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Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3? Which one is going to be better? Tough question. Depends on what you are looking for in a game box. For those that want to unpack the box, plug it in and play, the Xbox is probably going to win with its ease of use. For those that want the best in wireless, the best in sheer power, and the ability to run on an HDTV and to link several consoles together, Playstation 3 may be the best bet. That said, there are several months before retail release and who knows what changes may be in store. The reviewers at Macworld: News: E3: Xbox 360 vs PlayStation 3 clearly think that Sony trumped Microsoft at the recent E3 show by outclassing the Xbox 360 with stunning graphics. A more neutral reviewer at PlayStation 3 faster, Microsoft Xbox 360 easier notes that while PlayStation has more horsepower, Xbox 360 is a whole lot easier to use with a lot of helpful wizards and tool. GameSpot has a reviews of both from a gamer's perspective: Xbox 360 Inside and Out and PlayStation 3: Inside and Out. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/27/2005 06:10:00 PM 
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Political Star Wars Spoof Launched http://www.moveonpac.org/savetherepublic-QT.html Okay, it is hokey as heck, but this spoof is cute in its own way featuring an evil emperor that appears to be Senator Frist leading dark legions into an attack on filibustering. Just goes to show that Star Wars sells, even in politics. For more see, Spoof Star Wars ad launches to protest anti-filibuster moves in US Senate. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/26/2005 10:32:00 PM
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War Stories - What Doesn't Sell In The Press http://www.michaelyon.blogspot.com/ In an article, "And now, for the rest of the story . . .", Michael Yon explains the secrets of how the media is reporting the news from Iraq and why you aren't likely to find stories about the humanitarian efforts of individual soldiers. His is an interesting and entertaining read. If you are up for a less biased view of the war that gets away from body counts, his blog may be one that you'll want to bookmark and follow. His daily stories are a welcome relief from the canned stuff we usually see. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/24/2005 11:57:00 PM
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Counter-Revolution in Wireless Phone Technology http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4566809.stm The BBC reports that Vodafone is launching a back-to-basic mobil phone that is stripped down, offering simplicity in response to demand from older consumers that don't want all the bells and whistles. These new phones offer large screen sizes, legible text, and are limited to voice and text without the usually add-ons like cameras, Bluetooth, and the like. The company may offer a phone in the future with a dedicated button for emergency services for older users. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/21/2005 08:26:00 PM
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Star Wars Spoof -- Grocery Store Wars | Join the Organic Rebellion http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html Meet Darth Tater and Cuke Skywalker in this exciting spoof of Star Wars designed to promote the virtues of the The Farm - organic foods. This short film is a hoot and worth seeing more than once. Anyone who has seen Star Wars will get a kick out of this one. The creative use of flash in this short film and the clever spoof-line of the story will no doubt cause this message to get sent to millions of people in short order. This sort of web film may be a wake-up call to the advertising industry suggesting that with very little cost a message can get to a much larger audience than with traditional and expensive marketing campaigns. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/21/2005 08:21:00 PM
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Your Personalized Google http://www.google.com/ig Google is now offering a personalized website for visitors that will allow you to add weather, Wired News, Slashdot, stock quotes, gmail, google maps, news, the word of the day, movies, driving directions, and much more. The interface is a very simple and easy to use. The downside is that you have to go to a separate page to get your personalization. If you go to the usual Google search page you'll get the same standard search box. It would also be nice to have a link from Gmail into your personalized home page. Currently there is no option to integrate this into the Google toolbar, which might be an added plus. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/19/2005 10:15:00 PM
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Pirates Snag Sith Final 'Star Wars' film leaked to the Internet Reuters reports that pirated copies of "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" have been leaked onto file sharing sites. The Australian Press is reporting that MPAA President Dan Glickman is vowing to track down and catch pirates peddling bootlegged copies of the movie. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/19/2005 10:03:00 PM
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Contagious Media Showdown http://showdown.contagiousmedia.org/ It's hot, it's fresh, and it's live tonight. Check out the competition for best viral humor. It is a race among web designers to find out who can prompt the sending of the largest amount of contagious e-mail. If you have experienced the dancing baby, the numa numa dance, the "Star Wars" kid, or JibJab, then you have experience contageous media on the web. It is the stuff that people send to ten or twenty friends and acquaintances to pass on some humor or something just plain odd. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/19/2005 09:56:00 PM
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Web & Art http://www.gumblondes.com/gb.html How many times has an officemate or a friend snickered to you that you can find just about anything on the web? Well there is a certain amount of truth to that. Where else could you find a gallery of sculpted pictures made with chewing gum? Don't believe it? Check out Gum Blondes. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/19/2005 09:43:00 PM
