Monday, June 28, 2010
Ni No Kuni
The animators, writers, and world designers are Studio Ghibli. If you know such films as Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke. The game designers made Professor Layton and his many puzzles. This is sort of a game in my dreams.
Paintball gets evil
It doesn't hurt at all. It just feels like a flick. Now just stand and take the hits from this computer automated sentry as it shoots you.
Vuvuzela
Want more Vuvusela?
Press the soccer ball button on youtube to relive World Cup glory.
Or get it on Google Maps.
A woman broke her windpipe blowing one.
And here is the world's largest vuvuzela.
Incredibly cute baby otter
Anyone else suddenly wanting to be a proffesional animal caretaker? Anyone else thinking about otter pops?
John Gnarr
Doing things that only a comedian could get away with, like becoming mayor of Rekyavic, Icelands capitol
On the topic of Germanic stuff. Video is Video in German. Film is Film. The same with Movie. TV is Fernsehapparat. And thats why German TV sucks.
On the topic of Germanic stuff. Video is Video in German. Film is Film. The same with Movie. TV is Fernsehapparat. And thats why German TV sucks.
Pirate Bay's parent company is gone
Pirate Bay is fine though. Oh and the weird o thing means the A has a Y sound with it. Sort of a Ay.
My name is Keith Borgholthaus and I study useless languages.
My name is Keith Borgholthaus and I study useless languages.
Ray Guns for Better Crops
Phillip K Dick better not be right on everything, that would be really bad. However, this time it is totally nice.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Isaac Asimov
A friend told me about this story. I like it, though I think the technology is way off, and that the ending has problems.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Singing Flight of the Bumblebee
Don't you hate those videos where you say in your head, "I could do that." Yeah, I can't actually do that either, but man I sure think I can.
Dutch Skimmers finally arrive on American Shores
This is a huge deal, and it gets into all sorts of politics, I will likely write a serious article on it for the Ke Alaka'i. But for now, enjoy this article.
Physical Activity Symposium
Because that's what we all need. A symposium where people sit around, eating really expensive food, discussing why no one goes out to exercise anymore.
This Owl is Awesome!
I feel the same way when dealing with people around me. Sometimes big, sometimes small, and sometimes all together evil.
Mario by Violin
I had to figure out that the violin was actually making all of the sound effects from the game. Videogame Violins is at an all time high now.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Joke Thief
Ok, the truth is all comedians steal jokes. This is not a secret among them. They have competitions over who can tell the same joke better. It looks like this guy is in trouble because he pulled down a politician. One note about this link, Comedians can be very coarse and foul in their humour, so if you don't like a joke from a certain comedian, just skip to the next one.
The top site for Nintendo E3 stuff
Monday, June 14, 2010
North Korea makes Flash games
They are for sale. The truth is far weirder than any joke I could tell.
NASA is slowly getting useless
I am not kidding. In fact it sort of shows a sign of the future. I could go on for hours on everything that NASA has introduced. But I think I can put it bluntly in saying you wouldn't be reading this without NASA. Just about everything on computers today is from technology NASA designed, evenn down to picture programs and Hard Drives. Losing NASA is losing a major power source for the technological break throughs of the country.
Physics
Is always cool when someone tells you something interesting about it. Like this equation might mean that harnessing that quantum universe can create an artificial gravity, however it also means that ringworld is wrong.
R2 the Iron Man
Wow, I just imagined c-3PO in Iron Man colors, not as much of a change as I thought it would be. R2-D2 looks completely awesome though.
Lazers
By and far I look forward to when we all walk around with lightsabers or blasters. When people ask why they were created, I can honestly answer that Geeks just wanted it to be true.
Gran Turismo 5
So I am going through all of the announcements for E3 right now and the only video I just really enjoyed was this one, or the one with Raving Rabbids.
I will be honest, most of the games seemed like the same old games. Even though Microsoft was showing off a new controlling style with Kinect, the only original game was the one above. This game will be really hard to sell because no one knows what is going on. Still a cool video though.
All in all, today wasn't very interesting. Tomorrow will have more presentations by Sony and then Nintendo.
