Category: lounge

It’s interesting to see what kind of public side information the google maps initiative can provide. Who knows what else you can discover on this satellite data besides crop circles.. 🙂 I tried a search on google maps for crop circles, but it seems they don’t index this. 😉

You probably heard already about the open source beer, music, graphics cards etc, but did you hear about this open source (short) movie yet? 🙂 When it’s released, I’d certainly like to take a look at those models and animation scripts! As the URL already hints, this movie will be entirely animated using Blender. In general, it is made with open source tools only. Really a wonderful initiative!

For Dutch reading people, there is also a very interesting article on a Dutch tech life style magazine site.

UltraSolve Online Assistant Changelog

Did you know it exists? =) I was just cleaning up some download dir and stumbled upon this rap from Monzy. I think it’s really the best in its kind. First time I heard it, I immediately listened again for some 10 times to get all the jokes 🙂 If you studied Computer Science, it’s simply hilarious to hear all those expressions in a ‘though’ language.
You can also read the lyrics, but it’s so much more fun to hear it in the song 😉
In his rap against MC++:

I may not have a label but I rap like a star;
I’m an unsigned long int and you’re an 8-bit char.

I needed a 1680 x 1050 wallpaper and didn’t find one immediately, so pulled one together with some artwork I found about Ice Age 2. Using the gimp of course :). I am certainly no artist, so don’t please don’t laugh with it ;).

Quite an interesting story 🙂

To temporarily get SA up, I bought some crappy hosting on a Dreamhost plan, which had an absolutely painfully idiotic name like “THE ULTRA SUPER AWESOMNATOR INSANITY WEBHOSTING MEGAPLAN 2000.” It made me feel intensely embarrassed, but sometimes we have to sacrifice our humility in times of crisis, not that I had any pride to begin with.