Oct 19
Great post title, eh? Okay, all this really means is I have a few awesome links for you all to check out.
Firefox 2 RC3 is available for download. This is still a Beta project so not everything will necessarily work perfectly, but I, personally, cannot see why you wouldn’t want to download it. The reason I am so excited? Built in spell checker!! Whenever you spell something incorrectly a little red dashed line will appear underneath the word. Let me tell you how helpful this is for me! Plus a new version of Firefox is just cool.
Ruben’s Tube is awesome (via Not So Fast). Check out the Flame Tube / Ruben’s Tube explained at ISU’s physics dept. And then check out a cool demonstration of Ruben’s Tube at YouTube (I have embedded it at the bottom of this post as well). I always enjoyed studying sound in my physics classes but I had never seen this demo, it is very cool.
Play all the old-school NES games online! (Via Hypercubed) All the fun games you used to play on NES can be played in this flash emulator. Fun times.
Yes, our economy is actually doing well (despite what the MSM might be saying). Visit Pursuing Holiness’ post “Great Economy – Go Figure” for some great stats. The Dow Jones is at nearly 12000 (it actually hit it today before dropping below by the end of the day). One of the stats that I think is pretty awesome: “$207,788,000,000: The reduction in the Deficit in the Past 29 Months Due to Stronger Economic Growth.” Check out Laura’s post (where she also notes some interesting stats on poor households in the comments) or the source. [UPDATE: The Dow closes at 12,011.73! (10.19.06)]
See? I told you they were awesome!
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Posted by Matt Jones @ 12:15 am on October 19, 2006 • Filed under: Computer, Politics, Science
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Hexter Said:
I actually using Firefox 2.0 rc3 and it working perfectly without any problems.
Posted 19 Oct 2006 at 5:16 am ¶
TonyR Said:
That NES site wasn’t too good… I use the Nesticle emulator and have almost all the roms. I can’t believ this site didn’t even have Heavy Barrel. That was one of the best ones, I still play it from time to time despite it’s old graphics
Posted 19 Oct 2006 at 7:48 am ¶
julia Said:
1) If you’d use a mac you’d have already had auto-spellcheck for years. It’s nice windows users can at least have it in their browsers… *angel face*
2) I’m so diggin on those flames, man! Awesome!
Posted 19 Oct 2006 at 1:55 pm ¶
julia Said:
oh, and i can’t get the NES thing to work. stupid java applets.
Posted 19 Oct 2006 at 1:56 pm ¶
Matt Jones Said:
Oh sure Tony, just have to bring me down a peg, I see how it is! Heh, I guess I will have to check the other one out.
And then there is Julia! Throwing the mac stuff around! Hey, don’t get me wrong, I grew up with Apple and love the stuff, but really, how much did you pay for yours?
NES won’t work? I blame Apple!
And yes, the flames ARE awesome!
Posted 19 Oct 2006 at 2:52 pm ¶
salmypal Said:
I’ve read everywhere that the reason we don’t hear about the great economy is that the newspapers are losing money hand over fist so they just can’t see it. Ha.
Posted 20 Oct 2006 at 9:41 am ¶
Matt Jones Said:
Heh, yeah, I have been reading the same things… “gee, we are losing money, everyone else must be too!”
Posted 21 Oct 2006 at 2:32 pm ¶
julia Said:
“NES won’t work? I blame Apple!”
NES didn’t work on my work PC
So blame Microsoft. la la la….
Posted 24 Oct 2006 at 11:35 am ¶
Matt Jones Said:
Well fine! It is always someone else!
Posted 24 Oct 2006 at 11:42 pm ¶
Brian Said:
The Ruben’s is cool! I had never seen that before. How pathetic that it reminded me of some of a windows media player visualization instead of vice versa.
Posted 03 Nov 2006 at 3:11 pm ¶