Japanese Anti-Piracy Advert

In Japan, this is played before every film.

Mercury Arc Rectifiers

The Mercury Arc Rectifier was used in the days before semiconductors to convert high voltage mains current to CD current for train lines. My favorite thing about this is that they are rather complex pieces of glass that wouldn't look out of place on a TARDIS.

First World Problems

The third world has problems like starvation, war, finding drinkable water and lots of other fundamental problems. The first world has problems like, waiting for more than ten minutes on hold when trying to pay a bill and, being unable to find the correct remote control for the TV. The funniest one I have heard is that someone had to see Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows in 3D because the 2D showings had sold out.

Reddit has a subgrop called FirstWorldProblems which is full of these although a lot could be argued to be problems for everyone.
Zach who has a channel on youtube called Funnyz did a rap called first world problems.

Breaking up the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design

Scott Nicholson is currently on sabbatical at MIT where he is infusing everyone with boardgame enthusiasm. His main research focus while at MIT is to create a toolkit for allowing groups of students to use a boardgame toolkit and simple parameters to develop their own boardgame to learn about a subject.

A few weeks ago he did an open talk about himself, boardgames and what he is doing at MIT and his research focus. He is an excellent lecturer so it is worth a watch.

The Euthanasia Roller Coaster

Euthanasia is an interesting subject, both the ethical side, and the mechanism. How would one kill themselves in a nice way?

Julijonas Urbonas at the Royal College of Art has created the Euthanasia Coaster. This is a Roller coaster where the rider is subjected to a negative ten gforce for one minute resulting in the brain being starved of oxygen and the death of the riders. I am not sure wither one minute is enough to kill someone, but I am sure Julijonas has done his research. The riders would experience a feeling of euphoria as their brains are starved of oxygen. And I think this is a very interesting art project. Roller coasters try to terrify riders with sirens and warning singes as they queue for a ride, but here we have one that I am sure most of us wouldn't want to take, but it's design is simple and elegant. And I am sure if it was built, it would be ridden.

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DragonCon 2011 Cosplay Montage

I want to do some cosplay, but I have no idea what to go as. I am held back by my indecision because of the time it will take me to put a reasonable costume together.

The US Military's Don't Ask Don't Tell Is No More

Don't Ask Don't tell was a compromise between throwing gay service people out of the military and allowing them to service. Gays where allowed to serve as long as they where closeted. Some seen this as an evil policy against gays, but the policy has now been repealed. I hope this goes some way to promoting equal rights in the US as I believe that most straight people assume that everyone around is strait except for the rare few. We know that more than 7% of the world's population is gay and that means that if you are in a room with fifteen other people, then there is a good chance that one of them is gay.

I thought the news of DADT would be met with quiet applause, but many gays in the military have been coming out and have been celebrating with a flurry of YouTube videos. AreYouSuprised has been doing videos anonymously on YouTube about being gay and in the military. The first video where we get to see his face, was posted two days ago where he comes out to his Dad.

Random Fact

There isn't a video on YouTube of someone popping a pimple.

LED Viking Mohawk

I just thought this was really cool.

George Did It AGAIN!

I have mostly been on the fence about some of the changes George Lucas has made to Star Wars over the years. Some I have liked like the removal of the black boarders around some of the special effects and the updated Wampa Feading Scene. And others I am very much on the fence about like the updated Sarlacc Pit. However now with the BluRay Release Of Star Wars, Lucas is adding some extra dialogue to the scene where Darth Vader kills Emperor Palatine. This scene was perfect before, the silent defiance was all that was needed, but now Lucas has Darth Vader saying "No!"

There has been some leaked audio of the 'NO!' and WideAsleepFilm has edited it together with a copy of the scene. I think it's a crime against good cinema and something that shouldn't have been changed, but see for yourself.

[Source: Ain't It Cool News]

Random Fact

The G-spot is named after Ernst Gräfenberg.

Minor Characters in Star Trek

Aboard the Enterprise-D there was a load of unnamed characters that where seen on the ship briefly and then never again. Then there are the characters with names that only appeared in one or two episodes. With the power of Memory Alpha I wanted to find the most qualified of these characters, those characters who where always there, but probably never noticed by audiences.

• Darien Wallace
  Is the only one here to have a full name, but I don't remember seeing him in any episodes or films.


