When You Just Can't Handle the Thrill-a-Minute Action of Solitaire
For the terminally bored or enthusiasts of the popular time-killer, Jigzone has lots of online jigsaw puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty for you to while away the hours with.
Saturday, February 01, 2003
A Letter from the Editor
Re: The proposed "new look" of The Ends of the Earth, mentioned in a previous post.
Well, I really did intend to put up a new template, in fact, I worked on the thing, off and on for probably six or seven hours over the past few days. However, when it came time to put it into action, I looked at it, looked at the template I have now and just really liked this one better, so why fix what ain't broke, huh? I'm sure at some point I will be changing the look of my page, but until I come up with something that's markedly better, I'm just going to hang with the current look and perhaps give it a few tweaks here and there. In better news, I've fixed the archives, so there's no longer a Santa Claus on the older pages, nor that gimmicky snow-flake effect, which I only meant to leave up here for a week or so, back during the holidays. Also, having gotten all that crap out of the way, as well as some pressing personal problems I won't go into here, I'm now free to return you to you regularly-scheduled diet of neato links and semi-lucid rants. That is all, thank you for reading.
Re: The proposed "new look" of The Ends of the Earth, mentioned in a previous post.
Well, I really did intend to put up a new template, in fact, I worked on the thing, off and on for probably six or seven hours over the past few days. However, when it came time to put it into action, I looked at it, looked at the template I have now and just really liked this one better, so why fix what ain't broke, huh? I'm sure at some point I will be changing the look of my page, but until I come up with something that's markedly better, I'm just going to hang with the current look and perhaps give it a few tweaks here and there. In better news, I've fixed the archives, so there's no longer a Santa Claus on the older pages, nor that gimmicky snow-flake effect, which I only meant to leave up here for a week or so, back during the holidays. Also, having gotten all that crap out of the way, as well as some pressing personal problems I won't go into here, I'm now free to return you to you regularly-scheduled diet of neato links and semi-lucid rants. That is all, thank you for reading.
Beware of Xupiter, the Browser Tool from Hell
Some evil programmers whose website resides on Hungary have created a particularly nasty little download that installs itself without your permission and hijacks your browser, periodically changing your start page to the Xupiter.com homepage. Surfers who've been unfortunate enough to have downloaded Xupiter say it's incredibly hard to get rid of. Though it does have an "uninstall" program, it either doesn't work or makes things even worse. If you happen to find yourself at it's mercy, you may have to resort to using something like Spybot Search and Destroy or, for more advanced users, editing your registry.
Having personally dealt with a couple similiar programs that took over my browser settings, I can assure you that nothing will make you madder than connecting to the net and finding that not only has your start page changed (which would be aggravating enough in and of itself) but you can't change it back, no matter how hard you try.
I had one awhile back - EzyCyberSearch - if I recall correctly, that was nearly as frustrating as this and my friend, Phillip, is currently dealing with another, which offers no uninstall or information on it's homepage and even changes your address bar search settings so your browser is directed to their own, utterly useless search. A search for, say, National Geographic won't turn up their website in the results, only links to speciously-related items you can buy on various e-stores. This is the internet at it's worst. I say track these scum down and hang them alongside the spammers, the bot-makers and all the rest of the slimy, sneaky opportunists on the internet and let's be quick about it, okay?
Some evil programmers whose website resides on Hungary have created a particularly nasty little download that installs itself without your permission and hijacks your browser, periodically changing your start page to the Xupiter.com homepage. Surfers who've been unfortunate enough to have downloaded Xupiter say it's incredibly hard to get rid of. Though it does have an "uninstall" program, it either doesn't work or makes things even worse. If you happen to find yourself at it's mercy, you may have to resort to using something like Spybot Search and Destroy or, for more advanced users, editing your registry.
Having personally dealt with a couple similiar programs that took over my browser settings, I can assure you that nothing will make you madder than connecting to the net and finding that not only has your start page changed (which would be aggravating enough in and of itself) but you can't change it back, no matter how hard you try.
I had one awhile back - EzyCyberSearch - if I recall correctly, that was nearly as frustrating as this and my friend, Phillip, is currently dealing with another, which offers no uninstall or information on it's homepage and even changes your address bar search settings so your browser is directed to their own, utterly useless search. A search for, say, National Geographic won't turn up their website in the results, only links to speciously-related items you can buy on various e-stores. This is the internet at it's worst. I say track these scum down and hang them alongside the spammers, the bot-makers and all the rest of the slimy, sneaky opportunists on the internet and let's be quick about it, okay?
Acno's Energizer
A neat little Flash game of the cutesy-character-who-has-to-solve-puzzles-to-get-to-the-next-level variety.
