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This is really amazing. This QuickTime movie shows 24 hours of air travel in the continental United States. Now I know why there are delays.

Here is some links straight to the movie or this one.

A follow up to my earlier post on 1.0.6, GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n'drop files to.

The old version’s installation was contemporaneous with the disappearance of all my drive letters in Windows Explorer. Hope they fixed that ish. This technology is very interesting however, it mainly depends on your upload speed which many users have capped at numbers far below there download speeds. 384k up is not very fast to use as a second virtual hard disk. How many places are there on the net where you can get a free 2gig drive? A good way to exchange files in non realtime.

Website containing 6 pages (around 120) different wallpapers. Very nicely done!

Many of them (if not all) are from artists on www.deviantart.com Check that for tons more great wallpapers. If you like Gaming wallpapers, head down here. For those who are looking for more choices, head down here and sift the images one by one.. or, try these two, leave the children to their abstracts

Frankly, it doesn’t matter if these are “good” or “bad”. If you’re spending time looking for what wallpaper to put on your computer, you have far too much time on your hands and probably don’t need a computer at all. Another “great sites” for people who use computers as a very expensive alarm clock.

Very fun little flash game. Great way to spend a few moments when you are trying to not accomplish anything! Shoot baskets in a virtual office with balls of paper. Watch out for the fan speed settings. Enjoy.

I have come to realize from playing many fun addicting flash games that the VG industry has lost a lot of its talent to entertain the consumer and innovate the medium. If these free fast little flash games are far better and longer lasting than most of the crapy multi-million dollar games company’s are pumping out then there is a serious problem which needs to be examined by the so called “talents” with-in the video game industry.

This game is better. It is the original paper throwing game. Have you guys have to try that? Much more addicting. The taunting made it better. All games should have taunts. The next logical itteration would be to bounce it off a wall or office furniture.

Here’s another version of this type of game. This is way better than that other trash toss game, just wish the high score thing worked so I could see what others are doing. I got 42 and then dumped an easy one. Wasted my entire morning.

I bet someone did this at work and decided to make it into a game.

The criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: breadth and depth of database, database currency, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, and price of membership. This one is by the same guy with a top 30. Its dated two weeks later, and lists isohunt.com and thepiratebay.org as 1 & 2

I would also reccommend Slyck. There you can find out about everything p2p. It lites best sites for search bittorrent and ed2k etc. Another one is Torrent Reactor. I like how they pointed out that the technology was legal. defiant.ws is a great search that’s mad fast. It found things ISOhunt couldn’t find for me more than a couple times.

If you were on mIRC then you would know about ircspy which is also hosted and owned by the same group as torrentspy.

An incredibly rendered movie with realism I haven’t ever seen before! I could watch this thing over and over again. The reflections and ambient lighting are simply incredible. Check out the rest of the site for some other examples and explanations!

This animation is 7 years old! it was produced in 1998. and paul debevec is the guy that practically invented High Dynamic Range Illumination (HDRI). Good texturing and realistic lighting. If it’s two years old that would explain why they used the Sorenson video codec. There’s no excuse these days not to use H.264. If the whole point is to impress us by showing us this great rendering they’ve created, when WHY did they make the downloadable movie so low-resolution and generally low-quality ?

It appears the movie is at least 6 years old, as it appears to have been shown/presented at SIGGRAPH ‘99. If you think this video isn’t that amazing, then check out some of the more current (but not animated) stufflike this where they are modifying a picture/video of someone based on different lighting. Pretty soon people could use a green screen and not only fill an actor into a computer generated environment, but they could touch up the actor’s ambient lighting to better reflect the generated scene. Pretty freaking amazing if you ask me. I just found this link to be most stunning visual since it’s animated. As someone previously stated, at about :32 seconds into the clip, there is an unbelievably realistic shot panning across the floor. I feel like I was there recording it myself with a camcorder it looks so amazing!

Anyway this guy is making some awesome progress on some sweet things. How some of it was done…
Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs, HDR Shop Home and Creating a Light Probe Image.

The major animation studios, like PIXAR, say that they can make rendered movies so real you can’t tell them apart from real footage, but that they choose to leave the element of “cartoon” in so that you aren’t duped…someday soon we will be able render in real time (still a few years off!) worlds that are perfect mirrors of reality. We clamour for this realism in a way that is ironic - if we want this reality, why not just look out the window? I guess it’s about the power of creation, and imagination, but I wonder if we are ready for that level of realism - it could be quite the mind trip! We love to see amazing rendered effects - we visualize things that have never been seen or observed, but still there is always that someone who says “I could tell that was fake” (don’t you love that guy?). Someday soon though, we might not be able to so easily distinquish real from rendered, and once these creations leap out of the confines of our monitors, it will be an interesting thing!

A ZeeMap allows you to easily map entries on an interactive world map. Entries can be places or people. Create a ZeeMap simply by clicking on the link below, and start adding entries on your ZeeMap.

Weather Bonk allows you to view real-time world-wide weather information, radar, webcams, and historical data on to a google map. You can slide a scrollbar to observe historical weather information to predict what climate to expect for a given month. Program exports data to Google Earth, a 3D satellite imagery viewer.

An unofficial Google Maps blog, tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps. & Some cool Map hacks!

gvisit.com is the newest tool to make use of the Google Maps API. It allows bloggers - or anyone with a website - to track the locations of their visitors, and plot the results on a Google Map. It is free (donation driven) and you don’t even need to register an email address.

That script is awesome! i cant wait till i see where my visitors are reading from and then track ‘em down or something and have some pure unfiltered fun but this one has too many ads & the map is not very big. I couldn’t even figure out how to add myself to the map!

This is no invasion of anyone’s privacy. Whenever you visit a website, the server logs your IP. It *has* to, its the only way it knows of sending you the data you requested. Any webmaster for any site you visit only has to look through his logs to see the IP addresses of the people who visited him, at what times, and what files they requested. That’s just the way the web works. The only thing this service does is map those IP’s to an approximate geographical location using GMaps. Which means that the best it can do, without actually going into the ISP and requesting that they turn over their customer records of you, is to show the approximate location of your ISP. That’s all. This is not any infomration that any webmaster would not have been able to get before. The only neat thing about this is that now that information is shown in a nice zoomable map.