Oh wait, Microsoft did have Cirque De Solei dance while showing off Kinect. There was a robotic Elephant.
Let the games begin I guess.
Google is now challenging everyone
No really, they have a program for everything, and are now selling programs using their own download selling thing.
I really don't think this is news
No really, this shouldn't surprise anyone. It should be right up there with the English drinking Tea.
South Africa is showing a really good side
I have a good friend who lives in South Africa. I wish I could show you the many pictures he has, or let you hear him give the long talks on how wonderful it is to live in SA. I can show you that there are people noticing what he has talked about for years.
Fussball in Lego
The website is in German but really cool to look at. Seemingly all of the World Cup games are in there. I just don't know how to say United States in German. Sorry.
Goldeneye Remake
One of the greatest games ever released will be remade. If it is anything like movie remakes, expect fools to be pitied.
It is still illegal to hack
But if someone says outloud that something is hackable, is that illegal?
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Beards of the World Unite!!
The World Beard and Mustache Championship was a wild and woolly ordeal. Hope and Cheryl were on site to see the many wonderful beards in all their glory.
I asked them a few questions to find out how it was. It was Hope began to describe it,"There were all sort of varieties. There was one in particular , it went down to his chin and went out 7-12 inches."
She said her favorite beard was Beard of Warpath. He was shivering in the Oregon coolness.
The Bearding personalities were varied some were, "Very serious about their beards. Some wouldn't even let Miss Oregon, a judge, touch them. Others were just silly and having a fun time."
Although there were no panels on how to properly grow a beard Hope did say, "...the host (emcee) wrote a book on facial hair."
Hope was disadvantaged at the show because she was actually a 10 year old girl but if she could grow a beard it would be, "A cool one. One that is unique, flashy and in-your-face (ha ha)."
When asked if they would be returning Cheryl -Hope's Mom- said, "We wouldn't miss it! We met awesomely fun people, who traveled such a long way to be a part of this."
I asked them a few questions to find out how it was. It was Hope began to describe it,"There were all sort of varieties. There was one in particular , it went down to his chin and went out 7-12 inches."
She said her favorite beard was Beard of Warpath. He was shivering in the Oregon coolness.
The Bearding personalities were varied some were, "Very serious about their beards. Some wouldn't even let Miss Oregon, a judge, touch them. Others were just silly and having a fun time."
Although there were no panels on how to properly grow a beard Hope did say, "...the host (emcee) wrote a book on facial hair."Hope was disadvantaged at the show because she was actually a 10 year old girl but if she could grow a beard it would be, "A cool one. One that is unique, flashy and in-your-face (ha ha)."
When asked if they would be returning Cheryl -Hope's Mom- said, "We wouldn't miss it! We met awesomely fun people, who traveled such a long way to be a part of this."Disney Blog
It's a great blog to show off, but i found one article that takes the cake. Steam Punk Mickey.
Jack Benny
A true master player....eventually.
My Mom actually saw him play in concert once, he was much better than what he is doing now.
Orkney
It's in Northern Scotland, get this, there is a village called Sudderlannd which means Southern Lands in Viking -they called it Norsk. It's got amazing stuff.
Funimation
A legal site to watch Anime, it is sponsored by Anime companies. I was watching Darker Than Black when I realized it should be shared. If you watch, remember that some shows have large portions of violence and blood. Some have story too.
Dustin Geddes was amazed by this
He and I had a conversation on Arnold Schwarzennegar's height. I found this site.
A Matter of Size
My brother and I were discussing the rate and price of memory. We realized that it would be far cheaper to buy 2 GB of Ram for a simple machine, than buying something much smaller. Lets put this in proper context, Windows XP can be run easily with 2GB. In fact, it can be run with 1. Let's say you had a small device that only needed about 4 bits of memory, but really, 2 GB was the best price.
This device wouldn't need wires, it connects by Wi-Fi, it wouldn't need a monitor, a computer over at central can connect to it and find out how it is doing. It would basically be exactly the computer you wanted 10 years ago, for about $5. What does it do? Screw things.
It is connected by USB dongle to a screwdriver robot. A simple machine, that only needs so much to do. Imagine the entire factory being controlled by all of these little computers, working away at these easy tasks. This is a nightmare waiting to happen.
