Archives for March 2006

Bugmenot.com

Here is an interesting service. I’ll leave it up to the individual as to whether you feel this is ethical or not. Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just pointing out this exists.

Are you annoyed when you go to view a news article on a newspaper site (like chicagotribune.com or nytimes.com) and be prompted to login or register “free”?‚ What do you think the cost is of giving up your email (and other miscellaneous and sundry personal information) is?
Bugmenot.com – bypass compulsory registration with these free passwords

Sites Using Verse-O-Matic

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Here are some of the sites that are running Verse-O-Matic on their site. Thanks to all that are using the Verse-O-Matic!

Google Mars

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In the spirit of Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Moon, the next frontier for Google maps junkies has been released – Google Mars.

Using maps from images taken by NASA’s orbiting Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor, Google provides users images of the Martian surface. View mountains, craters, dunes, ridges, canyons, and plains… all by name. You can also view the location of various spacecraft that have explored Mars.

It works just like Google Maps, you can zoom in, drag from side to side, and pinpoint locations. ï¿½ You can view by elevation, by infrared, or by the straight image.

Hopefully, Google will follow through with plans to add the images to Google Earth, which would allow you to tilt and pan the image. ï¿½ Until then, enjoy the browser based version here – it’s pretty cool.