Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Good little FTP app for Firefox


FireFTP :: Firefox Add-ons
FireFTP 0.97.1 Homepage
by Mime Cuvalo

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Cool little game

Stolen from Kotaku -

" I don't remember learning modules being this good when I was a munchkin: Samorost creators Amanita have put together a lovely game for the BBC, designed for 11 year olds. Questionaut is point and click, very pretty, and is tripping up adults left and right (that's what happens when you get far removed from your junior high school years and the concepts contained within, I guess). It's short and worth taking for a spin for the lovely environment alone, even if finding 20% of 140 is a bit below your intellectual level."

Questionaut [BBC via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

Saturday, March 01, 2008

The Dyatlov Pass Accident


The Dyatlov Pass Accident refers to a mysterious event that resulted in the death of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains.

On February 26, the searchers finally found the abandoned camp on Kholat Syakhl. It was obvious that the camp had been left hastily - the tent had been ripped from within, as if the inhabitants had left so quickly that they had no time to open the tent normally. A chain of footsteps could be followed, leading down to the edge of nearby woods (on the opposite side of the pass, 1.5km north-east), but after 500 meters they were covered with snow. At the forest edge, under a large old pine, the searchers found remains of a fire, along with the first two dead bodies, those of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, shoeless and dressed only in their underwear. Between the pine and the camp the searchers found three more corpses - Dyatlov, Kolmogorova and Slobodin - who seemed to have died in poses suggesting that they were attempting to return to the camp. They were found separately at distances of 300, 480 and 630 meters from the pine tree.

Dyatlov Pass Accident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photos from their cameras