Firefox, Rubenâs Tube, NES, and a Great Economy!
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 wouldnât 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.
Rubenâs Tube is awesome (via Not So Fast). Check out the Flame Tube / Rubenâs Tube explained at ISUâs physics dept. And then check out a cool demonstration of Rubenâs 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 Holinessâ 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 Lauraâs 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!
I actually using Firefox 2.0 rc3 and it working perfectly without any problems.
That NES site wasnât too good… I use the Nesticle emulator and have almost all the roms. I canât believ this site didnât even have Heavy Barrel. That was one of the best ones, I still play it from time to time despite itâs old graphics
1) If youâd use a mac youâd have already had auto-spellcheck for years. Itâs nice windows users can at least have it in their browsers… *angel face*
2) Iâm so diggin on those flames, man! Awesome!
oh, and i canât get the NES thing to work. stupid java applets.
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, donât get me wrong, I grew up with Apple and love the stuff, but really, how much did you pay for yours?
NES wonât work? I blame Apple!
And yes, the flames ARE awesome!
Iâve read everywhere that the reason we donât hear about the great economy is that the newspapers are losing money hand over fist so they just canât see it. Ha.
Heh, yeah, I have been reading the same things… “gee, we are losing money, everyone else must be too!”
“NES wonât work? I blame Apple!”
NES didnât work on my work PC
So blame Microsoft. la la la….
Well fine! It is always someone else!
The Rubenâs 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.