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Star Wars - Tomorrow http://www.starwars.com/ Unless you've lived under a rock, you probably know that the most influentual movies series in history is about to open its sixth and final installment - Episode III Revenge of the Sith. If you haven't watched the trailer - do it now. So how is it fairing with reviewers? Excellent! Check out the Seattle Post Intelligencer Review at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/224635_starwars18q.html as an example. And it appears that employers could see a spike in absenteeism costing millions as employees hoof it to their local cinemas to catch the drama. More Posted by WEBnME @ 5/18/2005 12:49:00 AM
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Old Trick - Still Fun http://www.barry.fireflyinternet.co.uk/fun/files/tiny.htm Well, its time for something a little more lighthearted today and so our recommendation is visit http://www.barry.fireflyinternet.co.uk/fun/files/tiny.htm for a "Magic Number Trick" that may at first seem pretty neat and it is. But for those who were paying attention in algebra and remember a little bit, this shouldn't be too hard to figure out. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/15/2005 04:00:00 PM
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Star Wars Science? http://forbes.com/technology/2005/05/10/cx_mh_starwarscienceslide.html?thisSpeed=6000 Forbes is running a series called "The Science of Star Wars" which has some interesting critiques of the weapons and technology from the movie. The information is great, but the website design is distracting. As you start to read an article, you may find that another article is quickly flashed in front of you. To enjoy this series you'll need to hit the stop link with each article to have time to read. Once you do, the articles are pretty fascinating. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/12/2005 07:58:00 PM
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Heroes of the Web http://www.omniupdate.com/company/releases/release31.jsp Most of the time we hear about notorious bad guys on the web cracking, stealing, phishing, and filching identieis, but there are also some good guys doing great stuff. Websiteasp.com has issued a white paper entitled "Heroes of the Web" honoring the contribution of college and university websites to information dissemination, research, and transactions. Websiteasp.com notes that while the average website has about 160 pages, most higher education websites have as about 40,000 pages. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/11/2005 10:59:00 PM
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What To Do When Your Identity Is Stolen http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/idtheft.htm Some sources believe that as many as 1 in 10 people have been impacted by rampant identity theft. If you are a victim, one of the first questions is likely to be what do I do now? If you are a victim one of the best sources of "what to do" information is the The Federal Trade Commission's "Take Charge: Fighting Back Against Identity Theft" online publication. This guide will help you through the immediate steps like reporting the problem, making a police report, and stopping credit cards while giving specific advice on specific problems related to the theft of your identity. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/10/2005 10:01:00 PM
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Anti-Spyware Products Reviewed http://www.adwarereport.com Want the latest scoop on spyware and the software designed to combat these pesky programs? Then you'll want to visit Adwarereport.com. Adwarereport.com specializes in daily stories on spyware and anti-spyware products. The site also has a great set of product reviews at http://www.adwarereport.com/mt/archives/000004.html, which may help you decide which anti-spyware product is best for your system. Adwarereport.com currently rates Spyware Eliminator as the best product for spyware removal. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/09/2005 10:52:00 PM
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Kids Targeted by Spyware Purveyors http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7735192/ In the News: MSNBC has reported that spyware makers are actively targeting children. In the report, MSNBC notes that Symantec did a test with a new out-of-the-box PC and after visiting half a dozen children's sites, the computer was loaded with 359 pieces of adware software. Help: Microsoft has a helpful short article "Spyware and your kids" that can help parents understand how spyware can get on a computer and what to do about it. Learn More: For more reading on the subject, you may want to have a look at PC Pitstop's articles "Are Your Children Safe from Spyware?" and "Safe Surfing" where you'll find a lot of helpful tips. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/08/2005 02:38:00 PM
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Sneak A Peak at XBox 360 http://www.cubed3.com/viewnews.php?storyid=3786 Microsoft's entry into the next generation of console gaming, the XBox 360, is due to be launched soon. A UK blog has managed to snag a photo of the curvey new box. See it at the link above. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/07/2005 10:36:00 PM
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Why Computer Screens Look The Way They Do http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars/1?10730 Jeremy Reimer at ARS technica has put together a detailed and interesting history of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) -- that wonderful part of the computer that allows us to interact with the machine and each other. Stretching across eight pages loaded with detail, you'll find the first demonstration of a GUI in 1968 well ahead of many of the systems we all tend to remember. If you'd like to see a GUI timeline, he has a good one at http://media.arstechnica.com/images/gui/guitimeline.jpg where you'll find old favorites like Atari, Commodore and BeOS listed. Well worth a read. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/07/2005 07:54:00 PM
