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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Fun: Original Unaltered Star Wars Trilogy on DVD
http://starwars.com/episode-iv/release/video/news20060503.html
I think I am going to try to resist the urge to buy this version, as much as I would like to have it. How many different versions of these movies can Lucas try to sell?
For whatever reason, I bought Episode 1 when it was released. I can't remember why now. So far I have resisted getting Episode 2 and Episode 3 on DVD. Well, purchasing Episode 2 has never really been a temptation. I actually would really like to get Episode 3 though. However, I know as soon as I do, Lucas will release a new set with all three new movies that includes some extra features I will want.
Fun: Flash: Art.com artPad
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
Check out the gallery for some impressive work that others have done with the tool.
Friday, May 05, 2006
Fun: Interesting: 50 Year History of Play-Doh
Here is a link to an interesting article on the 50 year history of play-doh. Apparently, the "plastic modeling composition" was originally intended to be a wallpaper cleaner. I guess since I am so used to seeing dozens of the plastic play-doh cans in our house, I almost had forgotten that the cans were once made of cardboard.
http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/playdoh_history
If you have absolutely nothing else to do, join in on the boring discussion going on about the patent and the ingredients (jeez, the product is intended to be a toy, not part of this balanced breakfast!).
Fun: The Evolution of Dance video
Very funny video of comedian Judson Laipply performing "The Evolution of Dance". The routine even includes the classic centipede (no cabbage patch though???). It must have taken quite a while to put the dance routine together:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Fun: Game Six of the 1986 World Series with Nintendo RBI Baseball
This is great. This video shows a recreation of the bottom half of the tenth inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series using Nintendo RBI Baseball. Enjoy watching the Calvin Schiraldi meltdown while listening to the play-by-play by Vin Scully. The "player of the game" award is great, and of course, the Buckner error is absolutely hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArXRxuVTgY&search=Baseball%20Lastowka1
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Flash: People stealing flash games
http://mt.rendermouse.com/archives/000099.html
Fun: MTV Overdrive
It has been years since I actually watched MTV. I think I slowly began tuning out after the San Francisco version of the Real World (the one with Puck). As the number of videos decreased and number of horrible reality shows increased, I migrated to other channels that I could waste my time in front of. Anyway, I was just googling up some artist info and accidentally stumbled across MTV Overdrive, the MTV broadband video channel. This is actually really cool. Users have access to thousands of music videos on the site. The video quality is really good and the selection seems fairly broad. There are plenty of classic videos available that take me back to a time when David Lee Roth was the epitome of cool and Michael Jackson was just considered a little weird.Kick the link:
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/
Fun: Super Mario Live
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2139555376132383479
A lot of work had to have gone into putting the performance together.
Found on waxy.org links.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Flash: Web_development: Next Flash Player will be Flash Player 9
From Adobe Labs ...
We are changing the previously announced name of the upcoming release of Flash Player from Flash Player 8.5 to Flash Player 9. The version change will be reflected in the beta 3 release on Adobe Labs ... the features of this release include the ECMAScript Edition 4-based ActionScript 3.0 language and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2), which dramatically exceeds the performance of previous players. Flash Player 9 better reflects the significance of the advancements to the runtime environment to our customers and the market. This also allows us to maintain consistency between the player version and the file format version as we have in previous releases. The SWF file format for this release is version 9. ... Flash Player 9 is expected to ship with the Flex 2.0 launch this summer.
http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player#FAQs
Fun: Gadgets: PSP Firmware 2.7 has Flash Support
According to the O'reilly weblogs, the latest version of the PSP firmware (version 2.7) allows Macromedia Flash files to be displayed in the browser. I have hesitated installing previous firmware versions because of potential conflicts with my emulators. However, I will be installing v2.7 because of the Flash support. It should be fun building little flash-based apps for the device.
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/04/sony_psp_270_firmware_update_a.html
Thursday, April 20, 2006
New Web Hosting
Anyway, the whole thing has turned into a joke with affordablehost. I went to my FTP site yesterday afternoon just so I could back up my files to move to a new server. Of course, the site was down for most of the day again. Once things came back up, I grabbed my files and ran! I moved this site and the others to my dreamhost account, which I had opened on sort of a whim a few months back (couldn't resist a great deal). So far, so good with them. One more site to move and I am done. I am also in the process of moving the last of my domains to my godaddy account and out of their horrible affordabledots account.
I actually have three hosting accounts at the moment, including the affordablehost account I am in the process of abandoning. I realize that is excessive, which is why I have been planning to close one of my accounts anyway. I was actually considering closing my mediatemple account, which I have used since 2000 or so. I rarely use my site there anymore, save for an email account and occasionally posting some work samples. Their service has been fantastic over the years though, and having access to the space really saved me over the last three weeks, as I had to upload client files to that site instead of the affordablehost server. So I will stick with them and see how the dreamhost thing goes. Dreamhost has some great deals. If you sign up, use my email address as a reference (hellorobert at hotmail dot com) or click this direct link:
http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?126694
Friday, April 07, 2006
Fun: Videos from Japanese version of Spiderman TV Series
Kick the links to some hillarious videos from Toei Spiderman (made around 1978?):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcsBS1GHL0
(apparently this episode featured the Japanese Desperado, some sort of Power Ranger character, and lots ot cool karate moves)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZRYwfO_PA&search=Toei%20SpiderMan%20movie
(includes theme song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3LTEJZ2ig&search=Toei%20SpiderMan%20movie
(includes fan subtitles)
Fun: SportsCenter top baseball fights
Here is a link to a SportsCenter Top 10 clip from a few years ago. Top 10 baseball fights I guess. Or perhaps the Top 10 fights between pitchers and batters.It doesn't include the bizzare 2003 incident between Don Zimmer and Pedro Martinez . It does, however, include the classic Pedro quote, "There's no crying in baseball" and the legendary 1993 beating that Nolan Ryan put on Robin Ventura when Ventura made the big mistake of charging the Ryan Express.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma1A5cBB0Y4&search=sportscenter
Useful: Web2.0: ://URLFAN - Top 100 sites in the Web 2.0 world
http://www.urlfan.com/site/top_100/100.html
Rankings are based on number of rss feeds that reference the site. Not really surprising that flickr is #1.
A little more about ://URLFAN from their site:
://URLFAN is an evolving experiment designed to discover what websites the blogosphere is discussing all in real time. It ranks sites according to their popularity in the world of RSS feeds.
Kick the link:
http://www.urlfan.com/
