I don’t know all that much about these dudes, except that I bought a fake “obey” shirt from American Blvd. A loooooong time ago, but I swear the artwork they make inspires the hell out of me. One of these days I’m gonna bust out my sneakers and just run around pasting shit up on the walls of Manila. But first, I have to learn to run fast, real fast.
Check out more pics after the jump.
Sigh. This just doesn’t excite me at all. I hate Michael Bay. I hate Steven Spielberg for producing this monstrosity. I’ll watch it, but I’m really not getting my hopes up that it’ll be much good.
Well this certainly took me by surprise, although it probably shouldn’t have. Dell has promised that it’ll roll out Linux based machines to home and office consumers in the near future. The biggest question on people’s minds is how much will they be able to save sans Microsoft Windows, and whether or not customer support will be savvy enough to handle Linux based problems.
I’ve been staring at the screen for five minutes trying to think of something snarky or funny to say, but i got nothing. Click the link for more info.
Entourage is the show you watch before you go on a boys’ night out. It’s Sex and the City for men. It’s what every red-blodded, horndog man aspires to at some point in his life. It’s funny, witty, hip, and has jsut enough underlying tones of male emotional bonding to make it feel real.
Ostensibly it’s about the life of one Vincent Chase, an up and coming movie star, his brother Drama (a washed out actor), E (Vince’s best friend and his manager), and Turtle (a sometime rap music manager and freeloader). It’s supposedl based on the life of Mark Wahlberg (who co-produces the series), and tells the tales and travails of a bunch of friends living the life in Hollywood, and it comes with all the glitz, glamour, and sex that you can imagine.
HBO’s been yoyo-ing between finally finishing season 3 and filming for season 4, and with their history of cutting good shows, it’s still touch and go at this point. I really hope they keep this show going though, because it’s spectacular. I’d suggest that any guy out there just go out and buy a copy of the complete seasons 1,2 and 3. I don’t care if you buy the pirated copies, just WATCH THIS SHOW!
Update: Just as I was about to sumbit this blog, I noticed that HBO is indeed extending the series, and has a preview clip on the official entourage website.
This phone looks and sounds amazing. 200mb internal storage with a microSD card exapnsion slot, 2 megpixel camera, USB mass storage mode,, built in google maps, a unique slider function that allows the user to have either a numeric keypad or a qwerty keyboard at their disposal. The Ocean’s a step closer to the all-in-one device that geeks have been having wet dreams about for years.
This guy’s art and his use of wood get me excited to try painting and playing around with mixed media. I’d love to know his process of transferring print to wood, but I haven’t managed to dig up anything. I guess I’ll just have to experiment some and see how that all works out. I’d say more, but I’d really rather you just go to his site and check out his gallery and be awed.
I’m not quite sure how I feel about this phone, but then again I’ve been steering away from poorly made convergence devices (read: unless the damn thing can hold at LEAST 30 gigs, I ain’t interested). Samsung’s take in it is pretty novel to say the least. Taking a page from Sony Ericcson’s book, the Korean manufacturer decided to make one side look like an MP3 player and the other side look like a phone so that your gadget is on, yet separate. A microSD slot allows for up to 2GB or music goodness, which is decent, but far from enough for music nerds. My one biggest complaint is the tiny ass screen on the “phone” side. I mean seriously, what’s up with that Samsung? It reminds me of those one liner Ericcson phones from way waaaaaay back.
In geek circles, MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) are the coolest thing ever when it comes to all things culinary. Imagine, having a “fresh, home cooked meal” in a bag? With a non-flammable heater that you just have to add water too? How cool is that? Too cool. But according to this former National Guardsman who takes you through a walkthrough of the process of preparing and eating an MRE, it’s not as good as I thought it was. I’d still want to try one though, if only for the experience.
I’m curious though, what do caucasians have against using spoons to eat? How is using a fork more civilized? Anyway, clicky the linky to get to the good stuff.
The picture above looks like a dream condo for your up and coming yuppie or salary man, but in fact, it’s a minimum security prison in Austria. Seriously. I don’t know whether to be amazed or annoyed, but I swear to god it’s enough to make anyone on the third world seethe. A fricking 5 star prison. Jeheeeeeesus.
