⇒ succeed blog

paper airplane hovering


lots of dominos


crazy vertical flip while climbing


dice as pixels

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⇒ a little aged but useful

information consumption by 'average' Americans. Well HDTV does deliver 720p+ sight and sound regardless of whether or not we pay attention.

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⇒ NET AU

aussie interneteers: we're still gettin' jacked

slowest and most expensive internet in the developed world? Probably

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⇒ Infractor

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

kind of like Auditorium

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⇒ Pro data-visualisations

alot more over on their flickr pages. They learned their three C's well...

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⇒ Nuke viz's

by the Guardian (UK):


you know, looking at the pleasant vector graphics kind of disturbs me how placated I can be on the subject matter...oh well.

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⇒ best of the rest

roll your own chrome:

not yet read this article


bento xbox! wow, that guy's wife is a keeper!

tips on wave photography


world's biggest water pump in new orleans:


airline cost cutting visualisation


humble pi: now calculated to 25 trillion decimals!
need to know: T2K Tuskuba does 95 trillion flops, calculated a total of 2,576,980,377,524 decimal places in 73 hours 36 minutes

Latest Porsche 911 GT3

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⇒ time visualisation

how one person has spent half their life. Where's the bit showing how much time he spent measuring this?

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⇒ interactive laser

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⇒ if a building could dream

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

pretty nice, i guess, but it's more of a projection-illusion, than an actual transforming building--now that's something to see!

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⇒ 2 clips

beautiful, fascinating


AWESOMEST building-lights-to-pixel visualisation i've seen yet.

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⇒ thingz

MAKE:

Stunning laser light art

Incredible tire sculptures

designing a custom wordpress theme

Roomba hacked for Rangoli-like ability
Rangoli: indian art of sand-printing


different map visualisation

Three Reasons Why Indie Devs Don’t Finish Their Games
summary: "No good ideas”, “Got tired of it after working on it for too long”, and “The game wasn’t so great after all after actually starting to make it.”

top 100 game dev studios


gorgeous muramasa art and here


SFII ASCII edition

play cat cat watermelon
yup


shadow physics game is hella cool

plants and zombies designer blog

Prototype wiki
anyone else think this looks like resident evil's tyrant in his own game? no?


fight HDTV lagyeah it sucks, I got my first taste of HDTV lag when I got 3rd strike brutalized.

the fall of midway

3d modelling bayonetta

benheck explains how to hack video game consoles

Flash gaming:
windosill

minotaur china shop

paper moon

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⇒ M A K E R E A D

courtesy of MAKE,

best of CRAFT

flaming legs

Noodly | homemade strobe photography | NERF atom blaster design diary | instructables gift ideas | | Thanksgiving roundup...not that it means anything to me, but I do enjoy the turkey-centric projects. Who doesn't? | Game of Life visualized | Materials |


crash bonsai garden

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⇒ weekly 19 d4

new theory of headlines:
if you read all your headings/sub-headings together, they should form a semi-cohesive sentence (provided you use headlines appropriately)

AMD kicked serious ass with it's Cinema 2.0 announcement here, here and here
'eye-definition'. I agree with that. They rode a stonking rocket ship across the uncanny valley with one of the images. I'm shocked as to how good the CG is. Think about the future of cinema, with digital actors, the director could puppeteer.
Yes, I know, I'm late to the party on this one, but better late than never, right?

Speaking of CGI, China faked it! The opening ceremony was a sham! They duped us on the fireworks, and they duped us on the 'cuteness' of the little girl. WTF?!?!? Damn you, China!

summer up by better writers:

Greetings, roundeyes.  The People's Republic of China hopes that you are enjoying this most thoroughly authentic of Olympic experiences.  We're very proud of our most perfect fireworks in the clear Beijing sky, the beautiful little girl who sang our national anthem, our team of 16-year-old gold medalist gymnasts, and our rich ethnic history displayed in the opening ceremonies.

[The children] were dressed in costumes associated with the country's ethnic minorities, including those from troubled areas such as Tibet and the muslim province of Xinjiang... But the children were all from the Han Chinese majority, which makes up more than 90 per cent of the population and is culturally and politically dominant, according to an official with the cultural troupe from which they were selected...

The official guide to the opening ceremony said that the children did not just represent but "came from" China's ethnic groups. "Fifty-six children from 56 Chinese ethnic groups cluster around the Chinese national flag, representing the 56 ethnic groups," it said.

Yeah, apparently this is tradition in China.  Non-minorities dressing in the minorities' traditional garb as a way to "honor" the culture.  We have that in America, too.  It's called "blackface."
from withleather - china faked it
more here:it's good to know that the Chinese girls all have valid passports saying they have valid ages. The only way they could get their ages faked would be if an iron-fisted communist government hellbent on Olympic domination deliberately altered their birthdays on official documents. Thank God there's no way that could happen."
And here.

I bet correctly this time:
http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/364235972/
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/consoles-in-the-home-theater-the-game-has-changed/
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/06/sonys-playstation-3-gets-re-reviewed-blu-ray-abilities-smiled/
Dad wanted HD, we got it.

Criterion Collection philes know the score: DVIGear HDMI cable

speaking of HDMI, I was shopping around for one yesterday, and some dou--er, dude from Dick Smith Powerhouse tried to sell me a $300 cable. WTF??!? I was like, 'psssh, yeah, I'll have a look around...' Trying to sell me a $300 cable. What an asshat. This v. helpful bro from JB (Pitt St, not Galleries Victoria [GVJB]--they've gone down in quality HEAPS!) gave me a sincere opinion of HDMI cables. For once an honest answer. Thank God!

eat this, Monster Cables: http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/03/audiophiles-cant-tell-the-difference-between-monster-cable-and/
http://www.gizmorepublic.com/accessories/monster-hdmi-cable-scam-830
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/

More on the GVJB staff: All the guys and girls that work there: they're in some kind of hubris--they think they're too cool to serve or something and just act all detached and bored all the time. What a bunch of emo-fashionista-fag-assholes! One dude even tossed me my purchases like 'meh, whatever, I'm emo, I don't care'. Dude, do not throw stuff I just paid for! I used to think highly of GVJB but now that an alternative has opened up, with great service, I no longer need them.

Exceptions to the rule: the bald guy w/ glasses who actually serves people, the skull-rag wearing urban style dude who's actually helpful and that girl who served me when I bought John Safran's Music Jamboree DVD (she knows who she is). BTW, Chatswood Westfield's JB: staff are very good.

dance floor visualisation http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/13/video-sensacells-interactive-floor-shows-trail-of-led-footprin/

polygon lamps
http://www.curbly.com/DIY-Maven/posts/2944-How-to-Build-a-Polygon-Lamp-Shade

designer DIY lamps
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/05/24/icff-2007-emulator-battery-lamps/


mole surfing game
http://www.addictinggames.com/dangerousdavebrutalbob.html

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⇒ a dull boy...

read:

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/03/design-a-fallout-3-perk-win-notoriety-and-gaming-gear/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/03/joystiq-hands-on-gears-of-war-pc/
yessh! don't need a xbocks 360 to play the hotness...

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/02/a-galaxy-of-mario-galaxy-videos/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/post-a-phone-the-no-frills-mailable-landline/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/diy-wooden-keyboard-kit-brings-out-the-carpenter-in-you/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/artificial-corneas-could-save-eyesight/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/the-solar-trees-of-vienna-a-lovegrove-if-you-will/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/04/april-fools-8-bit-tie-now-available/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/04/zero-punctuation-reviews-halo-3-hates-it/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/05/todays-trickiest-warthog-jump-video-halo-the-three-towers-re/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/04/gametap-thursday-agent-47-causes-an-emergency/


http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/uruguay-reportedly-set-to-buy-100-000-olpc-xo-laptops/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/mit-conjures-up-algorithm-for-neural-prosthetic-device/

all work and no play...

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⇒ link link link

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/26/tgs-hands-on-patapon/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/26/behold-the-gorgeous-metroid-wii-mod/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/26/researchers-tout-advances-in-development-of-pure-white-leds/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/26/gateways-one-all-in-one-desktop-breaks-cover/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/26/the-urballoon-art-installation-has-a-message-for-you/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/26/psp-2000-hits-300-000-sales-in-japan/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/26/final-fantasy-retrospective-part-x/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/26/uk-town-demonstrates-driverless-car/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/26/diesel-offers-up-duo-of-oled-packin-watches/
http://technabob.com/blog/2007/09/25/diesel-watches-go-oled/
http://www.dieselwatchexpress.com/index.php/action/item/id/231

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⇒ motions

i posit a theory about the recent spate of emptyness in my life: every day I go through the exact same motions as the day before and the day after--it's not that I want unpredictability, but I don't want to be grinding out an existence. Sure, not knowing what's around the corner is scary, but I'm barely alive as it is...

cranberry orange scones http://www.slashfood.com/2007/09/14/easy-cranberry-orange-scones/
http://www.thesimpsonsshop.com/index.php?v=simfanart
http://www.thesimpsonsshop.com/index.php?v=simfanpapbks
http://www.thesimpsonsshop.com/detail.php?p=22985&v=simfanpapbks
http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/archive/2006/6/16
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/weave-mirror-neglects-glass-stuns-onlookers/

HP launches new PCs--pretty but nothin new...

btw, the post? I feel like "i'm just goin through the..."

