Wednesday, December 28

More than Meets the Eye

Wired's photo gallary of their 50 coolest robots. Check out the most baddass cold war propogranda robot: Optimus Prime.

I like squishy things

This dude who works for google got like a ton of silly putty. I would probably do the same if my companies stock was at $426.69

Also want to see how posting about a post on boinboing effects our technorati rank

Tuesday, December 27

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
These quotes give some insite, although possibly falsely, into a President I was too young to experience. They make him seem almost human.

Friday, December 23

Flying Spaghetti Monster for teh Win

I like this guy, he is totally right. The scientists have to be proactive to ensure that only science is taught in science class. Ignoring this assanine problem, won't do the trick!

Wednesday, December 21

Tuesday, December 20

We got computers, we're tapping phone lines

They know that, that aint alllowwwed!

That story is fucked up. Arstechnica has been around, they do quaility technology reporting. This is the first techopolitical j0urnal entry of theirs I've read.

Damn Those activist Judges

Well that's what Pat Robertson would say. He surely is cursing them right now, well maybe I don't give him enough credit... He could be praying for them (as a slightly better follower of Jesus would do). Me I pray for more people like the fine folks in Dover, PA. It's good to see that some areas in this country don't have their heads up their asses. Lets hope more school boards are taken to court, by sane Americans who still think that religion must be free from public institutions to ensure true religious freedom. It's not godless, it's not even un-Christian to desire to keep the teachings of Intelligent Design (or its old name Creationism) out of the classroom. To those who don't get religious tolerance, and can't see how evolution could exist with God... I pray for them, it must really smell up there.

Holiday Hacks

Putting those geek skills to good use, spreading joy and lots O' laughs.

Fatality, mashup.

This is the first I've seen of something like this. Its a mashup of Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. Here is another one, not as good. They both contain more than a fair share of cheesiness.

Monday, December 19

Conspiracy!

This is a conspiracy story about the weirdness that happened with Dave Chapelle. It's really quite eF'ed up. The scary part is for some reason I found it very believable. Enjoy!

Sunday, December 18

it would last longer

first check out the link in the title for the reason of this sites existence.
the main site is called:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com
its really stupid and usually funny.
this guy who hates the corporate world draws these silly mini cartoons, which correspond to most average people's lives, usually about hating co-workers, not going to grad-school, playing banjos, the effects of coffee... "hipsters, hamsters, and other pressing issues" (the names of the book the artist published).

i like this one about making bob dylan covers, this about google taking over the net, and this is for james. oh- now im getting carried away.. this reminds me of my brother... oh man there are so many- just check it out!

Friday, December 16

We *don't* love AIDS

This is a sullen ad about the spread of AIDS in Africa. The reason I'm hotlinking this, is because its done with a striking resemblance to Katamari. What a trippy Japanese game.

Wednesday, December 14

He's Makin' A List, He's Checkin' It Twice...

-Fundamentalist regime? Check.
-Sophisticated offensive and defensive military capability? Check.
-Large population of young, unemployed males? Check.
-Oppressive theocratic leaders? Check.
-Violent political rhetoric? Check.
-Brazen anti-Semitism? Check.
-Unabashed hatred for the West? Check.
-Capability of producing a tactical nuclear warhead? Check.

Duhhhhh, gee boss, I dunno, you think we gotta do somethin' 'bout them Iranis?

WaWa at Your Own Risk

Maybe this story won't affect all of you as deeply as it affects me, because I have been deprived of the bounty of WaWa for almost six years now. To think that this haven of late-night cravings and early-morning hangovers could be a nexus for unrepentant violence causes my soul to cry out in bitter anguish. Why WaWa? Why defile one of the last remaining pure institutions that our great state of New Jersey has to offer? I am heartbroken.

Mario Kart Real Life

There ya go, this one is wireless.

Tuesday, December 13

Don't Believe the Hype

If you've ever heard a rumor or an urban legend about "G-13" or some other ultra-powerful, government-grown, secret marijuana plant, then boy were you wrong. According to this article, the government's weed sucks, and is probably no better than that schwag "your friend" got for you in 11th grade.

