Vocera Communications have an internal communication system working at their office that functions like the badge communicators from ST:TNG. The employees wear the system as a badge and touch it to start the connection. Then they speak the name of the person they want to talk to and the system connects them using VOIP for one-on-one communication
Yes Strong Bads 100th email is truly an acheivement worthy of widescreen WOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
Also contained in this momentous e-mail is how Strong Bad and Homestar Runner met and the birth of The Cheat. Stick around after Strong Bad says ’email’ 100 times and see well wishes from Marzipan, Homestar, Ye Olde Strong Bad, freaky Strong Bad and Limozeen!
Chiko Space Cadet could possibly be made into a tv cartoon series. Woo hoo!
You can check out some more info on characters and plot background.
Like Scary Girl, Chiko has a feline sidekick, Minkie, who is orange and has a screwdriver that comes out of it’s chest.
Let’s hope Chiko and Minkie out of red tape land soon.
The Exorcist in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies
‘Nuff said. Nothing sounds funnier than having the phrase the power of christ compels you
said over and over again in a helium bunny voice.
Cunningham MP Michael Organ has written to the board of directors of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation seeking an assurance that its Radio National network won’t be closed down
The Douglas Adams Media Archive is a collection of MP3s of the late author reading his books
Borders is the latest traditional bookseller or publisher to branch into self-publishing using print-on-demand technology
Neon Genesis Evangelion – Resurrection: Director’s Cut will be released on the 16th March. This DVD will contain episodes 21-23 in both director’s cut and original broadcast versions.
Ok, question: why couldn’t they put the director’s cut versions on the original DVD releases? Isn’t this one of the great things about the DVD format, you know chocking it up with extra bits? Surely they could’ve at least released it with the box set!
GRRRRR!!!
I am guessing it’s something to do with getting permission to do so, and money, and knowing they’re are many Neon Genesis suckas out there, and blah blah blah!
Well I’m a sucka. I’ll be one of those people buying it in the next week or two along with the final and 4th Futurama series box set.
Xor’Arch at the CaseJunkies forums has made a case mod of a Borg Cube based on a Via EPIA-M platform. The project took nine months and used about 60m of steel wire, and 1.5m² cardboard
Submitted to Slashdot, but you’ll probably only read it here 🙂 Gaming rumours site CVG is reporting that the the black and white buttons will be removed from the Xbox 2 controller. This would seem to support the reports of no backwards compatibility in Xbox 2. The site also has some interesting PS3 controller rumours: wireless control as standard, and a dedicated ‘trigger’ button for FPS games (in addition to the existing shoulder buttons).
ShittyRail is a spoof site on CityRail and it’s pretty funny as the home page indicates:
The ShittyRail network helps you arrive fashionably late at your destination…
Lucky me, I missed the LiveJournal comment spamming campaign to promote Mel Gibson’s dodgy vanity pic. The poorly thought out spamming campaign pissed off a lot of LiveJournal users, including reddragdiva, who has posted a googlebomb countermeasure using the same wording as the original spam:
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/"> The Passion of The Christ </a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/"> Trailers </a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/"> Good Website </a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/"> Protesting Gibson's Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy </a>.
The Passion of The Christ. Trailers. Good Website. Protesting Gibson’s Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy.
Enjoy — via Pagan Prattle
A new game category has been added to the blog, so I thought it very fitting to post a link to this Strong Bad email, complete with some flash games at the end featuring everyone’s favourite sexy mexican wrestling mask clad guy — Strong Bad.
If you don’t who Strong Bad is, than your are seriously missing out and I pity you in tremendous amounts. You also need a recent flash player and to check out the rest of homestarrunner.com. There are also other games worthy of playing in the games section, such as Trogdor the Burninator!, awxome cross and population: tire.
Found a pair of wacky Harry Potter flash animations. Bothering Snape and Trouble At Hogwarts. Most amusing.
There’s a LiveJournal Community for updates to the series and info on the t-shirts.
Grow is a strange little Rube Goldberg-like game where you try to determine the order in which to drag various items into the middle. Each time you drag an item, the items you’ve already placed grow and interact with each other. The goal is to drag all the items in the right sequence to advance them all to their maximum levels. The maximum score is 20,000, I haven’t managed to get that far. There are quite a few possible sequences that do this, as well as some sequences that don’t reach the maximum but do produce fun effects
William Gibson discusses his tech life, the ad that inspired Neuromancer, and his latest book, Pattern Recognition. He says, Between my wife and daughter who still lives at home, I’m always the one with the slowest computer. I don’t find that being really up on all the latest tech ever does me any good
Aloysius, apparently sharing my love of penguins, has found another silly, yet addictive, Flash game where you throw snowballs at penguins. If you hit the penguins, they get embedded in the target and their little feet wiggle. Entertaining
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a great breakdown of why author manuscripts are rejected:
- Author is functionally illiterate.
- Author has submitted some variety of literature we don’t publish: poetry, religious revelation, political rant, illustrated fanfic, etc.
- Author has a serious neurochemical disorder, puts all important words into capital letters, and would type out to the margins if MSWord would let him.
- Author is on bad terms with the Muse of Language. Parts of speech are not what they should be. Confusion-of-motion problems inadvertently generate hideous images. Words are supplanted by their similar-sounding cousins: towed the line, deep-seeded, incentiary, reeking havoc, nearly penultimate, dire straights, viscous/vicious.
- Author can write basic sentences, but not string them together in any way that adds up to paragraphs.
- Author has a moderate neurochemical disorder and can’t tell when he or she has changed the subject. This greatly facilitates composition, but is hard on comprehension.
- Author can write passable paragraphs, and has a sufficiently functional plot that readers would notice if you shuffled the chapters into a different order. However, the story and the manner of its telling are alike hackneyed, dull, and pointless.
(At this point, you have eliminated 60-75% of your submissions. Almost all the reading-and-thinking time will be spent on the remaining fraction.)
- It’s nice that the author is working on his/her problems, but the process would be better served by seeing a shrink than by writing novels.
- Nobody but the author is ever going to care about this dull, flaccid, underperforming book.
- The book has an engaging plot. Trouble is, it’s not the author’s, and everybody’s already seen that movie/read that book/collected that comic.
(You have now eliminated 95-99% of the submissions.)
- Someone could publish this book, but we don’t see why it should be us.
- Author is talented, but has written the wrong book.
- It’s a good book, but the house isn’t going to get behind it, so if you buy it, it’ll just get lost in the shuffle.
- Buy this book.
There’s also a nice stab taken at the whiny authors who submit their rejection notices to RejectionCollection.com.
The music industry considers Michele Scimeca a pirate. The Morris County mom has her own term for record executives: Racketeers. In what legal experts described as a novel strategy, Scimeca is citing federal racketeering laws like the one that jailed mob boss John Gotti to counter-sue record labels that accused her in December of sharing some 1,400 copyrighted songs over the Internet
What do Gandalf and Magneto have in common? Both are played by Sir Ian McKellen. Both are figures of literature, one being a novel, the other being a comic book. And both have porn written about them. Slash fiction is a genre of stories written by fans about science fiction/fantasy characters in erotic situations. We know this because McKellen brought it up.
McKellen is like your dirty old grandpa, if your dirty old grandpa was British. He’ll make totally unexpected comments about pornography and sexuality.
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