Well at least if I’m ever in Austria and I’ve run out of money, all I need to do is commit a burglary and I’m set for the next year or so.
Been checking out lots of cellphones recently, and I thought it would be fun to categorize them as how they’d be like if they were women, cause I’m geeky like that.
Sony ericsson K800
Let’s begin with the K800. The K800 is stylish, no doubt. She’s also pretty smart, and she’s got an artsy side (she’s a really great photographer). She’s a little chunky though, but I’d be willing to overlook that if it weren’t that ugly hump on her back. I mean seriously, what a turn off right?
Samsung P300
The P300, like I said before, is retro cool. She doesn’t like dressing up like the other girls, and she knows how to flaunt what she’s got. While she’s not as curvy as he other girls, she uses her slim, boxy shape to stand out from the rest of the crown. The leather case she puts on sometimes marks her as an intelligent, classy gal as well. The downside? She’s a little deaf, and she speaks softly, so talking or listening to her can be a chore, especially for my mp3player ravaged ears.
Samsung D900
The D900 and the P300 are related, in that they’re both attractive and intelligent, but they’re attractive in different ways. The D900 is like an ugly ramp model: She’s slightly anorexic and her face looks “interesting”. But, unlike most ugly ramp models, she’s pretty intelligent, even more so than her retro cool cousin.
LG Chocolate
The Chocolate’s the bimbo of the bunch, sort of like the iPod in mp3player land. She’s stylish and sexy, with just the right amount of curves to make you want to hold her forever but dammit, she’s just not that smart. She sports a weak 1.3 megapixel camera, and the featureset is nothing to write home about. But she sure is hot.
Motorola MING A1200
And finally, we come to the Ming. She’s almost perfect, this one. She’s smart, hot, and she has a unique look that really sets her apart from the crowd. She’s the kind of girl that draws glances everywhere she goes, and she revels in it. Unfortunately, like some smart women, MING likes to make even the tiniest operation complicated. I don’t always want to have to take out the stylus and stroke her with it some before I can send a message, sometimes I just want to go tap tap tap Boom! Message sent.
So which phone will I end up with eventually? Only time will tell. One thing’s for sure though, like women, no phone in the world has all the features and looks you’ll ever want. There’s always a drawback, and you just gotta choose the woma…er, phone that’s right for your needs.
Sorry, just a quickie post rant. I implore people to never fucking buy equipment from the power mac center in greenbelt 3. They jack up the prices so much its just disgusting. A pair of earphones in Avant (the upscale Abensons store a stone’s throw away) cost around 700, while the same pair in the Power Mac Center costs more than 1100. If you’re gonna buy your electronics, go to Avant, Abensons, or even the SM Appliance center. The clerks won’t know shit so you should be prepared, but at least you won’t be getting gypped.
So I’ve been looking at phones lately as well, hoping against hope that a small bonus will be coming in soon. I know the Samsung P300 isn’t on the top of many people’s lists and it’s already pretty old, but the design jsut really caught my eye. 80’s retro cool may be out of style, but I still dig the fact that this phone looks like a calculator, very James Bond-ish. That, and the fact that it comes with its own leather cover/extra battery make this phone even cooler than it already is.
I’ve sort of passed the multimedia super gadget phone phase of my life, and right now I just really want a slim, stylish phone. The K800 is just a little too bulky for my tastes, the K810 isn’t here yet and will probably be too expensive, and the samsung d900 is slim and stylish, but quite a few people have them already, so I’ve got my sights set on this baby.
Of course, I change my mind about this every 5 minutes, so that’s really not a guarantee.
Probably as a response to the proliferation of “I <3 New York” T-shirts all around the world, reason clothing released this nicely crafted rebuttal T-shirt. Gotta love those Noo Yawkers eh?
For more pics and info on Reason, click here.
In one of the most bizarre stories I’ve read in a while, it appears that DVD pirates (yarrr!) have put out a hit on two Labradors named Lucky and Flo who have been instrumental in busting a $3 million pirate (yaaaar!) operation. It’s unknown how much the conract for two doggies’ deaths will pay, but they’ve been whisked away to a super secret hideaway in order to assure their safety for future DVD sniffing action.
