⇒ 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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⇒ unacceptable

more than 1 in 2 xbox360s FAIL
click through for deluge of comments like "failure rate should be about 100%", etc, etc. (I'm paraphrasing). However this comment perfectly sums up my sentiments and reasons why I avoid xbox360:

"Sweatshopsammy @ Aug 17th 2009 8:09PM
I'll be the first one to say it:

what the fuck is wrong with you people? why are you taking this abuse of such shitty hardware? now its not to attack this comment specifically but if one was to read further into this comment thread the comments are fucking ridiculous. why are you proud you're on you're 3rd or 4th xbox 360? why arent you up in arms demanding a better product?

now i'm not saying everyone should dump their xboxs in favour of wii's or ps3's but for gods sake get angry! make microsoft know you won't take this bullshit. you're just giving them the excuse to release shitty pieces of equipment knowing full well every person with $200 - $300 bucks to spend will just scoop it up just becuase it plays "teh haloz"

xbox 360 has been out for how many years? not to mention the the speed of which modern technology develops, this shit shouldve been taken care of a year after the problems started but 54%? all that time and its still 54%?

why isn't there more outcry from the consumer?

all i hear is "lulz im on my 3rd 360" "im going to buy a 2nd one next month" are you serious? you bought a whole new 360, no discount or reparation from a company that knew it sold you a product with a 50% failure rate, is doing little to rectify the situation and you still handed a wad of fucking cash to them?

I will never understand the mindset of the modern consumer
fucking ridiculous"

The only games i want to play on that system are Gears of War 1 & 2, otherwise the failure rate and poor design decisions/corporate greed keep me away from the system.

Every single system I've ever owned has worked from day one till now. My Sega Master System 2 (with built-in Alex Kidd) still works, and this is 20+ years later, after 3 toddlers grew up playing it from day one!

All the systems of this generation are kind of 'meh' to me. Technically, we still haven't bought into one. Our PS3 came free with the TV. My dad was bent on getting a Sony Bravia so I took advantage of getting a console with it. We mostly use it to play DVDs and our single Blu-Ray movie (the Dark Knight).

That's another thing about Blu-Ray and why it sucks ballz: it's prohibitive. Only one system, attached with one HDMI cable to one HDTV can watch Blu-Ray, while every computer/dvd player in the house attached to any other screen/TV can playback DVDs.

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⇒ games and tennis

interesting reads about the video-games industry:
http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/jake_inside_source_reveal_the_truth_about_xbox_360_red_ring_of_death_failures.php
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-07-11/news/testing-video-games-can-t-possibly-be-harder-than-an-afternoon-with-xbox-right.php

these are articles about the failure rate of XBox360 and the console's development. The latter is about what it's really like to be a games tester.

In AusOpen2008 news:
Djokovic > Hewitt > Baghdatis > Safin

while Federer straight-sets Berdych (aka Beck)
Kohlschreiber (Spider-man's landlord) downed by Niemenen (sp?)

download N here. It's a game. Free. With Ninjas.

I like turtles

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⇒ computer politics and wacom, buy it...

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http://www.buywacom.com.au/products.cfm?fullID=C26BE8D6-3FFF-A1E6-845A43064094E6BD&ID=22
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http://www.buywacom.com.au/products.cfm?ID=35
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http://www.wacom.com.au/casestudy/index_creative.html#anime

desc9186 blog about thx 1136(?), code 46, cia surveillance and the recent computer crashes mirroring die hard 4

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934435.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/16/pianist-recreates-entire-majoras-mask-soundtrack/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/core-2-duo-mac-mini-gets-tested/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/network-card-crash-leaves-17-000-stranded-at-lax/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/keepon-dancing-robot-featured-in-spoons-latest-music-video/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/16/madden-08-xbox-360-vs-ps3-comparison-video/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/robotic-cucumber-hand-freaks-out-party-goers/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/back-to-school-shopping-dont-forget-the-bulletproof-backpacks/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/15/philips-to-launch-ambilight-successor-aurea/

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⇒ video day: donnie yen edition

(break: w2d7-->days on break: 20)



tiger cage 2



kung-fu bike tennis!

donnie vs. JC (twins effect 2) | mistmatched couples scene 1 Donnie used to be all goofy. Who knew? Now he's full-time badass. | mismatched couples scene 3 | SPL triple kick | mismatched couples opening scene |

console launch averages | list of 100 whatevers | Public domain Bram Stoker. YES! | xbox360-ps3 comparison | kenwood's 10GB DAP. need babelfish | the Best Worst game ads from 1UP.com part1 | part2 | part3

haven't posted in sometime because...what have i been up to? nothing really. no really, i just stay at home most of the time, wallowing in something. I watch a fair amount of telly now (upto 5hrs a day). Bought that gym and swim membership for 3 months. I intend to average the price down to about $3 per visit...more as it happens.

final vid: fun xbox360 ad. *,*

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