Category: Websites

Deep Impact Fireworks on the Fourth

NASA Deep Impact

If you’re looking for a little more power in your Independence Day holiday fireworks, consider taking a look at NASA’s Deep Impact website.

The Deep Impact mission involves a NASA space probe set on a collision course with Comet Tempel 1. The probe will fire an “impactor” at the comet in order to aid scientists in studying exactly what makes up the interior of a comet.

For those with broadband, you can also catch video and multimedia presentations on the mission at NASA TV. More information on the project can also be found at Wikipedia.

WordPress Updates

For users of the popular blogging back-end software , you should note that there is a v1.5.1.3 security update available for download here. The upgrade process is pretty painless, consisting of three steps outlined in the readme.html file included with the download.

Additionally, if you use Dr. Dave’s excellent Spam Karma plugin to control the number of comments submitted by automated spam bots, note that version 2 is available for download, as well as version 1.7 of Referrer Karma, which helps protect your server logs from being overrun by referrer spam.

Confessions of a Car Salesman

Looking to purchase a new or used car anytime soon? If so, the online car sales website edmunds.com has the perfect article for you to read, in which their writer goes undercover as a car salesman and learns some very interesting things about what goes on inside car dealerships across America.

Learn about the tricks and techniques used, and you’ll be better prepared to deal with the advantages car salesmen use against you the next time you step through their doors.

Battlefield 2 Demo Tweaks

For those of you dealing with the wait for the June 22nd release of Battlefield 2 by spending untold hours with the recently released demo, you might want to take a look at this BF2 Demo Tweak Guide to help your system’s performance.

And for owners of Geforce 4 cards, which the demo officially does not support, you might be interested in this forum discussion on some successful techniques employed to get the game running on those video cards.