Posted by Chris Jensen |
Jun. 04, 2008 07:55AM PST
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FILED UNDER: News. Books, People.
With Age of Conan making a name for itself in the world of MMOs, some fans may want to immerse themselves in the written words of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan. You may not realize it, but the works of Howard are now in the public domain and freely available, allowing new Conan fans to sink their teeth into the original source material for Funcom's new game.
Not only will you find Conan novels and stories, but you'll also find Solomon Kane works and El Borak stories.
You can grab every published work by Robert. E. Howard here.
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(Source: Arthur's Classic Novels)
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Posted by Chris Jensen |
May. 13, 2008 06:56AM PST
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FILED UNDER: News. Science.
Not to be outdone by Google Sky, Microsoft research has finally unveiled WorldWide Telescope, a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that functions as a virtual telescope. Having messed around with it for the last hour, I can safely say it kicks Google's ass and offers a more robust environment.
WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™ and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelenghts: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope. Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets, as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.
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(Source: WorldWide Telescope)
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