This is an OLD video, but I still enjoy it! Lemon Demon and Trapezoid have made a lot of cool stuff together, and I can't wait for the next cartoon to come out (whatever that may be...).
Yes, that title was over-the-top. Being the only Wiiaddict here at Shiznas, I feel compelled to report on this stuff.
I've always thought that well-done graffiti helps to brighten things up. My town is a common stop for a lot of freight trains, so I see a lot of tags from around the country that are far more impressive than the crap on the walls here that people attribute to "gangs".
I am using an ASUS T3-M2NC51PV and it has been a great little computer until recently. The USB died on it and it killed the card readers with it (same internal device). I have already tried throwing on different versions of Linux on a live CD and it doesn't do anything to remedy the situation. I have yet to strip this thing down to the bare essentials to see if I can spot a problem, but I doubt I will find anything. Both the front and the rear connections are down so it can't be the funny little card on the front came undone (it is screwed in, after all!). I haven't been able to try updating the BIOS either, ASUS is not giving me any help with how to do this under Linux. ASUS hasn't supported me on another one of my purchases as well so I have lost my confidence in the company. While I love their products, their support is even worse than Sony has been for me(!).
Don't get me wrong, I own an iBook and there are a couple of iPods running around my house, but I just don't like the iPhone. Neutered version of Leopard, stuck with proprietary apps, and a rather small hard drive means it will make either a great MP3 player or a decent PDA.
This story is all over the internet, but it's not on our blog yet!
The word "Ewwe" has been used in the past on this blog and this was the example I was waiting for to define it:A 27-year-old white supremacist was alone in an examination room with a 60-year-old corrections officer when he grabbed the cop's gun, fatally shot him in the head and escaped Monday morning, police said.I don't know whether to be relieved that it isn't just Idaho that breeds these assholes but a few other places as well.
There is an apparent meme among the Russian VDV and breaking shit on their heads. First there was the guy that broke 24 beer bottles over his head and fell asleep, as well as reports of them breaking bricks (!) over their heads. Well, now we have photographic proof of these "bricks". From Red-Army-Family:Whether you tried sometime to break a brick a hand or a head? And meanwhile, that favourite representation of commandoes on holidays. It very much is pleasant to spectators.There you have it.
Also liked hands break boards and break bottles. Whether there is here any secret? Perhaps, at them especially strong heads?
The secret is. It consists that practically everyone men has enough force to break a brick. And the secret consists in not were afraid to strike. It is necessary to concentrate not on an obstacle, and that is behind it.
Probably, in life always so: if you want to earn one million - you should aspire to earn 10 million. (sic)
EnglishRussia posted this photoset of home-brew "land torpedoes" that Russian soldiers made during the second world war. They were made out of wood and TNT...
Yeah, somebody who speaks in the third person and thinks he is Dolph Lundgren said that Windows XP is the best operating system ever. This at first led me to believe the whole thing is a joke, but the tattoo image above leaves me wondering. Somebody decided they wanted a picture of Tux the Penguin dead on their arm for the rest of their life.THE DOLPH RECALLS.
Some fifteen years ago, before Free Software was Open Source, and before the release of the best operating system ever, Windows XP *, even before the release of the pityful Windows 95, a couple of hundred twenty-something basement hackers were aiming for WORLD DOMINATION with an even more pityful concept of a command-line, white-on-black terminal operating system: Linux.
(* This is not to say Windows XP can't be improved. Unfortunately, Microsoft has decided making it worse and calling it Windows Vista is a better approach. Go figure.)
VS messaged me about 14 separate times this morning about this guy, wanting to know more about him. I am now proudly standing up and saying, "fuck you diarrhea! I'm seizing the day!"He started audiocafe.com in 1997 with funding from Intel and SAP, but it closed in 18 months, earning him a place in the Fucked Company Hall of Fame.[3][4]That's right, he was a failed dot-com exec. He worked on some other projects later, but AudioCafe stands out in my mind from a few years back. However, contrary to the thesis of his book, it was not mass-collaboration but an even bigger corporation that probably destroyed AudioCafe; Amazon.com. AudioCafe sold high-end audio equipment which is usually firmly in the court of Amazon and a few other tight-fisted retail sites. It was pure rat-race capitalism that destroyed his business, not the Digg mafia.
The crazy utopian of the World is Flat, has finally sniffed reality. Tom Friedman, praise the lord, has finally become a skeptic of all this web democracy.We've all acquired dog's hearing, he told us. Which means that we've become acutely sensitive to information about ourselves. Everything is personal is the global information age. It's democratic narcissism, Google style. Friedman borrowed Linda Stone's notion of "continuous partial attention" to explain our descent into this canine inaninity. The only thing we can concentrate on is what other people are saying about us. What Friedman once saw as a flat world has acquired a billion inaccessible peaks.
The climax of Friedman's talk focused on the flattening of truth and fiction on the Internet. He told the story of Muslim woman in the Middle East who was against Al Gore because he was Jewish. When he tried to correct her, she refused to believe him:
"But I read it on the Internet," she insisted.