More info about pirate fighting dogs after the jump.
Dreamgirls is a movie for any fan of motown and the history of that era, but even the most ardent fans will cringe everytime Jennifer Hudson as Effie White hits those high notes. I don’t understand how she got a best supporting actress nomination Oscar, I really don’t. She wasn’t horrible by any means, but she was nowhere near an Oscar-worthy performance.
I liked that the movie was set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, as a parallel to the struggle of black musicians to bring their music to to the white dominated pop charts. It’s also fun to match the real life motown singers to their fictional counterparts (ie the jackson 5 = the campbell connection, marvin gaye = jimmy early), and just to watch the progression of the characters as the story goes along.
I wouldn’t call Dreamgirls a bad movie, but it isn’t stellar either. It’s just good enough that you don’t feel cheated of your hard earned money, like after watching a movie like ghost rider.
Jeemiah is a Czech nerd that’s made it his mission to make one Nerd art painting a day, nerd art being anything that draws inspiration from 8-bit or classic videogames that Palecek played in his childhood. The artowkrs aren’t astonishingly good (they were done in a few hours mind you), but it definitely brough back memories for me, especially this one of 10 yard fight. I swear to god I played the fuck out of that football game even though I had no idea what I was doing.
Check out his blog here.
I’d been meaning to write an article about this for a long time now, but I’ve held it off for ages because I wanted my articlle to be insightful, meaningful, and life changing. Obviously, this is not that article, but I’d like to share the story of a gamer in Baghdad with you anyway. It’s a marvel to me knowing that there are video gamers in Baghdad, who brave the wartorn streets in search of a pirated copy of Final Fantasy XII. It bring to light the fact that no matter where you live in the world, we really aren’t all that different after all.
Wisam (the gamer) shares stories of Baghdad the likes of which you’ll never see or hear on a major network, but are just as poignant and important. The most interesting part to me was how her related to no longer being able to play FPS’ or games like Grand Theft Auto because they felt too much like real life to him. That the sound of gunfire no longer held appeal to him because he’d hear it every single day.
An article that’s both shocking and intriguing, it’s well worth a read, so click on the link to get the lowdown on being a gamer in Baghdad.
Now I really really hate Sudoku and puzzle games like it, and I’ve never managed to solve a Rubik’s cube, so this really isn’t something I’m excited about. But I’m sure puzzle geeks out there are frothing at the mouth to get their hands on something like this so I’ll post it for all of you to fantasize about. Ew.
Google’s famously minimalist home page is set to get a graphical upgrade, with users able to choose different themes and add functionalities that you would normally see on a home page like Yahoo or MSN. I personally jsut type in search terms in the search field located on Firefox’s toolbar so I rarely ever go to Google’s main page anymore, but I suppose that some people might find this cute and/or useful. Wouldn’t be able to tell you who though.
Click on the link to find out more.
UMPCs (Ultra mobile PCs) haven’t exactly made the splash that Microsoft has hoped they would, most notably because of the rather odd position they find themselves in, right between pocket PCs and 11 and 10 inch screen laptops. This Asus model is hardly the newest kid on the block, but the rather low cost of entry, $800 or so, makes it an appealing choice for the mobile individual who doesn’t really need a second computer but something sort of in between.
I know, I’m not really selling the idea, but check out this review and this video review on the R2H to see if it’s your cup of tea.
To be honest, I don’t know much about greyone aside from the fact that they’re a retailer that specializes in streetwear. I do find it interesting that they’re setting up shop here, although the deets on time (sometime in May?) and place are pretty sketchy at best.
Russia, along with Japan, has had a colorful history of coming out with the wackiest inventions. These gas powered boots operate on the same principles as the internal combustion engine in your car, but instead of turning wheels it gives the boosts an added “jump” that allows the wearer to run at speeds of up to 22 mph. Unfortunately for its inventor Viktor K. Gordeyev, the Russian government had it classified as a military secret until 1994, after which it was unsuccessfully marketed to venture capitalists around the world.
