Deus Ex Universe Timeline

Found this on an obscure blog here, and thought it deserves some promotion. It’s a detailed timeline of the Deus Ex Universe, referencing even the minutest details, such as the birth of Jesus and so on. Pretty awesome stuff, whoever made it, I guess Leroy.

-02 Estimated time that Jesus of Nazareth is born. This estimate is likely more accurate than the traditional �0�. Jesus is believed by Christians to be the �Anointed one� Messiah in the Jewish tongue, Christ in the Greek. He shakes up the world a bit, this has profound effects on just about everyone.
30 Estimated time of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus of Nazareth speaks of a “City on the Hill.”
33 Estimated time of the death of Jesus of Nazareth. He is nailed to a cross in a mode of execution known as crucifixion, created to cause pain. It involves being nailed through the palms* and heels, and then left there to die of (after many other things) suffocation. This is result of the actions of three men, the head priest, the Roman governor, and Jesus himself. By allowing, and even encouraging his own death he fulfills a few prophecies.
>33Christianity, a sect of Judaism, is founded shortly after the death of Jesus. There were many players in this, Peter, James, and, most importantly, Mary Magdalene, author of the Gospel of John. This would become the predominant religion on earth.
1090 Hassan Sabah founded the Order of Assassins or Hashishim.

1118 Baldwin II, the Patriarch of Jerusalem accepted the vow of Hugues de Payens, a knight from Champagne, and eight other knights to forever protect the “Kingdom of Christendom.” They were given charitable lodgings in the city temple where they became the “pauvres chevaliers du temple”, or the “poor knights of the temple”. This was the beginning of the Templar Knights, an order of warrior monks.

Plays Like Teen Spirit

Decent Interface

I had come to like the Russian beauty AIMP2 lately, what with its amazing sound quality and decent feature roster. Still, it didn’t completely consume me: it didn’t satisfy my music needs as The KMPlayer satisfied my video needs.

Enter Teen Spirit. I found this little gem floating here on the Internets and it sounds quite similar to Songbird at first: a new-age open-source music player. But it has everything Songbird doesn’t: simplicity, speed, stability and probably most importantly, it is custom-tailored for modern listeners.

The interface is simple, but has just about everything you’d want. I loved how it automatically seeks pictures and info from Last.fm and other places, with a neat fading effect. The player totally feels alive.

Probably what impressed me the most was the blazing speed. I didn’t see one delay in the program, it loads up instantaneously, plays instantaneously, it’s great!

The only qualm I’d say I have is that the lyrics search is kind of manual. You have to right-click and select a lyrics search, which is then stored on disk for future retrieval. Some sort of an auto-search would have helped.

It also boasts in-built Last.fm scrobbling support (but doesn’t use the official Last.fm scrobbler, perhaps saving some of my memory). Best way to sum it up: it’s got what you want, it’s very intuitive to use and it’s just stylish enough!

I’d say it still needs some work in the presentation department. While the interface is great, the “skins” are just colour themes. The panels aren’t movable (although they can be expanded and minimized effectively). Probably worst of all is the name and icon of the project, which sounds kind of amateurish. The icon is pretty boring too, I wonder why they didn’t use this: