Monthly Archive for May, 2003

you can play chess literally with your scanner. glyphchess transform your scanner into a chess playing surface for your pc. humans visualise the game better with real chess pieces. thus even garry kasparov’s game against computers required a human operator to translate the movements onto a real chessboard.

other than being a scapegoat for violence, shooting up bad guys in video games promotes visual attention skills. in fact, it benefits people that needs to track a few objects concurrently, like drivers, pilot and air traffic controllers. choice of games are important too, as puzzle games like tetris offers no improvement.

the lemon published a very humourous history of the internet. a good laugh if you recall some of the factual events that happened.

with the help of technology, you can fake how hard your worked. always online instant messengers, scheduled emails late at night and printing documents to office from home would give the impression that you’re hard at work.

contrary to beliefs, gaming does not reduce productivity.

highly entertaining indie-rock transformers theme song by meatbee. (via serialdeviant)

with the matrix reloaded release scheduled for next week, its time to get into the fever.

time magazine has an exclusive on the matrix. however, it includes the complete storyline as well. good for spoiler fans, but don’t read the other half of the article if you want to enjoy the movie.

two of the animatrix clips tells the history of the matrix, when man became the architect of his demise. check out the second renaissance part one and part two. note that the animation contains disturbing scenes. quicktime player version 6 required.