so play.com have the xBox 360 for €639.99 i’m sure this is just a figure they’re puttin up for show. They can’t have any idea how much it will cost but I know people who’d pay that. Poor fools.

-follow up on this. BBC have reported that hints have been dropped by xBox Chief J. Allard hinted it would cost around $300. thats more like it. Full Story

A comprehensive look at Electronic Music in all its forms,from the 50’s to today.
its great to be able to look back and find the origins of electronic music
Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic music

As reported previously, Adobe and Macromedia have merged. Here’s the cynical view.

What are the benefits of the combined product lines?

Many of our customer segments are complementary and in many cases customers in those segments are using products from both companies. The combined company will be able to offer increased productivity through streamlined workflow and tighter integration. However, until the close of the transaction, the companies will continue to operate their respective businesses as usual.

Once Freehand, Fireworks, and GoLive are killed, customers will have the benefit of not having any competing apps to choose from, and we benefit from not having any competitors.

3 short clips from ebaumsworld. Drunk Guy, poor fella has probably had a long day. Crazy bus driver you go kids, kick his ass. My favourite would be the invisible cards. Get up that sleeve you bad boys. I’d love to be able to do that trick, I’d get the sugar, then the money, then the power and then the women.

Just a regular day in Swaziland. The King marries his 11th wife who at 21 is bearing his 25th child. Two more women already set to marry him, although he’d want to get a move on to catch his dad who when he died had more than 70 wives.

The unemployment rate stands at 40% while nearly 70% of the country’s one million inhabitants live on less than $1 a day and nearly 40% of adults are HIV positive.

Swaziland Link

Coolest Mum ever hires stripper for kids 16th birthday,Photolab employees rat on her and she gets indicted.She should be given an award,they should be given a life

This is old, but the guys servers have been hammered so much I haven’t bothered linking to it. He’s made guinness ice pops by freezing cans. Click.

A story about a Granny who repeatedly calls 911 to complain about her local Pizza Parlour, and then resists arrest

the 5-foot-tall, 98-pound woman attacked him,scratched him, kicked and bit his hand

weird experiment from the late 1950’s where they got an artist to draw while taking LSD. The deterioration is strange and of course then follows the mandatory comedown.
draw

Scientists at Canada’s Universite Laval have invented a lens that is five times thinner than a piece of paper and can zoom without using mechanical parts. The lens is created by adding a small quantity of photosensitive material to a liquid crystal cell. When a weak electrical current is applied, the crystals realign differently from those in the periphery and thus take on the shape and behavior of a lens. The researchers have been able to modify the lens’ focal distance from 1.6 to 8 meters in a few milliseconds by increasing the voltage from 1.5 to 4.5 volts.

Sweet. Full story. (via.)

Another one from the world of Azeroth. This time a ninja looter (the person who steals items without rolling on them) on an American server no doubt. After going through Molten Core for hours (these things can take all night) and finally defeating Garr, due to a bug or something, a single person walks to the body of the fallen enemy and loots all the rare and epic gear the whole forty person raid group was after in the first place. Their reaction are recoreded on video and the usual ventrilo voice comms chat. The background story behind the ninja roll is depicted in this image. What also made this popular is that hot women (photoshopped or not) play nerdy video games.

Click here for the soundboard jump-off.

Ninjas FTW! Oops, I mean Dudes!

I always liked ni9e’s stuff whatever he did. He mainly reconstructs graffiti with slick video production and experiments with various media to highlight graffiti’s importance in today’s culture. He also did a slick version of NWA Straight Outta Comptopn (explicit lyrics only version). Analysis of graffiti project (video & image) features a massive video projection on New York buildings and monuments to highlight the creation of tags such as ‘Hell’ (seen above) and ‘JESUS SAVES’ amongst a few others. You’ve got a lot more tags to write… grift.

website: http://www.ni9e.com/
blog: http://blog.ni9e.com/

Check out the new video from Hoovers and Sledgehammers called Joyridin’
filmed in the south of Dublin and surrounding areas. Very funny. Click

I love educational cartoons, they should be showing this in schools around the world,(its Americacentric, but hey, it applies to everywhere)

From the people who brought us wordcount, comes 10×10

an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time

TypeDrawing is quite a nice idea, All you need to do here is type something, and then you can draw using the letters/symbols youve typed, using your mouse,(you’ll see what i mean) check out the best of section and see your efforts put to shame.

American ad about wife beating at home. Click here for the windows media video jump-off.

… and more @ http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

You can also share your creative secrets too!

A guild raid party in World of Warcraft is preparing to take on The Rookery in the Blackrock Spire (a high level instance dungeon). The dragon eggs are everywhere and getting close to them will make them hatch, and very hungry. The boss in the area drops some very nice shoulders which are completely useless for Leeroy but he insists on going in. The video captures the scene and the ventrillo talk between the guild mates. Obviosuly staged but very funny.

Click here for the Leeeeeroy Jenkins jump-off.

I watched it on wednesday night, midnight screening. It’s the best one of the prequels. Watch the Star Wars: New Hope before if you can to enjoy the movie even more. Get the EPS pattern of the t-shirt here.