NASA World Wind

This is one of the coolest programs I’ved used in a while, and I can’t believe it’s not more widely known. World Wide Wind is a 3D Atlas, made up of satellite photos, you can zoom right out to see the whole globe, spin it around with the mouse and zoom right in on any city, and when I say right in I mean right in. In cities in the USA you can zoom in so that 1 pixle represents one metre, you can literally see people and cars. Other cities across the world you can get to 25 metres per pixel. This is a 180meg download and would probably only be decent on a broadband connection because it downloads the satellite images on the fly (although they aren’t current, the world trade centres are still in New York).

Here’s a couple of screenshots I took

Geelong, My Home Town
The Red Circle is about where my house is.

Navy Pier, Chicago
Here’s how close it can get in major US cities, those dots are people.

ETF - Power Through Teamplay

Righteo I’m on a roll now, here’s a game I’ve spent WAY too much time on the last week or so, it’s a mod for the free game (that’s right completley free and with no Army recruitment brainwashing motive) Enemy Territory and it follows on from many other popular Fortress games, Quakeworld Team Fortress, Team Fortress Classic and Quake 3 Fortress. It’s a teamplay capture the flag game with attack and defense specific classes to choose from. A really fun game to play online with some good fast doof music in the background.

The Creatures in my Head

I’m just testing out my bookmarker thing that’s with my blog script, allows me to quickly post URLs that I think are cool.
First linkage honours goes to Creatures in My Head, a cool little cartoon site where one guy draws a little critter everyday, and they are really cool. I’ve made the odd background for myself and other such things using these cartoons. If I ever get a tattoo, it could quite easily be one of these critters.