Thursday, September 28, 2006

Get Outta Town

This is a pretty cool little monitor from Sharp.  Reminds me of those black and white vignettes you can make using two different photos. 

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

In a stunningly retarded move, Microsoft plans to start a social networking site that is pretty much the same as the myriad of Soc-Net sites around, only Microsoft will make you pay for the content that you put on your page.

Wallop says the plan to charge users for the decorations will supplant the advertising that supports many such free sites. The add-ons will initially cost somewhere between 99 cents and $4, said Karl Jacob, the San Francisco company's chief executive. The company will offer some elements for free.

Why would I want to join a site where I have to pay for content that goes on my page just to avoid ads? I don't remember ads being such a problem that I would be willing to pay for my page layout to avoid them. Oh yeah, you can only join if someone else invites you, a practice sure to keep their site membership nice and low. This kind of ignorance of the market place does not belong in today's society. Also the name Wallop sounds ridiculous and forced.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

You Write the Caption

I forget what other website does this (village voice maybe?), provides a picture and then lets you decide what the caption should say.  This thing just looks totally ridiculous, but still pretty cool (damn you Toyota). 



I am going to have to go with "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Technology makes
it to Reality"
.  This references the ATHF episode known as "e-Dork"
where Master Shake and Carl after adorning cell phone helmets (the
e-helmet) with numerous attachments (the e-iano, e-piano!) gets the
Head (brain of a 4 year old) and leg upgrades to their e-helmet, which
then promptly jump into the pool killing Carl.

Adult Swim To Release Yet Another Record

And as their usual standard of quality must be upheld, it's gonna be fuckin' hot.  They have collaborated with Stones Throw Records in the past for Danger Doom (Danger Mouse and MF Doom).  They also produced Chocolate Swim which actually was pretty sweet as well.  Now they have taken the partnership with Stones Throw further than a Stones Throw (sorry =P)  to produce Chrome Children which showcases each artist on the Stones Throw Label (who knew all these hot hip hop artists were under one label?).  Please check it when it comes out, I might have to buy this one because of the free DVD documentary.  Peep the website here .  While you are there you might as well check out the rest of the Adult Swim website since there is mad media there, including a crap load of shows on the "fix" video hosting section. 

Sorry for You Suckers That Don't Have A DVR

Now you will not only be forced to watch the commercials because you don't have a D/PVR, but the commercials themsleves will become agonizing for you as you watch the same image displayed for the length of the commercial.  That's what you get for not upgrading your tech, bitches.

FX channel tries commercial to combat ad-skipping | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

No Way...

That's a lot of embezelling.

The New Ways of War



If by some ridiculous reason I had to go to Iraq, I can easily say this would be me.  Although my PSP would also be there to give me hours of fun and I use Jin to beat the everliving crap out of Bryan the cyborg in Tekken: Dark Ressurection.


Monday, September 11, 2006

You write the Caption For This...

I'm moving to China for the cool robots. Who wouldn't want to live in a society that has seens like that pictured above...

What Kind of Gamer are You??

I probably am somewhere in the social or power gamer category. I have recently gotten back to my gamer roots and it feel so good.

Parks Associates - SURVEY REVEALS U.S. GAMER MARKET IS DIVERSIFYING

Thursday, September 07, 2006

I Find Myself Conflicted on This

New changes in the format of facebook have prompted an unexpected backlash at the sites controllers.  I am not really sure how I feel about this.  I am big proponent of privacy, and being a member of a social networking site myself I can see how this could be annoying.  I can't really understand getting all worked up over it.  Maybe this is a sign that I am actually getting older and leaving the younger ways of thought behind.  How can you be on what is a essentially a public forum and then be pissed when the publicity gets to be a little to much.

"Deitch was careful to note that the new features don’t reveal anything
new. Rather, they just make the information easier to find. “I think
what it raises the awareness of for users is that, in the past I think
they’ve felt like even though [some information] was public, that it
wasn’t for some reason,” she said."

Somehow despite all the stories that people see about employees getting fired and people getting into trouble for posting things on their profiles, these idiots don't seem to get it.  If "Hope that my boss does not see my facebook profile" on your profile, your boss can see it whether it's aggragated or not.

Get Thee Back Ye' Old Folks

This story is just ridiculous...and the Brits consider themselves of a higher class than we.