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Monthly Archives June 2004

Cheap mini digicams

I want a new digital camera. I currently have a Logitech
Pocket Digital (without flash), and it is a seriously frustrating
little camera. There is always a very good chance that a shot in full
sunlight will not turn out, and anything less than that it’s not worth
trying. You can see here the difference between its output and [...]

Posted 12 June 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °

1st ed. Britannica

Britannica now has a 1st
edition Encyclopædica Britannica replica set available for just
under US$200 (or here
for US$133 at Amazon). Seriously considering it, although there are
other things I could spend 180 loonies on. I would certainly get some
value out of having these three volumes containing the world’s knowledge
circa 1768 on my bookshelf, though.

(I suspect a couple of [...]

Posted 10 June 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) °

–omg-optimized

Via egrep on #unix: Gentoo is
rice. Seriously beautiful quotes.

Posted 05 June 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (5) °

Flightgear, PC upgrades, and health care kooks

Point the first: The open-source FlightGear flight simulator is
pretty darn neat.

It’s no X-Plane or MS Flight Simulator, and it’s still a bit rough
around the edges, but it’s pretty amazing to me that an open-source
project could get something like this together. It took me a while
to remember how things work (and to learn the C172, since [...]

Posted 03 June 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (5) °

dance for me!

The VooDoo Tesla II is the quietiest yet most dynamic power cord we have ever heard. Every nuance of sonic texture and detail literally dances in
the holographic expanse of the soundstage.

And you can’t plug something like that into just any
old wall socket.

Posted 01 June 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °