The History Of PC Audio As Told By Money Island

I seen this on Evil Avatar. I started with a SoundBlaster 16 myself and the first game I had with sound was Theme Park.

Omnitech Skateboard Figure

The Omnitech Skateboard Figure is a skateboarding action figure with a control rod so it acts more like a puppet.



The below video shows how they are operated, I don't think they will catch on, but they might sell enough to keep going.

Llewellyn On Copyright

Robert Llewellyn, writer, actor and comedian got hit with the YouTube video takedown hammer recently and he has some interesting things to say on Copyright as a result.

Website Naming Disasters

One Hundred Website Naming Disasters. My favourite is the children's charity childrenslaughter.com, is it Children's Laughter or Children Slaughter?

Power Rangers And It's Japanese Twin

Power Rangers was a very popular kids TV show during the 90's and 00's, but it had a Japanese twin called Zyuranger. All the in-costume action shots where re-purposed from the original Japanese show and re-used in the American show with new story pieces filmed around them for a western audience. I always wondered what the Japanese intro was like:

Dinosaur Squadron Zyuranger:


Original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Into and Full Theme Music if you so wish.

Google Chrome Vs Opera Vs Potato

As a mindspace type ad Google put-together an odd advert called Chrome Vs Potato (see below), funny, but one does have to wonder what that has to do with performance benchmarking.



Now Opera have done a parody advert on the same idea, Opera Vs Potato. Proving that potatoes don't make for a very consistent browser speed test.

Random Fact

Horses are unable to vomit.

Harry Potter Linked To The Jewish Plot To Takeover The World

Some people on Iranian television would have it's viewers that Jews in Hollywood are using Harry Potter to take over the world. I am not sure how anybody could use Harry Potter to bring the world under their control, but I think this is a clear example that antisemitism is still very much alive in the world and not something that died with Hitler.

Octopus Guerrilla Filmmaker Steals Diver's Digicam

This Story is brilliant. Octopus steals camera, diver chases after octopus and wrestles it back.

Happy To Own

This guy seems very happy about his Neo Geo collection.

The Pink Panther:The Pink Phink

In 1964 the first episode of The Pink Panther won an Oscar for Short Subjects. I remember watching this as a kid, but unlike a lot of things back then when I rewatch them and realise how shallow they where, this is kind of cool.

Social Is Social Again

AudioBoo is the new newweb2.0/wiki/facebook/youtube/twitter revolution we have all been waiting for apparently. This fascination with the one social site to rule them all thing is kind of silly. The truth is that now and in the future content on the internet is going to come more from users than professional content producers like paid performers. And indeed putting yourself online is nolonger extraordinary, but a normal social activity, hay! look at my video! my music! my rant!

Social media is just another medium for communication, and it is here to stay. Now can we please stop calling every new social media site revolutionary and get on with life!?

Simply Inspired

This is brilliant on several levels. I don't want to deconstruct it, just watch it.

iPad used by 100 Year Old Gran

This video supports everything I have said about the iPad, in that it isn't for tech-people, it is for people who for whatever reason struggle to use a traditional computer.

Random Fact

In Italy drivers loose points for breaking traffic rules rather than gain them. The idea is that loosing good points has a stronger phycological effect than gaining bad points.

Duck Face

Is it pouting, making a kissy face or making a duck face? I don't know, but Stop Making That Duck Face is funny.

I'm Here by Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze director of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Where the Wild Things Are also directs music videos and short films. And last month I'm Here was launched on it's website.

The thirty minuet short features two robots in an adaptation of The Giving Tree. And is one of the better shorts I have recently seen.

Greg Mutt

I seen Greg Mutt first after Avatar was released, he is a very lifelike anthropomorphic CGI Dog. At the time I though it was done by some Hollywood guy who had too much time on his hands, but turns out it is a short film company in Wiltshire UK called BustyKelp who are mainly know for their work on commercials.

The reason why I know this is because AudioMotion the tool they use has been using Greg to promote their tool. I just hope they make more videos now the secret is out, because Greg is cool.