• Jae
  Served aboard the Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E.


• Martinez
  I remember seeing him in a few episodes, he has a long medical history.


• Russell
  Served on both the Enterprise-D and Voyager.

Random Fact

The front door of 10 Downing Street cannot be opened from the outside.

Grapes In The Microwave

Apparently if you cut a grape in half, but leave a small piece of skin joining the two halves. And then place the grape in a microwave, you get plasma.

Random Fact

In water apples float and pears sink.

Dancing In A Sky Diving Simulator

The guys are from Team4Speed.

The Making Of An Angry Video Game Nerd Episode

James Rolfe talks about how he plans, records and edits an episode of The AVGN. I think the art of editing gets overlooked by the public when it comes to praising the makers of a film, but this video shows how time consuming it is.

Tags: GameTrailers.com, ScrewAttack - The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Deus Ex Live Action Trailer

Hmmm live action trailer for new Deus Ex game...

Do You Have Free Will? Tshirt

I didn't know this, but Albert Sweigart writer of Fine Book On Phython and an Atheist is also a designer of tshirts. His latest design asks Do You Have Free Will?

Bandai's Konapun

Konapun is a product that Bandai make for kids 8+. It consists of a set of sachets and a small kitchen plastic to make food in by mixing the sashays with water and using the tools in the kitchen. The food food is very realistic miniature versions of the real thing. This food is not edible. Japan loves small cute things and many restraints have plastic versions of their meals in their windows so entice customers. So yes it feels wrong that you can't eat this food after preparing it, but this is Japan and that kind of thing is accepted.



More Konapun on YouTube.

Guy Calls Out Nintendo

Sometimes companies just aren't interested in making money.

New Android Marketplace

Looks very much like the Windows 7 interface. Just saying.

The Vagina Blog

Quoted from an interest blog:

I’m a 23 year old female with a hellgina. A normal period for me is a veritable biblical flood. I’m chronicling the process of figuring out what the fuck is wrong with me, as each day and each procedure passes. - My Uterus Hates Me

GIF Sound

A week ago Squidbrain posted a question on the popular social news network Reddit, Can you get .gifs with sound? The answer to Squidbrain's question is no, because a gif is an image file standard that supports animation and not (currently) sound.

However there has been a thing running for a little while called YoutubeDoubbler where you play two YouTube videos together that overlap in a nice way.

The same thing exists for gifs and the website for that is GIFsound.com.

Cooking Meat

Dancing Dog

Daft Punk

Nyan cat

Hypnotoad

The Impossible Project, Revival Of The Polaroid Camera

In October 2008 The Impossible Project saved the last Polaroid production plant for integral instant film in Enschede (NL) and started to invent and produce totally new instant film materials for traditional Polaroid cameras. In 2010 Impossible saved analog instant photography from extinction by releasing various, brand new and unique instant films.
Therewith Impossible prevents more than 300,000,000 perfectly functioning Polaroid cameras from becoming obsolete, changes the world of photography and keeps variety, tangibility and analogue creativity and possibilites alive.

- About Impossible

Star Wars The Old Republic CG Backstory

A few very nice CG videos have been released in the runup to the release of SWTOR and some kind YouTuber has put them together into a fifteen minute compilation. Best watched full screen in HD to be sure.

Smart Clothing

This is a set of cufflinks that blink in time with a Macbook's sleep blinking. Interesting, but only if you are in meetings a lot with a Macsbook is sleep mode.

iCufflinks by Adafruit from adafruit industries on Vimeo.

More Windows 7 Backgrounds

You can find more nice official Windows 7 backgrounds in C:\Windows\winsxs.

Random Joke

What do sheep make planes out of?
Sheepmetal

The Undead Mod

For a while now people have been playing games about the zombie uprising (or outbreak depending on the cause of the apocalypse), the best zombie game at the moment is probably Left 4 Dead 2 and there has been some attempts at making Zombie Apocalypse Simulations, but a love child of both would be Arma2's The Undead Mod.

Arma 2 is a very complicated military simulation game and The Undead Mod adds zombies. Why a large developer hasn't worked on something similar I don't know. There is clearly a market for this.

