I have set up a form where you can send my phone a email! I will receive it very quickly, but won't get back to you unless its important because it costs me 10 cents to send a message.
In the near future I will allow you to choose where to send the message.
Check it out and contact me
-read more-I just read Honoured Enemy by Raymond Feist. Its a new tale in the first of a bunch of collaborations Feist will be doing with other authors.
Check out my review.
-read more-A new review of a book by Sara Douglass - The Wayfarer Redemption
-read more-I just got back from seeing Blue Man Group performing live in Minneapolis MN.
If you haven't had a chance to give their new CD the complex a listen do yourself a favor and pick it up. Experimental electronica with some really crazy instruments. The lighting effects and show production are just amazing. Very very cool show give yourself a treat and see them if they stop in your town.
To make for an even better night Venus Hum is touring with BMG and Annette peforms the song(I Feel Love) that she sings on their new album. Her ...
-read more-It isn't very efficient though. A 95k image file becomes a 700k html image file. Still its really cool.
Convert your favorite image into ascii or html text at
http://www.text-image.com/convert/index.html
-read more-Echoing Green has a new album out titled "Winter of our Discontent". After hearing the first single Fall Awake available on mp3.comI was worried that the whole album was going to be darker/harder synthpop. I am relieved that this album still sounds like the EG that I have come to love. A nice mix of Joey and Chrissy with articulate programming, good vocals/lyrics, and a really nice feel over all.
I have only listened to it once but have already come to love "the story of our lives" the second single a very nice poppier, happier ...
-read more-I recieved Intuition - Further today. It absolutely rocks. They have a nice mix of songs, some fast some slow, all with great lyrics, vocals, and programming.
Even though I have already heard a few of the songs(via samples, the single, and a compilation) it was a treat in my mailbox this afternoon.
Some of my new favorites:
"Danger" - I absolutely love the chorus "Lady, I see the danger / Lady, I was the stranger for so long". Very very touching and an amazing vocal range. I was floored when I first heard it.
"Fear of Hard Times" is a really ...
-read more-So Microsoft wants to take on Google. As reported in this here article on yahoo.com. Do a search on google for the worst search engine and what do you get? Take a look.
Nice and ironic.
-read more-I found an interesting 3D simulation environment today. Its designed for simulation of Decentralized systems and Artificial life. The few demos I used are pretty interesting. Though my Walker never really learned to walk that well. :(
Its called breve. Check it out.
To bad its not open source, but it is freeware. If that counts for anything.
-read more-So today I was looking at
linuxbrit.co.uk and what do I
see? Multiplayer tetris. It happens that there is a version of tetris
available that will let you bash 5 of your friends around over the
internet. What a crazy idea! I have been looking for something like this
for a long time.
Good thing there is a linux client/server available.
Check out:
tetrinetx.sourceforge.net #
Server
gtetrinet.sourceforge.net #
Client
I also found a version of bolo available for linux at winbolo.com. Check it out.
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