⇒ things I missed covering

global:
Massive BP oil pipeline leak dumping something like 100,000 barrels of oil onto Mexico coastline. see sidebar below
That unpronounceable volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, disrupting the shit out of European flights

sport:
French Open started
World Cup soon--hysteria already on

business:
Apple now longer just the MVP of silicon valley, they're number 2 in corporate America now: src

tech:
man infects himself with computer virus. That sentence is really more sensational than the actual effects.


BP oil related article: Obama's oil dream team. Did anyone else get a Jerry-Bruckheimer's-Armageddon feeling? check the picture of Slocum, the 'wacky' one:

Malkovich

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⇒ First Augmented reality magazine:

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⇒ Sony PS3 has glitch

PSN Error 8001050F, best summed up by this guy:oggob

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March 2, 2010 at 1:11 PM
It had nothing to do with PSN, you are correct, but it was effecting users whose consoles have never been connected online also. So it’s nothing to do with it linking back to PSN.

The fundamental issue is that the PS3 internal Hardware clock is set via GMT. There was a bug within that clock which believed that yesterday was the 29th Feb, 2010 (a leap year).

The Operating System clock runs off partly off that clock, and it knew there isn’t a 29th Feb, so it doesn’t know what date to to show and a confliction is caused, that’s why it was dropping back to either 31/12/1999 or 1/1/2000, that is the default date for the PS3.

Trophy games were generally effected, as they obviously check for a valid time and date when they boot, as they assign time and date values when you unlock one, because there were date conflicts, the game fails to run.

By all accounts, non trophy games were working fine, as this is something they don’t need to do.

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⇒ old google news

more Google hacked fallout:
Microsoft investigates 17-year-old Windows flaw

kind of ridiculous a gaping flaw like this hasn't been addressed until now.

Ars Technica summarises the whole she-bang

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⇒ Other big, long-reaching news

iiNet d. AFACT in copyright case
Awesome. The result has global implications for all ISPs and copyright cases. Keep fighting the good fight, iiNet.

Colorful analogy from the 200 page ruling:

"To use the rather colourful imagery that internet piracy conjures up in a highly imperfect analogy, the file being shared in the swarm is the treasure, the BitTorrent client is the ship, the .torrent file is the treasure map, The Pirate Bay provides treasure maps free of charge and the tracker is the wise old man that needs to be consulted to understand the treasure map."

full result and Ars Technica's thoughts

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⇒ fallout from Gmail hacking

Gmail was hacked by someones in China this week. Shit hit the fan, yo:

ie exploit used

micro$h!t issues warning

servers behind attack id'd

political aftermath

germans told to avoid IE

great firewall of china

google switches security to https

in the end Google responded to attacks by uncensoring it's Chinese results, which has long term ramifications for any other business dealing with China. Depending how Google comes away from this, it will set precedent for others. It's like a cyber cold war.

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⇒ late news: Burj Dubai

the burj dubai opened this week. Now the tallest building on Earth.

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⇒ Infractor

infractor - interactive, collaborative multitouch application from siwamat on Vimeo.

kind of like Auditorium

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⇒ two things

two supposedly big things happened today (well they happened, but I contest the enormity of the events):
1. NASA bombed the Moon in search of water. No sh!t. I am not kidding. I thought at the very least there would be some kind of census across the population as to whether or not this is a good idea. I mean it's everybody's moon, right? That and, I've seen The Time Machine where they "accidentally" blow up the moon. Not cool man.

2. Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Sure ok.

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⇒ misc in the world of tech

Qi, the wireless standard | Layar augmented reality app | Crowdsourced traffic coming to Google maps. Great idea, now make happen in Sydney! | massive kick in the balls. Excessive fine for downloader - it's 192 million. dollars. murder is cheaper | ars technica facebook privacy guide

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⇒ random

rafa's aus open '09 blog and the final entry
Dubai's paradise-like hotel

Conflicker worm strikes Houston Justice

MacOSX hints:
Use GarageBand '09 'Learn to Play' on PowerPC Macs
A possible fix for slow Flash plug-in loading in Safari
Run iMovie '09 on a PowerPC G4
Creating and using disk quotas
Use Smart Objects in Photoshop to help with label design

Set half-star ratings directly in iTunes

Stereographic images in Excel

CSS bg tute again...for posterity
Jean Warhol gallery
Raphael

MAKE:
HOW TO - Make rope from plastic bags

creepy ski mask
recalls the days of Goldeneye 64 and the blockheadz

Grow your own fresh air indoors

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⇒ Feb, 06th

let's see what's goin on today:

news:

NSW is hot
news corp:$9.7B loss...oh, that recession
australia's most popular youtube-r

MAKE:

xhttp://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/modeling_a_character_for_3d_printin.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
y

sweet!
xhttp://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/popup_book_ideas.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
y

mayhem and chaos in snow globes
flashback urban camouflage
metalworking supersite
tim sees steampunky ceramic art
financial data as music excel as art
i did something like this circa 2005...data sonification

MISC:

new M:UA 2 trailer
dragonball trailer
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy
technical miscellanea in hard drive wiping--do I wipe more than once to be secure?
details that matter
excellent (web) design industry advice

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⇒ around the world today

Panasonic to axe 15,000 workers









attack of the magnet people!

