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Information you have no need for. Ever. Usually about me, but possibly about other trivial crap in the world.
All airlines would be required to have a certain minimum percentage of passengers carrying firearms on the plane before being allowed to take off. With this precaution in place, other passengers would no longer be denied the opportunity to carry such dangerous objects as butter knives and nail clippers on flights.
[tags]TSA idiocy, If I were king[/tags]
Well, Nick at 4-color rebellion didn’t like Silent Hill. Nor, for that matter, do the reviews at RottenTomatoes give much hope with a 25%. Oddly, the IMDB score sets at 6.9 right now. That does sound fishy (IMDB login required to see this link).
So, back to Nick’s commentary:
Worst movie ever. Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not see this movie. I kid you not, this is the worst movie I have ever watched. And I rented the Doom movie.
The movie is a trainwreck. The story makes NO SENSE whatsoever. The acting is horrendous. Characters do not stay consistent in their actions throughout the movie, let alone a single scene.
More in the story at 4CR.
[tags]Silent Hill, movie review[/tags]
(via Kotaka)
Lucas Arts is working on a Darth Vader game. So the article is really about the turnaround Lucas Arts has seen from the bleh game production of a few years ago to becoming a top-10 publisher (with a goal of being a top-5):
“We can do this ourselves,” Mr. Ward recalled Mr. Lucas telling him. “We will put our resources behind this.”
LucasArts is not No. 5 yet. But last year it ranked No. 8 in sales, up from No. 13 a year earlier, according to the NPD Group. And, Mr. Ward, 46, is being credited with a turnaround. While No. 8 may seem low in an industry obsessed with No. 1, LucasArts got there selling a fraction of the games its competitors did.
. . .
“The ‘Star Wars’ brand is a massive advantage, but they are going to have to market new innovation,” said John Riccitiello, a partner at the video game investor Elevation Partners, who has known Mr. Ward for several years. “It’s early. It may take another five years for their story to develop, but it is going to be interesting.”
But down here at near the end of the article, we see this tidbit that will surely be off interest to a lot of Star Wars fans.
Their excitement was palpable on a recent afternoon, when Mr. Ward, Mr. Hirschmann and Haden Blackman, the project leader of a forthcoming “Star Wars” game, reviewed all of the company’s recent projects. Mr. Blackman outlined a new storyline that delved deeper into Darth Vader’s history.
Mr. Hirschmann later demonstrated a test game, shouting and jumping each time a storm trooper tumbled onscreen, the character barely catching his fingers on the pixel ledge. And he gleefully explained how researchers had tracked down images of San Francisco buildings from 1915 for the future Indiana Jones game.
[tags]Lucas Arts, Darth Vader[/tags]
(via boingboing)
When frogs and ‘shrooms are no longer enough for you, it must be time to graduate to Ichthyoallyeinotoxism via fish. As will be covered in the journal of Clinical Toxicology:
The effects of eating ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes, such as certain mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels and rabbitfish, are believed to be similar to LSD, and may include vivid and terrifying auditory and visual hallucinations. This has given rise to the collective common name for ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes of “dream fish”.
Pommier and de Haro of the Toxicovigilance Centre Antipoison at Marseille’s Hospital Salvator, who undertook the study, said that the men had both eaten a fish called Sarpa salpa, and subsequently suffered from CNS disturbances including terrifying hallucinations and nightmares.
[tags]Hallucinagenic fish[/tags]
(via boingboing)
Well, if there’s one thing I can think of worth watching, it’s got to be a good black-hole simulation.  Well, actually, I can think of a lot of things worth watching. But it’s still pretty cool to tell other people you like watching black-hole simulations. Just try it and you’ll see I’m right. All the wondrous details are at NASA’s home page.
[tags]NASA, Black-hole[/tags]
This one is for my co-workers.
I must admit – sometimes I wonder what would happen if Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer were to meet.
[tags]Jack Bauer, Chuck Norris, 24 humor[/tags]
I continue to be greatly amused by xkcd.com. Here’s the latest comic to make me laugh:
[tags]Counterstrike, comic, pwned[/tags]
(via MAKEzine blog)
I need to make this with my kids. They would love it.
[tags]DIY, Tornado machine[/tags]
(via boingboing)
How can you go wrong with an undead pirate MMORPG? Hopefully, this will be as awesome as one could imagine. Disney is working on a Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, for those that don’t know the term). The web site says it will be out in 2007.
The game is being designed by the Walt Disney Internet Group’s acclaimed VR Studio as a world of high seas action and adventure where players will personalize their own pirate character and organize with other players to form a pirate crew. Players will then embark on swashbuckling missions to battle both each other and the evil, undead pirates of the high seas in an effort to become the Caribbean’s most legendary pirate.
[tags]MMORPG, Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney[tags]
(via Bruce Schneier’s blog)
As I’ve done so many times before, I feel the need to post something that’s probably interesting only to me. I just couldn’t pass this up. Someone has built their own cryptography machine in the same style as the German Enigma device from World War II. I just think it’s too pretty not to show it off. Click the image for a full size picture.
[tags]Cryptography, Enigma, Crypto-box[/tags]
(via TechEBlog)
But is shorely do look t3h purty, don’t it? I’m easily impressed by this kind of stuff.
Igorshmigor from DeviantArt created this incredible 3D-rendered Seiko watch using Rhino 3D 2.
Click the image for a full sized view.
[tags]Virtual objects, Realistic rendered art[/tags]
In case you forgot or haven’t picked up on it from other postings on the site, I’m a gamer. Currently, I’m hooked on City of Heroes, but I veer off on other paths on occasion, and like to try plenty of other genres. I especially like the whole retro scene. I still like playing a lot of those old games – thank heaven for MAME. With that in mind, this PBS history of gaming site caught my eye. I’m still working through reading it, but it’s pretty neat.
Over the past 30 years, video games have become an integral part of our culture, and the video game industry has become a multi-billion dollar behemoth. Follow the journey of video games from university laboratories to our living rooms.
The site has an interactive timeline of gaming, a retro corner for downloads (wallpapers and other miscellany), and a listing of some of the best and worst games of all times.
[tags]PBS, History of gaming, retro gaming[/tags]
