Archive for August, 2009

This is a video from Ukrain’s got Talent and holy man do they ever. Just wait until you watch this girl move the sand in ways I didn’t think sand could be moved. It’s so profound and expressive… I may just cry a little here! Seems so appropriate for my 101st post doesnt it?! (No, It’s not like horse!) It has audio and I found it improved the experience so if you are at work, it might be best to wait until the co-workers go for meetings or until you get home. There isn’t words or anything, it just adds to it. Check it out!

[via Alison Haislip's Twitter]

Well I’ve already heard about this movie several times this week, and until last night I hadn’t even seen the trailer. Well here is your chance too… Looks intriguing to say the least. I hope the plot will be good though. Check out the official trailer if you can

By the way: this is my 100th post on the new blog engine. Also if you didn’t notice, the site is now called CrimsonLinks. Hope you like it… down the road http://writhem.com/ will become my personal website, seperate from my blog of awesome. When that happens I’ll dedicate a full news story to it though.

Official Trailer Site

[via James Cameron's Avatar Trailer is HERE @ digg]

If you’ve ever lost at chess to me (because nobody has ever won… except my grandfather) than you’ll know that I enjoy sweet looking chess sets. I actually have a chess board as the coffee table between my couches in my home theatre room. Then on a completely unrelated note, you may or may not know that I really like medieval times. That being said, I think I’ve found the sweetest and most creative chess set ever made. Dude who made it had some serious patience to put this thing together though… I wonder if I can commission him to make me one in a week. Hmmm.. Hey Dan, did you want a chess rematch next week? You might win this time… (not likely). Hit the jump for the full gallery and a link to the artists story. Thanks to Bill for heads up on the story.

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Every so often we receive an email around the office that is worth sharing. This just happens to be one of them… Some of these are quite true too. (And if you’re wondering, yes… thats a screenshot of my current inbox… notice the unread count.)

1. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

8. Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or faq’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.

Hit the jump for the full email. Thanks to Bill for the email, I’m glad this one wasn’t a chain letter warning me of death and lameness if I didnt forward it.
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Damn, I can’t even drive, and this little guy can parallel park? Show off… The best part of this video is definitely the reaction he has that he’s done it… “yeah, I just did that. what of it?”. Now on an unrelated note: Excuse me while I go steal a red PowerWheels parked perfectly between two other cars.

[via Kid Showing Off His Parallel Parking Skills @ Geekologie]

Holy cow, how creative! When this news tip showed up in my queue I was nearly blown away after clicking the link. Thanks very much to aisakie for the pictures of the factories where video games of the 80′s and 90′s were made. The picture above is a shot of the factory where Tetrinos, the blocks used in Tetris, are manufactured. Never before has the public been allowed into these exclusive locations. Here’s an excerpt from the photographer’s website

Tetris:
When Alexei Pajitnov first ordered a load of bricks from Karpov Abramtsevo’s workshop, workers there were wondering who could be interested in all those right-angled blocks. No one in 1985 could have imagined those concrete Tetriminos would become world famous and constitute Russia’s deadliest weapon against Reagan’s America.

Hit the jump for a few more of the pictures and a link to the gallery.

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Here’s a video to promote “The Guild“‘s 3rd season which is coming out soon. The video shows Felicia Day in a corset and enjoying a little bit of kink… YEAH! Take that sword in the — err wha? Anyway if you’ve never seen The Guild, then it might just be your time to take a look at it. The show is about a group of people who are playing an MMO, and instead of the story focusing on the characters, it focuses on the people who play them. Pretty cool actually…

[via Music Video: Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? @ Geekologie]

Good thing I belive in net neutrality, or else I’de totally want to ask facebook to pull the access logs for Victoria Richardson from Hove, East Sussex last week. You see it wasn’t her that logged into her facebook last week, it was the robber that stole her laptop. “nah nah i stole a bunch of stuff cause im lame”.

One message left on the site read: “on my new laptop”. The next said: “Listening to music on my new phone feels so good.”

The final post read: “regards your night time burglar”.

dude… not cool. At least delete everything on the laptop once you’ve stolen it! Time to make sure my power-on password is updated to a new one… Thanks to Bill who just uses his first name for all of his passwords.

[via Burglar taunted victim on Facebook @ telegraph.co.uk]

When I saw this story in my NewsTip’s Queue I was really expecting something different. Seems it was exactly what it said it was… Zombie Math. Above is just a clipping of the mathmatical calculations required to bore the zombie’s into submission. Or something like that… I think its actually something to do with how to outlast them, but I cant read greek letters very well, so I’m not sure. I know one of those is a lambda (thanks to half-life), but the rest is just Greek… har har!

We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the model to introduce a latent period of zombification, whereby humans are infected, but not infectious, before becoming undead. We then modify the model to include the effects of possible quarantine or a cure. Finally, we examine the impact of regular, impulsive reductions in the number of zombies and derive conditions under which eradication can occur. We show that only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.

wait… the University of Ottawa is introducing the zombie virus?! Then watching the outcome? Okay so I didn’t read the whole thing, sue me! Thanks to Linda for the story, at least she knows the best way to kill a zombie is by throwing popcorn at it.

[via Zombie apocalpyse: the math geek edition @ boingboing]

I’ve let this movie stew a little over the last couple of days and still seem to be able to reflect back on it. I think if you enjoyed The Notebook, then you’ll really enjoy this one too. My full review can be found after the break… or maybe its before? Ahh I’m not sure anymore! hehehe

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