Easter Holiday Specials!
If biting off the heads off candy bunnies isn’t your thing, you might try the Easter Egg Archive. David and Annette Wolf offered these top 10 software Easter eggs to PC Magazine columnist, David Coursey:
10. Windows NT Programmers in the Screen Saver
9. Windows 95 Product Team
8. Windows NT Favorite Beers and Rock Bands
7. Photoshop Strange Cargo
6. Word 97 Pinball Game
5. Quark XPress Alien Deletes Your Document
4. Excel 95 Hall of Tortured Souls
3. Excel 97 Flight to Credits
2. Internet Explorer 5.0 Wacky Search Menu
1. Excel 2000 Dev Hunter
At Wednesdays Personal Telco meeting I sat next to a couple of friends who were Geocachers. Geocaching is an adventure game for gps users. Individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards.
Dave Ulmer of Portland is a Geocaching pioneer. He was the first to hide a stash, then post the location on the Net. He posted the coordinates in the sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup on May 3, 2000, and by May 6th the stash already received two visitors. Dave came up with the idea knowing that the applications for GPS use would increase with the removal of Selective Availability. In less than a year his GPS game has become an international phenomena. Dave Ulmer doesn’t go geocaching much any more, but people like Jeremy Irish, Webmaster of the official geocaching site, are maintaining the tradition. It took over geocaching coverage from Mike Teague’s Geocache.org that sprung from Dave Ulmer’s group.
It works like this. Fill a waterproof box like a GI ammo can or plastic container, full of neat stuff organized in zip-lock bags. Find a good hiding spot somewhere out in the great outdoors that is accessible to the public. Record the Latitude/Longitude or UTM coordinates of the hiding spot. Then publish the stash location on the Geocashing Home Page.
Some interesting Oregon Geocache web sites include:
- Dave Ulmer Explains
- Gps Navigator Magazine Article
- GIS Lounge
- More Links
- Computer Bits Article
- Portland Mercury Article
- Mr Snazz’s Finds
- Buxley’s Waypoing
- Oregon Fishing
- First Anniversary Geocache
- The Degree Confluence Project
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