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50,000,000

Almost fifty million!(Firefox has been downloaded quite a bit.)

Google MBTA

First 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

New 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

Oh 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...

Sega Fantasy VI

When 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...

Random works

Totally 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...

Noise

Drunk people at 3 am outside the window, cars constantly booming by, construction crews in the morning, a truck every first Wednesday and Thursday of each non-bitterly-cold-winter month with the recorded voice of a man shouting in the thickest Boston accent anyone has ever heard shouting something about towing cars...

Back to normal

Okay, my website is now back to normal. Hope you all enjoyed the April Fools theme. (:If you find a bug in this new theme, just let me know. (Hopefully it works in IE/Win just fine; we’ll see…)