A Very Long Wee

I have had long urinations, but this is something completely different. I should point-out that this isn't me.



Update: Fixed video.

The Codex Of Alchemical Engineering

This is one of those things on the internet that passed me by. Mainly because I was linked to it, couldn't work out how to play it by clicking around it's interface and so didn't bother with it. This has happened a couple of times in the last year, but yesterday when I found myself looking at it yet again (it was mentioned in An Episode Of Geek Nights on Programming) I thought I would give it a proper go. And I am so glad I did.

What I am referring to is a flash game called The Codex Of Alchemical Engineering. In it you are given a set of atom modifiers and some manipulator arms that you must use to collect basic atoms and from level to level make more and more complex elements from them. The game plays very much like a simpler version of CeeBot.

Here is a video tutorial that should help get you started.



NOTE: To rotate one of the arms you have to click and hold the left mouse button as if you where dragging it, and while still holding the left mouse button press the Ctrl or Shift keys on your keyboard to change the arm's orientation or start length. This is not very well explained in the game's instructions, the video does a slightly better job, but still doesn't spell it out.

Some of my solutions:

Level 1 (a very fast solution)
m,11,12,180,3,crol;m,3,12,270,3,orcl;m,3,4,90,3,clor;m,11,4,180,3,olcr;

Level 2
b,7,9;m,6,6,0,3,clorwwwww;m,10,9,270,1,lucdowcro;m,7,12,0,2,clolcrorw;

Level 3
t,4,11;b,6,9;m,4,9,90,3,cddloruuwwww;m,10,9,90,3,cdrwwdrolluu;m,7,6,0,2,clor;

Level 4
b,4,11;b,4,9;m,7,11,90,1,crolww;m,1,11,90,1,cludor;m,4,7,90,2,douucd;m,5,5,0,3,rcllor;m,7,9,180,1,rrcllo;m,13,9,90,3,crolww;

Level 5
c,11,13;t,9,11;t,7,9;b,4,9;m,9,13,0,3,cddloruu;m,9,9,180,3,oddlcruu;m,1,9,0,2,oruwwcdl;m,8,7,180,1,wwcruodl;m,4,7,90,1,clorwwww;

Level 6
t,9,9;t,11,11;c,9,13;c,1,11;b,4,9;b,5,7;m,1,9,90,3,cddluoru;m,11,13,0,1,cllorrww;m,9,11,90,1,llorrcww;m,9,7,180,1,dlcruoww;m,6,5,90,1,crrruodr;m,5,13,270,2,lucdruod;m,5,5,90,3,cddouuww;m,11,5,180,1,cllluodl;m,13,2,180,1,oddwwcuu;

Level 7
p,9,11;b,6,9;b,1,9;m,10,13,0,2,cdloruww;m,7,11,90,1,cloclorr;m,9,9,180,1,dwwwwcuo;m,6,11,270,1,lorwwwwwwwwwwwwc;m,2,11,270,1,rclo;m,1,11,90,1,rrollwwwwwwwwwwc;m,1,6,90,2,lorwwwwwwwwwwwwc;m,7,6,180,2,crol;

Level 8
t,3,9;c,13,11;t,11,9;b,8,11;c,1,11;b,3,7;m,13,13,180,1,crolwwww;m,8,13,0,1,wwlorucd;m,3,11,90,1,rrudollc;m,3,5,90,1,uuwwcddo;m,11,11,0,1,cludlorr;m,6,11,270,1,rclo;m,6,7,90,1,rolc;m,4,5,0,1,rclo;m,8,5,270,1,lcro;

Level 9
b,5,13;c,13,9;t,13,7;b,10,11;c,3,10;b,5,7;m,3,13,180,1,currodllcrrollwww;m,5,10,90,2,wwwwwwwwwwwcrroll;m,6,11,0,3,wwwwwwwwwc11lorww;m,11,13,0,1,wwwwwwwclorwwwwww;m,13,11,90,1,crruududlodlwwwww;m,6,5,90,1,cll22uuoddllwwwww;m,2,1,0,1,cuuodd;