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The Dance Dance Revolution pads have arrived!!!!! I've played with them about an hour now, and it's
such a cool feeling to be playing DDR at home. The only problems are that the up/down buttons seem
to be spaced farther apart than on the arcade version, which is causing me to fail a lot of the
songs. However I am getting more and more used to it. Also I play on this hard rug ontop of a tile
floor, so playing is quite rough on the feet and shins. You don't have your shoes to take a lot of
the shock like in the arcade. But regardless of all that, I'm just happy to finally play DDR in
front of the TV.
In an interview with Brian McConnell,
who just finished writing a book on SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), he
describes a lot about the SETI projects and it's goals. I myself am a firm believer that there IS
life outside of earth, mainly for the reason that McConnell stated, "it just makes sense when you
consider how many places there are for life to develop." It also talks about the need for people in
all area's, not just astronomy, in the SETI projects, and also how most of their money is supplied
through donations instead of government funding. And of course it mentions the awesome little
program, SETI@Home, which uses distributed
computing to analyze data for intelligent life.
In yet another embarresment for CueCat (which is now defunct), there is a new
software program out that takes their same idea but expands upon it a little
bit: The CueHack. Instead of showing
you the company who you scanned, it'll show you what you would see if you did a
search on the internet for that company, including the bad things like boycotts,
corporate abuse, etc etc. It's a very cool idea. Of course you know the CueCat
guys aren't going to happy, just like they weren't when the scanner got hacked
so that it couldn't personally identify you, but it's just so much making
corporations mad :)
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