September 15, 2008

Fail

This is a sound clip from a church service shown to me by a friend. It kind of makes you feel bad for the person playing the organ (or whatever it is).

September 12, 2008

B&J Supersquad!

What better way to learn important messages then from Batman and the Joker?

September 11, 2008

New Layout

Okay, Blogger has updated their templates with some decent ones, so I was thinking about changing again. I have two picked out, and I'll let you guys pick which one to switch to (or to not switch at all). Leave your choice in comments. After this, I'll stop bitching about templates for awhile.

Checkered:



Washed Denim:

Cats Vs. Stuff

The cat makes it funny, the sound effects make it awesome...



Aww...aint he just adorable. I'd wash that tooth brush before I used, though...



September 9, 2008

iTunes Genius Review

So Apple has released a new iTunes program called Genius. Basically, what it does is you can tell it a song you like, and it will find other songs like it. It seems to have a lot of potential, but it comes with a few flaws. Now, I haven't been using it for that long, so some problems may not of been discovered yet.



First things first, to use it, you first must let it access and send Apple your library information. This not only bugged me from a privacy point of view, but took forever. I have approximately 7000 songs (30 gbs) in my library, and Genius went through everyone, which took about 15-20 of painfully computer lagging minutes. It then uploads it to one of Apple's mysterious servers for analysis. At this point, it got a little fuzzy to what happend, because I assumed that Apple recognize certin songs and other songs like it and sends that info to your computer, but I'm still not sure. For all I know, this could just be a big scam by Apple to keep a eye on it's users (I wouldn't be surprised).

As for the privacy part of it, it kind of fails at life. It explains (and quite a lot) that it will perioticly upload your library to the server to keep Genius up to date, but only while Genius is enabled. If you would like to keep your library a secret from prying eyes, you can disable it. Although I'm not sure whats keeping Apple from just looking in anyways.

After getting it set up, and fixing a few problems of my own (a while back, iTunes crashed on me and I lost a lot of songs, and had to re-add them), I enabled it and set it up. It took a little while to find a song that it would work with. I went through at least 3 'till I found one that it could use, and it was odd, because they where big name bands (You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC, Walk This Way by Aerosmith just to name two.) After it found a song that it liked, it imedetly found 25 other songs like it, and it was fairly accurete. I tryied a few type of songs and genres (Emo, Rock, 70's, etc.) and it always found songs along those guide lines.

I think with a little polishing, and a disregard for your privacy, this could turn into a very useful app. All in all, if you have a lot of songs on your computer that you haven't listen too, or even know exist, this is a great way to discover new music. (6/10)


Link to Apple's Genius site-
http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatsnew/


NOTE
- This is only a review for the Genius on the PC, not the iPod version.

PIXAR, Watch Your Back

This was made by students in France. It is one of the cutest computer generated shorts I have ever seen.



NOTE- The makers of this video now works for Dreamworks.

Water Balls

I'm totally trying this. Where's my baking soda?




September 7, 2008

Coolest Wallpaper Ever

This is epic:



Created by James Lillis

Lego Video Games

Alright, so nothing rocks my socks more then LEGO's and classic video games. So, when I saw these old video game screen shots remade with LEGO's, I almost lost it. Enjoy, because I sure did.

New "Most Viewed" YouTube Video

When did this happen?!? Look at the top viewed video. It's not "Evolution of Dance" like it's been since the beginning of time, it's "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. I don't know about you, but this is kind of disturbing. It means that the once nerd infested video sharing site has been taken over by pre-teen girls, or nerds with bad taste in music.

September 6, 2008

Mercenaries 2 Theme Song

This is one of the catchiest theme songs I have ever heard from a video game (Still Alive from Portal still holds number one, though). I'm totally down with that grand piano and the male quartet.

Mona Lisa In .007 Seconds

I love the Mythbusters.


http://view.break.com/563765 - Watch more free videos

September 4, 2008

100 Worst Movies Of All Time

Here you go, the worst movies of all time, as chosen by the viewers of Rotten Tomato. Enjoy!

Latino 300

So in Mexico, when people scream, they sound like a T-Rex?

September 3, 2008

Blog Stuff, MF3, and Pointless Links!

Alright, so I added some new things to the blog. One of them is a "Followers" thing, and I don't really know what it does. So if you figure it out, tell me. Also, I added a RSS feed reader so that you can easily subscribe to my posts, for the two people who actually read this drivel.

So I upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 3 today. I was holding off until Firebug worked with it, and they just recently fixed it so it does. MF3 is pretty sweet. I haven't really noticed anything majorly new with it as compared with Mozilla Firefox 2, but I haven't even been using it for 24 hours yet. One neat thing that I like is that you can do full page zooming (unlike just text zooming as in MF2) and the ability to save your open tabs when you close MF3 and have them automatically reopen with you relaunch the browser.

Now, time for the part you really care about, the useless links! This is one of the oldest bookmarks I have. I stumbled across it while updating to Mozilla Firefox 3. It serves almost no purpose then to waste hours and hours of your time. If you don't believe me, look at the clock, then go to this site and start to play around with it, then look back at the clock. Yeah, I know, it's crazy. It is also a great link to use in school, because if you get caught, it's educational!

September 2, 2008

Dave Chappelle

I love him.





Also, I've been working on a new map. It has to be fairly small, because it's going to use the new play mode I talked about a while ago.

Right now, I'm just playing around with the theme of the map. I want to do more of a mountain/lumberyard theme for this map, because I'm sick of all the dust and dreary color pallets. I haven't really decided on what the map is going to look like, so feel free to leave you two cents bellow.

P.S. YouTube is now letting you customize the way the videos look. It's pretty rad.

Top on Google!

With the right key words...


September 1, 2008

I Don't Know Why...

But this makes me laugh...



This too...

Urban Sprinting

I wonder what he says if he ever gets caught?

"I swear officer, I didn't take anything! I just enjoy taking the tags off clothing and getting chased!"

Someone Has Too Much Time On Their Hands...

I mean really. Think about it. Someone had to go through and find each one of these pictures.