You see, it is connected to a wireless network. This network can be accessed by a laptop. In fact, it is likely not even thought about how dangerous the problem is. One machine goes bad, ah well. The screws did not get in tight enough, the entire box it was making is faulty. The computer running it was too powerful for anyone to care if a seperate program took over and changed the commands just a little. Instead of 10 turns, this little screwdriver did 8. Just enough to give it room to work and then bust inside of warranty.
People would go looking for the culprit, but somehow he didn't show up. The Camera system and automatic gun system is controlled Via Wi-fi. In fact, most everything is connected now, and hacked just right. It appears that nothing happened, and no one was awake. The mocha machine somehow put in decaf that day. Except one guy, who was actually playing farmville. He was arrested as the suspect. He hacked the system, and was the only guy awake.
Imagine now the entire recall, because some guy with a laptop got ahold of that little computer. The tech guys won't know it happened, unless they go into every device and check the code. They don't know how many turns to make either, it was written down on a computer, which has access to the wireless network. So they change the code themselves to another screw. This one needed 10 as well, but got 15. If the box was squeezed in a certain way, the box cracks.
What does this box do? It controls the salt on McDonalds' french fries. They get salted badly, McDonalds goes under. Now imagine the Burger King with a laptop.
Ready for more insanity? Imagine that we create all new technology in the next 10 years. True holograms, and scanning devices are used to change communication forever. Now imagine this technolgy 10 years after that. You have to realize that the processing power and memory is far superior to the computer you have now, and it fits, inside of a pocket watch. It has 200 Petabytes, and can run calculations in numbers I can't even find in Wikipedia right now.
Programs like Windows simply don't grow with this and remain at something like 30 Terabytes. This device replaces the old stupid computer from 20 years before, the same one that got hacked into so easily. Guess what? This device is not only hackable, it can be sent back in time.
Now imagine picking up this device in 1972. Keep in mind, a Kylobyte is considered big stuff at the moment. A Gigabyte is something only Governments have, and the entire computer fits inside of a warehouse. This little device is picked up by a kid. He thinks it's cool. He can talk to people on it, he has no idea who. His parents worry that it is possessed by satan, and the government wants it for examination.
This device was cheaply made, and probably has some of the same stuff an iPhone does. It has a scanning device, like a camera, only it records it differently. It easily can tell you about things within a mile of it. This little boy is sent out on a magical quest. He finds the hearing dongle that connects to his ear. A special controller for games, and even a screen.
The government chases after this boy. The device he holds is able to tell him where the GMen are, and how to escape. It can make money from ordinary paper, if you get the printer.
Now imagine that the computer is fully put together, it can talk to our little boy, and tells him to give instructions to the GMen.
Screw= 27;
Somewhere out there, Ronald McDonald smiles. Revenge is a dish without salt.
Before you start thinking this is all made up stuff. Check this out. It's not built yet, but I for one want it.
This device wouldn't need wires, it connects by Wi-Fi, it wouldn't need a monitor, a computer over at central can connect to it and find out how it is doing. It would basically be exactly the computer you wanted 10 years ago, for about $5. What does it do? Screw things.
It is connected by USB dongle to a screwdriver robot. A simple machine, that only needs so much to do. Imagine the entire factory being controlled by all of these little computers, working away at these easy tasks. This is a nightmare waiting to happen.
You see, it is connected to a wireless network. This network can be accessed by a laptop. In fact, it is likely not even thought about how dangerous the problem is. One machine goes bad, ah well. The screws did not get in tight enough, the entire box it was making is faulty. The computer running it was too powerful for anyone to care if a seperate program took over and changed the commands just a little. Instead of 10 turns, this little screwdriver did 8. Just enough to give it room to work and then bust inside of warranty.
People would go looking for the culprit, but somehow he didn't show up. The Camera system and automatic gun system is controlled Via Wi-fi. In fact, most everything is connected now, and hacked just right. It appears that nothing happened, and no one was awake. The mocha machine somehow put in decaf that day. Except one guy, who was actually playing farmville. He was arrested as the suspect. He hacked the system, and was the only guy awake.
