Archive for May, 2007
Nicolas Cage in another retarded movie
He was in Wild at Heart and Raising Arizona, which IMHO were great.
But why is Nicolas Cage in so many retarded movies???
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CCTV and the PD in the UK
traffic wardens in Eccles, Manchester are being issued CCTV head sets and given the legal power to impose fines of up to £80 for littering and other anti social behavior.
that will be interesting to *watch*
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Google Maps : test
Adaptive Technology :: Evolved
Doctors laugh at me when they ask me ideally what do i want to do about my knee problem and i tell them how i’d like them to just lop it off and gimme a rad prosthetic.
if there are any doctors out there who’d like to help a fella get his quality of life back by hooking him up with something akin to this would you email queue [ - at - ] thinfilmsproductions dot com, please?
i don’t wanna be the fastest runner on my block or break any records other than the furthest walk i’ve had in months.
there’s no doubt this new technology is fascinating but, as we all know, every new solution brings with it a new set of dilemmas.
Whatever. You are my total fucking hero! THANKS, OSCAR!
click here to learn more about Oscar.
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Happy Birthday Vids!!!
Even if you aren’t a *gamer* in the purist sense of the word, you have PLAYED a videogame and may even have a favorite over all others.
Which is why you should head out to the arcade nearest you today and drop a few coins in and let go!
Today, by all accounts, videogames turn 40.
Go play a round of Pong or Frogger or whatever it was that caught your fancy back then and bask in the memory of a simpler time – until you get killed, of course.
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Don’t look into the straw…
Did you know our primitive brains weren’t wired very well to read this paragraph?
Scientific research conducted by Walker Reading Technologies, a small Minnesota startup that has been studying our ability to read for the last ten years, has concluded that the natural field of focus for our eyes is circular, so our eyes view the printed page as if we’re peering through a straw.
And a very bad-behaving straw at that, because not only do our eyes feed our brain the words we’re reading, they’re also uploading characters and words from the two sentences above and below the line we’re reading.
Every time we read block text, we’re forcing our brain to a wage a constant subconscious battle with itself to filter and discard the superfluous inputs. This mental tug of war slows reading speed and diminishes comprehension.
When our ancestors first invented written language about 5,000 years ago, they unfortunately didn’t have armies of neuroscientists standing by to tell them block type was the wrong way to format their papyrus rolls. But fret not. Help is on the way.
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The dilemma of copyright continues…
surely the battles of taste will never be won.
there are some debates that have raged on and will continue to rage on until the end of time.
among these : copyright
here’s yet another interesting take on it.
of course, it doesn’t really clear anything up but these are all just exercises not facts.
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Alas, a threat to Google? Nah…
The evolutionary path of the computer is curiously cyclical. In the 1970s, companies relied upon mainframes, with multiple users sharing a single central computer through “terminals.†But by the early 80s, the ascendancy of the personal computer had pushed this setup to obscurity, essentially re-orienting the relationship to keep most of a computer’s processing and productivity tasks between the machine and its individual user. The rise of dial-up and then broadband Internet in the following decade changed our conception of computers from isolated islands of processing power to connected communication devices, not unlike phones or televisions.
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