SATURDAY, 9/15/2001, 4:15am HST by Raul

Finally finished my article on Island Paintball Sports. There's some pictures I haven't posted before, so go have a look.

FRIDAY, 9/14/2001, 12:00pm HST by Raul

Yes, that's right, it's been a year already. And what a year it's been (rimshot). If the postings turn out a little slow this weekend, it's because I'm working on something big for the site. Yeah yeah, I'm sure you can guess what it is. All I can say is that I now despise Netscape and AOL more than I have ever in my life.

Nostradamus predicts ...

"In the year of the new century and nine months, From the sky will come a great King of Terror... The sky will burn at forty-five degrees. [New York City lies between 40-45 degrees] Fire approaches the great new city...

In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb. The third big war will begin when the big city is burning'

THURSDAY, 9/13/2001, 10:58pm HST by Penfold

I wonder how long until there's a made for TV movie about the plane crashings.

Check out the cover of The Coup's album, Party Music. They bill themselves as being an "anti-capitalist" band. Read about the album and the ruckus here.

This is one way to rebuild the World Trade Center.

Terrorist suck

Commercial airlines will no longer allow passengers holding e-tickets to receive a boarding pass by only showing photo identification. Passengers will have to present a printed receipt of their e-ticket purchase, according to representatives from online travel company Travelocity and Southwest Airlines.

Can't get enough of that All Your Base video performed by the Laziest Men on Mars? Check out their newest video, The Terrible Secret of Space.

THURSDAY, 9/13/2001, 12:15pm HST by Raul

Well this certainly is the big news for me today: Olympus has announced the E-20, a 5-megapixel upgrade of the E-10. It features the same rugged body and excellent lens as the E-10, with some refinements such as an improved focusing screen in the viewfinder and official Microdrive support. An additional mode that allows faster shutter speeds and continuous modes, as well as an efefctively larger buffer. This mode comes at a cost, though -- half the resolution. So at full resolution, the E-20 seems similar on its surface to the E-10. The reviews that are certainly forthcoming will have to tell the rest of the story, and will ultimately show how the E-20 compares with the E-10.

More media: LetsGoDigital and Oly-E.de site (German, but with a partiually English PDF)

Looks like it's going to be phased out in December. IMHO, it's the end of an era -- the P3 was the processor that caused the desktop computer to "come of age."

How European

VILNIUS (Reuters) -- Members of the Lithuanian women's basketball team have posed nude for the country's leading magazine on the sport in an attempt to boost interest in the European Championship starting in France this weekend.

Here are some images of NYC and the Pentagon from space.

WEDNESDAY, 9/12/2001, 11:58pm HST by Penfold

Dammit, I want some real news, not this human interest crap.

All you need is a Large Hadron Collider, at least in theory. Read about it here. (It's a New York Times article so you have to register to read it).

Working the email

So thank God for e-mail. Instant messages pop up on my screen, frantic, insistent. TV used to be the global village. Now, as this catastrophe shows, the global village is on a different screen.

Find out what the press is mumbling about here. Don't you remember War Games (for the full feeling, click here).?

WEDNESDAY, 9/12/2001, 9:30am HST by Raul

Here are a couple of ways to donate online to NYC/Washington disaster relief: Paypal link and Amazon link.

Well, the new Detonators are out, version 21.81(!) -- known as Detonator XP or Detonator 4. These appear to be optimized for Windows XP, although NVIDIA claims increases across all platforms. Not every user reports same, however, so use at your own risk. Download here or discuss here.

If you enjoyed the Ballmer dance video clip, here is a music video based on same. It's kind of weak musically, but they get props for effort anyway.

If you're into chicks who smoke ... yeah, you know you are ... have a gander at Smoke Signals, a magazine devoted to the fetish.

I'm playing this stuff low because I don't think it deserves higher play.

