Life-sized… Gundam… Statue. What more could be said? That is a whole lot of awesome! On June 10th, construction of a life-size Gundam RX-78 was completed on Tokyo’s Odaiba Island Shiokaze Park for the upcoming 30th Anniversary of Japan’s most famous anime, Mobile Suit Gundam. This 18-metre statue was built with a moving head, hydraulics, and boasts 50 – count ’em 50! – points of working lights.
Read MoreSaving a parallel Swap Universe from jackbooted copyright thugs and bad Hollywood event movies! One ripped disc at a time. Reviewed in this episode: Transformers 2, Valkyrie, and the Daredevil: Director’s Cut. A crossover crisis mashing rgbFIlter with the Laroquod Experiment. NO COPYRIGHTS WERE INFRINGED IN THE CAPTURE OF THIS VIDEO. But to the extent possible under law, we (rgbFilter and the Experiment) waive all of our copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work, and grant them immediately to the Public Domain, via the Creative Commons.
Read MoreZack Snyder’s “Watchmen” is finally coming to Blu-Ray on July 21, 2009, and with it is what just might be the most comprehensive special feature set, well, ever. Dubbed “Maximum Movie Mode”, it takes the idea of the director’s commentary to an entirely new level, in that the director walks into the shot and dissects the scene, literally giving a frame-by-frame explanation of how it was made. The highly detailed walkthrough plays like a tutorial, including behind-the-scenes video, prop and stunt explanations, and easter eggs (watch for Snyder’s cameo in…
Read MoreThat’s right. The Sony Walkman has been around for 30 years now, revolutionizing portable music forever by allowing aural connoisseurs to listen to whatever they want, whenever they want. In celebration of the advent of the Walkman, the BBC Magazine had 13 year old Scott Campbell put down his iPod and try living for a week as if it was 1983, when cassette tapes ruled the mobile music roost. There’s a LOT to recommend in the article, but my favourite line has to be… I mistook the metal/normal switch on…
Read MoreSo let’s see, what’s going on in the news today. Well, there’s Iran, Iran, Iran, garbage strike, Iran, Iran…Yup, seems like pretty standard fare. …Oh what’s this on the cover? Michael Jackson? Dead? STFU!!
Read MoreHTC held a launch in London, England to announce their new phone, the HTC Hero, running Google’s Android. The first thought that ran through my mind is “Oh great, HTC launches a new Android phone, big deal.” That is, until I saw videos of it in action. This phone could be huge. What really sets this apart is the user interface, which HTC is calling the Sense UI…
Read MoreIn it’s Q2 2009 earnings presentation, Adobe mentions that Flash 10 for smartphones should hit beta October of this year. This should mean a better quality (or, finally, the capability) of most smartphones from Nokia, Microsoft, Palm and Google amongst others to play robust Flash content on the go. We’re assuming the beta will hit all these operation systems at the same time, and should provide a consistent Flash presentation environment. There are two major phones missing off that list though: RIM’s Blackberry line, and Apple’s iPhone. I’m not exactly…
Read MoreLast Friday we went to the iPhone 3G S launch event at the Toronto Eaton Centre Apple Store…this post is a little tardy, but better late than never!
Read MoreOverview: I’m sure we’ve all been faced with the dilemma of running out of hard drive space, and wondering whether it would make more sense to upgrade an internal drive, or plunk down the money for an external solution. When contemplating getting yet another hard drive to add to my system (as dictated by the paltry 24 GB I had left free on my last drive), I realized it was time to look into some sort of network addressed storage (NAS) instead of dogpiling another drive in the computer, or…
Read MoreOkay, it’s been a long while since I lasted posted an article, so here goes… This article is based on something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. With more and more movies coming out on Blu-Ray, it is getting really tempting to pick up a Blu-Ray player (it’s a battle that’s still raging with me, but that’s another story). But since most of my hard-earned cash is going towards bills and such, that got me thinking… Let’s say you’ve spent your hard-earned cash on a beautiful big screen…
Read MoreAs we’ve covered many times in the past, Bell has continued to put a stranglehold on innovation in Canada’s DSL infrastructure, as we’ve seen our rankings in the world continue to slip further back. Although slow in coming, the CRTC hearings continue regarding Bell throttling 3rd party wholesale customer, and public input for round two is open, until June 22nd. To Fight The Power…
Read MoreI am about to link you to a comment section on somebody else’s blog, in which I am hilariously informed by Andrew Weiss that I belong in ‘The Directory of Internet Martyrs forthcoming from Who Gives a Shit Press’. The comment was sharply written, and not far off the mark. Are you surprised that I am telling you this? If so, then I have a bone to pick with you that is similar to the bone I have to pick with those who are outraged (those being Dave Ex Machina,…
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