christopher’s lives (v5.3)

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 at 5.16 pm
Friday, September 17th, 2004 at 3.44 pm

links - various, from karl, from SOTD, for family

first, the various…

Ender’s Game
“Intruder Signal” on 40 Meters Remains a Mystery for Now
Creepy crawly blanket
apod: Above the Eye of Hurricane Ivan
me with my LaserDisc evangelist hat on

karl sent me these months ago… yes, i am just now getting to them…

MetaSpy
OpenDiary.com
Web FTP Client Version3.5.0
Phone Phreaking Trips [RealAudio]

these links with descriptions are copied from three RefDesk’s Site-of-the-Day email newsletters i have had sitting in my inbox, meaning to check them out…

MIT OpenCourseWare
   ”Welcome to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare: a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT’s values of excellence, innovation, and leadership. With the publication of 700 courses, MIT OCW offers educational materials from 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT’s schools.”

Time Capsuler
   ”To begin your trip in this Time Capsule enter a date. You will be presented with your own customized page that includes all the information you’ve chosen, plus typical consumer prices from that year, Academy Award winners that year, etc. Site has data online for the years 1800 through 2002, although data for the years 1800 - 1875 is probably spotty.”

The Yahoo! Buzz Index Weekly
   ”Check out the top 20 search subjects on Yahoo!, complete with a sardonic round-up of all the newsmakers that are moving and shaking web traffic this week.”

and i am posting these specifically for members of my family…

one for mary, one for mom, and one for jeff (i have been meaning to point this one out to him for something like three years)…

Saturday, September 11th, 2004 at 11.00 pm

links - The Holy Trilogy on dvd, two more 9/11 links, and a few various

these links came from an AGSF (?) thread titled “Star Wars DVD LG did not do a good job on remaster thing sound”

ours have been pre-ordered for quite some time, just waiting for launch day, with a gift certificate given to us for just this set, so, george technically got none of our money…
besides, we still treasure our near-mint Star Wars Trilogy Definitive Collection LaserDisc Box Set of the original theatrical cuts of the films, and even have the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition LaserDisc Box Set, the now intermediary 1997 versions, also not available on dvd (even though, with all the dumb stuff added in ANH and the dumb stuff already there in ROJ, only ESB is worth watching, but, VERY worth it)…

anyway, on to the links…

Digital Bits DVD Review - The Star Wars Trilogy
May The Force Be With You - Star Wars Trilogy DVD Media Day [plus a forum thread]
IGN - DVD: Star Wars Trilogy
dvdforum.nu - dvd, film & hemmabio [Region 2]

and just some other things i came across today…

American RadioWorks - Witnesses to Terror [RealAudio format]
Poynter.org - Covering the Attack

Engadget - The Search Engine Belt Buckle

Terra Nova: Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show [reported on boingboing.net as "Narrologists versus Ludologists: battle of the games-academics"]

Movieoke.Net: The Official Site of Movieoke

Thursday, September 9th, 2004 at 9.02 pm
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004 at 11.48 am

fark.com radio commercials

on april 28, a request was posted on fark.com for people to make their own radio commercial for the site
there a are a couple really good ones, if you are familiar with fark…

(and, to make sure they don’t get lost, i have added them all to our mp3 subdir…)

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