Friedman has got the species right, but the body part wrong. It's not dog's hearing that we've acquired -- but a canine soul. I read it on the Internet has become the equivalent of a dog's faith in their master's voice.
Wow. I do see a couple of problems here. The first assumption that Andrew makes is that the internet takes over people's minds and makes them into agenda-gobbling zombies. The second assumption that he makes is that the internet turns people's minds off. I know for a fact that there is an overabundance of people on the Internet who do not fact-check information, do not understand what they are reading or simply don't care. For these folks, I want to say the Internet is not at fault. A tool cannot be blamed for the way it was used, the NRA has overemphasized that point for us on many occasions. In the case for the woman cited above, arguing that Gore was Jewish, Keen makes the false assumption that there was no other cause for her ignorance than the Internet. Could it have been her culture that emphasized distrust of Western media? Could it be that she didn't like Gore anyway and it was easy for her to identify with the one guy that said "lol gores a jew"? Keen cannot be certain.
This may as well be an Altair, because it is before my time, but I still enjoy reviving old electronics. From Symlink.dk:This all started when some friends from Press Play on Tape (the Commodore 64 Revival Band) asked if I could help them create a special input-device for controlling their stage show (mostly a laptop controlling a video projector). They would like to have an old-style C64 (breadbox) on stage, and being able to control their stage show with it. My first idea was to use the keyboard controller I have been working on for my MAME cabinet SpiffMAME. This implements the PS/2 keyboard protocol by bit-banging in an Atmel AVR microcontroller. Unfortunately it is not finished yet, but I promise I will make a page about it when it is done. It turned out that PPOT were not too keen on a PS/2 device, since the laptop they use does not have a PS/2 port.I dig the rat's nest of wires behind the keyboard.
Alex is feeling a bit under-the-weather today so I'll present a few links to stuff I found around the web.This is quite a milestone for the EFF maybe they can hit another home run for us.Update On 6/18/07: Sixth Circuit issues opinion upholding district court's injunction against secret warrantless seizures of email
In Warshak v. USA, EFF is fighting to make sure that your email is as safe against government intrusion as your phone calls, postal mail, or the private papers you keep in your home.
This case was brought by Steven Warshak to stop the government's repeated secret searches and seizures of his stored email using the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA). In a landmark ruling, the district court held that the SCA violates the Fourth Amendment by allowing secret, warrantless searches and seizures of email stored with a third party.
The government, which has routinely used the SCA over the past 20 years to secretly obtain stored email without a warrant, appealed the decision to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That court is now primed to be the first circuit court ever to decide whether email users have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their stored email.
In a friend-of-the-court brief, EFF and a coalition of civil liberties groups argue in support of the district court's ruling. Email users clearly expect that their inboxes are private, but the government argues the Fourth Amendment doesn't protect emails at all when they are stored with an ISP or a webmail provider like Hotmail or Gmail. EFF disagrees and argues that the Fourth Amendment applies online just as strongly as it does offline.
Drunk Russian Paratrooper Breaks 24 Bottles Over His Head and Falls Asleep
Created: 26.04.2006 16:22 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:22 MSK
MosNews
At his birthday party, a paratrooper from St. Petersburg, fresh home from his 2 years of military service, broke 24 bottles against his head before sinking to the floor in a drunken stupor.
The young man had served in the Russian Air Force, considered the army elite, the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily said Wednesday. He was having a birthday party with friends, when one of the guests asked whether he thought he could break a brick over his head.
The young man, annoyed by the doubt thrown on his abilities, made a bet for a box of vodka that he could, before setting off to look for a brick. However, finding no there were bricks in his apartment, he went for the next best thing — empty beer bottles.
He was breaking the 24th bottle, much to the delight of the guests, when he suddenly fell to the floor unconscious. The guests, afraid that he had killed himself, left the apartment, leaving the unconscious paratrooper on the floor where he was discovered the next morning by his parents.
The parents took the young man to hospital, where doctors said he was deep in a drunken sleep. Apart from alcoholic intoxication, the doctors found a number of bruises to the head and a concussion.
When the man regained consciousness, he refused to stay in hospital for further treatment and left as soon as he could.
I done went and bought it. I have to say, in the face of all the negative reviews, there are some real positive points for the game. The mini-games (aren't these the point of the game?) are incredibly fun. The Wiimote replaces button-mashing with wanking a glossy white remote. The non-mashing, or else randomized, games are innovative as well. My favorite are the cheesy racing games. The steering with the Wiimote makes driving a go-kart a heck of a lot more fun than the analog stick.
[Tom Rubnitz was] a quintessential New York underground film/video artiste, the late Tom Rubnitz took a bite out of the Big Apple and spat it out in a wild kaleidoscope of unequivocal camp and hallucinogenic color. Ann Magnuson, the B-52s, The "Lady" Bunny, and the late John Sex are but a few of the stars that shine oh-so-brightly in Rubnitz's glittering oeuvre. A genre artist par excellence, Rubnitz treated the sexy-druggy-wiggy-luscious-desserty qualities of the '80s downtown club scene with the loving care only a true hedonist could show. Rubnitz died from an AIDS-related illness in 1992.Taken from Video Data Bank