Monday, January 20, 2003
Update Regarding My Lack of Updates:
Okay, here's the thing, I hate having this screwed up travesty of a webpage on here, all scrambled up like it was put in a blender, so there's a whole new look on the way, may keep it awhile, may change it back to something resembling this, not sure yet. At any rate, I have some things I need to burn to disk so I can just reformat this stupid computer of mine first, it's in as big a mess as this page, currently and it's time to get my ducks in a row. Meanwhile, visit the archives and poke around there, sure you can find something entertaining, or just go visit some of my links, lot of good things there to keep you busy. Give me a few days and I should have the new, possibly improved Ends finished. Thanks again for stopping by.
Okay, here's the thing, I hate having this screwed up travesty of a webpage on here, all scrambled up like it was put in a blender, so there's a whole new look on the way, may keep it awhile, may change it back to something resembling this, not sure yet. At any rate, I have some things I need to burn to disk so I can just reformat this stupid computer of mine first, it's in as big a mess as this page, currently and it's time to get my ducks in a row. Meanwhile, visit the archives and poke around there, sure you can find something entertaining, or just go visit some of my links, lot of good things there to keep you busy. Give me a few days and I should have the new, possibly improved Ends finished. Thanks again for stopping by.
Friday, January 17, 2003
Welcome to the (HTML) Jungle
Well, as many of you have probably noticed, my site's all weirded out. I'm not exactly sure what I've done to wreak such havoc on my page, but I'll try and get things sorted out soon. I may well just end up starting over and redesigning the whole thing or at least try and put things together like they were, I sort of let things get out of hand here and it's hard to tell what's giving me the problems, thus far. I know it looks like a real mess here, though and I'm not the only one seeing it that way, so I guess it's time to roll up my sleeves, get under the hood and get dirty. Thank you for your patience.
Well, as many of you have probably noticed, my site's all weirded out. I'm not exactly sure what I've done to wreak such havoc on my page, but I'll try and get things sorted out soon. I may well just end up starting over and redesigning the whole thing or at least try and put things together like they were, I sort of let things get out of hand here and it's hard to tell what's giving me the problems, thus far. I know it looks like a real mess here, though and I'm not the only one seeing it that way, so I guess it's time to roll up my sleeves, get under the hood and get dirty. Thank you for your patience.
Sunday, January 12, 2003
Celebrities Eating!
A site devoted to one thing and one thing only: pictures of celebrities eating. I haven't seen all the celebs included yet, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the gallery of munching superstars, like J-LO (above, enjoying what appears to be a tasty burger), is woefully lacking in snapshots of Calista Flockheart or Kate Moss.
Holy Cow, Dig What's in Store for Playstation 3!
The next incarnation of the popular gaming console, slated for 2005, will supposedly incorporate new chip technology nicknamed "The Cell", a supercomputer-on-a-chip that IBM and other companies shelling out 400 million dollar's worth of money to the project predict will be able to perform a whopping one trillion+ calculations in a second, making it roughly 100 times as powerful as a 2.5 Ghz Pentium 4 CPU.
Kind of makes you wonder what Tekken 5 or 6 or whatever will be like, huh? Actually, if the thing's going to be that powerful, maybe they should roll out a few games with a different slant: Cure Cancer Extreme 2005, EA DNA Splicer, Quantum Mechanics Man, etc. Just so long as you can play Pac-man on it, though, I'll be happy.
The next incarnation of the popular gaming console, slated for 2005, will supposedly incorporate new chip technology nicknamed "The Cell", a supercomputer-on-a-chip that IBM and other companies shelling out 400 million dollar's worth of money to the project predict will be able to perform a whopping one trillion+ calculations in a second, making it roughly 100 times as powerful as a 2.5 Ghz Pentium 4 CPU.
Kind of makes you wonder what Tekken 5 or 6 or whatever will be like, huh? Actually, if the thing's going to be that powerful, maybe they should roll out a few games with a different slant: Cure Cancer Extreme 2005, EA DNA Splicer, Quantum Mechanics Man, etc. Just so long as you can play Pac-man on it, though, I'll be happy.
Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Busted!
A great big pile of celebrity mugshots, such as this glamorous shot of ZsaZsa Gabor.
Needless to say, such luminaries as Robert Downey Jr. and Nicki Sixx of Motley Crue fame, have more than one.
Fly Guy
This is just the coolest little Flash cartoon I've seen in awhile. Be sure and explore all the areas and interact with the things you find on your as you fly around - especially the little UFO - personally, I thought that was the best bit.
A very original and entertaining flight of fancy.
Sunday, January 05, 2003
Taking Criminal Stupidity to Breathtaking New Heights
A man robbing a bank, upon finding out the bank was closed and there was no money to be had, steals a clock radio and a bunch of candy. The police track him down by following the empty wrappers left behind. What was the candy? Dum-Dums, of course.
Another criminal mastermind steals a snake-handler's bag from his car at a traffic light. What do you suppose was in the bag?
