10:25 AM
Looks like I spoke too soon. The Rule of Three has been broken by Billy Mays. This makes me sad.
Billy Mays made watching commercials fun. He could turn an infomercial into infotainment in a way that no one ever has or will.
Do yourself a favor and watch an episode of Pitchmen to learn more about the man behind the beard. He was a good guy and it's hard to see good guys go.
9:29 PM
I just watched the Brady Bunch Movie for the first time in a few years.
That movie is solid gold.
They did such an incredible job mimicking the original show, from the camera movements to the pitch-perfect casting right down to the music cues, not a single detail was overlooked. Watching Gary Cole as Mike Brady you'd think you were seeing the late great Robert Reed risen from his grave to masterfully reprise his role.
10:46 AM
It's now possible to load Wii disc images onto a USB hard drive and play them on a Wii without a modchip or any other kind of hardware modification.
This is great news for people who: - are too lazy to get up and swap discs when switching games. - have children and want to rid themselves of fragile physical media. (me) - are pirates.
Here's a video of the loader in action. These hacker guys are no slouches - this looks like a professional, official application from Nintendo.
Discussion is in this thread, the official site is here, and frequent source updates are available at Google Code here.
10:07 AM
Auto-tune the News One, Two, and Three. These are must-see videos.
Number 2 is even getting some airtime on the radio. Commercial radio!
I hope someone gives these guys a job in television or something, because what they are doing is fresh and hilarious and it needs to be rewarded! They do folk music on the side to pay the bills I guess, but this auto-tune business is SOLID GOLD as far as I'm concerned.
11:06 PM Toy Story Mania is coming to the Wii. Remember the Wii? It's that white box that's sitting under your TV. You bought it, played Wii Sports, and haven't touched it for the last two years.
Here's a neat article about the tech behind the attraction.
"Taken individually, Midway Mania’s individual control systems are pretty straightforward, but it’s how they work together is what determines whether attraction soars or falls flat. “The hardest part of the project was defining all the software interfaces between the game, ride and show controls,” Gerstner says, noting that all three systems have to be closely coordinated to deliver that seamless user experience."
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