Archive for August, 2009

Currently on imdb.com the rating on this movie is near perfect… It’s sitting at an 8.9 out of 10 with just over 12k votes which makes it #26 on the Top250 list. HOW!? Hit the jump for my full review including my reasoning for why I wouldn’t give this movie all the praise it seems to be receiving.

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I’m Sure at some point in all of our lives we’ve had to introduce the significant other to our parents… and if your family is anything like mine, they rejected your partner because they weren’t as awesome as you! Turns out my father leaked some family footage of my sister bringing home her boyfriend to the family from a few years ago… Love you Sis! ha… it didn’t go quite as well as she had hoped it would. Ahhhh Dad, how did you know that CollegeHumor would enjoy the footage so much?

[via N00b boyfriend at CollegeHumor]

WHOA! Google Street View has been known to capture some pretty crazy stuff in the past… but being in a race? Sweet! The image above is taken at the Laguna Seca Raceway in California… from the track! Hit the jump for another image for what was behind the google van. Seems it wasn’t even in last place! Good work Google.

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Some advertising companies these days are really coming out with all guns-a-blazing! This one is quite clever. Worth a share anyway.

[via Clever or Intrusive? [pic] @ digg]

NERD ALERT: So, I’ve done lots of testing with the new Windows version and read plenty of articles… But for some reason this one caught my eye just a little more than the rest. Maybe it was the 80+ benchmarks that they performed, or the unbiased writing that truely reflected how the majority of the public felt about past releases with Microsoft.

For XP users, the security improvements are equally worthy of praise, while Vista users will be thrilled with the much improved, much less annoying UAC.

If you’ve been doubting at all that Win7 could be just another Vista, here is the article to convince you otherwise. Spoiler Alert: They give it a 9 / 10.

[via Windows 7 Review: XP vs Vista vs 7 in 80+ Benchmarks @ Maximum PC]

I was given this link a few days ago and havn’t done anything with it yet, but I just know that the next time I’m in need of a desktop change I’de like to have this site on hand. Hit the jump for my favourites from the collection and a link to the full gallery. Some of these are just fantastic!

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The caption says it all… *chuckle*

[via I stood here for a while this morning; nothing happened @ digg]

Ohhhhh daaaamnnnn, Some developers over at Microsoft are gonna be in soooo muccch trouble! I guess someone thought it was a good idea to build XML into the latest versions of Microsoft Word’s .doc format… making them a .docx. Well apparently a Toronto based firm named i4i owns a patent for “a document system that eliminated the need for manually embedded formatting codes”. In plain and relevant English: Putting XML into Word Docs. The best part is that they’ve had the patent since 1992. Again: Whoops!

In May, a federal jury in Tyler, Texas, ruled that the custom XML tagging features of Word 2003 and Word 2007 infringed on i4i’s patent and ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million in the case.

In Tuesday’s ruling, Microsoft was also ordered to pay an additional $40 million for willful infringement, as well as $37 million in prejudgment interest.

Oh snap! Good for i4i, sticking it to the man! Thanks to Bill who sticks it to the man every night… all night… oh yeah!

[via Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word @ CNET News]

Preorder your’s now… these bad boys are actually pretty sweet… They would totally match my everyday work wear too.

this colorful design, brings you the joy that comes with crushing minions beneath your heroic toes. “Check out the bottom and insides of these…I meant that bit about crushing minions literally, at least from a design sense.”

Thanks to Robin for the heads up, who always wears sneakers with the suit.

[via Goblin Stompers @ RYZ Wear]

For anyone that didn’t know Lollapalooza was just this past weekend in Chicago. The event has plenty of music of a few different genres including some synthpop rave style music… Here is a video of the worlds greatest dancer busting a groove to the music… in public! Dude’s got dance moves from the year 2030!

[via August 11th's Around the Net @ G4's Attack of the Show]