The Pledge Of Allegiance Is Brainwashing

Ever since I discovered the American Pledge Of Allegiance I have been bothered by the idea of very young kids daily oathing themselves to their flag, when they are too young to understand what they are doing. In recent years I have seen The Pledge, in my view, as more of a brain washing mechanism. The Whitest Kids U' Know, a show on IFC, demonstrates this.



In 1892 when The Pledge was first used in schools it was accompanied with a Bellamy Salute named after the writer of The Pledge. Most people seeing this today would describe it as a Nazi Salute. And so while at war with Germany the salute for The Pledge was changed to a hand over heart gesture. I find this interesting because the parallels of blind nationalism is still there, even with the adapted salute.

The pledge was originally designed to promote national equality for immigrants so everybody saying The Pledge could be seen as American. However I don't see The Pledge as symbolizing national pride, but an attempt to hold onto national pride in an age where America is a declining superpower.

Call Of Duty Elite and Pay Monthly Multiplayer

It happened, Activation will soon be charging a monthly fee for a higher tier multilayer experience in Call Of Duty. What you get is clan play, Facebook integration and gameplay stats. I would like to first pointout that clan play and stats was first supported in ye' olde Unreal Tournament from 1999. And people will pay for it.



The hardcore will stick it's nose in the air and say no, but the casual gamer, the gamer who is the primary demographic for Call Of Duty will pay for it because it will be sold as a premium multilayer experience. If it gets enough people playing it might even become a great multilayer game with, no screaming kids, always play with friends, competitive/comparative micro stats, great servers and continued developer support.

You might be saying 'no no no no no no', but it's here to stay. Just remember to cancel your account if yo try it for a bit and then stop playing.

Unboxing Videos

Some unboxing videos are good, but most are long and very uninformative. So this one is more of an anti-unboxing video.

Extreme Couponing

There is a part of me that finds this amazing and fascinating, then there is another part of me that struggles to believe that what she is doing is legal.

Otomata

There have been a few flash proceadural music makers, and I think Otomata is one of the better examples. Here is a pattern I made.

2D Film Glasses

2d-glasses.com is a site where you can buy 2D glasses for 3D films. I think this is interesting, I am not going to buy a pair so I can say I paid extra to see a 3D film and watched it in 2D thanks to my matching polarised glasses, but some people genuinely hate watching 3D films and need these to enjoy films with friends.

Sugar Might Be Really Bad For You

Robert Lustig is a Professor of Pediatrics and treats fat kids for obesity. He talks about how the sugar replacement in many sodas (high fructose corn syrup) is worse than drinking a sugared beverage.

Zero Punctuation's Review of Portal 2

Normally he does satire, but occasionally he says something interesting about a title. Other than the gripe about Portal fans I agree with everything Yahtzee says.

Sean Plott's Life Of Starcraft

Sean Plott is a StarCraft commentator, strategist, champion, player and goes by the handle Day[9]. He talks about his love for StarCraft, a history of his life with the game and what is has done for him. More importantly it is a story of hard working paying off.



His brother is Tasteless another player and professional commentator who is so cool he has his own Theme Song. And if you are interested in some Crazy StarCraft II stratagice checkout This IGN Article.

Hawken

Hawken made by indi startup Adhesive Games is a MechWarrior type game. Unfortunatly for MechWarrior fans there hasn't been a good Mech Warrior game for years. However Hawken looks awesome and worth keeping an eye on.

Blinky™

Blinky is a short film by Ruairi Robinson, maker of short films, about a domestic robot that doesn't meet it's owners expectations (played by Max Records).

Blinky™ from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo.

A Great Demonstration Of How LCD Displays Work

I have read a few descriptions over the years on how LCD displays work, but this is the best by far.

Escaped Animal Drills In A Japanese Zoo

It's funny because they don't want any of the visitors to be frightened so use a guy in a costume. Keep watching as they Tranquilize and net him.

The Auto Tattoo

This is a fully automatic tattoo machine. It is an interesting idea because since the design is reproduced and consistent, it shouldn't be considered art. However would that stop people using it?
I imagine someday automatic machines will be available to do many custom designs.

Great Physical Comedy

Gamarjobat are a Japanese Manzai (double act) who do excellent silent physical comedy. Their English isn't amazing, but you wouldn't tell by watching their amazing act.

New Thundercats Animated Series

Cartoon Network has commissioned a new Thundercats TV series and it looks good.

