07 Jun 05 links for 2005-06-08

• eclecticism: “This is a game that was written for 680×0 systems, so it’s outdated by many years, one software transition, and one hardware transition…and it still works.”
  Mike Hanscom believes we need not worry about the transition to Intel chips on the Mac.
  (tags: interesting mac geekery)
• eclecticism: Slashdot Slashdotted
  I caught this too, but wasn’t in a position to get a screenshot. Pretty damn funny — Slashdot indeed got Slashdotted.
  (tags: geekery funny interesting)
• Kottke: Phil Schiller, Apple V.P.: “We won’t do anything to preclude [letting people also run Windows on their Intel-chipped Macs].”
  (tags: cool weird mac)
• Chicago Sun-Times: The Best Chicago Dog Story Ever
  “Maya, a 74-pound black Lab who took on India, the 120-pound pit bull who was mauling a sixth-grader on the Northwest Side.”
  (tags: cool as.hell amazing holy.shit horrifying)
• Photocopier Accident: “Here’s a link to some video footage of an accident with a photocopier.”
  (tags: funny as.hell)
• Museum of Hoaxes: “A senior class in Vermont painted a celestial mural on the ceiling of the main lobby of the school.”
  “What’s more surprising than a random act of art?”
  (tags: cool interesting)
• Rapid Afterimage: “When you are fixating well, after a few cycles you will actually see a rotating green spot!”
  (tags: weird cool science fun)
• Boing Boing: Abqaiq oilfield running out of oil?
  “This image is a vertical cross section of the Abqaiq oilfield (one of the world’s major oilfields) in Saudi Arabia. Blue is water, green is oil, and red is gas.”
  (tags: scary weird food4thought)
• Karelia: Sandvox: “A playful, powerful new website development tool for everyone.”
  (tags: interesting mac)
• Daring Fireball: Classic Not Supported on Intel-Based Macs
  “Classic apps are not supported in the Rosetta emulator that runs PowerPC apps on Intel-powered Macs.”
  (tags: mac interesting geekery)