⇒ tues 09 dec 08

the future! Actually, I see it as a good divvy between flexible/foldable displays and mini-proejectors...basically stuff that doesn't eat up space

USB hand warmers, in warm, fuzzy bear rendition

Knife-boots

year 2008 days remaining: 22
days til christmas: 16

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⇒ cracked me up

from here:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16179_10-most-baffling-computer-gadgets-money-can-buy.html

Cracked.com continues its run of awesomeness:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16152_10-highly-anticipated-video-games-youll-never-get-play.html
This article encapsulates my sentiments about Juno pretty well.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16161_if-juno-was-10-times-shorter-100-times-more-honest.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_16176_8-pointless-laws-all-comic-book-movies-follow.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_16158_11-most-unintentionally-gay-rap-lyrics-ever.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_16073_7-ballsiest-sports-cheats-ever.html
http://www.cracked.com/blog/2008/04/21/how-to-make-your-own-judd-apatow-movie/
http://www.cracked.com/article_15201_mock-draft-top-11-movie-basketball-players-all-time.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_16074_13-most-irresponsible-self-defense-gadgets-money-can-buy.html

choice excerpts:

If you ask us, there aren't enough games set in the early '70s, an era when the streets were full of huge cars and pimps, when everybody smoked and cops carried huge revolvers that could kill you from the sound alone
If they want Eastwood to do the voice, they need to get on that because the man just turned 136.

The Diablo series is what happens when you let red-blooded, meat-eating Americans make a role-playing game. Gone are the androgynous heroes, talking raccoons and quests that revolve around retrieving used panties you find in Japanese RPGs, replaced instead with demon killing. Lots and lots demon killing.

For some unknown reason, tradition states that the first movie must consist largely of something no one in the audience paid to see: The superhero as he lived before he could do any cool superhero stuff.

Other genres don't feel the need to do this; Die Hard didn't spend the first half of the movie with John McClane taking target practice, Rambo didn't spend an hour showing Rambo in basic training. Why can't we just jump in?

For instance in Superman II, a Superman who is desperate to get into Margot Kidder's pants reveals his secret identity, undergoes possibly permanent genetic damage by using radiation to get rid of his powers, walks from the North Pole to Alaska, and gets a good beating along the way. Hope she was worth it, dude.

Michael Keaton, also in an effort to get into somebody's pants, reveals his secret identity in Batman Returns to his girlfriend and the Penguin, also revealing a previously unknown fact about Batman: his mask is made out of Fruit Roll-Ups.

forgot to mention: 28 gym visits left.

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⇒ headline roundup

R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke
thanks for 2001, satellites and everything in between

http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/29/us-dethroned-as-tech-superpower-hint-not-by-s-korea/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/19/stanford-researchers-cram-12-616-tiny-lenses-into-a-3d-camera/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/19/build-your-own-street-legal-solar-powered-electric-car/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/19/com-bat-swoops-in-to-gather-data-on-reconnaissance-missions/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/19/solid-state-microchip-sized-fan-promises-to-cool-laptops/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/19/gefens-usb-to-dvi-adapter-handles-uxga/
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/19/zero-punctuation-hunts-turok-and-other-fpss/

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/19/law-of-the-game-on-joystiq-video-game-laws-abort-retry-fail/
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/19/nintendo-still-dead-last-in-greenpeace-electronics-rankings/

http://www.joystiq.com/photos/i-am-8-bit-exhibit/

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⇒ highs and lows

had digital culture presentation today...went ok, i think...I hope.

marion jones confessed to being an enormous drug cheat...f#ck you! what a faker b!-otch! we cheered for you! what a cheater!

