NiallOK’s Blog

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This is pretty amazing! - The classic game Lemmings, recreated entirely in DHTML (Javascript & HTML) - play it - save them all - all you need is a web browser… it’s perfect! (Hope they do Cannon Fodder next!)

Looks like controversial Russian rival to iTunes, AllOfMP3 is biting back. We haven’t seen the last of them yet, eh?

Flickr, Tumblr and other ‘hip’ sites that leave out the letter ‘e’… if you thought their names were silly, check out ReadWriteWeb’s Top 10 Worst Web App Names.

Put the world on your desktop (Windows or Mac) with EarthDesk 4 - including such features as Real-time clouds, Accurate sun, moon and city lighting and High quality twilight shading. Nice!

MIT biochemists have found a cure for fear. No, really! They’ve even cured some mice of it!

The computer virus is 25 years old this month! The first virus was written by a then 15 year old, spread between Apple ][ computers via floppy disk and is described as a “practical joke combined with a hack - A wonderful hack”. Yes.

The Sunday Business Post have launched their Computers In Business blog site. Not much there yet but looking promising.

Speaking of newspaper blogs, Jim Carroll’s On The Record blog has an entry about Prince giving away his album "Planet Earth" with a Sunday newspaper. As Jim says, it’s a “Sign O’ The Times” (badumm-tishh!)… The paper, who are well known for resorting to gimmicks to aid their ailing sales, even went on sale in branches of HMV. I feel like downloading the album from a bittorrent site now. Hell, he’s giving it away free anyway…

Here’s the ad for the giveaway (for the Scottish Mail on Sunday):