Now that the location of the government's sole growing facility is a matter of public record, I urge you to make a pilgrimage to tell the guards at the lab how much their product reminds you of sketchy dudes in Central Park.

Monday, December 12

Games and Gamers not Evil? No way!

Henry Jenkins, a professor at MIT, attempts to dispell the bullshit being spread by the likes of H. Clinton, J. Lieberman, and that jerk lawyer from florida that I refuse to name here.

Should have waited, Humps.

More insult to injury for the xbox360 fanatics. As if purchasing a game system for more than 200% markup isn't enough self inflicted insult in itself. Xbox 360 launch doesn't seem to be going as planned in Japan. Based on how well the first xbox sold/is selling in japan, who would have guessed that they wouldn't be able to sell out of their initial 360 alotments over there.

Maybe the people who are bidding on ebay should wait for the japanese companies to start selling these things online to the states. It doesn't look like they will be selling 400k of these anytime soon in the land of the rising sun.

I bet one could go to lik-sang.com and get a japanese 360, with shipping and some kind of converter for the power supply for only 120% markup. Enjoy your $1000 game consoles, I hope you saved enough for the $60 (and this one) versions of $50 (or $40)pc and console games.

Sunday, December 11

ho ho ho

BAN RACISM!

Thursday, December 8

So Hot, Want to touch the High-knee

They say they want to start a revolution, well you know, they just want your money.

Can't wait to try this out!

Blogdentity += Googledentity

One jcmb's other contributor's, Dave Tomar, is highly googleable as well for his superprofundo politico humor writing .

Sicklythepsycho, not so much. His googledentiy has been hijacked by "Literary bad boy James Frey [who] says Dave Eggers can eat his dust"--Salon.com . I find that to be a very bold statement becuase I read Egger's "And you Shall Know our Velocity" While I was in Costa Rica and thought it was one of the best novels of recent times.

i google myself sometimes for fun

i like to google myself to find funny things that have my name in the website address

i put in amanda ross. the first thing comes up is ...http://www.amandarossho.com which was offensive at first but cool after i clicked.

then i try for my brother: http://www.howardross.net which i thought really was my brother's but then realized it was some artist's site and its really cool.

then i try adam dembowitz, because i think- hey- ill do the people on jcmb and post it for all of our contributors. and adam must be that much cooler... because the ENTIRE FIRST GOOGLE SEARCH PAGE IS REALLY related to our very own adam dembowitz.
i guess my brother and i arent famous enough. mazel tov adam. you're really a fucking winner.

takin' the fun out of the game, jerk.

Celebrate a Great Man's Death??

John Lennon dies 25 years ago today. =(

Ok enough sad.. celebrate his life! Q104 is playing all Beatles and Lennon all day long! Ignore some commercials and rejoice. Imagine made me shed a tear =p. I know he is now in that song, and not in hell like those jerks outside Bonnaroo tried to tell me.


some politics here and here.

Wednesday, December 7

Non_Traditional Gmail Uses

Balls and I had been disucssing non-traditional uses of gmail. Rjonna takes it to the next level by creating a drag and drop interface to use your gmail account and its 2672.131712 megabytes (and counting) of free storage to store whatever you would like. I am interested in harnessing more of gmails functionality, specifically the search, for purposes other than email.

Digital Fantasy of Europe

This site hosts a different beautiful astronomy picture and explanation every day. Todays was a "digital fantasy" of Europe at night(link)

Pop Culture Pwnz M$ 360

Take that morons who waited in line and didn't make a million dollars selling it on ebay, or the braindead fools who paid a million dollars to get one. Suckers! =)

Tuesday, December 6

Ipods For All?

