The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Findsolar.com » Find pre-screened solar professionals for solar power system installation, service. Estimate cost, price and benefits, savings of solar energy power systems for home, house or building. Find solar incentives, rebates.
• Lumeta PowerPly » roofing solar panels
• Scientists to test if cancer cure can work in humans »
• www.dontclick.it »
• Sidewayspony »
• thesixtyone - a music adventure »
• Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland site »
• Imminst.org » Immortality Institute | Advocacy & Research For Unlimited Lifespans

The previously mentioned 20 minute gameplay video… in HD:

The big announcement that Blizzard has been keying up to is indeed that Diablo III is in development.  This makes me happier than Starcraft 2, although I’m sure  will enjoy both immensely.  The official Diablo III website has a 20 minute gameplay video already, and it looks really great.  The bread and butter of the Diablo series for me are the animations and immersion, and the video seems to show that in spades.  Not to mention new sparkly weapons and multilayered creatures that come at you from all sides.

Two classes are revealed in an interactive way, the Barbarian and the Witch Doctor, with more to come as they draw out expectation.

No release date is announced.

Here’s the teaser trailer:

The Call of Duty : World at War trailer was just released, along with the revamped callofduty.com website.  The new game will take place in the Pacific theater of World War 2.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Mystery on Fifth Avenue » The architectural designer Eric Clough embedded clues into a Fifth Avenue apartment, leading the family who lived there on a scavenger hunt through the rooms of their home.
• Epsilon » One of the sharpest flash games I have played so far. The audio and visuals are stunning for a flash game, and the gameplay manipulates gravity, position, time and others.
• Sorry I Missed Your Party »
• Melanoma Stopped in Patient With 5 Billion Copies of Own Cell »
• Killjoy Cooking With the Dungeons & Dragons Crowd »
• Diabetes linked to depression risk, and vice versa »

via coke cans

The trial version is free, the full version is 10 bucks. Get it at the Spore site.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Jurassic Park comes true » How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to life with the help of the humble chicken
• Neshyba Peak »
• Bess Bistro » Sandra Bullock’s restaurant in Austin
• Disbeliefnet »
• AsoBrain.com games » Java based multiplayer games
• Cheapass Games »

As the title says, not much more to say. This is a huge update with thousands of changes across the board, both on the frontend and backend… so pretty much a brand new browser. I’ve tested a few of the builds, but a couple of my extensions wouldn’t work with 3 (yet), so I haven’t used it for my main browsing.  But I love the auto-bookmark search addition, which was my favorite feature of the Flock browser.  Plus it seems alot more snappy, and less memory hogging than Firefox 2.

Mozilla is trying to get a world record for most downloads in a day off the thing. See more at SpreadFirefox.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Resveratrol »
• NASA: ‘Extreme programming’ controls Mars Lander robot »
• How the Web Was Won »
• The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) »
• Police to Seal Off D.C. Neighborhoods »
• Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil »
• The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers »
• Ken Williams on Sierra »

And I do mean old. I will say that I had almost this exact same dot matrix printer that I used for many many years. Kudos on using the Spectrum, but the amazing thing to me is that the hard drives act as speakers.

Here it is… the remix of Radiohead’s “Nude” :

Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Bacteria-Run Computer Solves Math Puzzle »
• Guess-the-google »
• Thoughts of death make us eat more cookies »
• drunken watermelon on tap »
• A Geek-ful cake » super mario cake
• Unplgged »
• Motorlab » monkey driven robots
• MentalHelp.net » Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety, Wellness, Family & Relationship Issues, Sexual Disorders & ADHD Medications
• Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit »
• New Challenge for Space Station Crew - A Broken Toilet » Four words you donâ��t want to hear in space: â��The toilet is broken.â��
• Childhood Lead Exposure Is Associated With Decreased Brain Volume In Adults »
• MedSavers Pharmacy » Generic Drugs for Less!
• Cycled Plastics » Austin recycling company that can recycle almost any kind of plastic or styrofoam.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music »
• WildTangent’s St. John Declares Consoles Dead, Claims PC Renaissance » spinning the other direction from the industry
• ibeatyou » competition for everything
• 20×200 » art for 20 bucks
• S-Biner » 2 sided carabiner
• Popular baby names »
• eBoostr » Readyboost for Windows XP
• Belief in God a ‘product of human weaknesses’: Einstein letter » Renowned scientist Albert Einstein dismissed the Bible as a collection of â��pretty childishâ�� legends and belief in God as a â��product of human weaknesses,â�� according to a letter to be auctioned this week.
• 13 Year Old Steals Dad’s Credit Card to Buy Hookers »
• The Passively Multiplayer Online Game, PMOG »
• City to install first of red light cameras by May 24 » Austin, Texas
• ‘Space metals’ aid perfection quest »
• Error message when you try to install Windows XP Service Pack 3: "Access is denied" or â��Service Pack installation did not completeâ�� »
• Spherical Ice Tray »

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Steven Spielberg: He wants to shoot ‘Abraham Lincoln’ in 2009 »
• Fold It! » A game about folding protein
• Today’s graphics cards: the value angle »
• Top 10 Myths About the Romans »
• Stomach hormone turns hungry people into junkies »
• Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem »
• France reveals British WWI cave camp » France has reopened a labyrinth of medieval quarries under the northern town of Arras which the British army converted into an underground hideout for 24,000 soldiers during World War I.
• Branded in the 80s »

From the people that brought you Portal: The Flash Version, comes all the levels from the flash version converted to actual portal maps. The Portal: The Flash Version Mappack isn’t just a bunch of levels strewn together, but has level continuity, added dialogue, and surprises. Plus extra levels. Even a “boss” fight at the end.

Highly recommended