Walking In A VR Future

neol'schmoe writes "There's a new solution to the age old problem of physical movement within a virtual world. Researchers in Japan have come up with tiles that move in concert with a user's pace and motion to allow free range of motion while literally walking in a virtual environment and never leaving a very small area in the real world."

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Doom 3 Duct tape (flashlight) mod

[AgentPhunk]

There's a mod for D3 to "duct tape" your flashlight to SOME of your weapons. From the dude's site:

Under the crazy presumption that a roll of duct tape has to exist somewhere on the Mars facility, the Duct Tape mod sticks flashlights to your machinegun and shotgun. In order to preserve the atmosphere, these new lights are much narrower (and a little brighter) than the standard flashlight, and are only available on the basic weapons. The pistol is not equipped with a flashlight, so as not to spoil the early sections of the game.

ducttape.gelnmurphy.com

Re:just plain exercise

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One of the many awesome extensions for FireFox is flashblock, which replaces flash objects with an icon that you can click to allow that 1 flash object to display. I still boycott flash based sites to the extent that I reasonably can, but every once in a while you want to see flash content, and the extension makes that easy.