Imagine now the entire recall, because some guy with a laptop got ahold of that little computer. The tech guys won't know it happened, unless they go into every device and check the code. They don't know how many turns to make either, it was written down on a computer, which has access to the wireless network. So they change the code themselves to another screw. This one needed 10 as well, but got 15. If the box was squeezed in a certain way, the box cracks.
What does this box do? It controls the salt on McDonalds' french fries. They get salted badly, McDonalds goes under. Now imagine the Burger King with a laptop.
Ready for more insanity? Imagine that we create all new technology in the next 10 years. True holograms, and scanning devices are used to change communication forever. Now imagine this technolgy 10 years after that. You have to realize that the processing power and memory is far superior to the computer you have now, and it fits, inside of a pocket watch. It has 200 Petabytes, and can run calculations in numbers I can't even find in Wikipedia right now.
Programs like Windows simply don't grow with this and remain at something like 30 Terabytes. This device replaces the old stupid computer from 20 years before, the same one that got hacked into so easily. Guess what? This device is not only hackable, it can be sent back in time.
Now imagine picking up this device in 1972. Keep in mind, a Kylobyte is considered big stuff at the moment. A Gigabyte is something only Governments have, and the entire computer fits inside of a warehouse. This little device is picked up by a kid. He thinks it's cool. He can talk to people on it, he has no idea who. His parents worry that it is possessed by satan, and the government wants it for examination.
This device was cheaply made, and probably has some of the same stuff an iPhone does. It has a scanning device, like a camera, only it records it differently. It easily can tell you about things within a mile of it. This little boy is sent out on a magical quest. He finds the hearing dongle that connects to his ear. A special controller for games, and even a screen.
The government chases after this boy. The device he holds is able to tell him where the GMen are, and how to escape. It can make money from ordinary paper, if you get the printer.
Now imagine that the computer is fully put together, it can talk to our little boy, and tells him to give instructions to the GMen.
Screw= 27;
Somewhere out there, Ronald McDonald smiles. Revenge is a dish without salt.
Before you start thinking this is all made up stuff. Check this out. It's not built yet, but I for one want it.
Future Technology
The Technocrat Retrofit of London from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
This guy has difficulties understanding it, yet his videos are constantly used to promote it.
World's Smallest Library
The size of a phonebox. Dr. Who, Bill S Preston, Theodore Logan, and Superman have all asked to get versions.
Old School Videogame
No batteries at all. I admit, I have this mad dream of a victorian game of pong. Would love to build it, but it would cost way to much.
What the Midwest Thinks of the rest of the US
I'm from the Blue and Brown, and now live in the yellow.
Eric Snider is hilarious
This is the guy who came up with Garren's Comedy troupe. He also writes movie reviews. This article was just chosen at random.
Jonathan Coulton's $37
As it turns out, he did give permission for the video. But the video you just watched was also taken up and Viacom now owes 60 cents to the video creator.
Myolk it does a body good
Swedish kids don't see cows normally. Or the sun by the looks of it.
So, how many people understood what the announcer and text said?
Dr. House is expensive
On the other hand the patients get to stare dreamily into his eyes as he makes fun of them.
Earhbound on Twitter
A retelling of the game Earthbound on Twitter. The game had zombie hippies in it, and aliens attacking Jazz concerts.
E3
I will try to blog some on E3 or the Electronic Gaming Expo on this blog. It's next week and always catches my interests. I don't think I can hide my love of videogames too much. I will try to have other links for the week as well.
The big news will be that Sony and Microsoft are releasing motion controlled games, thus showing that Nintendo Wii has beaten them. Sony is trying to appear to know what they are talking about. But most people have caught on that they are suffering pretty badly. Microsoft is...
The Playstation 3 and XBox 360 systems were promoted to a specific age and person, and guess what? The Motion Control games are also for the same people.
I love the Wii, when people ask what system I loved, I say the Wii. Because I get to play all the games I loved as a kid without having to argue over which system was better. I got my Sonic next to my Mario like the way I like it. So yes, expect a lot of Nintendo news. I will do my best to keep it weird news though.
