February, 2010

Very, very geeky comedy

Mostly one liners and highly groan worthy, but some gems in there.

C

[yt] Talisman that awful tedious board game now coming to a PC near you

We played the newish board game version of this in wales and after a while we just wanted to end no matter who won we all lost by playing. It's totally random there is no real control over your character your actions don't really have any effect and the endgame makes the rest totally pointless.

[yt] News From the Insane clown posse dimension

A spoof news broadcast from a parallel universe where everyone is insane clown posse fans

New Steam's a coming

Looks like Steam is getting an overhaul. Particularly cool are the social networking features.

School uses webcams on laptops to spy on pupils outside of school

Some school in america somewhere used the webcams on their school issued computers to spy on pupils while they were at home. This all came to light when they accused a kid of dealing drugs producing a picture of him at home eating some candy that looks a bit pill like.

The Reprap project and 3d printing for the home

Some time back I stumbled across the reprap project (www.reprap.org) a worldwide open source project initiated by Dr Adrian Bowyer at the university of bath the goal of which was to design and build an affordable 3d printer that could self replicate ie print all it's own parts.

Hard Graft

The snow seems to have held off a little in the past month, so I've been working on getting some mileage out of the bike. It's still been stupidly cold, and wet, and windy, so it's been a long way from pleasant, but it's important that I get myself moving now, so I don't suffer too much in June.

YAY! Civilisation 5

YAY VERILY YAY!

Really brightened up what is destined to be a poo day.

[yt] Chromakey is everywhere

a little reel show how much of our tv is actually artificially constructed with green screens

It's interesting that almost all of what we see is tweaked in some way or other

for instance that ginger kid is actually blond and the background of some alley way is shot on a backlot against a green screen