Archive for the ‘The Wild Wild Web’ Category

Best Google Street View Picture Ever!

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Guy Peeing at the side of the road! You have to zoom all the way in to get a good view.

Check it out HERE [via]

How-To: Stay anonymous on the web

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

JAP — ANONYMITY & PRIVACY:

In the current political climate with the eroding personal privacy rights some of us may want a way to hide our browsing habits from the large entities that like to track those kind of things. It may be due to political oppression, opposition to big media, avoiding giving Google any more data on you in their vast databases or simply to keep the boss from finding out you spend 90% of your day browsing for pr0n. Well there are a variety of tools available to you to achieve this.

The tool I’m going to introduce you to today is a piece of software called JAP (It’s not specified on the site that I can find but I assume it’s short for Java Anonymous Proxy)
JAP is a program written in Java that you can point your web browser to and surf the Internet relatively anonymously.

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Mild Site Redesign

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Hello Everybody

As you’ve most likely noticed. I’ve done a mild redesign on liamm.com. I read about an online WordPress theme generator and thought I’d give it a try. The site as you see it now is the result.

Check it out it’s fairly interesting even if you don’t have a WordPress site to update

http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

Folding @ Home

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Hi Everybody

Just wanted to push this a little bit. Over on Pixelante World (http://www.pixelanteworld.com) we’ve started a Folding @ Home team and I just want to encourage everyone to join up. We’re team 61902

Folding @ Home is working towards a great cause in doing protien folding computations to try and cure diseases like Cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons and more. Head over to http://folding.stanford.edu to get the client and all the details. Hell you can even run it on your PS3 if you have one.

Thanks to everyone who participates.

Study Finds Video Games Good Mental Exercise

Friday, February 10th, 2006

brainA new study from researchers here in Canada shows that regular video game usage promotes the ability of the mind to multi task, block out external distractions and causes the brain to age at a slower pace. The study reports that the effects of regular gaming shows similar effects a bilingualism as an exercise of the mind. The study notes that it is the inability to silence mental “noise” that makes the elderly prone to distraction and poor multi taskers. It is thought that this generation of gamers may be more functional mentally in our latter years due to this. In their test gamers preformed better and faster than their non gaming counterparts. The highest scorers were bilingual gamers.
Please read the full article at the Globe & Mail – http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060209.wxbrains09/BNStory/Science/home