2/28/2005top

10:18 AM
It's 2005 and the PC demoscene is alive and well. Unlike ten years ago, however, you now need super powerful graphics cards to view them. The overall winner, Planet Risk, runs beautifully on almost anything though.

Scene.org is hosting downloads of the winners.

-Brett #

2/25/2005top

4:59 PM
Estate Sales LA is selling off pieces of Tim Burton's life in Azusa two weeks from now. Might be worth a visit.

-Brett #

2:18 PM
You know how you have that one friend who's pretty easy going about stuff, but you're always afraid you'll say the wrong thing around them and that they'll just fly off the handle and go ape shit over something totally ridiculous?

PETA is that 'friend'.

-Brett #

2/24/2005top

3:41 PM
Hey Apple, I'm just gonna throw this out there, but if you could deliver a 60GB iPod for $200, I'd buy one.

Your recent price cuts have made me happy that things are at least headed in the right direction... Someday I will own an iPod, perhaps. But not today. $450 for 60GB is highway robbery and you know it.

I do appreciate you ditching firewire for USB 2.0, though. That was awesome.

-Brett #

2/22/2005top

9:26 AM
Katamari Damacy in PlayDoh.

-Brett #

2/21/2005top

2:26 PM
Do a quick search at the US Trademark Office and you'll find that a guy named David Foley is attempting to trademark both the name and official logo of MAME, the open-source Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

The first thing I thought when I read this was "Oh cool. The MAME team is going to protect their good name with the power of a trademark." But then I realized that David Foley has nothing to do with MAME. In fact, he just sells UltraCade game cabinets that happen to be powered by MAME. That's it.

This David Foley feller claims that it's to prevent "illegal competition" with other companies selling arcade cabinets, because apparently UltraCade provides legally licensed ROMS and their competitors do not.

Wahatever dude.

The MAME community is up in arms over these shenanigans.

-Brett #

2/19/2005top

12:31 PM
Note to self:
If you ever delete your GPRS account and WAP profile again, here's the info to fix it:

GPRS
Name: Cingular MMS
APN: wap.cingular
User ID: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1
IP/DNS: leave blank
Authentication: Normal
Data Compression: Off
Header Compression: Off
QoS Precedence, Delay, Peak Rate, Mean Rate: Subscribed
Reliability: Class 3

WAP
Name: Cingular MMS
Connect Using: Cingular MMS
IP address: 66.209.11.61
Second Account: None
User ID: blank
Password: blank
Security: Off
Show Pictures: On

-Brett #

2/17/2005top

4:00 PM
I just ordered and received these laceless Comfort Mocs from LL Bean in the Clay color. For $30 you can't buy a more comfortable shoe. An excellent value! I'd totally recommend them if you're thinking about some new footwear and don't want to break the $50 mark.

Land's End used to sell this exact same shoe for the exact same price, but it's nowhere to be found in their online catalog. Looks like they lost their contract to their number one competitor!

-Brett #

2/16/2005top

3:31 PM
Orisinal: a gallery of beautiful flash diversions.

-Brett #

12:03 PM
If you've ever struggled to figure out the difference between Synthpop and Eurodance, IDM and Jazzstep, Drum N' Bass and Neurofunk, Digitally Imported's Guide to Electronic Music will put your mind at ease.

Audio samples of every electronic music genre are presented in an awkward, but usable, Flash interface.

It's really something! Someone sat down and took the time to literally map out the roots of all electronic music.

-Brett #

2/15/2005top

8:49 AM
By now you've probably seen that video floating around on the Internet of the crazy breakdancing guy in the red shirt.

It turns out that guy's name is David Bernal, and yes, that's his body hiding underneath Gene Kelly's face in that awesome Volkswagon commercial.

This interview proves it!

-Brett #

2/13/2005top

10:07 AM
Vgmusic.com is hands-down the largest and best resource online for free polyphonic midi ringtones. They've got thousands of songs from tons of systems, from ColecoVision to NES to PlayStation 2!

All you really need to get these on your phone is a $10 datacable or a bluetooth connection. Sometimes emailing ringtones to your phone works too, but that's a little hit-and-miss, depending on your phone and provider.

-Brett #

2/10/2005top

10:44 AM
What if I told you that you could create entire Lego fortresses online in real-time with other people - free of charge?

Naturally you would think I was crazy! You know as well as I do how much those Euro jerks charge for a box of Legos. They'll leave no license unexploited, and offering something like this for free simply isn't their style!

That's where Blockland comes in.

-Brett #

2/08/2005top

9:34 AM
My buddy Nate just showed me the awesomeness that is Google Maps. Click the so-obvious-it's-practically-hidden 'directions' button at the top of the page to get directions.

The maps scale themselves correctly to fill up your browser window, no matter how huge it is. Printing directions leaves a little to be desired, but it is still in beta, so the future is bright!

-Brett #

2/07/2005top

10:08 AM
BetterSearch is a Firefox extension that adds thumbnails to your search results. It works will all the major search engines too, not just Google!

-Brett #

2/03/2005top

9:56 AM
Tammy's alive!

She's in Bangkok. They managed to get out of Nepal yesterday before things really got bad. She should be on a plane headed to LAX pretty soon...

-Brett #

2/02/2005top

9:46 AM
Looks like someone snuck some photos out of the now-in-construction Buzz Lightyear ride at Disneyland.

At first glance it appears to be pretty similar to the Orlando original - lots of blacklit painted flats everywhere. Let's hope they spruce it up a little so that we don't wind up with another Winnie the Pooh!

-Brett #

8:44 AM
Tammy's wrapping up her three week vacation right now with three days in Nepal.

How convenient that she should arrive on the same day that this happens.
Flights into and out of the capital of Kathmandu, as well as communication lines, were shut down immediately after the king's national broadcast.
I'm a little concerned that I haven't been able to reach her on her mobile phone anymore... This could be a problem.

-Brett #

2/01/2005top

2:05 PM
"You filthy Americans! You must leave Iraq AT ONCE or we will blow the brains out of your action figures."

-Brett #


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