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September,
2001
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Sights, sounds and words each month to feed your imagination.
News...
Get in the Game For those seeking the ultimate trip in virtual reality to date: complete with paranoia about the government, cover-ups, conspiracies and intrigues, let me introduce "Majestic". Majestic , which will cost $10 a month to play, is a suspense-thriller that uses telephones, fax machines, e-mail, instant messaging and the World Wide Web to drop players in the center of a swirl of mysterious and disturbing events. Characters can call players on real telephones at their homes and places of work. Handwritten faxes from a character on the lam are not unusual in the spooky doings of Majestic. Electronic Arts, the computer game publisher that makes Majestic, promotes it as a game that "plays you." In fact, you won't know where reality ends and the game begins. I'm curious to know what their disclaimer sounds like (maybe something like, "Not for the weak-minded or gullable"). ------ Shock the Monkey (that's you!) There's another new game out that will give you a shock when your warring character takes a hit... in fact, it will immobilize your hands. ``Force feedback'' joysticks and gamepads have been around for years, delivering vibrations similar to the buzzing of a pager or cellular phone on silent mode. Bioforce takes it a step further. ------ The Mountain Goddess is Jealous! Women have made enormous inroads in Japan's male-dominated society over the past half century. But there are still places where they're not welcome -- such as the inside of tunnels under construction. In August, a company building a bullet-train tunnel in central Japan was conducting a tour of the passageway for about 100 local citizens. At the entrance, however, women in the group were barred from entering. The reason? Bad luck. Japanese superstition holds that by entering the tunnel under construction, women would arouse the jealousy of the mountain goddess, and cause disaster. ------ Hey You Clone! Ever wondered about cloning yourself? Why not give it a virtual whirl? Graphics chip company Matrox has released a new graphics insert card for personal computers that, when combined with its bundled software, will let you create a virtual copy of your talking head for use as an online communications tool or for giving presentations. Read more here:
Mythological Being of the month...
Just for Fun... Hangman I recently found a few versions of the classic Hangman. The site , Cooltools, reviews 5 versions of the game. I took a few minutes to play the Periodic Hangman based on the Periodic Table of Elements. How's that for refreshing your memory of Chemistry class? Each wrong letter causes your little atomic man him to lose an atom. I succeeded in getting the word Einsteinium correct, heroicly saving the little guy from disintegration. Have fun! Sara |
