google was going to do with its acquisition of JotSpot...
February 9, 2008 - sharing a Vuze video
They actually only give you a sample:
To download the full version visit vuze.com
[ test of Vuze internet video sharing: www.vuze.com ; Vuze requires "Java 6" ]
Jan somthing or other, 2008
January 11, 2008 ~ free online games
flash game recommendations (from MORGON and SESLAR) :
January 10, 2008 ~ Game Console Buying Decision Tree
blogger cred & demo >> ROCKETBOOM.com/vlog
January 9, 2008 ~
I was reading some CES (Consumer Electronics Expo) coverage on Engadget (a blog site on tech toys) and the following occurred to me:
A Philosophy of Modern Blogging
You can either be a person who makes news, or you can be a person who tries to sell something, or you can be a person who just repeats what the people who are doing something have told you.
And, if you can't tell, the latter is what most of the current bloggers do (present company included).
Or, to put it another way:
Those who can do, do. Those who can't do, blog.
- ©2008*, Lyberty
(*but you can quote me)
* note: I'm kidding. See chilling effect dot org. Attribution is nice though. It's good karma.
January 9, 2008 ~
Southern Oliva Munn, now with funny! (lyberty.com original content)
<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IRV0yEvn1co"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IRV0yEvn1co" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>
~ YouTube Honors for This Video (10 Jan, 2008) ~
#36 - Most Discussed (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#29 - Most Viewed (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#35 - Top Favorites (Today) - New Zealand
#4 - Top Favorites (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#11 - Top Rated (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#69 - Top Rated (This Week) - Comedy - New Zealand
~ Honors for This Video (12 Jan, 2008) ~
#12 - Most Discussed (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#42 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Comedy - New Zealand
#60 - Most Linked (Today) - New Zealand
#8 - Most Linked (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#78 - Most Linked (This Week) - Comedy - New Zealand
#77 - Most Viewed (Today) - New Zealand
#7 - Most Viewed (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#52 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Comedy - New Zealand
#35 - Top Favorites (Today) - New Zealand
#2 - Top Favorites (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#9 - Top Favorites (This Week) - Comedy - New Zealand
#78 - Top Favorites (This Month) - Comedy - New Zealand
#12 - Top Rated (Today) - Comedy - New Zealand
#65 - Top Rated (This Week) - Comedy - New Zealand
January 7, 2008 ~
CES 2008: " I . AM . HOST"
> more vids from G4 @ CES (new window)
direct link to webpage for video featured above: http://www.g4tv.com/pile_player.aspx?video_key=19682
Jan 7 2008 ~ LEGO BATMAN (preview)
(upcoming video game)
> more (screenshots courtesy FileFront.com)
lego bat man villan villain killer croc lizard man:
1 January 2008 - Hey Amigo ..., or, if you prefer, ...
> cuteness break ... >
December 31, 2007:
Midnight Time Chart for the U.S.A.
Dec. 30, 2007:
aparin.com > Armchair for the Poet
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FLOATING INTRODUCTION (circa 2004/2005 ) :
"Blog" is short for "web log". Per the original definition, "Weblogs are often-updated sites that point to articles elsewhere on the web, often with comments, and to on-site articles."
Web logging should not be confused with writing Online Journals, Online Diaries, political commentary pages, or other dated-format web pages. Consider the difference between the definitions of the word "journal" and the word "log"-- a log is a regular record kept to determine where you are and where you've been, and is kept to help others get to the same places (think "captain's log" of a ship).
The lyberty.com weblog is just notes on whatever I happen to be thinking about or researching at the time. Since it's essentially a personal log, it may or may not contain anything of interest to you.
view the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit
Feb. 14 2005:
For Valentine's Day -
The Knightly Conduct of Love:
"It is the pure love ... [that] consists in the contemplation of
the mind and the affection of the heart;
it goes as far as the kiss and the embrace and the modest contact with
the nude lover,
omitting the final solace, for that is not permitted to those who wish
to love purely."
- Andreas Capallanus, author of the medieval best seller The Art of
Courtly Love
(But Andreas also notes it would be a miracle if a man were placed in
a fire and did not get burned....)
more
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A short history of Cupid
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HTML 4.1: The HTML element
update: PVR-150 page
Feb. 10, 2005:
re: Israeli Palesinian ceasefire (see previous entries)
Whoops. Spoke too soon. But really, what did you expect?
Situation
'Very Fragile' After Hamas Fires Mortars At Israelis
By Julie Stahl; CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief; February 10, 2005
. . . Hamas said it fired 46 mortars at the Gush Katif settlements early Thursday in retaliation for the killing of two Palestinians on Wednesday by the Israeli army.. .
January 28, 2005:
Tip of the day (if not the year):
How do I disable those annoying animated advertisements on web pages?
A: In Internet Explorer: Select Tools > Internet Options.Select the Advanced tab. Then:
Click Apply button.
Step 2 (this is required to disable those $%#&*!!!! Macromedia Flash animated ads):
Select the Security tab of the Internet Options
window (assuming window is still open from step 1 above)
Click the Custom Level button.
Change the following settings to "Prompt":
Unfortunately, you'll have to respond to the prompts (see below for prompt example), but this allows you to still view the Flash content you actually want to view (just reload the page if there's a flash animation you want to see).The alternative is to uninstall the Flash plugin entirely (but then you might miss out on stuff you actually want to see).
Before:
Annoying animated crap:
After:
Prompts and static ads. Start choosing "No" by default.
Note that in some cases (forms, search boxes, redirects,
new windows) you are going to want to select "Yes" to this prompt
(some pages need the Active X plugins to work). But if you know you are
going to a page with animated ads, you can select "No", then
reload the page and select "Yes" if some function on that page
doesn't seem to work.
January 24th, 2005:
[UPDATE: Feb. 14 2005: They took the site down. Now
the addresses just redirect to anarchopedia.org.
But it was fun while it lasted!!
You can check out a screen capture of the home page here.]
Maybe I just haven't been getting enough sleep lately (it's currently 3:21 AM and I have work tomorrow), but this is THE FUNNIEST THING I've seen on the Internet in as long as I can remember:
This is FUNNY if you : have used Wikipedia
This is FUNNIER if you : have used Wikipedia a lot, and know that
there are power struggles and "Sister Sites".
This is FUNNIEST if you : know that Anarchopedia
is a spin-off of Wikipedia, and you recognize Anarchapedia
has become a parody of Anarchopedia.
You can start with the links on the main page, like GFDL
corpus access provider and Hilary
Duff . . .
Or see this
list of user contributions.
Hurry, it probably won't be in it's current state for long.....
Feb. 1, 2005:
new entries to Anarchapedia.org:
Taxes
; Robbery
; Death ; G-Rated
Jan. 16, 2005:
Free
tools that may change your life!
Ok, they won't change your life, but some of them are pretty neat...
Links for today:
-
SageTV review
- SageTV tips & tricks
| Configuration
- Ulead Video Studio (video
editing software); features compared to comprable products
- Pure Motion Edit
Studio (from the makers of DVDLab)
- PVAStrumento
(convert DVB / Digital TV / DigiTV's PVA streams (MPEG-TS) into MPEG-2)
- http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/showcategory.php?cid=3
Shared Bookmarks and Web Clips
Lyberty @ StumbleUpon
Lyberty @ del.icio.us
Lyberty @ Clipmarks
Blog Shopping (at The Mill)
Lyberty @ Digg
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