Archive for January, 2008

QTrax, the Awesome MP3 Download Site May Just be a Piece of QCrap.

Ok… so QTrax is out! *Heavenly rejoicing ensues* But wait… You can’t download or stream music? *Heavenly chorus throws rotten tomatoes* Heck, if you’re me, you can’t even get the software to run correctly. It installs fine, but their severs appear to be hammered beyond recognition, and their service pages won’t even load. How quaint. But wait! There’s more… Read the rest of this entry »

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Yes… the Internet was ugly back in the day…

We spoke of this on the radio today (Episode 30th, January 26th)… The Internet… man was it ugly! Now, we all know that web developers (myself included) didn’t have the tools they have now… but I wanted to post the article for all to see!

http://www.msu.edu/~karjalae/internet96.htm?hoho

Also, take a peek at the wayback machine, to get a look at websites from time immortal!

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Enjoy!
Goombah

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Robot Catapult Throws Fireballs… Yes… Fireballs.

We spoke about the Fireball tossing Industrial Robot on our January 19th episode of That Computer Show. I wanted to place the link here. Check it out, as Chris mentioned on the show, it’s awesome. It’s a FIREBALL… THROWING… ROBOT!!!

Goombah

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