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Comedian Chris Warren In Iraq - Trip Diary http://brickwallcomedy.com/iraq05/index.htm Recently comedian Chris Warren did a tour in Iraq and through it all, he kept up an ongoing diary of his experience with daily postings to his website. And this isn't his first tour in Iraq. He'd been there before and volunteered to go back again. His first-hand account of this second visit is riveting and worth the half-hour to hour it will take to read. The tour took Chris to Kuwait, Ur, al Zebin, Tallil, Scania, Baghdad, Sadaam's palaces, Tikrit and al Falluja. Some of the trip was in blackhawks at night, but most of it was in armored humvees on convoy duty or hunting down IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) along convoy routes. He has quite an account of finding one such device on page four of his journal. The tour was a huge success and everyone is safely at home now. Hopefully that means that more pictures will be added to the journal soon. This first hand account is a wonderful window from which to view Iraq today and through it we can see things that the regular media seems to miss like the building of new schools and the changes in the Iraqi people. To Chris, we say - thanks for sharing your experience! Posted by WEBnME @ 5/06/2005 11:15:00 PM
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ThinkQuest http://www.thinkquest.org/ In about a month the winners of the October 2004 ThinkQuest competition will be announced at this site. Teams of students and teachers have created educational websites and are vying for prizes. Two weeks ago Common Sense Media named this site "Best Internet Site for Kids." You can see some past winners of this competition at http://thinkquest.org/apr04dec04/index.shtml. The first place winner "Patent Wars on AIDS Drugs" starts with a compelling flash presentation that leads to a storehouse of information on the issue. This winner site is available in both English and Spanish. The site is sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/05/2005 10:11:00 PM
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Putting Internet Information Server 6.0 to the Test http://www.hackiis6.com WindowsIT Pro is so confident that IIS 6.0 can be made secure, that it has put together a challenge website at http://www.hackiis6.com. To sweeten the contest, they are offering a free Xbox to anyone that can defeat their "impenetrable IIS environment" while staying within the contest's rules. The contest runs through June 8, 2005 and the results will be announced on June 9, 2005 at TechEd in Orlando. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/05/2005 09:51:00 PM
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Nicely Packaged Online Reference Center http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ Whether it is the word of the day, today's birthday, a day in history, quotes or a nicely packaged set of dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia and search tools, this site offers a little of something to everyone. You'll probably want to bookmark http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ for future reference use and may even find yourself making daily visits. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/05/2005 09:45:00 PM
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Yahoo Adds Search History Feature http://myweb.search.yahoo.com/myweb?myfr=sfp Yahoo has rolled out a beta version of a tool called "My Web" which will allow you to save exact copies of entire pages and search your saved pages. Google rolled out "My Search History" on April 20. Google's product allows you to search your previous searches and to search the text of web pages that you've found. Amazon's a9.com already offers an index to recent searches with a "Your History" area and offers up bookmarks as well. MSN Search currently does not have a similar feature. This mad dash by Yahoo to offer features to snag market share may not be without a price for consumers, if the saved pages are not replaced with updated versions on retrieval. Yahoo advertises "Save an exact copy of any page you like." Folks that save pages and then go back to them may well miss important updates on the actual page. Suppose that you save a software updates page from a vendor and then check back to see whether there are any updates a month later. If you are only presented with the page you saw a month ago, you will miss any subsequent updates and you may end up with a computer more vulnerable to attack. Suppose that you save a page with medical information about a prescription drug and that after you save it, the page is revised because a new study has found some dangerous side-effects to the drug you are taking? If you have an exact copy of what is now bad information and don't learn about the possible dangers in the new page, are you well served? Google's search of results and A9's index of searches may be a better approach. The ability to save static information that is unlikely to change may be a boon, but saving web pages that may be updated with critical information may end up causing harm to consumers. Let's hope that Yahoo rethinks this one a bit and offers both the saved page and the updated page as choices with some notification to the consumer on retrieval when the saved page does not match the current page. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/03/2005 11:34:00 PM
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Robot Attends Nursery School http://www.gizmonews.com/?p=663 One of Sony's Qrio robots has been attending a San Diego nursery school learning to play with children up to 2 years of age in an experiment designed to help develop a robot that can adapt to living with humans in the future. Additional story at Japan Today. For those with a serious research interest, check out Emotion and sociable humanoid robots from the International Journal on Human-Computer Studies (requires account). In a few months you may also want to check out the Advanced Robotics E-Symposium site. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/02/2005 11:32:00 PM
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New From Google Labs https://www.google.com/searchhistory/login Google is now testing an online search history capability that will allow you search your web search history. How many times have you found something in a search that was useful and then later couldn't find it in a subsequent search? This new tool may be the answer to such problems. Posted by WEBnME @ 5/01/2005 03:45:00 PM
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