Piracy!
Piracy in the digital age – An essay about piracy in the digital age. Is it really that bad?
The WWW is not the internet!
A real geek should know the difference, do you? Learn the difference and stop being a n00b.
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Mario your cake is in another castle
Posted on September 9, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Thanks to Aperture Science Mario is plumbing with portals. This could be the most awesome game mash up ever! Mari0 is real, it’s being developed and will be released for free! Keep an eye on the Stabyourself.net web page or Facebook page.
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Evolution of the Web
Posted on September 8, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
I realised something while I was looking at The Evolution of the Web, an interactive time line of internet technologies, mostly browsers and web languages like HTML. I realised that I have been using the Opera web browser for nearly 10 years! I started using Opera at v6 when it was released on December 18, 2001.
Back in v6 Opera was free but it was supported by [Read more...]
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New favourite web comic: The Daily Dalek
Posted on September 7, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
When I get really bored I like to stumble around the internet, sometimes I strike gold like I did when I stumbled upon The daily Dalek a single panel gag comic that parodies the Doctors number one nemesis, the Daleks. Apparently Daleks do normal things when they aren’t busy trying to purge the universe of all other life forms.
5 fun facts about Daleks:
- Daleks are genetically engineered Kaled mutant cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by an evil scientist Davros.
- Dalek is an anagram of Kaled which is the race that the Daleks originated from.
- The word “Dalek” has entered major dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines a Dalek as “a type of robot appearing in ‘Dr. Who’, a B.B.C. Television science-fiction programme; hence used allusively.”
- Even Daleks don’t think porn is bad. A Dalek appeared with a naked Katy Manning (who played the Third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant) in a photoshoot for Playboy after Manning left the series.
- The Daleks were created by writer Terry Nation and designed by BBC designer Raymond Cusick. They were introduced in December 1963 in the second Doctor Who serial, colloquially known as The Daleks.
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Freeman’s mind
Posted on September 6, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
If you have ever wondered what our mute hero Gordon Freeman is thinking then checkout the hilarious series Freeman’s Mind.
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Awesome balloon animation
Posted on September 5, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Remamber the old flip book animations that you used to draw in school? Director Dulcidio Caldeira came up with a new twist on the old flip book animation using balloons for an MTV ID. My favourite part is the John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne bit towards the end at 0:42.
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Web browsers
Posted on September 4, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Here is some interesting geek trivia for you: the first browser to implement tabbed browsing, AKA a Tabbed Document Interface or TDI, was InternetWorks in 1994 but it never took off, InternetWorks has since died and faded into obscurity. In 1996 Opera implemented tabbed browsing and every other browser followed Operas lead. [Read more...]
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Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary
Posted on September 3, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Think Cyborgs are a Sci Fi Star Trek thing of the future? Cyborgs are real, although they aren’t as high tech and advanced as cyborgs in Star Trek. Meet Rob Spence a film maker that lost an eye in an unfortunate gun accident. Rob has replaced his missing eye with a video camera and has teamed up with Square Enix to create a documentary about real life cyborgs… errr… state-of-the-art prosthetics and cybernetics. Be warned, there are a few shots of medical procedures so if you are squeamish about that sort of thing then maybe don’t watch Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary.
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Free web hosting
Posted on September 2, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
The other day I wrote a post for Daily Blog Tips about starting a blog (or a web sire because that’s all a blog basically is) for $0. Basically I wanted to dispel the myth that you have to pay money to have a web site. A lot of my past web sites that I have built were all hosted on free web hosts and I never paid a cent for web hosting. [Read more...]
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Escape From City 17
Posted on September 1, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Hollywood is notorious for making horribly bad movie adaptations of books or games. But Escape From city 17 is a cut above your average Hollywood film in every way. Half-Life fans would have already played the game and know the story so they don’t want to see the story re told badly. Escape From City 17 explores other parts of the HL universe rather than trying to turn HL into a movie which is what makes it so good. [Read more...]
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Portal: No Escape
Posted on August 31, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Portal is awesomeness squared to the power of a quad-trillion. For me it’s one of the best games… ever… period. The internet is awash with Portal music, images, mods and videos. Portal: No Escape is easily the best Portal video I have ever had the pleasure of watching. Check it out it will be the best 6 minutes 58 seconds of your day.
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