Apparently the release of the movie 300 did two things: Raise female hormonal levels 200% AND is also made any males they were with while watching the movie feel small, helpless, and impossibly flabby. While the chances of females getting their hands on those tight Spartan bodies is a million to one, they can, however suggest (read:coerce) their significant others to click here and here to get the lowdown on the “Spartan” training regimen.
These exercises certainly aren’t for the weak of heart, so if any of you armchair warriors does decide to take a stab (ha! a stab! get it? no? screw you.) at it, do inform your next of kin, and a doctor.
When miss Miriam Sy showed me this link, I just HAD to put it up. Control a robot with your DS with this sweet package from natrium42.com. See, this is what we need to do. CONTROL the robots, not give them AI. For $99, this little gadget is highly impractical, but I can imagine having a date over at my place, asking her if she wants a drink, then bringing out my DS and maneuvering the robot over with two bottles of San Mig Super Dry. Or…maybe not.
Check out pics and info after the jump.
This is the last one, really. Just a quick link so you can all have a gander at those commodore gaming PCs that I mentioned a while back. I’m not to impressed to be honest, as I’d still go for an alienware gaming rig for the sheer cool factor. I mean if in the end they’ll all have the same components anyway, the cool factor is the way to go.
More info and pics after the jump.
Another hypebeast linkie, these pics are from Copenhagen, where Quiksilver’s put up some really interesting outdoor advertisements. I love it when brands and advertisers do this kind of stuff, because is speaks of much more creativity than your standard “make it as big as fucking possible” billboard ads.
Check out more pics after the jump.
Hypebeast pointed me out to this interesting interview with some designer named Jeff Ng, and while the interview itself was quite fresh and informative, I was more impressed with the overall layout and presentation of the inquiring minds magazine. It’s tuned towards hip hop and street culture, so not all of you will be into it, but I loved how the souondtrack was perfectly chosen, how the music didn’t jar you and and make you look for the “stop” button. It was also cool how inside the article they had interview snippets that you could click on, and when the video came up, the background music would fade out, and it would be back full force once the video was done. It’s those little touches that make a publication stand out, and I’ll definitely be visiting inquiring minds again soon.
Crossgen comics was a shooting star in the comics industry. In its brief history, it became the third largest american comics publisher in the world, was a shining light for comics professionals who wanted a steady job with benefits instead of freelancing, and in general made pretty damned good comic books that spanned the range from high fantasy, space opera, and victorian mystery.
But the dream that was Crossgen died when financial rot started to seep in, and most of its books weren’t picked up off the shelves. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and its assets were picked off by Disney for a paltry $1 million.
Fortunately for cheap thrifty comic geeks in the Philippines, good comics never really go out of style, and if you wait long enough, one bookstore or the other will let go of its old stock at bargain basement prices. 150 pesos per issue of EDGE, to be exact. EDGE is an anthology that collects the best stories of 5 Crossgen comics, and while it’s (the stories) not neccesarily in chronological order, they are for the most part self contained, and for that price its a steal. I was lucky enough to find EDGE 1-11 in my bookstore, but my friend’s told me that similar sales are going on in other National bookstores as well, so you all might find something worth buying. Along with EDGE, Crossgen also released FORGE as a similar anthology, but the FORGE collection at my National was sorely lacking.
Anyway, what are you guys waiting for!??!?! Go out and buy some comics already!!!!
Watching 300 is like watching a high school play with an unlimited special effects and choreography budget. The movie itself is beautiful, like watching high contrast photography come to life. The action, while nothing we haven’t seen before, is suitably vicious and gory. The men…well, I’ll leave that to fags and women to talk about.
While the movie was a treat for the eyes, the story, as I feared it would be, was painfully weak and the acting can be boiled down to a series of either yelling (THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAA) or homoerotic coercion (All I ask is that you kneeeeel, yesss, that’s right, get on your kneeeeeees). 300 lacks the grandeur and epic proportions of movies like Troy or even Braveheart, but maybe it was never meant to be such. I’m only disappointed because I’ve loved this historic battle for the longest time, and I just really felt the movie didn’t do it much justice. It’s just another action movie set in olden times, like Apocalypto.
