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  • euicho 2:38 pm on 5/30/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    The Return of an Old Friend: Starcraft II 

    Have you heard yet? You havn’t? And you call yourself a gamer? Psht. I can’t believe you don’t know. Well, I guess I’ll tell you about it, because its so freakin’ cool. Its Starcraft, you see… its BACK!

    Thats right, Starcraft II is in production, and whats better is they’ve released some teasers that are sure to make any gamer drool with longing and giggle with delight. Jesse has been bugging me to post about this for a little while now, but I’ve been putting it off like a bad little blogger. I apologize for depriving you all of this eye-candy so to make it up to you, I’ll give you links to the goodies first, and then give you a few highlights.

    Starcraft II

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    • Jesse 6:52 pm on 6/1/2007 Permalink

      fucking a man, fucking a

  • euicho 3:54 pm on 5/25/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    NYC Bike Messenger Race 

    I promise this isn’t turning into a video filter site, I’ve just seen some fun things to share with you all! Heres the last one for a few posts i swear!

    Its a Bike Messenger race in NYC, and there are some insane squeezes and close calls. Notice the “skitching” (grabbing onto a moving car so they can pull you along) at about 3:10. And here I used to think motorcyclists had a death wish!

     

    • B 10:37 pm on 5/25/2007 Permalink

      wow
      crazy

  • euicho 11:08 pm on 5/17/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    OOTP Behind the Scenes 

    I’m SOOOOOOOOOOO excited! This one looks just amazing!
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  • euicho 10:16 pm on 5/17/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    The Evils of Aspartame or Why You Should Eat Tagatose 

    Do you know what Aspartame is? I knew it was bad for you, but never knew how bad until Amme showed me a documentary called “Sweet Misery”. Sucralose is just as bad as aspartame, and was discovered to be a sweetner when a chemist making pesticide (yes, pesticide!) spilled some on his hand and discovered it tasted sweet. Antifreeze also has this property, and is fatally poisonous.

    Though I am no scientist, this video claims Aspartame was pushed into FDA approval through shady deals and payoffs, and can cause dozens of illnesses, among them brain tumors and Multiple Sclerosis. At the VERY LEAST, it is important to at least consider how safe this chemical is, and whether you should let your loved ones intake it, even if its a a precaution.

    I suggest supporting Tagatose, a functional sweetener that is safe for all diabetics, is 92% as sweet, and has only 38% of the calories.
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  • euicho 4:08 pm on 4/21/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Total General Recall 

    I think the gist of Gonzales’ testimony is he does not recall.

    Geezuz. I couldn’t even get through this whole video. I wonder if he gave them ANY information AT ALL? What a pussy way to plead the 5th amendment. I hope nobody believes him. If he has that poor a recollection he needs to step down and seek medical attention for amnesia.

     

  • euicho 5:15 pm on 2/5/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Knowledge Is Only a Few Clicks Away 

    The internet is truly amazing. Check this out:

    I was on twitter and read the following on the public timeline (a list of all public updates):

    “the song ‘so much’ by spill canvas is amazing”

    I thought to myself, “I wonder what that song sounds like.”
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    • Nyrath the nearly wise 7:49 pm on 2/16/2007 Permalink

      SF author Jerry Pournelle sort of predicted that in the future we would be connected to the equivalent of the Library of Congress.

      He ruefully admits he did NOT predict that people would bitch and moan if Google didn’t cough up the data they wanted in under five seconds.

  • euicho 10:41 pm on 12/28/2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Mythbusters Goodies Part 2 


    Welcome to Part 2 of Mythbusters Goodies. In Part 1 we went over some neat areas of Jamie Hyneman’s M5 Industries website. In this installment, we’ll take a look at the eclectic and weird things on Adam Savage’s website, adamsavage.com. Follow along, children!
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  • euicho 3:31 pm on 12/4/2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Mythbusters Goodies 


    Damn I’m such a procrastinator. Thank you to those who trudge on with me despite the infrequency with which I post. I blame my tight schedule, and more recently, WoW (yes, I’ve become and addict. No I don’t know what took me so long. I though I was strong enough to resist, alas I am not). Mostly, however, the blame rests squarely on my own shoulders. Anyway, thank you again to my faithful readers. Moving on…
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    • Jesse 8:56 pm on 12/6/2006 Permalink

      I wished they would go more into the engineering behind their inventions and rigs they build for the show. I know the average person wouldn’t understand 5% percent of it though so I can see why they don’t bother to elabortate.