Tron Uprising

Disney are making a 2.0 TV series for 2012. The early trailer looks very good.

The Internet Movie Firearms Database

Films are filled with firearms, and lots of people know their firearms so it makes sense that someone would create The Internet Movie Firearms Database. It doesn't have every film imaginable because it is a community based projects and concentrates mainly on real firearms. So it's Star Trek First Contact page is (at time of writing) missing the Star Trek Phaser. However the page on The Matrix ("I need guns, lots of guns") is rather detailed, even down to the make and model of tear gas canister used in the abandoned building before Morpheus was captured. It is also interesting to see the number of films that the M16 Has Been In.

Earth Hour 2011

A reminder that Earth Hour takes tonight between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm.
Here are some pictures from last year, click the images to see a before and during.

Last year I turned my PC off and read for an hour.

Burrito Bison

Burrito Bison, available on NewGrounds is one of the best flash games I have played in a while. It is one of the shoot character across level and see how far you can get while bouncing and earning money as he goes, games. You play a wrestler who has been abducted by a city of GummyBears and must squish your way out of GummyLand. The only innovation I see here is the introduction of barriers that you have to have enough speed when you reach them to power through. I have played a few new games of this type recently, but Burrito Bison is fun because later in the game you can combo large jumps to rescue yourself and the game in general has a lot of personality.

Goon The Collaborative 8Bit Art Project

Goon City and Goon Tower are both rather fun. If you have a look around you will find more subtle references in Goon City.

Pure Chase Supercuts

This is a great compilation of supercuts.
The music is 7 vs 8 by The Jesus Lizard.

Pure from Jacob Bricca on Vimeo.

The World's Largest Art Gallery

Stockholm Metro is said to be the worlds largest Art Gallery. And it is easy To See Why.

Plug

Plug isn't exactly an indi film as it is made by Steambot a company that does a lot of artwork for both the film industry (Avatar and Tron 2.0) and video games industry (FarCry 2, Splinter Cell and Assassins Creed). But it still looks very interesting.

Plug - teaser one from vyle-art on Vimeo.

How To Use A Mouse And Keyboard On A Console FPS

The XIM is a really coll device that lets you play with a Keyboard and mouse control interface on your console (360 or PS3). Obviously the immediate benefit is that you can pown everybody by having a way better control interface. The only problem is that it is made by a small group of guys who can't keepup with demand. Still if you have a look at the videos page the advertised experience is very impressive.

Commander Shepard Antham

You can fight light a Krogan, run like a leopard, but you will never be better than Commander Shepard.

Lazy Teenage Superheroes

A half decent college short film! I don't know much else about it as The Official Website doesn't contain any.

The World Is Being Gamified

New Scientist has a video about how the world is learning from the positive feedback loop in video games. This will cause everybody to be offered achievements and points for using products and services.

A 17 Gigapixel Image

I wouldn't normally like to something that requires a plugin, but it is the Microsoft Research HD View Plugin and I trust those guys. The plugin allows you to view the mountains on yosemite-17-gigapixels.com. A site that had five mountain photographs that will amaze you because of their size. It's like having your own spy satellite.

Hand Drawn MineCraft Texture Pack

Scribblecraft is a nice looking texture pack. It's the kind of pack that makes me want to try doing my own textures.

Voxatron

Voxatron is a fun looking indi game made by Lexaloffle.

Random Fact

On the 16th of July 2186 the Longest Solar Eclipse for 5000 years will take place. The area with the longest totality will be in the Atlantic ocean and will last for 7 minutes and 29 seconds.

A Sword Form From The Perspective Of The Sword

This is a sword form from the perspective of the sword tip. I wonder if I could make something similar.

Shift In Language

Language is dynamic and this video shows this off very well.

European Boundaries 1 to 2000 Years AD

Euratlas.net has This Page showing the history of European country boundaries from 1AD to 2000AD, at 100 year intervals. A rather interesting insight.

Scott Nickleson's Boardgame Publishing Lecture

Scott of Board Games With Scott was asked by MIT's Comparative Media Studies to talk about Boardgame Publishing. Scott puts together a fun lecture with a lot of information about himself and the industry I didn't know about. Here is a link to the lecture.

Legal Torrents

ClearBits is a website that hosts Creative Commons material for download through torrents. Have a look thought their stuff because they do have some interesting material.

