Video Games Versus Violence
For the record, blaming video games for violence is like blaming Islam for terrorism.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Video Games Versus Violence
Saw this interesting image on Digg today. Not sure about the credibility of the source, but a good way of seeing how you can make statistics show whatever you want.
Video Games Versus Violence
For the record, blaming video games for violence is like blaming Islam for terrorism.
Video Games Versus Violence
For the record, blaming video games for violence is like blaming Islam for terrorism.
Sunday, 6 April 2008
New style MacBook and MacBook Pros coming "soon"
According to AppleInsider the current incarnation of Macbooks and Macbook Pros will be the last before a major design realignment towards current iMac and Macbook Air styling. The new notebooks are rumoured to hit after June of this year. With the new 3G iphone rumoured to be coming in the next 60 days and iMac upgrades on the horizon, 2008 is looking like an exciting year for Apple.
Wasn't sure to tag this under cool or not seeing as I bought my MacBook in October 2007 and it was already obselete by the time I got it home in the car. An entirely new version hitting less than 12 months after my hefty purchase isn't what I'd describe as cool. This despite the "internal refresh" that occured when Leopard released about a week after I got mine. Oh well, that's what the Macrumors buyer's guide is for. Go my AAPL stock!
Apple notebook lines to see major design changes, sources say
Saturday, 5 April 2008
COOLEST. SHIT. EVER.
Maybe once a year, the internet throws up something that is so cool, so incredibly amazing, that you sit back in silent awe. As a young child working out that I would turn 13 in The Year 2000, I wondered what kind of futuristic madness might be available by the end of the first decade. I could never have imagined this.
Behold:
Unlike a standard speaker that uses magnets/paper/plastic etc, this plasma speaker uses the non-gas, non-liquid, non-solid, "fourth state of matter" plasma to create compression waves. The pitch is altered by the constantly shifting intensity of the plasma arc at a frequency response range at 200Hz to 12kHz.
When asked if he ever considered selling his device the creator replied, "A lot of work to do before I could consider selling - the safety aspect for starters..." Fair enough, considering that the universe will be destroyed if two of the plasma speaker beams cross. Yes. Ghostbusters was scientific fact.
Plasma Speaker / Singing Arc - FM Modulated Prototype
Behold:
Unlike a standard speaker that uses magnets/paper/plastic etc, this plasma speaker uses the non-gas, non-liquid, non-solid, "fourth state of matter" plasma to create compression waves. The pitch is altered by the constantly shifting intensity of the plasma arc at a frequency response range at 200Hz to 12kHz.
When asked if he ever considered selling his device the creator replied, "A lot of work to do before I could consider selling - the safety aspect for starters..." Fair enough, considering that the universe will be destroyed if two of the plasma speaker beams cross. Yes. Ghostbusters was scientific fact.
Plasma Speaker / Singing Arc - FM Modulated Prototype
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Steve Jobs wants music subscriptions
Read an interesting article from Valleywag explaining why Steve Jobs wants to change the model for music downloads. He wants to offer ipod users/buyers unlimited downloads for an extra $20-$100. I think this is a genius idea and if implemented could really give Apple complete dominance over the music download market as well as locking people into buying ipods. Bit worried about how much power this gives Apple though...Check out the article here.
Also read on Coed Magazine that Facebook is going to introduce Facebook chat. This could be a masterstroke if they do pull it off, but for some reason this makes me less inclined to use Facebook. It's bad enough logging in and having to deal with a million messages when you shouldn't really be wasting time on it in the first place. Add the extra layer of annoyance when someone pops up trying to chat with you. I hope they offer it as an application that you can opt out of. The reliability of this is in question though since the article claimed this would happen in the next two weeks and two weeks later there's been nothing. Read the article here.
Saturday, 22 March 2008
When Viral Videos Go Bad
Updates are likely to be few and far between seeing as I am locking myself away in preparation for Finals. Here's more Human Giant goodness:
MTV - Human Giant - Viral Videos
MTV - Human Giant - Viral Videos
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Sunday Afternoon
This site has basically become a funny video posts site since they're the only post I have time to do these days. Enjoy more Jon La Joie:
Sunday Afternoon on FunnyOrDie.com
Sunday Afternoon on FunnyOrDie.com
Friday, 14 March 2008
Human Giant is amazing
Yes. It has been a while since my last post. Been absolutely swamped with coursework, preparing for uni exams, and sorting out a job for this summer. But that matters not because nobody reads this site anyway. Here's another funny video:
Absolute genius. Expect more of this in the coming days.
Will Arnett - Human Giant Sex Tape
Absolute genius. Expect more of this in the coming days.
Will Arnett - Human Giant Sex Tape
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