Metal Gear Ahod
This video, from Konami Japan, shows you just how different we are from the Japanese. I never quite pictures Solid Snake like this<./a>
Steve's Exodus
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Sunday, February 20, 2005
WORST. FANVID. EVAR.
Words fail me.
If you want to waste about 20 minutes of your time, watching the worst, I kid you not this thing is so atrocious it's actually funny, Matrix fanvid in the history of time until this day, then The Matrix: The Beginning is for you.
To give you an idea, they steal many scenes from the original, and just make them crappier. To boot, their idea of "bullet time" is to move real slow while fighting.
On the bright side I laughed harder at this than anything that was supposed to be funny in a long, long time.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Hapland
Hapland is a sweet flash game in which you control the fate of several stick men. A lot of detail put into it. It's not like those other point and click games where you just click everywhere until you find something that works-- you have to do things in the right order or at the right time.
Pizza in Redmond
Microsoft has supposedly vastly improved their MSN search engine, and have been touting such claims in ads including this one, that shows a search for "Pizza in Redmond":
After seeing that sign, I couldn't resist plugging that phrase into the MSN Search engine and a few other big search sites, just as an experiment to see how the results would compare. Looking at each of them, it's pretty easy to conclude that the other three provide more useful results than MSN Search does for someone looking for pizza in Redmond. Click through these links to see for yourself:
But then I looked more closely and realized that the advertising sign was promoting the "search near me" feature in MSN Search. So I readjusted my settings to put my location in Redmond, and did a simple search for "pizza" under that geographic constraint. The first non-sponsored result? Janitorial supplies.
Not wanting to rush to judgment, I also tried a search for the full phrase, Pizza in Redmond, under the Redmond geographic constraint, even though that would seem redundant. The first non-sponsored result was the resume of an aspiring computer programmer whose past experience included a stint as a delivery driver for Papa John's Pizza in Redmond. Just to be complete, I also tried the search under the Redmond geographic constraint with quotes around the phrase. Not much better.
Of course, the real kicker is to try the "pizza in redmond" search in Google's new Google Maps beta site, which is specifically tailored for geographic searches. Click here for the result.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Google Maps
Maps are great for getting around, but online maps could be a lot better. So Google decided to make dynamic, interactive maps that are draggable — no clicking and waiting for graphics to reload each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map. Want to be able to type in the name of a region or neighborhood and see any part of it as easily as with a regular street map? Now you can with Google Maps
Monday, February 07, 2005
Veddi guud, Daniel-san
See if you can be the next Ralph Macchio a.k.a. Karate Kid in this game, Fly Sui.
SupreBolw commercials
If you missed any, or just want to rewatch some of this year's SupreBolw commercials, they are availalbe here.
The Fedex/Kinkos one rules.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
I'll stick with Mapquest
1. Go to MSN Maps
2. In the Start section, select "Norway" from the list box and enter "Haugesund" into the "City" field
3. In the End section, select "Norway" from the list box and enter "Trondheim" into the "City" field
4. Click on "Get Directions" ...
Perhaps it's the scenic route?
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Wardrobe Malfunction
As the SupreBolw draws near once again, this time to our neck of the woods, we finally have an explaintion for last year's half time fiasco that stirred up controversy for untold months.
Wardrobe Malfunction