Zelda Ocarina Of Tetris

OpenLase

Hector Martin is a laser hacker and has created an open source laser engine. He did a presentation at last year's Chaos Communication Congress about his engine, but he did it with lasers!



There is more information and demos on His Blog

Happy New Year!

I have a good feeling about this year.

The Best Film I Seen This Year

In the last year I have watched 128 films (a complete alphabetical list is found at the end of this post). And at the end of the year it is an easy post to write about what my general recommendation as to what the best film I seen was. To do this I first generate a short list of what I rated rated 5/5 on LoveFilm (read Netflix if in US) and then have a look at the site's meta data to see what others who seen the films thought. And then the film me and the meta data think is best is my recommendation for the year.

This year the film I can recommend to most people rather easily is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.



P.S. IGN and I am sure a lot of others as my meta data shows, will claim that Inception is the best film of 2010. I only gave Inception 4/5 because I never cared about the characters or their mission.

Tron Legacy
9
17 Again
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
638 Ways To Kill Castro
A Serious Man
Angels And Demons
Antibodies
Apocalypse Now Redux
Boat That Rocked, The
Book of Eli
Brothers
Capitalism: A Love Story
Che - Part 1 - The Argentine
Clash of the Titans
Clash Of The Titans
Coco Before Chanel
Code 46
Cold Souls
Colin
Cronos
Crying Fist
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
Dagon
Daybreakers
Dead Man Running
District 13
Dorian Gray
Dragonball Evolution
Evangelion 1.01 - You're Not Alone
Exam
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Expendables, The
Fame
Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
Fargo
Fast And Furious
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Fighting
Fish Tank
Franklyn
Full Metal Jacket
Girl Who Lept Through Time, The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The
Girlfriend Experience, The
Good Morning, Vietnam
Halo - Legends
Handmaid's Tale, The
Hangover, The
Helvetica
Hotel Rwanda
Hudson Hawk
I'm Here
In Bruges
Inception
Iron Man 2
Jacob's Ladder
Jennifer's Body
Karate Kid - Part 2, The
Kick-Ass
Knowing
Law Abiding Citizen
Legion
Lethal Weapon
Men Who Stare at Goats, The
Michael Jackson - This Is It
On The Beach
Ong Bak 2: The Beginning
Outlander
Pandorum
Paul Blart - Mall Cop
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Platoon
Ponyo
Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time
Psycho
Quadrophenia
Rambo - First Blood
Rambo - First Blood - Part II
Rambo - III
Rear Window
Red Rock West
Resident Evil Afterlife
Road, The
Rope
Runaway Train
S. Darko - A Donnie Darko Tale
Salt
Saw IV
Saw V
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Sherlock Holmes
Sky Crawlers
Slaughterhouse Five
Sleeper
Sleepless In Seattle
Slumdog Millionaire
Smokin' Aces
Snake Eyes
Solar Crisis
South Park - The Passion of the Jew
Strait Jacket
Surrogates
Sword Of The Stranger
The 39 Steps
The Back-up Plan
The Basketball Diaries
The Cove
The Horde
The Informant
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid 3
The Losers
The Mist
The Road
The Twilight Saga - New Moon
The Wrestler
Thirst
To Hell And Back
Toy Story 3
Up In The Air
Waltz with Bashir
Wedlock
Where the Wild Things Are
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Youth in Revolt
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Zombieland

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!

Adult Fans Of Lego

This is a documentary about some AFOLs. I remember seeing some well constructed things as a kid, but what the hobby is doing now is on a new level of interesting.

AFOL A Blocumentary from AFOL on Vimeo.

Trench Run

Snowy trench run from Aaron Dabelow on Vimeo.

A Minecraft Song

I thought this was rather catchy.

Colour Wheel For Use In Web Design

Color Scheme Designer is a great little JavaScript based web tool for creating a matching colour scheme for websites. It even includes a website preview that scarily seems to look great no-matter what colour scheme you choose.

Wikileaks On Why Leaking Is Good

WikiLeaks is a website dedicated to releasing leaked information. It isn't doing anything new, leaked information has been a large part of Journalism for a while, but what is different that the leaks are delivered in an almost no edited format.