This is more of a "I want comments" post than a "you're gonna laugh" post. According to the linked article, Real Networks has issue with Apple, primarily because the Ipod only works with ITunes. My question is: does anyone really care? If you have an Ipod, good for you. If you have a Windows-based MP3 player and you spent many nights researching why it was a better product than an Ipod (as there are many), good for you too. Personally, I could not care less if Apple makes the Ipod compatible with other music downloading services, because I don't download music.

Just a side note:

As of today, these companies are listed with the share price, daily gain, and percent increase. Notice how Apple stock is worth about 2.67 times more than Microsoft stock?
* Apple Computer, Inc. 74.25 2.43 (3.38%)
* Microsoft Corporation 27.75 -0.10 (-0.36%)
* RealNetworks, Inc. 8.85 -0.01 (-0.11%)

Monday, December 5

Answer: Two

Question: What is the correct number of straps to utilize when wearing a backpack?

Well, if you remember the days when one-strappin' it was the cool thing to do, then boy were you wrong. There's now scientific evidence to prove that anyone who holds one strap of the "bookbag" while letting the other strap swing free is an idiot and probably a criminal.

WTFZORZ!

I promised a non video game post! I stumbled upon this site, because I saw a advert for them which showcased this shirt. Which is a picture utilized in AdultSwim commercial bumps. All I can say about these tee's is... well WTFZORZ!!!

Cup and Ball v. 2006

Sometime soon I'll make a non video game related post =). Until then this is a parody of the promotional video Nintendo showcased at Tokyo Gaming Show (a video game convention earlier this year), to let people in on a portion of the secret behind the new Nintendo Revolution.

SONY and M$ rant

Here is a short wired article about a way that SONY is attempting to screw itself over. In an attempt to give themselves a good image that doesn't seem to be working very well. Let me step up on this pedestal right quick. Be warned doesn't have really anything to do with SONY's supposed graffiti.


The angle SONY needs to utilize against M$ in the game console race should involve emphasizing the personification of Microserf being the "Evil Empire". Instead they seem to be garnering a very similar image from the public.

It does make sense that general perception of a corporation like Sony would be similar to that of M$, they are both multi-billion dollar companies, and they both have a large handle on their prospected primary markets, and even further they have a history of forcing or attempting to force proprietary formats and software upon markets in general (SONY: minidisc, CD, vhs, memoryStick, encrypted music cds and DRM in general, the new Bluray highdef dvd; M$: direct3d/draw, the office formats, IE/activeX and other bastardized webformats and database formats). It's also very understandable that a major corporation would desire to set these kind of proprietary standards.

For example, M$ started designing and pushing direct3d/draw (a proprietary graphics library of functions that allows programmers to make 2d/3d graphical programs, mostly used for games) around 1998 with clear intentions. The intentions weren't to make programming games easier, there was already an easier to use library available (OpenGL). Their intentions were to encourage programmers to use direct3d because a program using their library wouldn't work on operating systems besides those sold by M$. It makes sense from the corporation's stand point to behave like this. If enough games are produced using their libraries it makes cost a good excuse to prevent a company from releasing their game on more than just Windows, which give M$ the advantage in the sale of operating systems.

From a strictly financial standpoint it makes perfect sense, but what isn't usually taken into consideration is the effects of going against the interests of your customers. OpenGL is open source and cross-platform, meaning its use is unrestricted and it is prepared to be utilized on many different operating systems, such as Mac OSx, windows, and *nix. If m$ encouraged the use of OpenGL they would be giving their customers more choice, but instead they push direct3d to limit consumers choice and in the long run monopolize the operating system market.

M$ just released a new gaming system, and no surprise it runs a version of Microsoft Windows Media Center and all the games are programmed using the newest direct3d libraries. SONY has a system that is priming for a release in Q3/Q4 2006. SONY games are utilizing OpenGL and the system most likely has a proprietary OS. There are rumors abound that they intend to ship the PS3's harddrive with a distribution of Linux pre-installed on it, and that it may even be possible to run Mac osX on the PS3 hardware. It's quite an obvious move, because it would be foolish to embrace their competitor's software. They could have made the programming environment with all proprietary libraries and software, but they are showing signs that they will be embracing open-source.

