An article about some of the neat stuff people are playing with with N64 games + emulators.
If only there were a way to get some decent controllers hooked up…
360 Degree Tour
Of an Airbus A380 cockpit.
Notice, too, that this craft appears to have a complete fly-by-wire system - there’s no steering yoke with physical links to the flaps; it’s all software controlled through some joysticks nowadays.
Chicago, What Are You Thinking?
Chicago wants to place a ban on small plastic bags.
Drug dealers use these small bags to package their wares for sale.
If bans like this worked, wouldn’t the “ban on drugs” themselves be successful? I don’t get it. They may as well ban money; since money is used nearly all the time to buy drugs…
Google, Darling, You’re Slow, but you’re Beautiful
About bloody time, but better late then never!
Google’s finally released an application to sync Outlook and Google Calendar. This is the feature that has stopped me from using GCal previously.
I imagine the results of this will be similar to when I started using IMAP with Gmail - whereas previously, I ONLY used Outlook (because only Outlook had my mail reasonably organized) I am now able to use Outlook and Gmail nearly seamlessly and interchangeably.
Right now, Oulook runs my life, but getting GCal’s notification abilities is pretty sweet.
I haven’t installed it myself yet, but it’s the next thing on my TODO list.
EDIT: Hmmm… not exactly ringing endorsements for the program… might not enable two-way sync until version 1.0…
In Sci-Fi
You know, the GOOD science fiction, on the impossible voyage towards great discovery, there’s always an artist of some kind - sometimes it’s a writer, other times it’s a painter.
Inevitably someone asks the artist, “What are you doing here, on this fantastic voyage, amonst these scientists?”
And, equally inevitably, the artist responds, “These men can capture the facts and the figures, they can build our science thanks to their study; but they cannot capture the beauty, the mystery, the heart of the unknown. Bringing these magical sights and events back to the common man is what I am here for”.
Whenever I see things like this; I can’t help but think that that’s a great idea.
