UW’s digital archive gives glimpse into history

The University of Washington libraries digital photo archive (http://content. lib.washington.edu /index.html) is an impressive site with a vast collection of historical photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media from the school’s various libraries. The collections emphasize rare and historical material.

The collection is not loaded with many documents related to Spokane. It does, however, have interesting items related to Hanford and some state Indian tribes.

•Getback.com is a free-for-all game site for people addicted to retro, ’80s-era videogames.

Final Fight, Duck Hunt, Donkey Kong, Bomb Jack, JetPac and, of course, Minesweeper all are available. No membership required.

•Fans of fantasy novels might enjoy Fantasy Maps, at fantasymaps.wordpress.com/.

If you’re a fan of the novels of former Spokane resident David Eddings, someone has created a collection of online maps matched to Eddings’ complex and dense novels.

CLIPPINGS

Digital comicmaking company Infurious is lobbying for a rating system on the App Store after its first entry was refused by Apple.

The company’s comic, Murderdrome, was refused entry into the coveted content group of applications Apple allows for the new 3G iPhone. No one knows on the record how many applications have been denied by Apple.

Infurious wants Apple to implement a rating system similar to the ones its uses in other parts of the iTunes Store. Music has an “Explicit” tag on songs and albums that have coarse language, and movies have PG or R ratings.

The company has posted a video of the working application on its Web site.

•The W32.TGammima.AG virus has managed to find a home on the International Space Station, according to a report released by NASA. The virus only copies itself to removable media (which Russian Astronauts use for photographic purposes) and steals passwords to online games. It was first detected by Symantec back in August 2007.

The infected Russian computers come with Norton Antivirus. In this case, some cosmonaut had the virus on a removable drive and brought the virus aboard.

NASA officials noted the space station’s operating systems are not Windows based. Because the virus operates only on Windows systems, it poses no threat.