• PETA chimes in on the tragedy. Something tells me that resources are a little thin for this proposal.
• Two LA Kings scouts were on one of the hijacked planes. RIP.
• This is kinda creepy, but probably just an odd coincidence. A face in the smoke.
• Bin Laden shaming.
• Here's a Reg bit on linking the terrorist attack to video games. Ironically, in an impromptu chat I set up as the events were unfolding, using Microsoft Flight Simulator for practice -- and the fact that some aviation schools count MSFS use as flight time -- was one of the topics we discussed.
• There is something being made of the Internet "failing" in reporting the tragedy. Many independent Web site operators, however, stepped up to the plate, so in a sort of grass-roots way, the Internet did get the job done.
• Apparently, the Taliban Web Site was defaced ... but I can't find an article to link.

TUESDAY, 9/11/2001, 11:58pm HST by Penfold

Even FoodTV decided to go off the air.

Since you've probably heard all about what happened already (as if any station was talking about anything else) I'll stick to some more fringy types of related newstories.

Insurance companies get stuck with the whole mess.

No matter how tragic, there's someone making a buck.

Just to keep you from getting too depressed, read about the orgy that never ends.

TUESDAY, 9/11/2001, 12:35pm HST by Raul

Gspot sends along this link to images taken of the World Trade Center today. I don't know how long this link will persist. Exif data confirms that these were taken with a Olympus C2000Z.

Here are some from a Kodak DCS265.

TUESDAY, 9/11/2001, 4:10am HST by Raul

News is breaking, bigtime. I will be at work for a long time today, I'll bet. Here it is, since most major news sites are being hammered like crazy now:

• Two hijacked planes have crashed into the World Trade Center, one into each tower. Both towers have now collapsed, possibly as the result of further plane crashes.
• A plane (unknown if hijacked) crashed into the Pentagon, damaging it.
• The White House has been evacuated.
• Sears tower has been evacuated.
• All airports nationwide have been shut down. No air traffic.
• Trading has been suspended on the NYSE.

MONDAY, 9/10/2001, 10:58pm HST by Penfold

Sausage fest.

No really, it is a really small flower vase. Perfect for little pieces of flowers.

To Cuba. According to this article, a Congress member is predicting that the Cuba ban will be no more by next year. Ah yeah, some where else to travel.

"Sometime irony can be pretty ironic". I think that Came from Airplane 2 or something. Anyways, it seems that a Taco Bell franchise owner ended up being one of the McDonalds million dollar winners. Read about it here.

Dick Arm-y

A Russian teen whose penis had to be amputated after he urinated on a live wire is now on his way to an impressive, if not full, recovery. All he had to do was grow a replacement penis on his arm.

MONDAY, 9/10/2001, 2:20pm HST by Raul

New Palm just came, short post.

If you have played any of the games in Firingsquid's Gaming Back in the Day article, you are truly worthy of old school status, however I do think they missed some important ones, like Wolfenstein.

In a related article, remember Spacewar? I was totally addicted to a little dos implementation of this awesome game. So much so that I wrote my own version in Basic (called "Putz") back in high school.

Freakylemur finds Boss Louse cute.

SUNDAY, 9/9/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold

Rode to Sand Island Beach park today. It's an incredibly big park.

Yesterday at the beach was a hard one on foldable chairs. 3 chairs ended up being beyond repair, including my poor reclining chair. At least if gave me an excuse to get a new one.

Donate $15 to Panicware, maker of the ever so useful Pop-Up Stopper, and get this cool shirt. Support cheap/free software.

Boosted tea

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- A California public interest group has sued Starbucks Corp., claiming that America's largest coffee retailer secretly spikes its Tazo Chai Tea with ephedrine, an herbal stimulant banned in food by U.S. regulators.

Be careful of what you ask for...

He was suspected of shoplifting and challenged to empty his pockets by the shop assistant.

"So I pulled the vibrator out and held it up in front of her. I then asked her if she wanted it in her. It was more like an offer or a joke."