I think Guitar Hero is fun, I’ve played it, but I’d rather not play the game, since you don’t actually learn to play the guitar. After watching the latest episode of dl.tv I found out about the upcoming game Guitar Rising, where you will be able to plug in a REAL guitar into a computer’s microphone port and see different frets onscreen and you can learn to play the guitar while you play the game.
I can’t wait until this game comes out… I may even buy a guitar if the game is as good as it looks.
I love film, but I usually only get to see mainstream movies. This week, thanks to Boing Boing TV, I was able to watch this short film called Food Fight, a film by Stefan Nadelman and presented by Tourist Pictures which starts with World War II and essentially reenacts all the major wars since then… using food to represent the countries involved in the conflicts.
The film is a lot of fun and it is done very well. Check it out.
Back when the teaser came out I had high hopes for the new Get Smart movie and after seeing the new hd trailer that was released through Apple Trailers, I think I’m really going to enjoy this movie. It looks like a great combination of a funny movie and a film that is willing to make fun of itself as well.
Remeber the game Doom? I used to spend HOURS with this game, but I completely forgot just how powerful some of the weapons in the game were. At the risk of being Rick Rolled, check out the great video below, it’s only 31 seconds and it’s hilarious!
An interesting trailer was released this week for the latest M. Night Shyamalan movie, The Happening. This is the most interesting looking movie from M. Night Shyamalan since Unbreakable, which was also the last M. Night Shyamalan movie that I saw, that I enjoyed. I didn’t like Signs or The Village and I haven’t seen Lady in the Water, if someone thinks I should see Lady in the Water, leave a comment about it, I just never found a reason to see it. We know that something is killing whole swaths of people, but what that is, we are in the dark about.
If you like to watch videos so annoying that they can cause you physical harm (sound familiar Seán?), then watch this clip, which is from an episode of Wife Swap of Alicia Guastaferro, who is probably the most spoiled girl in the world. I can’t fully blame her though, since her parents pretty much raised her to the most beautiful girl in whatever town she’s from, but at the same time, spoiled, vapid, talentless helpless and useless.
It has been a while since I posted, so I figured I’d catch up on something I haven’t done in a while and what’s better than catching up with new movie trailers you might have missed?
The second trailer is the upcoming Stephen Chow film which he directs and stars in called CJ7. The film isn’t being released here in the US until March 7th, 2008, but if you visit China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand or Australia, then you probably know that it has already been released. This is a film about a father who wants to get his son a great toy, but can’t afford the latest toy, he stumbles upon a weird alien thing that ends up WAY cooler than the toy his son originally wanted. This is a movie that looks both like a wild and weird ride. Get the HD trailer here also from Apple. After seeing Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, I realize this is a movie I’m excited about.
I know that NO ONE wants to back up their data. If anyone has to remember to do it and it is harder than brainless, people just are not going to do it. I know this and even I don’t back up my data like I should. I will usually keep a copy of important documents saved onto my portable usb flash drive and maybe also on a second computer, but I definitely do NOT keep those files backed up and updated regularly. I also don’t really want to pay much money to backup my data (I know I’m cheap but it has served me well thus far).
After a bit of searching I found Xdrive. It used to be a tiny company… until AOLbought them. Xdrive offers 5 gigs of free automated online storage. Let me repeat that, in case you thought you read that wrong. You can get, for FREE, 5 gigabytes of online storage! That’s more space then most people buy when they get usb flash drives! To sign up, you can use your AIM screen name, AOL email account or if you don’t have either of these already, you can just sign up for a free AOL Mail or AOL Instant Message account. At this very moment, I’m uploading almost 800 megabytes of data to start out. If you need more than 5 gigs of storage though, maybe for a large music collection or even a modest video collection (maybe you want to back up all those movies or tv shows on that iPod), this is probably not the service for you. You can upgrade to their paid service: 50 gigs of storage for a little under $10 per month.
