Monthly Archives: January 2008

Netscape Has Left the Building 0

Netscape Navigator, one of the first ‘popular’ web browsers, is dead.

Star Trek Optimism 1

When I first heard that work was beginning on a new Star Trek film, I suppose you could have described my first response as more cautious than optimistic. However, as more and more details appear, I’m moving more and more towards the ‘optimism’ side of things.

Google Transit: A for Effort… 7

I need to walk a block, scale a chain-link fence, climb a hill, play Frogger across three lanes of northbound traffic, one express lane, and three lanes of southbound traffic on I-5, go down a hill, scale another chain link fence, hike through some woods, and swim across the lake on the NSCC grounds.

Make a Band (Altered) 7

The title of whatever random Wikipedia page you land on is the name of the band. The last four words of the last quote on this page is the title of the album. The third image this Flickr search is the cover of the album (this will search Creative Commons Attribution licensed photos and sort them by interestingness).

Sci-Fi Sounds 2

This was an entertaining little quiz — identifying classic sci-fi from short sound clips. Most were pretty obvious to me, but not all of ‘em.