Breakfast Links: Tracking Kids, Top Cities & Flash NES
Oh, Britain, thank you for making the US look just a little more sane. Well, maybe not, but you with your crazy citizen surveillance moves have now taken the next step by putting RFID tags on your school children so you can track them wherever they go. Your saying that the pilot was was “not intrusive to the pupil in the slightest” doesn’t actually make it so. Do you wear an RFID tag to work? Bruce has the skinny on how to game this system already.
Ah well, check out this list of lists of top 101 cities by various criteria. You can find the top 101 biggest cities (NYC represent!), top cities with least cars per house (NYC being the largest city by a lot on the list) and so much more. As these things tend to go a lot of the data is a few years old, but that’s life. See how your city stacks up, but don’t kid yourself - NYC is the best city in the States, although maybe not the world. :)
And lastly if your my age it’s almost certain you had an NES machine. Now you can relive your glory years right from the safety of your own browser. That’s right virtualNEWS brings you flash java based NES. It has 666 games all sorted in alphabetical order - click on the letter at the top of the page to see a list of games. Now, at long last, when you need a quick game of 1942 or a slow game of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it’s right there waiting for you. What games were your favourites?
February 9th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
VirtualNES is Java, not Flash.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Huh, and here I am mocking Java applets at every turn. Thanks for the correction!