You will note that I did all of that in one post. I will try to keep that up.
The big news will be that Sony and Microsoft are releasing motion controlled games, thus showing that Nintendo Wii has beaten them. Sony is trying to appear to know what they are talking about. But most people have caught on that they are suffering pretty badly. Microsoft is...
The Playstation 3 and XBox 360 systems were promoted to a specific age and person, and guess what? The Motion Control games are also for the same people.
I love the Wii, when people ask what system I loved, I say the Wii. Because I get to play all the games I loved as a kid without having to argue over which system was better. I got my Sonic next to my Mario like the way I like it. So yes, expect a lot of Nintendo news. I will do my best to keep it weird news though.
You will note that I did all of that in one post. I will try to keep that up.
8Bit in 3D
Not quite what I had in mind.
Wait a minute.... Ok, so Nintendo is going to be releasing a new system soon. Its a hand held device that is getting a lot of attention and speculation right now. What if you had 3D for Mario Bros? Think about it. I am so Geeking out at the idea right now.
Wait a minute.... Ok, so Nintendo is going to be releasing a new system soon. Its a hand held device that is getting a lot of attention and speculation right now. What if you had 3D for Mario Bros? Think about it. I am so Geeking out at the idea right now.
Chips commercials in Russians
i had to watch about 15 before I found an appropriate one. Really funny stuff, but it can get low brow fast. It would also be easier if I could read Russian better.
Wheelchair on Freeway
I am a firm believer that Stephen Hawking is a GI Joe. Just no one has gotten him the proper chair yet. This man is working on it.
Movies in 30 Seconds as done by Bunnnies
The best part about this is that I never have to watch those movies that people rave about but I have no desire to see. WARNING CUSSING
Music Through the Game Boy
Super Chip Tune Samba Band Research from Pixelh8 on Vimeo.
I am waiting for when people create Freebird for it.
World War I Strategy Game
It's easier to be England. Only because the English kept demanding that Germany fight with their arms tied behind their back while doing the hokey pokey.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Germans
Has anyone else noticed that I have posted a lot of videos of Germans doing stupid things? Does this guy even know what Houston We have a Problem means?
The famous quote from Helen Thomas
Actually the Jewish populating in Germany is slowly increasing, though so is the antisemitism.
Bananas grow in Iceland
Oh and its pronounced Eye+jaw+f+logical. See, a specialization in Germanic histories does pay off!
Neil Gaiman
Cute Otters
It's not every day I get to post something from College Humour. I spent the entire 6 minutes overcome by cuteness.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Hoverboard
The Geek inside me says the display itself is actually transmitting a magnetic wave to the board so that it is hovering, but thats just me. If this can be done, I am all for it. Just imagine the magnetic skateboard parks. Thats right, frictionless surfaces.
Children singing about farting
There is a fart joke here if you know that Bach wrote "kraut und ruben tut mir weh" or "Cabbage and Turnips give me gas."
Ewok Sing Along
Ewok Karaoke from Rob Tyler on Vimeo.
So much thanks to my friend Melissa for this one.
Someone elses Firesword
I went to see the fireknife competition, and found a fire sword after googling.
Britain has Nazi Cows
They wanted to Auroch. No joke, there are tons of really amazing species that were just too dangerous to keep around. To give you an idea. The Middle East used to have giant Tigers. Europe had Lions, Aurochs, and Bison.
Filibuster
Its one of my favorite political web comics. I may not agree with the guy every time, but I can tell he did his homework on the subject.
1000 times
This is the end result of a guy uploading, ripping and then reuploading a video 1000 times.
I wait to see the Polka Band with Slash
He is actually in a step up. A few months back he was only playing Rock Band.
Lego Printer
If I had a hammer, I would hammer in the morning
With a felt tip pen
I would be a printer.
Christopher Lee is Awesome
No really. The man whose very appearance makes my brother laugh out loud in recognition was a World War II Special Operative. So how is your resume? He has played every villain known to man, and in real life helped stop two of the worst.
US beat Australia
For more info check out Soccer is Futbol. I find it very sad that this is being updated on the Weird News Blog.
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