Not exactly the normal fare of ufies, but I thought this was pretty interesting. ABC has a story about a guy Spending a Year Living Like Jesus.
"I decided since I had read through the gospels at that point over 30 times, I wanted to know who best represented the fundamental teachings of Jesus, and I felt that he more than any other candidate represented the teachings of Jesus, so I voted for him," Dobson said.
Interesting stuff, as it definitely got him to think different (to coin a phrase :)
Lifehacker notes that JPG Magazine Archives are Available for Free. JPG magazine made a lot of news lately by closing down.
I don't plan on pimping every new iphone or apple accessory here, but this looks interesting... Ars has a review for the Incase Power Slider battery backup for iPhone 3G. It's like a thick case for your iphone, but it has extra battery charge. Hit the article for pics and review. Might be worth the $$..... I already have a thick case on my phone, assuming this doesn't make it too much larger, or unreasonably heavy that is.
Casting Announcement Imminent? - News - Doctor Who - Online Magazine & Fan Site
Ubiquity (the power user plugin for Firefox) .13 is out. Hit up the Release Notes for screenshots, download, etc.
Apparently a lot (hundreds? thousands? All of them?) of 1st Gen 30G Zunes are failing all at once. Gizmodo has the story with updates. No resolution from Microsoft at this time though.
ObSarcasm - there are "hundreds" of people with Zunes? Seriously?
Update: fix?
Update2: Seems the real fix is to wait till midnight.
Here's a cute little hack from Jeremy Zawodny.... using Twitter as a Dynamic DNS Service.
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I always know there are a lot of people out there way smarter than I am (a lot) but I'm still amazed after seeing Portal - Advanced Chamber 18 done with 0 Portals. Check out the 'related videos' as well for other similar accomplishments. These guys do things like lean security bots against doors to keep them open when they open, exploit little bugs in the HL2 engine to climb walls, and other such coolness. Very impressive!
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Voice Activated, Interactive Dancing R2-D2 Astromech Droids. I'm not sure what else to day. It's awesome!
Scott Thompson sent along word that he had created a User Friendly Ornament for your tree. Very cool, thanks Scott!
I'm not normally one for funky javascript effects, but I have to say that this is very cool.
Three new screenshots have surfaced in the last few days from the latest round of DNF media. I hear that this is one year after the first "new" set of media from DNF came out proclaiming that they were back, there was indeed a real game there, it was being worked on, etc etc.
This is like 2001 all over again. We were jazzed up by the promise of DNF not being forever and a day away last year, now a year later they are reminding us that they're still working on it, no, really, we are.
The screenshots of course look lovely, and completely pre-rendered and doubtful to look anything like it in the final game (except for the last one maybe).
Bottom line, I'd say don't get too excited and wait for the announcement next year that they're switching game engines (or platforms).
Remember the trailer for the new Star Trek where Kirk leaps from a car just before it goes over a cliff? Well, /film notes that Popular Science has done The Physics of Kirk’s Star Trek Car Jump and found that once again, Kirk is da man!
11th Doctor Announcement Imminent? - News - Doctor Who - Online Magazine & Fan Site
11th Doctor Announcement Imminent?
A happy birthday message to the beautiful and talented Milla Jovovich.... exactly one month younger than I. Milla, if you see this, you're welcome to come by Vancouver and say hi anytime, ok?