August 2009
2 posts
AMC grabs "Walking Dead" →
With Breaking Bad and this, AMC is quickly becoming a favorite network. I should start watching Mad Men too.
July 2009
2 posts
June 2009
7 posts
Train surfing claims another young victim →
marco:
“The group of boys said they were train surfing in memory of three friends who died doing the same thing last Friday. One boy fell off the train and died on the scene.”
(via Terry Blakey)
I… what… wow.
Sigh.
“Warner Bros. is among the labels that are already using this system to prevent...”
– Guys… Have we learned nothing?
Record Companies Trying to Stop Music Sharing with New CD Security
(via copyrightfail) (via beingrandom)
“In its 3.0 incarnation, Pages still lacks autosave (come on Apple, even TextEdit...”
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Rain check on taking that look at iWork as planned.
Ars reviews iWork ‘09: fourth time’s a charm? - Ars Technica
(via beingrandom)
Using any Office suite on Mac OS X is hell.
5 Reasons Why Terminator Salvation Sucks
Spoilers!
Sony Vaio: Resistance Edition, i.e. technology far superior anything we’ve seen in the flash-forwards in the previous movies. I mean, isn’t humanity supposed to outnumbered and on the brink of extinction? Wouldn’t a military base be an easy target for Skynet? Also, 14 years have passed since the planet was nuked, but they still have helicopters, jets, high-tech...
3 tags
This is how Project Natal works
The test system was an ordinary Xbox 360, connected to small PC and camera that simulates the final Natal rig. There are two cameras—one RGB, for face recognition and display video, and one infrared, for tracking movement and depth. Why infrared? The eye doesn’t see infrared light. And when you combine an infrared camera with an infrared emitter (also part of Natal), a room is flooded with...
May 2009
7 posts
WatchBatman: Arkham Asylum looks amazing, added to wishlist.
2 tags
“Apparently the first Transformers movie took up an ‘astounding 15...”
– Michael Bay on Transformers 2 and IMAX resolutions.
True-Friend-O-Meter →
beingrandom:
gesteves:
Our senior year of college, my friend Meg, changed her birthday on Facebook from the correct date of July 13th to an incorrect date some random day in March.
She then waited to see who would write on her wall or send her a message wishing her a Happy Birthday on the wrong date. Anyone who did was instantly unfriended.
Oh man, I’m so doing this.
March 2009
2 posts
February 2009
1 post
'Go Girl' Lets Girls Go Standing Up →
January 2009
1 post
EVERY 30 gig Zune died last night →
beingrandom:
onemoretimewithfeeling:
brandonsadkins:
davidkaneda:
marco:
This is hilarious. A software bug made every 30GB-model Zune crash last night at 2 AM, and they won’t reboot properly.
Not mine!
No small feat. Grats, Microsoft.
December 2008
1 post
Ebert tears "The Spirit" movie a new one →
beingrandom:
I knew that it didn’t look very promising, but this. Yikes.