    • euicho 9:36 pm on 12/8/2006 Permalink

      Yeah but still, I agree it would be really cool if they showed more of tyhe engineering background. One the Q&A episode they did show the little black reference book they use for most of the equations and constants they use in their calculations.

  • euicho 1:05 pm on 10/9/2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Experience something ORIGINAL: Nintendo Wii 

    The Nintendo Wii
     

    Sure, it has a silly name, but if you want to get your whole family involved in hours of fun, want to experience revolutionary gameplay, and don’t want to spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars for a gaming system, you NEED the Wii.

    Nintendo is the only console creator left with originality and passion to push gaming to the next level, and it shows.

     
     

    • Luke 11:45 pm on 11/25/2006 Permalink

      This system will outlast the next Xbox 360′s and probably the same for PS3. You’re right its one new innovation for controlers that revolutionizes the gaming world. The eye toy was cool and still is but this is way better. You get to play first person shooters and not have to use the z pad and right trigger instead its old school cops and robbers with you had as the gun. Even thought the graphics and processors of the system are great. The controler sells it. Its like pong only on a 1080i tv with a remote in you hand. Wiiiiiiii ( had to put that pun in lol)

  • euicho 2:18 pm on 3/17/2006 Permalink | Reply
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    V for Vendetta Now Playing! 

    V for Vendetta Graphic Novel Cover
     

    If any of you are semi-long-term readers, you will likely remember my post from almost exactly a year ago about the V for Vendetta movie project. Whether you caught it or not, go ahead and refresh your memory as it’s a short post and has links to introduce new readers to V for Vendetta

    The advertising has been pretty extensive, but if you are one to cut yourself off from normal modes of media assailment (I myself don’t listen to the radio and watch little non-downloaded TV, instead getting all of my info from the internet), you may have missed the fact that the theatrical adaptation of the graphic novel V for Vendetta is now playing! I’m going to see it this weekend so I haven’t a review for you right now, but the novel is truely stellar (how could it not be… it’s Alan Moore) , the film was adapted by the Wachowski brothers, and it was directed by James McTeigue who’s assistant directed on Dark City, The Matrix, and Attack of the Clones. As if that wasn’t enough, Natalie Portman is in it. I can see Doody drooling now.
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    • Doody 3:22 am on 3/18/2006 Permalink

      You know me all too well…

    • Nyrath the nearly wise 8:26 pm on 3/19/2006 Permalink

      Yes, Patti and I both saw it, and give it two thumbs up. Unusually intellectual for a Hollywood movie, with plenty of action. They did make a slight change of the ending, but nothing I can’t live with.

      Now where can I get a Guy Fawkes mask…

    • Istoleyourbike 12:20 am on 3/20/2006 Permalink

      You hippies and your damn pyramid schemes….

  • euicho 2:25 am on 12/21/2005 Permalink | Reply
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    Loiter: The Trailer 

     

    Whilst looking through some old un-labeled cds, I came across a little gem I filmed with my friends winter of 2003 and edited into a trailer winter of 2004. Now here, winter of 2005, it seems apropriate I share it with the world.
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    • B 10:15 pm on 12/22/2005 Permalink

      soo awesome

    • Johnny B 11:00 pm on 1/1/2006 Permalink

      hahahaha

      NICE>

    • Dad 11:55 pm on 1/2/2006 Permalink

      Very Cool son……….awesome display of your creativity and technology talent.

