Who do you want to vote for today?

A fine example of the digital revolution serving democracy in India.
For decades, millions of illiterate Indians voted by pressing their thumbprints on voting-paper. This year, they'll just press a button. And so will everyone else.This months'
general elections in India are set to make the world's largest democracy also the world's largest user of computerized voting machines.
For the first time, India's 660 million registered voters will be able to exercise their right on one of approximately 1 million computerized voting machines in an electronic, paper-less election.

DVD-9

The next step in Dvd recording has happened!
Every new hi-tec PC sold these days includes the DVD-RW tag as "Stunning new features"... What they don't want you to know is that with the existing technology, you could only record 4.25 GB of information in a single layer of the disc. Thus making it impossible to burn a movie of over 90 minutes in duration. Of course every DVD in the market takes advantage of the disc's both layers for years now.
All this has changed with the release of Sony's DRU-700A and Liteon's SOHW - 832S models. Both capable of burning dual-layer DVD's. At last you can copy a full sized DVD without worrying about the duration and you can merge 13 of your cd's in a single DVD disc. You can make mp3 collections of over 190 hours of music!
Last but not least, the devices cost only 200 euro. And they are the first to hit the market. I'm hoping 100 euro by christmas...

Are you a Pirate?

The situation in the Music Industry is getting more messed up by the minute.

Last Week the Greek Authorities arrested a man for purchasing 2 copied CD's from a street vendor, and they started threating tourists that during the Olympics the situation will get worse. See the article.
The EU has already accepted to take legal action against piracy on the web (imported US insanity). Soon we will worry more about FBI intrusions on our PC's than viruses. On the other hand more songs are offered via web than ever, followed by the proper advertising and promotion of music gadgets. Are they kidding us????
First of all, there has been proved that there is no actual relation between the drop of CD sales and Kazaa-like downloading. See the research. In adittion, the actual CD's sold in stores are way overpriced and the online stores offer inferior products of the same price. Personally I don't want to pay a dollar for a song that is of lower quality (mp3 compression) and DRM'd (Digital Rights Management - which means that I cannot copy it on a CD even for my personal use...) Imagine buing a book that you cannot photocopy, read outside your room and that would disappear after a month!!!
I beleive that the Music Industry is using every way they can to terrorise people and control their so precious music, which is in fact what kills music. The following complaint expresses pretty much my feelings. Protect the music, not the Buisness!

Movie Fans Unite

Ok, I Admit. I am a big movie fan. I like to cross-refference the films that the actors have been to, I enjoy difficult long shots, I want to know who wrote the music for every film and why the director chose that name for a boat.

I love it when they tell Spiderman that he is not Superman,  when the one-eye monster from Monsters INC swims by the titles of Finding Nemo or when Edward Norton looks at the camera and says that he should get an Oscar for his dialogue in Fight Club.

I want to know what films are in production and check out every trailer comes my way. If you know what I mean check out this very interesting Movie BLOG and of course IMDB.

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What kind of Shoe are you?

If you have any self-definition issues and if you have been wondering what book of the Bible you are... here are the answers to all your questions. A journey to our inner parallel universe. Or just a quiz-site... By the way, after taking the "What Movie Are You In" test, it returned "Grease"! (sic)

My right foot for a Gmail Account.

Gmail is the newest mail service offered by the guys at Google. What makes this service interesting is the 1 Gbyte of space offered to users (as opposed to 2 Mb's by Hotmail). As you can imagine everybody wants to have an account there, but not everybody can. Only a few people, selected by Google have received invitations to be part of the service.
The rest of us will have to convince them to sell us (about $60 on eBay) their account OR swap! How is it done? Check out the swap site and pay attention on what people offer just for an invitation!
My favourite is "a photo of your name, at the top of the highest mountain in the northeastern USA"

South Park

Every TV show has its ups and downs. And South Park is no exception. For some time now the show was trying to find the right proportions between comedy, sarcasm and insult. I believe that with the 8 season they found the fine line. And it is hilarious!
Check out the new episodes. And if you are interest of what other people think, have a look at the Jump The Shark site where you can vote when a show stopped intriguing you. Or not...

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is a German word meaning "..the characteristic mood of a period of history as shown by the ideas of the time.

In the digital era you can take a look at Google's zeitgeist, which gathers each week's most popular searches and presents the statistics. Millions of people use Google as their search engine so you can image that the most popular keywords are troubling the minds all over our lonely planet.

Sometimes the results are interesting, sometimes they are creepy. Les conclusions a vous...

What They Don't Want You to Know

In order to understand virus production you need to realize that everything is controlled by a Mazochists group made up of ants with help from short giants.The conspiracy first started during your birthday in Kuala Lumbur. They have been responsible for many events throughout history, including the trip to Mars.
Today, members of the conspiracy are everywhere. They can be identified by space jumping.
They want to nose pick the Pope and imprison resisters in Abyss using turtles.
In order to prepare for this, we all must start smoking. Since the media is controlled by Adolf Hitler we should get our information from tuna fish.
Make your own Conspiracy Theory!

A different kind of Dictionnary

And when least expected, you find a trojan worm in your PC. Does it have anything to do with TROY and Achilleus? Find out what it means with the advanced Computing Dictionnary. May come in handy...

Too stupid to be President

We like making fun of powerful men. It makes us fell also powerfull. Yes, but this one deserves it. That's My Bush!. In various hilarious depictions...

Flash Rooms

Obviously there is a lot of free time on the NET. Everybody is familiar with
the infamous Crimson Room. And a lot of time was spent
trying to get out that damn room. Last Month, Toshimitsu Takagi, the guy who
offered us hours of mind-boggling puzzles with the Crimson Room had created
the NEXT step. It's called "the VIRIDIAN room" and you can enjoy it here. And for those of you
who doesn't have so much free time but still want to get out the room, here
are the hints.
Good luck, and be patient until the next room appears in our way...

Welcome!

Welcome to the newest Web Log in the net! (As of Tuesday 18 May 2004 00:21)...(and for about 5 seconds). As you know there are millions of blogs out there and the competition is really hard. Every 2.half seconds there is a new blog created by another soul in this lonely planet. And by the time every single one of us will have one, there will be another trend that will crash the greedy servers that lie beneath...