It also bothered me immensely the kinds of creative license Frank Miller took with his costume designs. The Spartans didn’t just fight in their briefs, they actually wore armour. The Persian Immortals did not look like hybrid samurai-ninjas in black, and weren’t deformed. In fact, many in the Immortals were the flower of Persian and Medean nobility, and they wore clothing nothing like Miller’s Immortals. Miller’s were scarier to look at though, I’ll give you that. And don’t even get me started on bisexual god-dess Xerxes. Seriously, what? Watch Alexander again, if you want to know what the Persians would have looked like.
Still, despite all this, I’d pay good coin to watch 300 again if they ever bring it over to the Mall of Asia’s imax theater.
SXSW is an annual gathering of the hip and bleeding in media and technology. It’s a breeding ground of ideas where geeks and hipsters can gather and swap stories and business plans. There’s absolutely no way I’ll ever get to visit the festiveal, but the magic of the internet provides the next best thing.
This blog links up to more than a dozen Nordic (Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc) bands that performed in SXSW, and provides you with free mp3 samples to boot. I’ve listened to the Norwegian bands already (wassssssup Andreas?), and I love all of them. The standout for me has to be Chris Lee though, because who knew there were Norwegian rappers?
Click on the link for some sweet, legally free music.
In a bit of geekiness, I was able to figure out how to hook up my creative zen to my TV so that I could watch movies on it instead of on the Zen’s tiny screen. Talladega Nights is a hilarious movie, and a testament to the fact that Will Ferrell is comedy gold. While there were lulls in the movie, there were also plenty of times I found myself howling helplessly with laughter as well. That’s all I have to say really, just go watch it if you haven’t already, or Ricky Bobby will sic the baby Jesus on ya, or a cougar even.
Let’s take a dip into the rumor mill kids, as apparently a user in some forum was given an online survey about the Google Phone. It doesn’t give the possibility of there actually being a Google Phone any credence, but sure is fun to dream ain’t it?
Here’s a cute toy those who are musically inclined can play around with for a few minutes. Verizon’s beatbox generator allows you to take your pick of 5 different beatboxers (you know, those guys who makes scritchy scratchy sounds with their mouths?) and mix and match them to your heart’s content to produce your own slick beatbox track. In essence, the website operate like a dumbed down version of full blown music software like FLstudio or ableton, so anyone familiar with those programs should have an easy time of it.
Check out the beatbox mixer here.
After hearing this band play on Conan O’Brien, I scrambled to get a copy of their album, so impressed I was with their music. Unfortunately, this Franz Ferdinand-ish band’s best song is the same one that they sang on Conan, a single entitled “Get Myself Into It”. The other songs pale in comparison, which left me a trifle disappointed.
Check em out here.
Storage geeks will love this little gadget from Kingston that looks like a USB drive, acts like a USB drive, but is also a card reader when you pop the hood up!
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Ok, so it’s not the most exciting news ever, but it looks pretty sleek, and at around 1000 pesos for 1 gig and 1750 for a 2 gig drive, it’s not bad. When you insert a SD, MMC, or SDHC card or their corresponding mini and micro versions in the slot, the PC detects it as a separate drive, making sure that you never get confused as to where your files are!
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Whatever. I thought it was pretty neat.
Been trying to get in the art groove again these past few weeks, and exhibits like this help keep the excitement going. Picture shamelessy lifted from the hundreds.
This pic was shamelessly plucked off fraudwasteabuse, and is one of the reasons I want to visit NY city one of these days. This kind of massive grafitti work would never see the light of day in Manila, but I hope some local graf artists stumble onto my site and start getting some wild ideas, cause I would LOVE to see a local versio of this one day.
C heck out the rest of the pics here.
Anyone who hasn’t been hiding under a huge rock has at least heard of the hit TV series Heroes on NBC. The of the more popular characters is the time bending Hiro Nakamura, portrayed by Asian American whiz kid Masi Oka. So why’s he my hero? Get this, before the dude became an emmy nominated actor, he used to work with Industrial Light and Magic, providing special effect for movies such as the new Star Wars trilogy, and at the same time, he was doing improv and stand up comedy. How cool is that? SO cool. It’s a good thing I’m better looking than him, or else I’d have a huge inferiority complex right now.
