Celestia
Free astronomical software for Mac, Windows, Linux. Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
Posted 2 months ago
Posted 5 months ago
Cloud Backup
There are plenty of articles about the place for backup on the cloud. This link is a little list of some of the options that might have suited my need of backing up over 300Gig of photographs, movie clips and various files.
Posted 5 months ago
Quake, Doom (1&2), Hexen, Heretic
Old games for OS X not only a nostalgia trip but actually quite a bit of fun.The DoomsDay engine is a enhanced version of the standard Doom engine for running Doom, Doom2, Heretic and Hexen. Fruitz of Dojo have a great Quake engine running up to 2560x1440 very smoothly on my iMac. Pick your resolution, set your controls, point the music to a good artist in your iTunes music folder and you’re set!
Note that you will require the data files. The shareware versions are freely available from most half decent ftp sites or directly from IDsoftware.
Posted 7 months ago
Open Source Game Clones
A great list of open source games that are functional copies of very old commercial games … or the open sourced commercial games themselves.
Posted 7 months ago
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
There might be some hint of positive motivation where the US govt wants Haiti to keep the industry. However as a consumer you should boycott all manufacturers who pay Haitian workers this sort of wage. NEVER buy Levis or Hanes products. You have a duty as a consumer to provide pressure on abusive corporations. It is unfortunate that this sort of action is so difficult to educate people about. The better action would come from your elected representatives in government, but unfortunately they all too often represent corporate interests and not their people.
I would advocate for a tariff on imports from countries that have these minimum wages. The proceeds from these tariffs should go to non-government aid organizations active in those countries.
Posted 8 months ago
Review of 10 iPad Dictionary apps
An excellent review of iPad dictionary apps. I suggest that people have a couple different apps because of the variation in definitions; easy to do as many of the apps are free!
Posted 8 months ago
Eat These Foods to Boost Your Brain Power and Energy
Food for smarts:
- tomatoes
- blueberries
- black beans
- walnuts
- oats
- avocado
- wild salmon
- nuts, seeds
- coffee
- pomegranate
- brown rice
- tea
- chocolate
- oysters
- olive oil
- tuna
- garlic
- eggs
- green leafy vegetables
- cacao nibs
Posted 8 months ago
Easily distracted people have too much brain
Those who are easily distracted from the task in hand may have “too much brain”.
Well I would like to explain it that way. But you can forget about transcranial direct current stimulation near to the left superior parietal lobe … because … it is not a problem, I can stop anytime I want, honest.
Posted 9 months ago
A next-generation digital book
You might not agree with the demo book author’s politics or you may even deny the reality of the science, but this book format is an amazing demonstration of technology! Al Gore’s “Our Choice” is a follow up from “Inconvenient Truth” (study guide). This interactive iOS book format adds a level of interaction with the media to bring the text out of stodgy old standard print. The book is also quite inexpensive at only AU$6 currently from iTunes.
Posted 9 months ago
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
John Cook, one of the authors of this book, runs the excellent Skeptical Science as is currently giving 20% off the paper back version if you follow the link from his site.
You can also purchase the hardback from multiple other sites, I suggest you check out Booko or Adall.
Posted 9 months ago
CMC : No widespread abuse of tasers
The Queensland Police need to keep abuse at an acceptable level. Focused abuse. Enough so the QPU can claim isolated incidents would be nice.
As a citizen, I would prefer no abuse at all, you know, zero tolerance, but hey, I’ll do whatever the guy holding the taser says.
Posted 9 months ago
Reactors, residents and risk: Nature News
Wonderful map of places for the Nuclear Reactor failure paranoid. Australia and New Zealand appear nice and safe however North East USA, West Europe, India and Japan might be a little concerned.
Posted 9 months ago
(Astro) Turf Wars
Amazing film following a series of organized corporate propaganda campaigns that abuse the term freedom to instill an uncalled for fear in the conservative minds (see my prev post on political psychology) that the govt is going to take away everything and control their lives. It’s only a minority but they are noisy and incredibly gullible.
Bunches of my posts and more, all collated here for your reading pleasure!