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⇒ tech+gaming+geek news roundup:

techvideoblog.com/reviews/online-video-sites-hd-quality-comparison/
www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-dad/
www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/12/flowers_a_breath_of_fresh_air-2.html
www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/12/watch_a_portugese_dog_and_a_statue_of_napoleon_play_street_fighter-2.html

i ♥ katamari, so logically i'm looking forward to the next thing from creator Keita Takahashi, Noby Noby Boy. And Katamari's on iPhone!

Noby Noby Boy 'TGS 2008' trailer

TicTacToe in LBP:


New Wolverine movie teaser out:
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE HD

actually looks kinda watchable. I just hope it's not dogsh!t like X3. Still not crazy about: Will.i.am, Gambit, wirework, name of movie, small-ish looking final battle.
Why: If you're a successful musician, stay in that profession; looks nothing like the ladykillin' ragin' cajun we all ♥; I love wirework, but from what I've seen, it's not sharp enough to overcome the 'floaty' feel; why not just call it 'Wolverine'? The action (again from what little I've seen) seems smaller and less crazy than his X2 throw-down with Deathstrike.
like: Dog Logan goin' to War(s), Sabretooth's last line.
Huge Jackman looks bigger, beefer than and real-er than 'Incredible' Hulk!

zomg, I'm a nerd! Boing!

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⇒ tax my a$$

shocking study finds Sydney homebuyers face the largest tax burden in the country!

No sh!t, Sherlock! I wonder what tipped you off?

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⇒ RSS roundup

sensis concedes to google. Using either whereis and google maps for directions still kind of sucks--it's missing a distinctly human element. Case in point: to get from A to B, go 10m forward, turn right continue along for 10m turn left continue along for 10m, turn right continue along for 10m turn left continue along for 10m, turn right continue along for 10m turn left continue along for 10m, and so on...where as an actual person (or my preferred directions giving style) would've just said go forward 100m, turn right, go forward 100m. Done!

further evidence uni was a waste of my time: via ABC news. I knew it was a sham! And i called it years ago. Time told on that one, eh?

dude said it. After last week's a$$hole(t), I couldn't agree more with this guy...the problem is in the system, and it filters down on to the streets.


Totoro bento box! via SuperPunch



I may have posted about this before but it's just too damn impressive. Papercraft Kraken diorama from a single (big) piece of paper.

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⇒ take me away

film http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,,24429254-7485,00.html
weird keyboards http://www.news.com.au/technology/gallery/0,25793,5034742-5014321-10,00.html
banker beaten to death http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24426476-401,00.html
i don't know what he was like in his personal life, but IN GENERAL, bankers suck nuts. Greedy, power-hungry muthas can take a beating from me anytime. Still, the dude was trying to help others...oh wellz.

really not feeling good right now. Wish i were there

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⇒ 31 celcius

very warm today...chance of 'freak storm' later...
gym: thought i was running pretty well, but then I only made 2.7km in 20'. Oh wells...at least I'm keeping up the 2.5km in 20' target.

visits since 21st sept '08: 2
mth ave: 2
3 mth ave: 0.66
ave cost per visit: $80

good and bad in the world
good: photokina's on, sydney's warming up, I rise to all workplace challenges.
bad: china--53,000 babies ill? Shame on you. Should'nt even be one ill baby. This is what happens when you cut corners!

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⇒ what in the world

Exitreality launched--a 3d web browser. I've not yet tried it, but sounds shit--I mean, if you have to 'walk' everywhere to get to a webpage, it's going to slow down the surfing experience.
'ATM for books'. If there's one in Sydney, I'mma find it and try it.

games' 'hard' mode: hard | canon eos 5D spec | more Canon action | world's smallest pc | making of MGS4 | sweet sf home sticks...btw, sf4 = teh disappointment | broken vinyl + train = awesome | MAC OS X 10.5 released | crazy computing power from Cray | LittleBigPlanet design jam | FFXI boss bitch-slapped | Gunpei Yokoi papercraft | popular now on teh internetz: 'demakes'. Basically, you take a current game IP, and imagine what it would have been like on a retro system. | 10 commandments of facebook (according to cracked.com)

saw Hellboy 2 tonite. M'yeh, alot of things I liked and yet something lacking, maybe the pacing wasn't tight enough. I also thought Doug Jones did a poor job in comparison to David Hyde Pierce. Sorry Doug. The fantasy was great, the costumes, art direction, production design and style: all great. Nuada = slippery, but cool. Nuala = schwing. Wink = cool. Stock agent characters getting eaten = nasty but alrite. Creepy cat-devouring lady? Disturbing-cool. Not so great: noob Johann--the guy in the suit didn't body-communicate particularly well. Same goes for the voice. Not much about the character was likeable or interesting.

I'm preparing myself for the great yoghurt-dessert invasion of sydney: we all know it's overdue. America's had it for a while now, and it's turned over megabucks. It's just another one of those stylised-franchisee-chains that periodically crop up with some diet staple presented in a new way.

btw, movie prices (like fuel) have gone up and will never come down. To hell with this, greedy cinema peddlers can suck on my hairy left one, I got a HDTV now. I'm never going back to cine. What a ripoff!

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⇒ tennis at the olympics

Rafa defeats Novak Djokovic 6-4 1-6 6-4 to reach the Gold medal match. He will play Fernando Gonzales, who edged out James Blake 4-6 7-5 11-9. Blake wasn't happy about that.

Yahoo's coverage here and here.

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