Read more about Masi Oka here.
Just cause I’m pretty proud of the damned comic strip.
Felt like a new header, worked on this last night and just remembered to upload it now. Comments, suggestions, or violent reactions? Not that I’ll listen to them anyway, but you know, go ahead and spit it out.
If you’re a fan of both art and German cars, you might want to head on over to the Ayala Museum in makati to scope out the BMW art cars. I don’t exactly know the entire span and history of the art collection, but apparently BMW’s been geting popular artists to do this since 1975, and even fatures a car painted by the late Andy Warhol, which on its own would make it worth a look for me.
So apparently coffee is passe. The kids of the future today drink coffee not to wake up, but to be cool. The real waker uppers are drugs like modafinil, which not only keeps you awake, but alert and focused as well,perhaps even more so than if you were just well rested. If you’re the yuppie that works all day and parties all night, this may just be the thing to get you through the night, especially of you’re pushing 30 and your energy levels aren’t what they used to be in college.
The flipside is that the body really does need sleep (no, really, it does), and excessive sleep deprivation will cause damage to your body, and I already foresee millions of college kids and yuppies burning out on these pills in the near future.
Check out the 6,000 examinees attending the entrance examination in Shandong Art & Design Academy in Jinan, China. That’s some crazy competition right there.
Picture lifted from the coolhunter.
Really, they don’t want to be left behind by their neighbor Japan, so they figured they’d take the initiative and develop robots themselves, complete with a charter to “set ethical guidelines concerning the roles and functions of robots”. You know, so they don’t go apeshit on their masters. It’s sort of creepy that South Korea’s answer to a low birth rate is to make robots that will become “key companions” for humans in the future.
My suggestion? Let’s ship half the Philippine population over to South Korea. That should take care of their frickin service needs.
Hated your graduation? Hate your graduation pics? Never graduated but really really wanna fake it? Then head on over to the Graduation Night event put together by geek chorus and Rock Ed on March 14, 9PM. Yours truly will be there, partying with the guys of geek chorus, who almost make it cool to be a geek.
I’ve liked Stephen Frears ever since I first saw his name on the High Fidelity credits, and his work is The Queen is just as good. Helen Mirren perhaps really does deserve her Oscar, but the parts that I liked the most were when the royal family was together, and they were bitching and quarreling just like any other family. Any other British family at least.
I’m a little disappointed that the movie teased me with a nugget of information that hinted that Princess Diana isn’t the vulnerable, beautiful princess that everyone thinks she was. When “Prince Charles” says something like “well, they’re not the ones that have to live with her on a daily basis are they?” or something like that. Would’ve been nice if they’d shed some more light on that, but otherwise it’s a great movie.
So I’m gonna break with tradition a bit, and not limit myself to one sentence, cause Lupe Fiasco is just so fresh. I dig the music, I dig the vibes (he’s a hero to nerds and middle class suburbia), and he has a Nintendo DS on the cover of his album. Seriously. I can’t say I totally dig the cover though, it feels a little early 90’s to me, but it looks like that’s where the trendsetters are going anyway, since the 70s and 80s revivals are running out of steam.
If you like cool, intelligent rap music, pick up this album quick.
With a name that sounds like it came from sci-fi B-movie (think Barbarella) and a body to match, Antonella Barba was sure to be a big hit in American Idol. Well, not really. Apparently the girl’s been struggling to get through the rounds, and people are starting to complain that she’s getting by on her looks.
They were half right. Antonella’s smoking body is partly what keeps her in the game, but it’s also her recent internet notoriety that’s fanning the flames. Clickety click on the link for some NSFW pics of miss Barba.
And when giant robots stomp the human race out extinction, it’ll be their fault. Students at Waseda University have built a prototype of said human stomping legs and called it the WL-16IV(Waseda-Leg Number 16 Refinement Four). The robot uses a mix of algorithms and special hydraulics in order to move about on two legs, even allowing for movement on stairs (unlike the ill-fated asimo 
), and of course stomping useless human meatbags.