Instead of doing that though, I’d recommend using one of the more flexible online backup services. Carbonite (unlimited storage space for less than $50 per year, less than $90 total when you sign up for two years), Mozy (another unlimited storage service, for less than $5 per month for each computer you want to back up, less than $105 per computer if you sign up for 2 years), Amazon’s S3 (more of an a la carte service, charging per month for storage and upload/download transfer rates) or Jungle Disk (which is based on Amazon S3, but also offers some extra services of their own).
Thanks to Xdrive for the above pic. This article was inspired by Leo Laporte. He is constantly promoting the idea of regularly backing up your data on the many shows on his TWIT Podcast Network.
I first heard about Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History (a podcast which is a great analysis of mainly 20th century history behind the history a lot of us know), a few months ago while listening to one of the many podcasts I subscribe to (I just can’t remember which one, but odds are, it was one of the shows on the TWIT Network, CNET or Revision3.
More recently, with the Presidential election in full swing I found his Common Sensepodcast and there, especially in his latest episode, he brings in how we should be looking at history (like the year 1979) in how it has shaped our current political landscape even though not too many other people are talking about that.
In a true sense of democracy, it is refreshing to listen to a well educated and thoughtful opinion that is a markedly different take on current political thought than the mainstream sources most of us use to get our news.
I have been voting in NYC since I turned 18 in 2001. I started out as an Independent, but in 2004 I switched to becoming a Democrat (and voted absentee while at GWU) and since then I have voted in all elections and Democratic primaries. I went to vote tonight, but this time my name was not on the register rolls! I have voted at the same facility before, but for whatever reason, I seem to have been dropped from the computer generated pollbook. So they gave me an Affidavit Ballot, I filled it out and gave it to them, I also filled out a voter registrationform to reaffirm my affiliation with the Democratic party and mailed that in after I left the voting facility.
I was so excited to vote today… I know it’s not quite the same thing, but I can’t help but feel, at least somewhat disenfranchised. While I know my vote does count, it feels like it just doesn’t count as much as it could have if I had been able to pull that lever and know that they would record my vote right then and there inside that voting booth.
I heard about Glassbooth.org from CNET Live, episode 38, where one of the founders was interviewed and he talked about how the site allows people to see how their political views stack up with the candidates running for President in 2008.
I checked it out and oddly enough, when I tried it myself, I seemed to match up best with Mike Gravel. I ended up voting for Hillary Clinton here in NYC despite that though. I wasn’t going to vote for Gravel today, even if he was still on the ballot. Check out the site, it’s interesting and fun if you have a few minutes.
I promised a friend that I would find this clip for her. It has been over 10 years since this ad first aired, but this Snickers ad with Gheorghe Muresan is still hilarious! I wish their current ads were as funny as this one.
Barely Political (podcast, also available via iTunes) got on my radar after their Obama Girl music video spread virally across the internet and this newer video they came out with is a great spoof of Batman using all the major Presidential candidates as the mainstay characters, called Primary Knight.
The game was low scoring, but back and forth the entire time. The Pats played a good game, but the Giants‘ defense, with all the sacks and knockdowns of Tom Brady was just too much and they ended up with one of the biggest upsets in recent Superbowl history.
As I’m writing this, I can hear the celebrators at the local bars down the street, as well as all the truckers celebrating with horns blaring as they drive down the street. The office is going to be interesting tomorrow.
I just hope that with the parade for the Giants scheduled for (Super) Tuesday, that it does not lower voter turnout. I think it could hurt turnout for a candidate like Obama. I’m not voting for him, but it would be too bad if the Superbowl hurt his chances here in NY.
Mahalo Daily is a daily video show that is usually devoted to technology tips and tricks or for interviews of interesting people in tech, but over the past few days they have created abbreviated, 1 minute versions of the most recent Republican and Democratic debates at the end of January 2007 before Super Tuesday (February 5th). The video at the top of the page though is a hilarious compilation of the Republican debate, keeping track of who was able to invoke Ronald Reagan’s name the most during that debate. As a slight spoiler, if the debate had been followed Candymanrules, most of the candidates would have brought Reagan back from the grave!
Enjoy the rest of the debate videos below
Dany
Republican Debate in 60 Seconds
2008 Democratic Debate (in 60 Seconds)
Democratic Debate 2008 Hillary and Obama Love Fest
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