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Honda = Cyberdyne Systems?
When I see videos like the one above, it really makes me start to wonder if Honda will become an actual Cyberdyne Systems (a.k.a., the company that built SkyNet, a.k.a., the machine that built the Terminators, a.k.a., the cause of my night terrors).
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The coolest thing you'll see today
I've seen some great examples of tilt shift photography, but I've never seen anything quite like the video above. Artist Keith Loutit made this excellent video using the tilt shift camera trick. What you're looking at above are actual people and actual places -- they are not miniatures. Pretty slick, huh?
UPDATE: If you liked this video, Keith Loutit has seven more tilt shift videos for your enjoyment.
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Go green -- start using someecards now
This is just one example of the hilarious (and free) cards that you can create/send using someecards.com. I'm *this* close to telling friends and family that I'm no longer sending physical cards. Hallmark charges roughly $4 for a decent card, which typically winds up in the receiver's garbage can within 5 minutes of opening the card (I'm speaking from personal experience). The funny thing is that if I sent someone $4, they'd probably be upset with me. But when it's in card form, it's okay.
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iScreener: Laugh today, reality tomorrow
Abstruse Goose posted this comic today:
At first, I chuckled at it, but then it got me thinking. Are we really that far away from a mobile application that can do everything noted in the comic? Apple recently bundled some outstanding facial recognition software with iPhoto and there are a bevy of dating websites. Would it really be that hard to mesh the two together? Or, better yet, have it poll the National Sex Offender Registry.
Long story short, when "iScreener" becomes a reality, you can say you read about it here first.
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Top 5 Worst Christmas Songs of All Time
It's around this time of year that I turn my radio dial to whichever station is playing non-stop Christmas songs. Yes, it's kinda corny, but it helps put me in the spirit of the holiday season.
Thankfully, most of the songs are timeless classics and I'm able to stay upbeat despite the madness that is Christmas. Unfortunately, even the birth of Christ is unable to save us from these five songs (in my personal hate order, but they are certainly interchangeable):
#5. "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" by Gayla Peevy
Of the five songs listed, this is the only one that should be registered as a sex offender. My ears are literally molested every time I hear the munchkin-with-his-balls-in-a-vice voice of Gayla Peevy screech out this tune. Hit play in the video below and see how long you can last. I was able to go 12 seconds before downing an entire bottle of Maximum Strength Tylenol and using the cotton ball stopper to permanently seal off my ears.
#4. "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Bruce Springsteen
"The Boss" sounds like a complete tool with this seasonal treat. I'm not sure if its his playful banter with the E Street Band (which happens to eat up 45 seconds of the song) or the fact that his "cool" meter reading drops to a level that's even below Danny Federici, but in either case, its a song that deserves to be on this list.
#3. "Christmas Through Your Eyes" by Gloria Estefan
If you're lucky, this song will be played in both English AND Spanish when you hear it. What bugs me the most about this one is that it DOESN'T EVEN SOUND like a Christmas song. I'm guessing that when she was nearly killed in a car accident and saw the infamous "white light", God decided that even he didn't want to hear this crap and sent her back to Earth.
#2. "Grandma Got Run Over By Reindeer" by Elmo and Patsy Shropshire
I'm not sure I even need to explain this one. For the sake of argument, can anyone explain the chorus of this duet (yup...it took two to tango with this masterpiece):
"Grandma got run over by a reindeer, walking home from our house on Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe."
You can say there's no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe."
Seriously, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!
#1. "Last Christmas" by Wham!
The only thing worse than this song is the video for the song. A pensive George Michael ponders what life would be like if he stole the other guy from Wham!'s girlfriend during their outing to a cabin at the top of a mountain. I mean, c'mon George. You could've totally nailed the blonde she-male with the crew cut that's setting the table or the girl with the bright yellow yarmulka. Just pick someone and stop singing this whine-fest.
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New Xbox Experience is LIVE; Sony, take notes
Christmas came early today for all Xbox 360 owners. Microsoft has launched the new "user interface" (to put it lightly) for the Xbox 360, named the New Xbox Experience. I eagerly anticipated downloading the update this morning, but I set the bar low, fully expecting latency issues and other unknown problems.
Well, Microsoft didn't disappoint. The installation couldn't have been easier (fully downloaded AND installed in 2 minutes) and I've already begun poking around the new features. As you can see below, I've created my new avatar (looks a lot better than my Mii) and I spent some time this morning with the most anticipated feature, the Netflix integration. Once again, no disappointments. My queue was updated as soon as I activated my Xbox on Netflix.com and I decided to give "Ratatouille" a shot. The video ran smoothly (for a streaming video) and I was able to use my Xbox remote to fastforward and rewind. All in all, a very enjoyable experience and I've already started to add "Play it now" movies to my Netflix queue.
If anyone from Sony happens to stumble across this blog, please take notes. While I thoroughly enjoy the content you have in the Playstation Store, downloading new files can be painfully slow. I recently purchased an update to the PSN game, PAIN, and the file size was a meager 211MB. My 802.11g network *should* be able to chew through that in 5 minutes (or less), especially at 10:00 in the evening.
No such luck.The download took nearly 30-40 minutes and this seems to be typical for the Playstation Network. Granted, PSN is free-of-charge, but when you see such a drastic difference in performance between Xbox Live and PSN, I'm willing to bet that the Sony-faithful would gladly spend $50 per year for a better "experience".
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Obama and investing
E*Trade has posted a timely article detailing what Americans can likely expect from not only an Obama presidency, but a Democratic presidency. The graphic below gives us reasons to be optimistic and to stop shoving money under our mattresses.
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