YouTube has "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" Superbowl Spot.
Uhm.
Wow.
!!
With the super bowl happening tomorrow, all the big movie trailers are appearing. Most interesting for me is this World Exclusive: The G.I. Joe Super Bowl Spot! I'm undecided whether this makes the movie look 100% awesome or 80% sucky. Guess we'll see what happens in august :)
An oldie but a goodie.... from Dave: Hitler Reacts to Canucks Missing 2008 Playoffs.
Darren passed along a page saying that there will be The A-Team film directed by Ridley Scott to hit cinemas in 2010.... why why why must they destroy my childhood memories of awesome action? GI Joe, A-Team..... when will it stop!?
Amazing shots of London from above, at night found via @wilharris on twitter.
IPhoto: iPhoto's Facial Recognition Feature Works on Cats
Official Gmail Blog has the details, include typical cool and cute video.
Just discovered TwitterFon twitter app for the iPhone thanks to @chasejarvis.... lots of features, free, no ads, more functional (IMHO) than my previous one (twitteriffic). Going to give this one a good go and see if it works as well as it looks. Oh, and did I mention it's free?
Just to show I'm not totally biased, IEBlog has the details on Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1. Honestly I gave IE8 a shot in Windows 7 (see how progressive I am?) but the interface just seems to have gotten more cluttered and (for lack of a better word), "bleah". Honestly IE7 isn't that bad (for IE), and at least it's less sucky than IE6, but IE8 seems to have gone in an ugly direction and the interface is more cluttered than before. What do you guys think? Anyone going to be using IE instead of Firefox or Safari or Opera?
Slash Film has some of the Tintin Cast Revealed. Jamie Bell (or Griffin from Jumper) is Tintin, Simon Pegg is one of the Thompson Twins, Daniel Craig as Red Rackham (really?) and the plot will be a combination of Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure. Very cool, I'm really excited for this, and hope they are going to do it properly (and not crush another one of my whimsical childhood adventure stories) so I'll let it slide that the release date is sometime in 2011.
Daring Fireball has awesome links to Adobe UI Gripes.
Nice article on the apple blog - More Mac Viruses, Similar Sources: Time to Worry?
Really, as it stands, the only people at risk are those trying to pirate software, so it’s not really a case of “Is the OS less secure?”, so much as it is one of “Are Mac users security savvy?”.
Personally I look at it this way... if you download the iwork trial from apple.com and install it, it'll ask you for your password before it installs itself. If you go to your friendly neighborhood torrent site, download ilife09.torrent, and click the installer it (I presume) asks for your password before it installs a trojan and then installs iLife.
Is this some new form of super-evil mac virus? An age where apple-heads can't surf in peace? An age where you shouldn't suggest an iMac to your grandma because it'll come to life, kick her in the behind, and impregnate her granddaughter?
I'm thinking not. I could put up a shell script that has in it a request for password followed by deleting your system while it plays a clown song and put it up for download and most likely it'd still get downloaded and accused of being an evil mac virus. The sort of viruses we're talking about here are simple trojans (IMHO) and requires no more than the normal (well, perhaps normal by windows and I-surf-pirate-sites standards) amount of care and attention in surfing and downloading.
I'm a little scared at how many of these I can name...
Scifi Art: Suddenly The 1970s Look A Lot Awesomer Than I Realized
Damn, they caught me!
BEST GOOGLE STREET VIEW EVER | FilmDrunk: The movie blog that hates Colin Hanks
Tho I don't seem to see the toilet facilities in these things...
Great Geek Gaming Furniture Designs | WebUrbanist
Windows 7 Tip: The Windows Key Is Actually Useful Now!
Aryk pointed me to an article on how Chrysler To Sponsor New Terminator Movie. Question is will it be as obnoxious as other (*cough*Knight Rider*cough*) show/company tie ins are?
The Cutest Cylon Centurion In The Galaxy link has a awesome knitted tuque, including link to pattern. I want one!
Microsoft Learning spoofs “I love the whole world” via IStartedSomething. Truly awesome.
F.E.A.R. 2 Demo Released according to shacknews. I'm interested in seeing how this does on my new (well, 2 year old now) hardware.
Collection of totally offensive jokes, not for the faint hearted. They are not kidding.... you're going to hell just for clicking that link.
Found a facebook-notify for GNOME. Works not too badly either.
The Battlefield Heroes Beta Key signup is up and running.... fingers crossed I get a chance to get in!
A bit late, but interesting nonetheless. Linux.com's review of Six Twitter clients for the Linux desktop and one for the road. For those wanting to use the Adobe Air apps under Linux (and amd64) check out this link. This will help you install Twhirl which is my twitter client of choice :)
Apple has released their "10/10" selection of short films from this years Sundance Film Festival on iTunes. Some details are here and the link to the link in iTunes is here (the ones in the article didn't work for me).
Another review from the most awesome.. I mean thebestpageintheuniverse for Quantum of Solace. It's first line, declaring it "a shitpile" sets the tone :)
Youtube video of some Insane feats of strength. Holy crap is all I have to say.... he has big muscles...
Why exactly am I bothering to lurch through 20 minutes on the treadmill tonight again?
Pretty incredible Flight Simulation of the Hudson River Waterlanding.
Thanks to a FUBAR on my part and losing my carefully crafted addressbook on my MBP, I did some looking into finding a way to do time machine backups without spending $600 on Time Capsule and utilizing my already existing NAS device. Turns out that Time Machine with SMB and NFS Shares is very possible with a bit of diddling with settings. This guy got it working with remotely mounted AFP, SMB and NFS shares on a random NAS device.