A man robbing a bank, upon finding out the bank was closed and there was no money to be had, steals a clock radio and a bunch of candy. The police track him down by following the empty wrappers left behind. What was the candy? Dum-Dums, of course.
Another criminal mastermind steals a snake-handler's bag from his car at a traffic light. What do you suppose was in the bag?
Monday, December 30, 2002
Speaking of the Dark Ages...
I can still remember being eleven or twelve and seeing an Intellivision console for the first time, at a local K-Mart. Oh, the awe with which I regarded this wondrous machine. This, my friends...this was the powerhouse of home gaming at the time (1982?) - edging out Atari console slightly, from a graphics standpoint.
By edging out, what I mean to say is that instead of playing rather simplistic games involving four or five colors and extremely-boxy graphics, the priveledged owner of this new system was instead thrust,headlong,into the hyper-realistic, immersive universe of eight or nine colors and slightly less boxy graphics! After a year or two, they even released an add-on that would give this monster system the power of garbled, computerish-sounding speech. Those wonders, however, were still merely crazy, fanciful dreams, bouncing around in some Mattel programmer's imagination. Perhaps that was for the best, as I'm not sure that my young mind could have bore the weight of such excessive sensory stimulation at the time.
I remember just standing there in the electronics aisle, gawking at it, like some mesmerized caveman would observe a flashlight...anxiously awaiting my turn to play the store's demo model, then, finally, thrilling to the incredible realism of Space Battle's impressive, eight-bit explosions and boink-boink sounds for the ten or fifteen minutes before my mother ushered me away from this astonishing monument to mankind's technological progress. "Could gaming get any better than this?", I asked myself, on the car ride home...
I never did get an Intellivision, but to this day I still resent the kids who did, even though I can play the games on my computer. In retrospect, they kind of suck.
Note to my younger readers: in answer to the question that surely must be running through your minds - yes, we were all morons back in the old days. In fact, before the Intellivision and it's forerunner, the Atari, children simply stood around in circles on a playground, comparing rocks they'd found, sometimes throwing the rocks or rolling them for an added dose of excitement.
Still More Uses for the Cube
I've posted articles pertaining to a lot of Rubik's Cube stuff so I may as well post this one, featuring various artworks made by arranging groups of the famous puzzle-toys to form images and shapes, like the Pac-man mosaic above.
Hubcap Creatures
Amazing-looking sculptures of fish, made from...well...hubcaps. Not much else to say, pretty neat handiwork, though.
Lord of the Peeps
Someone went to an awful lot of trouble to act out The Lord of the Rings with marshmallow peeps. What is it about those little peep things people on the net find so intriguing?
Saturday, December 28, 2002
Clonaid
Well, cloning is back in the news as some nutty group claims to have produced the world's first human clone, a female, identical in every respect to her 30-year-old mother. I think just the fact that the organization is named "Clonaid" should make all this very, very questionable. Still kind of spooky, though, as I'm sure someone's going to do it soon, regardless.
Well, cloning is back in the news as some nutty group claims to have produced the world's first human clone, a female, identical in every respect to her 30-year-old mother. I think just the fact that the organization is named "Clonaid" should make all this very, very questionable. Still kind of spooky, though, as I'm sure someone's going to do it soon, regardless.
Saturday, December 21, 2002
'Tis the Season...
Well, I guess you noticed I couldn't resist tossing up some cheesy javascript snow on the old blog, just couldn't help myself, what can I say? I'm like one of those guys that goes nuts and turns their home into a zillion-kilowatt spectacle, like this guy, at heart. What the heck, it's only for a week or two and I used as much restraint as possible. I mean, I could have went full-on yuletide fever, with some awful Jingle Bells midi and blinking christmas tree lights draped all over it, so give me points for having a little restraint, at least.
Well, I guess you noticed I couldn't resist tossing up some cheesy javascript snow on the old blog, just couldn't help myself, what can I say? I'm like one of those guys that goes nuts and turns their home into a zillion-kilowatt spectacle, like this guy, at heart. What the heck, it's only for a week or two and I used as much restraint as possible. I mean, I could have went full-on yuletide fever, with some awful Jingle Bells midi and blinking christmas tree lights draped all over it, so give me points for having a little restraint, at least.
Kiss Your Face
I can't tell you how completely worthless, yet good, it is, that someone took the time out of their existence to photoshop the band KISS's makeup onto the faces of other, sometimes not-so-obvious celebrities, as well as the obvious ones. Kiss Your Face does just that and though - unfortunately - they don't do requests, if seeing Andy Griffith and Jean Simmons wearing the K.I.S.S. Army warpaint doesn't give you pause, I don't know what will. Jean Simmons, her face done up as "The Demon's" was pretty clever. I have to give it up for the guy who made these.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)