http://blog.r4nt.com The unfiltered spur of the moment stream from R4NT Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:25:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After six years of production, Spore, the highly anticipated PC game from EA Sports (also to be available for the iPhone and Nintendo DS), has finally been released. Dubbed "The Year's Most Anticipated PC Game" by PC World, Spore has been down a roller-coaster of release dates and delays. Today, ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/09/07/spore-released-today/ Commuters arriving at Liverpool's Lime Street station were greeted by a 50ft (15m) high mechanical spider clinging to a nearby redundant office block. The 37-tonne beast heralds the start of a five-day piece of street theatre as part of the Capital of Culture year. The robot will "form part of ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/09/05/robot-spider-unleashed/ Ever since my post a couple days back on sunspots I have been thinking about how that could (credibly) be impacting the temperatures over the next few years. Specifically, I am coming to the conclusion that we could be entering a period of global cooling. As I noted in the ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/09/04/more-on-sunspots/ Ah yes.. Nature shows.. :) *Big ups to Chris for sharing this one.. http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/09/04/respect-y0-mama/ I said here that I was going to try the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, which I didn't, ironically because the site wouldn't let me download it - good job Microsoft. Then yesterday I read the news that Google published its new 'web browser' Chrome designed in a typical Google ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/09/03/chrome-further-evidence-google-is-taking-over/ Since I read this article in June, I have been keeping up with the increasingly important sunspot spotting event happening globally. The picture above shows the sun at its most active in 2001, potentially the most active period for sunspots in the past 1000 years. Dark spots, some as large as ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/08/29/the-sun-is-dead-long-live-the-sun/ Well a few days behind schedule.. But non the less I've spent some time and redesigned the blog to match V8 of the mainsite.. Took a little longer than I had expected, but I got busy tweaking more than just the header. I also got distracted creating a new ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/08/28/blog-v8/ Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, which they say is 'ready for average users to try'. That is good enough for #29 on the Google Buzz o meter, but more importantly is this one feature: In the newest "beta" test version of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 8, which was ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/08/28/ie8-beta-2-microsoft-does-something-right/ I was reading a financial blog frequented by 20 - 30 something (generally) males, when I noticed this banner ad. The site, RareDaily is "a popular email newsletter featuring the newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, and men's style in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami." Who cares? ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/08/26/wind-power-sexy/ For those of you who frequent the R4NT blog but don't make it over to the Magazine, I wanted to take this opportunity to give a big up to Adrian's article on MSTRKRFT, which is the first R4NT version 8 article. He does a great job highlighting the MSTRKRFT set ... http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/08/23/v8-off-to-a-good-start/