I think SONY should take that idea and run with it. If they want to prevent M$ from taking the living room they should take a public role contributing to the open-source community, despite their rich history of pushing new proprietary hardware onto vendors and consumers. They are billing their new playstation as a fully functioning computer that is cheaper and runs all the hottest new games faster than the family computer. If this is completed with linux powering it they are in a position to make a major change in the world of computing as well as repair their image quite a bit. If SONY does just half as good as they did with the first two playstations it would be a huge blow to m$'s stranglehold on desktop computing. 50 million new linux users would be a huge boost to the user base, and the more users on an OS the more viable of an option it becomes for both software developers and additional users.

Geek is the new cool

In my mind at least =). Anyway here is a quick early afternoon sample of geek kitsch at its best right here. The store website is pretty annoying you can't link directly to the section, so search "Mario".

Fear This!

According to ABC News, Saddam Hussein said on Monday during his trial, "I am not afraid of execution." Apparently, that's not the only thing of which Saddam is unafraid. Judging by his track record, he's also not afraid to:

-invade Kuwait
-commit mass murder against his own people
-hide in a hole underground
-be parodied by Family Guy
-outlive his two sons (taken out by kill-tastic U.S. troops)
-kick your ass

But what is Saddam afraid of? What would drive fear into the heart of a man who is one of the world's most notorious dictators? We consulted our friends at the Psychic Friends Network to find out. After a reading of the cards, we have found that Saddam is afraid of:

-sleeping without a nightlight
-that burn you get when you put alcohol on an open cut
-Gilbert Gottfried
-orange marmalade
-sun blisters
-international political change

Stream This Dead Show

The Dead do a half-step uptown toodleloo by droppping the plan to remove some of the, close to 3000, shows from www.archive.org where they are available as free downloads and streams after an outpouring of protest from Heads.

There is a reason why this is the most downloaded boot leg on the internet:
Date: June 10th, 1973
Venue: Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
Location: Washington, DC


The others have obviously lost touch but Phil, who has been using archive.org while writing his autobiography, is still the man.

Sunday, December 4

let it snow

make your own snowflakes!

this site is so rad. you go and make your own snowflakes. use the scissors to clip and cut lines and shapes throughout your ready-to-cut flake and then click to view your finished product. please email me, amandapanda227@gmail.com with you final result (there is an option for this)... or post you flake# on this site so all can share the holiday and snow spirit!!

howman: are you going to post the snow flake thing?
howman: thats a really good one
howman: and you have say something about what it is how its so rad
howman: sorry that was kinda pushy
Amander: you're a pusher
howman: i cant help it


natural disasters

which is your favorite?

i vote winter snow storms and avalanches, etc.

hungry

http://www.bitchmakemeasandwich.com


and when you get bored of that site (its really deep material):
http://amandapanda227.blogspot.com

bye!

Over clocked CPU Explosion

This is a video of some guys over clocking a CPU to over 4gz and then removing the heatsink. The thing basically vaporizes.

Saturday, December 3

What is Hip?

Jesus Christ Monkey Balls is a tool for generating soical currency. So, if you come across something interesting in the noosphere let us know about it and increase our collective holding of social currency. The key here is to try to keep our social currency portfolio as diverse as possible while still remaining hip becuase "Hipness is what it is. But sometimes hipness is what it ain't..."--Tower of Power circa 1973.

Friday, December 2

new kids on the blog

I guess I'm a contributor to my first blog. Amen to that. I'm completly game centric, so this is a fitting first hotlink. Also you got to love free online books, even if they are for gamer geek programmers like myself. This book wasn't allowed by nintendo to be published for vague reasons, but its a homebrew programming book for the GameBoyAdvanced. And lastly... help start a revolution, combine this with canntennaes and you have cheap long/mid-range wireless repeaters, help put together the backbone for the wireless-Undernet. viva la revolutiion. Anyways see yunz(my make believe friends) around.

-psynautic