This has to be one of the geekiest things I’ve found to date. A guy by the name of Kirk Baucom wrote a perl script that creates a virtual aquarium using ASCII characters. Chuck Houpt has created a Mac OS X package of Asciiquarium and Michael Pyne and Maksim Orlovich have created a KDE Screensaver based on Asciiquarium.
Source: ASCIIQuarium
I ran across an old Nintendo 8-bit commercial. It sure brings back memories. The video is been provided by Gaming-Age.com is it’s Nintendo introducing Tetris.
Source: Gamin-Age.com – Tetris Commercial
GameSpot.com has an awesome report on the next console system from Nintendo, code name Revolution and more recently called Nintendo Wii (pronounced “we”).
Source: The Nintendo Revolution Report
This post is a continuation of my previous blog on this topic, Web Site User Friendly URLs with mod_rewrite, won’t work.
My goal was to create web site user friendly URLs that would look like this, www.example-domain.com/products/shirts/. There would no longer be huge address with data, html or php files being referenced and the address would accept with or without a trailing slash (slash at the end of the URL). From that point a script would take the path (i.e. /products/shirts/) to determine if the content existed. If the content existed display content to client (end user viewing/srufing the web site) other wise display a user friendly 404 Not Found message to client.
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TechEBlog has an awesome article about the Top 10 Strangest Game Controllers. Amazing of what controllers are out there that I didn’t even know exists.
Source: TechEBlog’s Top 10 Strangest Game Controllers