Also looks like there's an addon for DroboShare via the DroboApps SDK called BackMyFruitUp to add Time Capsule like capabilities, which looks to have potential too.
Now I know what my project tonight will be!
Via reddit comes Bow and Literacy, an article on a Chimp who can spell words. Freaky.
Just so no one forgets, Battlestar Galactica is back with the second half of the final season tonight at 7pm PST on Space (here in .ca anyway). A few things you need to know (at least my Canadian Shaw Cable watching brethren)...
The BSG fun actually starts way earlier, with older episodes playing at 3 and 4pm, at 5 some show called "The Circuit" (playing a special on Battlestar Galactica), then at 5:30 the "top 10 things you need to know" show to get you ready, then at 6 there is a hour long "Battlestar Galactica: The Webisodes The Face of the Enemy" show, which I hope is a compilation of all of the webisodes produced (the 3.5 webisodes were only about 4 minutes long). Then finally at 7 is the new episode "Sometimes a Great Notion".
Then after that, at 8 is a fan forum discussion show to "discuss season 4". It's a re-run, but I haven't seen it yet.
So prep your TIVOs and PVRs to make sure you catch all that you need to!
And the geeks of the world all exhaled, as a Watchmen Settlement was Reached. Movie release remains March 6, 2009.
Darren threw me superuseless superpowers this morning. Awesome.
Film: The Real Raw is the latest from Ken Rockwell, much loved (and ranted against) photographer. He has some good points on the longevity of film vs RAW, actually anything digital will not be as long lived as an analog object if for no other reason than something like film doesn't go away if the power is off :) A good read for the photogs out there anyway, taken as always with a grain of salt.
Got raw files shot in 2002 on your then state-of-the-art $5,000 Nikon D1H? Enjoy going back to your 2.7 megapixel files! You may as well delete them now.
I LMAO this morning at the Office Poop survival guide via best of craigslist.
OMFG.... a Twitter from Robert Llewellyn says they are working on 4 new episodes with the original cast... best news ever (if it's true of course... CNN was twittering the other day that Bill O'Reilly was gay after all!).
Here's a guide to Windows 7 x64 Build 7000 on a Macbook Pro with bootcamp. I'm almost tempted to do this, just to see how well it runs on proper hardware (I have Windows 7 installed on vmware and don't get all the nice fancy graphics effects).
Ninja Kitty has some serious overhang rock climbing skills!
I think the headline from reddit.com says it best.... Gaming chair? Sounds pathe-... holy christ! From CES... yowza, that's quite a statement :)
With Season "4.5" of Battlestar Galactica almost upon us, io9 has a metric frak-ton of their Favorite BSG Fan Theories. Some doozies in there too...
I'm not sure I totally understand this image, but it is clear that teddy will understand whatever your mood is...
Lifehacker has the details (and worked for me) of How to Get Your Windows 7 Beta Product Key.
For those wondering what you may or may not be missing in Windows 7, howto geek has a What You Should Expect from the Windows 7 Beta extensive walk-through of new features. Via lifehacker.
Wired has some details on How to Get Your Windows 7 Beta 1 on Friday (today) when it's released at noon PST. Course, if none of these work, or you're not one of the first 2.5M people to download it (or get keys, or however it works), there's always bittorrent...
Update 12PST: The page to go to seems to be this one, however, I'm just getting "server too busy". Oh, and I hate myself for being pulled into even wanting to try it.... :)
Update #2: The wired page has been updated with direct ISO links (thanks Oneiros Darren).
LIVE CES 2009 Palm keynote has details of what's new from Palm. From what I'm told it's a new "WebOS" and a new handset which will immediately be compared to the iPhone, mostly because it's full screen and small.... oh, and the default wallpaper on it looks a lot like the default wallpaper on the iPhone (WTF?). Oh, has a slideout keyboard, so maybe more GooglePhone like.
Anyway, it's a live keynote URL so watch and enjoy :)
Ces 2009: The iXA-W404 is Alpine's First Touchscreen iPhone Compatible Car Receiver. Thanks Aryk. Also, that's one damn sexy receiver!
Laughing Squid has some Essential Target Practice templates for the target shooters among you.
Macworld San Francisco 2009 Keynote Live Coverage is up at Macrumors..... just got in so haven't had a chance to see much. iLife '09 seems to be out though!
Google Announced Picasa for Mac. Plays nice with iPhoto, native Mac app, edits are non-destructive, lots of easy editing tools, seamless web album integration.
What's not to love?
Now, where's that Chrome for mac? :)
Not exactly the normal fare of ufies, but I thought this was pretty interesting. ABC has a story about a guy Spending a Year Living Like Jesus.
"I decided since I had read through the gospels at that point over 30 times, I wanted to know who best represented the fundamental teachings of Jesus, and I felt that he more than any other candidate represented the teachings of Jesus, so I voted for him," Dobson said.
Lifehacker notes that JPG Magazine Archives are Available for Free. JPG magazine made a lot of news lately by closing down.
$2500 15 MB Radio Shack hard drive - Colt Rane
A truer chart was never made.... graphing When my cat sleeps on me.
I don't plan on pimping every new iphone or apple accessory here, but this looks interesting... Ars has a review for the Incase Power Slider battery backup for iPhone 3G. It's like a thick case for your iphone, but it has extra battery charge. Hit the article for pics and review. Might be worth the $$..... I already have a thick case on my phone, assuming this doesn't make it too much larger, or unreasonably heavy that is.
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