Archive for the ‘Bizarre’ Category

Now Everyone Can Swim to Paris!

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

I received a message from Shiro:

New York to Paris

  1. Go to Google
  2. Click on Maps
  3. Click on Get Directions
  4. Type from New York, New York to Paris, France
  5. Read the directions, till you reach #24

Now this is what I call a winner! Anyone wants to try?

Need a Windows XP key? Google can help!

Friday, May 4th, 2007

People are posting their Belarc Advisor reports to the web, these reports contain all of the users software keys - not only limited to Windows XP. I tried a few searches and voila! Found a lot of keys, including Adobe, Macromedia and some Games!

It is amazing how silly people can get, most of the time :D

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Counterstrike Fans - Don’t create your school map or face suspension!

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

This idea seriously have popped in my mind back then during my varsity years. I thought of creating some CounterStrike maps that have our library foyer, some of the lecture rooms and buildings. I thought it would be cool to be able to shoot some people in the university compound without actually killing anyone.

Of course, being me, the idea only left to stale as an idea. One of my colleague, Adrian, actually created one map based on our club’s room (we called it the SPR, a.k.a Student Press Room) - and I guess this is the closest it could get.

A student from Sugar Land, Texas is facing a suspension charge for creating a Counterstrike map of his school. Although we can say that this might be an overreacting decision, but I find it kind of scary that quite a lot of people subconsciously would love to be able to shoot people around their home, office, school, college, etc even if it’s only in computer games!

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