I’d just been born when the commodore C64 became one of the best known and best selling personal computers in the 20th century, but older geeks may rejoice in the fact that the venerable brand is making a comeback in the form of gamer targetted PCs. The computers will be unveiled on March 15 at the CeBIT trade show in Germany. Personally, I think that Commodore’s going to have a huge hurdle trying to overcome the likes of gamer favorite Alienware, but I certainly wish them luck in their enterprise.
Themed shoes seem to be the trend in Reebok these days, as they’ve released another 5(+1) pack called the Royal Straight Flush pack. This is something I wouldn’t mind wearing right now, especially since my friends and I are starting to get back into the Saturday night poker groove. I dunno about that Joker shoe though, it’s too early 90s outer space looking for me.
Ok, so I was ragging on the Nike Transformers shoes a few months ago, but this just feels so much cooler. I keep thinking like if I was a kid again, and I had a small group of friends, we’d all get our moms to buy us one of each “lion”, then we’d go out and parade our kicks to the other kids on the block or something.
No seriously, I do.
I defended Ron Artest when he was suspended for an entire season after the now infamous 2004 brawl, but this is just ridiculous. Dude’s already been to anger management, and he still can’t control himself. The Kings have put him on hiatus for now, but maybe the NBA should take a harder look penalizing players like this in the league.
To whet people’s appetites for the upcoming film extravaganza that is “300″, I’ve prepared a bit of a starter kit for thermopylae neophytes to get a bit of a background on the great battle before watching the actual movie.
For a better historical perspective on the actual battle of thermopylae, click here, here, and here.
For a more in depth look at not only the battle, but the traditions and cultures of the Spartans and Greeks in general, you might also want to purchase “Spartan” by Valerio Massimo Manfredi and “Gates of Fire” by Steven Pressfield.
I know I bitched about 300 a few months ago, but the truth is that I’ll still go to watch it for the pure visual spectacle that I’m sure it’ll be. Still it’s always nice to get some more background info, if only so you don’t start quoting movie scenes as actual history.
In a decidingly unthreatening move, the robot populace has created a cutesy robot aimed at bloggers too lazy to put up their own goddamned multimedia content. As far as I can tell, the PaPeRo robot absorbs information through conversations with its “master, which it then uses to upload and post multimedia that it “thinks” its master would like to share with the world.
You know, this might be more threatening than I first thoght. Can you imagine the kind of filth Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan’s robots will unleash on the blogging populace?
Holy shieeeeeeeeet is all I can say. That’s gotta be the coolest, geekiest lantern ever built in the history of lantern parades. Made in the Taiwanese district of Jiayi, this Gundam model’s sure to make rabid gundam fanboys wet there pants when they realize it’s built in 1:1 scale. That’s right kids, if you can find your way inside that ginormous lantern you can pretend you’re piloting your very own Gundam.
I’ve thought for the longest time that the most natural extension to a cellphone’s capabilities is a camera. You never know when the perfect shot might come, and you’ll always have your cellphone with you, so it just seemed like the perfect match. This the reason I’ve had my eye on the SE K800 cybershot phone, since it features a 3.2 megapixel camera (which is 1.2 more than my dedicated canon digital camera). But just when I’ve saved up enough money to purchase the K800, Sony throws this beauty of a monkey wrench into the mix, making me think twice about my K800 purchase.
See, I’ve been lugging around a Nokia N-gage for the past two and a half years, and my pants pockets are begging me for a slimmer phone. The K800 just barely fits the bill, but the K810 ups the ante by coming in a slimmer form factor. However, the specs are almost identical and the K810 is really just a K800 after a trip to Vicki Belo and some Bangkok Pills, so the deciding factor will be how much of a price difference there will be. If local merchants charge an exorbitant amount for the K810 (as they are wont to do, especially when an item is the “latest, sir”), then I’ll pass. The K800 can be bought for around 16k these days, so if the K810 is priced at say…20-21k, I just might take the plunge.
