Thanks to my co-worker Greg for sharing this Opera widget: Chess+.
It’s a neat little program, not bug-free (you should see how people whine about a free product not being perfect). Being Javascript-based, it’s not especially strong objectively (maybe 1100?), but certainly not bad.
I’ve thought about creating a chess program from time to time; just never really seem to get around to doing it.
The Liquid Egg Product would like to endorse the following (for free!):
2008 US President: Andre Marrou
Mortgage Company: Senor Cardgage (sound necessary; Flash advertisement)
Company Whose Strategy Clearly Has Nothing to Do With Getting Listed First in the Phone Book and Has a Non-Ugly Website: AAAAA Rent-A-Space
Take a look at these pictures:
The first is the one we’re used to. The second is after her jail stint.
It’s a bad use of make-up when you look like a completely different person.
Lose the pancake batter, Paris. You look better without it.
Have you ever wondered how much money is worth? I mean, the materials in it. Obviously, for paper money, the value printed on it is worth far more than the materials (except for possibly in Zimbabwe).
Some enterprising Indians have figured out the metal in rupee coins is worth much more than the coin’s declared value. Millions of coins are melted down and being created into stuff like razor blades. One guy claimed that the one rupee coin (about 2.5 US cents) was worth 35 rupees to him before the cops busted him for coin-melting.
The coin shortage is so acute in some areas, shopowners have resorted to measures like:
The mint has responded by reducing the metal content of coinage, but it’ll take a while for them to catch up.