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/asus-intros-colorful-xonar-u1-external-usb-audio-processor/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/nissan-takes-wraps-off-conceptual-pivo-2-electric-car/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/art-lebedevs-pultius-remote-one-button-for-every-channel/

pretty...art lebedev's pultius remote


wait for a good game...

http://www.presidentpuppets.com/products.html

awesome.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/02/a-galaxy-of-mario-galaxy-videos/

bargains:
kingdom hearts pickup
zelda oracle
zelda classic

more bargains here: http://palgn.com.au/article.php?id=8988

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⇒ aussie $

auusie $ hits record high of $0.89 US

http://www.kawaiidream.net/categories.php?cat_id=329&sessionid=528470263da8a7fb7f74d12c60658ba2&sessionid=528470263da8a7fb7f74d12c60658ba2
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/usb-powered-whack-a-mole-annihilates-productivity/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/30/tgs-video-games-museum-highlights-japans-taste/
http://www.joystiq.com/photos/zelda-phantom-hourglass-launch/419978/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/01/tgs07-interview-with-loco-rocos-tsutomu-kouno/
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.takaratomy.co.jp%2Fproducts%2Fwalkiebits%2Fproducts%2Frhythm.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/study-finds-roomba-owners-heart-their-vacuums-accept-flaws/

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⇒ crossbone gundam

skull and crossbone gundam arrived today. pretty schweet

http://hawtymcbloggy.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/top-10-halo-pick-up-lines/
http://www.bpnutsandbolts.com/battleshippretension20.mp3
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/10/dvd-laser-retrofitted-into-mini-mag-flashlight/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/10/usb-necktie-with-built-in-fan-keeps-you-cool-single/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/10/omni-directional-treadmill-could-put-you-in-the-game/
like a giant hamster wheel--for humans...

for desc:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/10/man-has-thumbs-altered-to-improve-iphone-dexterity/

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⇒ projects delivered

masters update: Rendered, printed and submitted my 3DMP assignment today. About 20" ahead of time. Really, I had about 3 hours left over (sort of) but you can't change much in three hours and show it (re-rendering can take up to 4 hours!)
link to my deliverables here
I spent well over 40 hours on it, but I think I needed even more time--some things which were taught to us in haste should've been the focus of the course, such as how to achieve really interesting effects with textures. We only got 1 throwaway tutorial and the rest were mostly modeling based (because that's what the tutor's good at). Anyhoo, that's it for another semester...

tablecloth visualization. I can't believe it's been a whole year since the Artos Visio debacle... | concept electric car: ZAP | XBX360 Blue Dragon ad campaign wins Cannes ad awards. This outdoor visualization looks pretty familiar to me...I'm pretty sure I've seen it over a year ago in DECO studio |
Chunners in SSFIITHDRZOMG!

RC Plane + 5MP Camera phone = personal satellite view. Now I wonder if this thing can feed video? | USB aquarium. Where do I get one?

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⇒ the asimo incident

(break: w4d6-->days on break: 34)
what have i been upto? ate a tonne of junk food (Mickey D's, KFC, ice cream, nachos, cheese, soft drink, etc.) and hardly worked out/went out. Splurged a bit on DVDs. 'Tis the season, after all...picked up complete Dilbert, and way of the dragon, Bruce's big shodown wif Chuck Norris. My sister just departed for Vietnam for a working-study-holiday. Have fun, Linh!

Honda's asimo takes a tumble as it tries to show off its stairclimbing chops. Feckin' funny, yet strangely familiar | independant games festival | Alex Ross' website. my favorite living contemporary painter. | wii injuries. injuries | better to be a lefty. btw, Jackie Chan made a donation to ANU's medical centre, where my sister studies. | first wii arcade stick here here (ebay) here and here. | more USB controlled awesomeness | introducing 'phase-change' memory | iRiver's s7. interesting alternative to the iPod shuffle. gives us the choat | WiiSaber. a mac. a wii. and star wars. | 10 gadgets that changed the world. personally, I agree with almost the entire list. |



awesome laser etched goodness | megatron blueprint. holy cow. this whole time i had no idea that he was a Walther p38 |

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