Sites Unseen

Sorry for the not being regular recently, folks. It’s just that I tried getting up from the computer for a while and having a life. But I guess this life thingy just doesn’t suit me. Anyway, those who are interested in comics might want to keep an eye on my other site BDcomics.blogspot.com. It’s growing and now it gets an impressive amount of 250 visitors a day.

MODIS Rapid Response System:
Satellite Image Gallery
[doiop.com/rapidfire]
Care to see the world the way our alien overlords do? Google Earth is great, but I've fallen in love with the MODIS Rapid Response System. These ultra high resolution satellite images of dust storms in Iraq, phytoplankton blooms in the Barents Sea, and even a school fire in Washington are breathtaking and make excellent desktop wallpapers and screensaver images. The gallery goes back as far as 2001, which means there are plenty of awesome images to be dug up. I've collected almost 30 spectacular views for wallpaper already. Check out some of these: Hurricane Katrina over Florida [doiop.com/KatrinaFL], Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea [doiop.com/WeirdSeaThingy], School Fire in Washington [doiop.com/BurnTheKids] and Ship tracks off the western US [doiop.com/ShipTracks]

Flickr: Explore
[flickr.com/explore/]
Flickr junkies rejoice! Everybody's favourite new photo sharing site unveils a super cool feature: Interestingness. In other words, Flickr now ranks their photos by coolness. So instead of trolling through five thousand tagged photos (e.g. "New York"), you get only the primo stuff. Just gaze in awe at the most interesting photos submitted over the past 24 hours: [doiop.com/Flickr24]

Check out the Generation E magazine
[generation-e.info]
This is quite an interesting online magazine for the teens in Dhaka. I’ve reviewed it and probably the review is in this very issue of RS. Still it’s worth another mention. And if you don’t see the review, then go on and check this out. The magazine is a 3 Mb PDF file.

Must download:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Audiobooks
[doiop.com/BDcomicsHitchhicker]
This is awesome stuff. It’s so good that I’d ask you to download them even if you use a sluggish 3 kbps dial-up (like me). Not really the traditional audiobook: it’s more like an audio-movie. It’s 140 MB in total, and will give you 6 hours of greatness.

AJ Screensaver:
14 Ways to Display the Time
[doiop.com/AJsaver]
The AJ Screensaver is for those of us that are obsessed with the time. It offers 14 separate ways to display the time, including some pretty funky ones. My favourite is the handwritten digital clock, and the timeline clock, but there are many others to suit your tastes. To get an idea of what this package of screensavers offers, check out the download page where demos of the Flash clocks are running.

Collection of Prank Software
[doiop.com/Prankware]
This site is for the mischievous folks. Website Random Good Stuff has put together a collection of links to download software for the purpose of pulling pranks on people and annoying them. From programs that make it appear that files and software are being removed from the system, to ones that make it impossible to click on the Start button, and even one that will make a computer randomly burp, almost everything you could imagine to annoy the heck out of someone is here.

Age of Empires 3 demo
[doiop.com/AOE3download]
Microsoft has finally released the demo of the upcoming sequel to the Age of Empires series. You’ll need a decent graphics card if you want to turn the settings up and if you’ve got an ‘Ol Shitty PC' (as the developers, like this [doiop.com/OldShittyPC] one talking about the game, so eloquently put it), then either get a new GPU or don’t worry about not seeing individual bricks flying over your head when you blow up the last house in a village. Oh, and check out Penny-Arcade.com’s take on the game: [doiop.com/HomeCity].

Never post your picture in the internet
[doiop.com/LookWeird]
Especially if you look weird in photos. Here’s why.

GTA: Liberty City Stories Site, Trailer Live
[doiop.com/GTA_LCS]
Rockstar has replaced the Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories teaser site with a full-fledged website, offering information, screenshots and the first trailer of what’s soon going to be the only PSP game worth playing. The trailer runs a bit over a minute and features in-game footage, mostly (funny) dialog; the site is also home to the first online screenshots for the game. [from BDgamer.net]

The photo with this Sites Unseen is taken by Thomas Hawk, [doiop.com/ThomasHawk], and has been used under the following Creative Commons licence: [doiop.com/CreativeCommons].