    • Doody 5:27 pm on 1/5/2006 Permalink

      Soooo good. I forgot how awesome this was. Now we just need to do the other trailers. And a film of sorts…

    • euicho 11:53 pm on 1/5/2006 Permalink

      We definately need to. Wish we had more time this break.

    • Jalbey 9:53 am on 1/7/2006 Permalink

      Time? What is time, but what really is “free” time? Let’s ponder this question shall we.

      Dictionary.com gives us the following definition for time. Time is: “A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.”

      Let’s see, “A nonspatial continuum”, hmm that sounds like there is no true way to measure time, and also it will never end. A good thing for those of us that just need more time.

      “Irreversible succession”, does that mean I can’t go back and stop myself from calling my boss a miserable furry ball chin prick at the last company picnic? Guess it also means that I won’t be able to stop myself from doing it again (only with a different body part in question) this year.

      My point here tonight Ladies and Gentlemen is that time is never really free (direct yourself to the company picnic for example) and we all will always have more time, sleep well and good night.

    • Doody 12:22 am on 1/9/2006 Permalink

      I just realized that at the end, where it says Loiter and “This film not yet rated.” It should say Loiter “This film does not exist.”

  • euicho 2:17 pm on 6/11/2005 Permalink
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    Systm Episode 2 

    Just a quick update:

    Systm Episode 2 – Build your own MythTV box is out now!

    Bittorrent links for Xvid, Windows Media, Theora, and h.264 quicktime 7 versions are available at systm.org

     

  • euicho 1:53 am on 5/24/2005 Permalink
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    Systm 1 / Broken 4 

    For those of you who arn’t subscribed to the The Broken newsletter, Systm, from the creators of The Broken, went up at 8pm PST tonight. You can download torrents of it at systm.org. I’m in the process of downloading it now and am very excited!

    As stated in the newsletter, “While Systm is a general interest HOW-TO show, thebroken will continue to have 40′z and hacking”. Thats good news, for though I welcome any show by Kevin Rose, I would hate to see The Broken go the way of Call For Help.
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    • Doody 2:00 am on 5/26/2005 Permalink

      Ah the rave… That was an interesting night. But I will always have fond memories of the rave that never was.

    • Jalbey 9:30 am on 5/26/2005 Permalink

      “SWAN DIVE!”…”Ok back flip”…

      Ahh memories…I will cherish them for as long as I live, just wish I had a video tape of that night, you know just in case you ever become president.

    • euicho 1:14 am on 5/27/2005 Permalink

      lol, I’m glad you don’t!

    • Doody 1:38 am on 6/1/2005 Permalink

      LOL. “Our president elect is seen here being dragged behind a lawn tractor through the mud on nothing but an old TV tray.”

    • Jalbey 2:13 pm on 6/1/2005 Permalink

      NOW That I could do…or “As you can see in this video clip our President is now snorting a line of donut in a crowded high school cafeteria…what a man”

      Thinking back on all the crap we had you do or you did on your own, how are you still alive?

    • euicho 1:03 am on 6/3/2005 Permalink

      Ha. Ha. (^_-)

      But for the grace of god, my sons… but for the grace of god.

  • euicho 12:12 am on 4/29/2005 Permalink
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    Vote for Beeblebrox 

    Someone cut together a Vote for Beeblebrox campaign music video from a song that was aparently cut from the movie. Not the sexiest thing ever, but great fun. Check it out via Webfroot.

     

  • euicho 7:24 pm on 3/12/2005 Permalink
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    V for Vendetta Movie 

    V for Vendetta movie poster
     

    Thats right, V for Vendetta is being made into a movie! I’ll read any graphic novel handed to me if Alan Moore had a hand in writing it, seeing as he’s written nearly every one of my favorites: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Watchmen (my all-time favorite), and of course, V for Vendetta. So naturally I was floored when I heard this. Moore and David Lloyd did an amazing job with this one, and it has the potential to be a great movie, so I hope I’m not let down (LXG was sooo disappointing!)

