The Ultimate Showdown

OF FRIGGIN' DESTINY!

I have never seen anything come close to such greatness in all my 6,205 days. Thanks, Anthrax.

Audiophiliation

Hi, my name is Audiophile Johns. You may have heard of me. I enjoy high-fidelity digital audio. In other words, I enjoy ogg-vorbis encoded files. Compare for yourself.

Hot Link Wednesdays: Google Date

Sorry, I'm late, but thist time it's not my fault! Blogger was "down for maintenance." So I'm off the hook. Anyways, this week's feature is Google Date. It's not officially from the people at Google but it's fun anyways. You give it a date and it searches Google and then tells you what happened on that date in history. Pretty fun.

Internet Protocol Interesting? Maybe.

This cool site analyzes your IP in a few ways and rates it on how interesting it is. Pretty neat for all ya'll with dynamic IPs.

Finally, a Smart Guy!

I hate Digital Rights Management. You should too.

Star Wars Empire at War Demo is Out!

Apparently it's being released in early February. That went right under my nose... Anyways, links:

• Demo
• Overview of the Demo
  

Hot Link Wednesdays: Video Game Maps

Ok, it's not really Wednesday. Bite me. Anyways, this guy has strung together screenshots to make maps of classic games. Check it out!

New Technology: Perpendicular Storage

Higher density, higher data security.

Prereleases

• Ubuntu Dapper Flight 3
• Fedora Core 5 Test 2

Interview: Aaron Seigo on KDE 4

Wondering about what's coming in KDE 4? Probably not. Even so, check out this interview with a KDE developer and hear good things.

Hot Link Wednesdays: Possible Insanity

My friend Rick opened up his own blog. You've been warned.

SkyOS

Ever wondered where all the non-free, non-unix variant, unpopular, yet interesting operating systems have been? Check out SkyOS. Take the tour, it's pretty neat.

Hot Link Wednesdays: iTunes Killer

In my continuing war against the RIAA, I've found and promoted this site: AllOfMp3.com. It has a huge selection of music at the cheapest prices ever. Get it in any format and bitrate you want (even ogg, flac, and wav). It might even be legal! Thanks, Russia!

XGL Now Fully Open

Finally! XGL, a project to put OpenGL effects directly onto the Linux desktop (just like OS X's Aqua, or Vista's Aero), was fully opened to the community. 100% open source, just the way I like it. Thanks Novell. :-)