In my youngest days, I had an old Atari 2600 gaming console around, through which such legendary benchmarks as Space Invaders, Pitfall, and River Raid were enjoyed. Back then (even with pixels large enough to fit breakaway Soviet Republics) one personally felt certain that games had reached an apex of quality, and it would be hard to imagine [...]
I have often spoken on the topic of graffiti at this site (click here to get a summary of the articles), but they mostly deal with observations here in my hometown. Well now I learned of a website called ‘Graffiti Archaeology’ which in a very interesting fashion allows one to peel back the layers of graffiti photographed on a variety [...]
Electronic mail, the most basic of the main Internet uses, has been a great technological advance in the field of communications, providing efficiency in exchanging information, and allowing people to send messages around the globe instantly with negligible cost. Moreover, it is quite easy for anyone with access to the Internet to set up an address for themself, and [...]
A short while back, I read this article, which gave the interesting news that a collaborative plan was underway involving both Russia and the United States, to build a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. At a length of about 103 kilometers, this will be the longest tunnel in the world, linking the former Cold War enemies at Siberia and Alaska [...]
Here’s a link to some fascinating and unorthodox photographic artwork which I was sent a short while back. Well worth a visit, it helps one to picture the very substance of the statistics associated with the product consumption levels of our current day:
Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers
As Canada’s population is one-tenth of America’s, I’m guessing that the quantities shown at [...]
Recently, I was asked by my dad to download and install the commonly-used file-viewing program, Adobe Reader, onto his computer so that he could open .pdf files. Thinking it would be a brief download and a momentary installation (based on my past experience), I headed off to the Adobe website to get the most recent version of the program. [...]