    The Wachowski Brothers and Joel Silver are heading up the film, with Natalie Portman playing Evey (she’s perfect for it), and James Purefoy as V. Filming is underway on location in Berlin and London.

    I’m also dying to see the Firefly movie Serenity, and H2G2

    For more about the V for Vendetta graphic novel, see here.

    PS: My auto-close comments plugin closed this post, but yes, I *did* read Watchmen at Baba’s in Virginia. It believe it was the first (non comic-book sized) graphic novel I ever read.

     
     

    • ev 1:35 am on 3/13/2005 Permalink

      yeah he’s pretty good, but you know, Frank Miller does some incredible stuff with sin city, and that movie that’s coming out looks AWESOME. catch you later EEEEEE CHO.

    • euicho 2:31 pm on 3/13/2005 Permalink

      Oh, man I forgot that was coming out. The movie looks so amazing! Frank Miller’s work is definately good stuff.

    • Nyrath the nearly wise 5:46 pm on 3/14/2005 Permalink

      You wouldn’t have, perchance, first read WATCHMEN at your grandfather’s house, would you? I got him that copy for xmas, trying to give him a taste of the good stuff. He was already into Superman and Batman (and of course Pogo the Possum).

      I agree that all of Alan Moore’s work is solid gold. Have you read his PROMETHEA series?

  • euicho 3:42 am on 1/3/2005 Permalink  

    A great actor is lost 

    Last month we lost someone I have had great respect for as an actor. Tony award winning actor Jerry Orbach, known to many a Law & Order addict as Detective Lennie Briscoe, passed away last Tuesday of prostate cancer. After 12 years of L&O with Jerry, it just will not be the same without him.

     

  • euicho 3:49 pm on 12/19/2004 Permalink  

    SuprNova.org goes down 

    This morning, like every other morning, I woke up with my head full of things I hadn’t seen/heard/played that I wanted to try to find bittorrents for. Naturally, I went to my favorite BT search site, the most extensive, the ONLY BT search site in my opinion: SuprNova.org.
    The *tick-tack**tick-tack**tick-tack* of fingers across the keyboard was interrupted by a pause, a whimper, then sobbing…
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    • Jalbey 11:53 am on 12/20/2004 Permalink

      A SAD DAY FOR SURE!!! I remember telling you about that place, I fail to remember if you heard about before me or not but, damn it was fun while it lasted!

    • euicho 8:23 pm on 12/20/2004 Permalink

      nope, you were the first I’d heard about it! heh.

    • jason b 12:17 am on 12/21/2004 Permalink

      As well as torrentbit bit the dust the same day the story was on slash dot.

    • Your Site 10:15 pm on 12/27/2004 Permalink

      Update me please :-D

    • jalbey 4:00 pm on 12/28/2004 Permalink

      BTW http://www.bi-torrent.com/ is a mirror to SuprNova, it has everything that SuprNova had/would have currently.

    • euicho 10:36 pm on 12/28/2004 Permalink

      hah *DOH* I neglected to realize that, heh. BTW, the google thing does work pretty dang well

  • euicho 11:51 pm on 10/4/2004 Permalink  

    Take it away while you still can! 

    Haven’t posted in a while. Got The Sims 2. I need not elaborate…
    Speaking of The Sims 2,
    Rooster Teeth, the makers of one of my favorite online series’ of all time, Red vs. Blue, is making a new one that promises to be just as imaginative and hillarious, using the Sims 2 engine! Webfroot has a good rundown.

     

  • euicho 10:31 am on 8/20/2004 Permalink
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    Filesharing software ruled Legal in US 

    w00t! The EFF won it’s court case. Decentralized filesharing software is now legal in the US.
    Webfroot has a great list of resources on it.

     

  • euicho 10:19 pm on 8/19/2004 Permalink  

    The True Story of The Terminal 

    This is old news, but a lot of people still don’t know the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian man who’s life was the basis of Steven Spielberg’s “The Terminal”. Its a very interesting read.

     

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