50,000,000
Thursday, April 28th, 2005Almost fifty million!
(Firefox has been downloaded quite a bit.)
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Google MBTA
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005First Chicago’s Transit Authority. Now it’s T time for Google Maps, thanks to Firefox and Greasemonkey.
Everyone in the Boston area using Firefox (with Greasemonkey installed) will love this. (:
Update: Lots of info has been released, along with a call to improve the service.
Redesigning prescriptions
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005New York Metro has a feature about a graphic designer reworking the age-old medicine bottle. Not only is the new bottle much more clear; it might actually even save a large number of lives!
KSpyware: open source spyware
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005Oh great; just what the world needs: more spyware. This time it’s open source, too. Despite the KSpyware name, however, it’s for Windows, not KDE.
It does use perl, but it relies heavily upon win32 heavily.
Also, for those who need it: The Free (and 99.9% foolproof) way of ridding your computer of [...]
Sega Fantasy VI
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005When game consoles are placed in the roles of Final Fantasy VI, all of the old gaming systems fight to save the world from the PSP. This long, wacky flash animation is filled with tons of jokes and is quite true to the original Final Fantasy game (well, as true as it could be [...]
Random works
Thursday, April 14th, 2005Totally random stuff:
* Mozart minuet
* SCIgen - automatic CS paper generator
* Gnoetry - nice random poetry
* Color palettes
* Kittens
* Essay (you can make it about anything you want too…)
* Generated names
* Various words
* DadaDodo - the classic random tool
* Random WikiPedia page (not to be confused with Wikipedia’s page on random)
* True random
When will the winter end?
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005We had yet another cold day in New England. Here in Cambridge, it even snowed!