Month: November 2005

The MIT production Republic Dogs is a funny combination of Plato’s Republic and Reservoir Dogs.

Now this is my kind of burglar… 🙂

As a follow-up to my earlier post, I though I’d mention that Civilization IV has just arrived; the Civ IV home page is full of information and goodies. Any posts I make in the near future will be during breaks from my games… 😉

The Detroit News has a nice feature in which Frank Oz talks about life as Yoda.

YesButNoButYes tracks what became of some of the ladies from live-action Saturday Morning kids shows. If there’s a surer way to depress yourself than to see what’s become of what made a man out of the 5 year old you, we can’t imagine one.

Too true…

NBC is launching Sleuth, a new TV channel highlighting mystery and crime shows. This wouldn’t interest me all that much but for this snippet:

For at least the first couple years, Sleuth’s programming will consist mainly of old reruns in the Universal library, such as Miami Vice, The A-Team and Knight Rider. The movies Scarface, The Jackal and Casino will also be in the mix.

I’m sure that eventually it will be all Law And Order, all the time… ;-p

Armagetron is a pretty cool TRON light cycle game…

You have got to check out the Flash music video World Leaders Sing ABBA…

To round out recent Google Maps-related news, Maplandia, a “Google Maps World Gazetteer,” is quite impressive:

Maplandia.com provides the searchable world gazetteer based on Google Maps, the most comprehensive online satellite imagery ever available. More than 2 000 000 places all over the world are divided into many geographical categories according to continents, countries and administrative regions. Coloured region contours, direct Google Earth links and other no elsewhere to find features make exploring the world easy as never before.

Definitely worth a long visit…

We Reporters GeoNews is a pretty cool mashup of Google Maps and Google News.