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⇒ squash, swim, sauna

went to squash today--was hour and half late--and won only 1 match. oh well...

also went to pool and sauna today--I used the FREE PASS for the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre in Ultimo. Quite nice, because the place is so new. But then again, a pool is a pool...and it's nothing extra special. I stayed in the sauna/steam room for about half hour...I'm not sure, the time passed without me really checking. I was bored as in there--all you do is sit there...Next time, bring: magazine or person to talk to. Nice scent in there though, a firm, steamed wood eucalyptus smell with touch of burnt.

While swimming, the sky got darker, and being an indoor pool, the cover was partially glass. Combining the two, I watched myself swim in the ceiling (sculling)...it's quite a thing to see...it's like watching yourself floating in space-kind of surreal.

Picked up some cushions for my seating comfort today. They were on the cheap--35% orff!

other stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suo_G%C3%A2n
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/german-physiks-loreley-mk-ii-does-360-degree-sound/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/wacom-shipping-bamboo-tablets-in-the-us/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/14/laser-fire-extinguisher-simulator-threatens-arsonists-livelihoo/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/14/revolymer-develops-new-non-stick-chewing-gum/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/14/desktop-factorys-cheapo-3d-printer-is-coming/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/14/panasonic-lumix-dmc-fx55-reviewed/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/14/interactive-nightclub-to-thrill-londoners/

http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/420/ask_the_experts_the_advantages_.php
http://hijinksensue.com/2007/09/13/westwood-college-tightening-up-the-graphics-on-level-3-since-1953/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/14/hd-video-robots-robots-robots-and-other-stuff-at-nextfest-2007/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/100-olpc-xo-1-to-cost-at-least-188-over-200-in-uruguay/
http://www.upress.umn.edu/blog/DigitalCultBlog.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_the_English_language#Place_names
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_Alph-Art

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/16/todays-seriously-32-player-wii-fps-medal-of-honor-heroes-2/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/15/weekly-webcomic-wrapup-diy-omegathon-edition/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin

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⇒ stuff

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/05/todays-most-precious-video-street-fighter-marisa-style/

this attractive faux-crescent moon can be yours!

from http://www.styledash.com/2007/08/04/light-up-your-room-with-a-personal-moon/

Three Laws of Ugobe Life Forms (as follows).

* A (robot) life form must feel and convey emotions
* A (robot) life form must be aware of itself and its environment
* A (robot) life form must learn, develop, evolve over time
from http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/04/ugobe-defines-its-own-three-laws-dooms-us-all-to-future-of-robo/
sounds like Ugobe are making sissybots kekekekekekekekekekeke. Enough of this touchy feely crap, where are the kknd rules?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/04/how-to-repurpose-your-inevitably-broken-aiwa-bookshelf-system/

woot! hot new id software game. utilizes their new engine. so pretty...kinda looks like Mad Max: the FPS
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/03/id-software-dubs-new-game-rage/


more http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/03/new-starcraft-ii-screens-make-us-go-whats-that/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/04/lanner-rolls-out-four-bay-ns04-3100-nas-server/

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⇒ friday

http://www.gravitation3d.com/magiccube5d/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_algorithm

http://www.completealbumlyrics.com/lyric/131082/Diddy+-+Last+Night.html

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php
http://wrongway.org/cube/solve.html

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/ask-engadget-best-digital-camera-for-the-price/#comments

http://www.craveonline.com/filmtv/videos/00005301/futurama__comic_con_teaser.html

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4365
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/apple-patent-attack-the-multi-touch-gesture-dictionary/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/deep-brain-electrical-stimulation-brings-man-out-of-vegetative-s/
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/02/remove-corrupt-configuration-data-with-windows-installer-cleanup/
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/02/copyright-documentary-released-as-a-free-bittorrent-download/
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/02/anymails-what-your-sorted-email-would-look-like-swimming-in-a-p/
http://carohorn.de/anymails/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/02/marathon-durandals-bonus-feature-motion-sickness/


i swear that dude from Lost's 'Dharma initiative' videos looks, sounds and personifies (except for green skin) Kif Croker from Futurama perfectly. Think about it next time you see him...

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