Recently WikiLeaks got hold of 251,287 leaked US Embassy Cables. These are short reports about all manor of things. I found the report on colonel Gaddafi rather interesting, but there has been a lot of criticism towards the leaks; mainly around the possibility that they would harm diplomatic relations and cost lives. Reading the reports you can see many of the names have been removed, so I am not convinced by the loss of life argument, but there was a TED talk earlier in the year with WikiLeak found Julian Assange giving his account on why WikiLeaks is a force for good.
WikiLeaks is under (government?) attack, so has several Mirror Sites setup.

Free Documentaries

Documentary-Film.net is a network that distributes documentaries for free. Most of them seem to be professional looking, that isn't to say the information is accurate or impartial in all of them, there is a good selection.

Can Less Traffic Control Be Better?

Turns out it can be.




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TreT The Parkour Dog From The Ukraine

Worlds Biggest Harry Potter Fan

I wonder if he has a scar.

Snub Fighter Star Wars Fan Re-edit

A really great Star Wars fan edit.

Luke snatches defeat from the jaws of victory in this re-edit of "A New Hope"
After boasting to the more experienced pilots of Red Squadron, he arrives late for the attack, disobeys orders and ignores Obi-Wan's repeated pleas to use the force. Han Solo is not impressed with Luke and must now deal with a vengeful Darth Vader and all Red Five can do is watch from above as the veteran Red Leader calmly demonstrates the correct way to fire a proton torpedo down a thermal exhaust port.

Kinect And 3D Space

The Kinect has a camera and a 3D depth sensor, so when you are waving your arms around it can translate them to an avatar in a game. However since Kinect got hacked, we will start seeing some interesting applications. This video isn't an application, but it is a cool way of displaying the two forms of visual data the Kinect is receiving.

Apple Trackpad Easter Egg (NSFW- Nudity!!)

I wonder what Steve will have to say about this when he finds out.

Apple Trackpad Easter Egg (NSFW- Nudity!!) from rj logan on Vimeo.

Game Complexity

I bought X3 Terran Conflict the other day because I felt like a complicated space simulation game. But it still feels very abstracted, I wonder if anybody will ever make a complex space sim game like DCS: A-10C Warthog.

Infinite Fire In MineCraft

This is funny.

And of course little girl still wanted to be Darth Fairy

Happy Halloween! Did any of you dress up as Darth Fairy?

TinEye Image Search Engine

TinEye might be useful on occasion if I see an image and want to know where it came from.

Flash Gravity Simulator

There used to be a game like This in one of the old Microsoft Encartas that I used to love playing with.

Laser Scanned Lightshow

The Amazing Sasuke McDonalds Toy

The quality of McDonald's Happy Meal toys might not have improved since I was a kid, but the use of them has. And This Naruto Sasuke Toy is amazing.

MineCraft Cartography

MineCraft is a simple game of Mining a randomly generated world. You Mine raw materials, create tools, build a house or a mine and fight monsters that appear at night. Some players have been very creative and built cities out of the simple blocks that the MineCraft world is constructed from. You can view one of the Australian multilayer servers Here with a Google Maps extension of sorts. This was made with a Cartography Mod.

Random Inspiration

I loved This.

Adam Savage On Problem Solving

Another brilliant talk.

Watching Films On An iPhone

I don't understand how someone could watch a film on a mobile phone. Maybe if they had time to devote to it while they are on a very long train ride or something, but I am largely with David Lynch.

Kindle Laughs At iPad For Poolside Reading

I hate monitors with glossy surfaces because they reflect everything. Amazon seen fit to make an advert showing the kindle's screen as an advantage and poke fun at the iPad's price at the same time.

An Odd Error Message For A Shop

There is a video game store called ShopTo.net. When I visited the site today with Chrome (it is my primary browser) I got the below error message.



Translation:
Dear customer, we don't support your browser so please don't use it to buy anything.

StarCraft: World Cyber Games 2005 (National Geographic documentary)

I missed this when it was first aired, but it is a very good documentary on the Korean StarCraft scene.

Excellent Miniatures Painting Tutorial

When I was younger and before YouTube I painted some miniatures, now with the internet I wanted to see what tutorials where out these and found this one hour and twenty minuet monster.

E-ink Magnified

This Article shows iPad text, Kindle, Newspaper, Magazine and Book text magnified.

I don't think this is conclusive proof that e-ink is easier to read than an LCD screen, but it does show an interesting comparative.