Halflife-Shortfilm: Escape from City 17
Nicely used effects and a well budgeted short. Filmed guerilla style. No crew. First two episodes made on a $500 budget, not including previous capital. Valve flew the brothers out to Seattle before it the release, and mentioned they were 'blown away' by the project on Steam. A story about...
When algorithms control the world
When was the last time you tried to remember something before going to Google? BBC News - When algorithms control the world: There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing us that our human services are now surplus to requirements.</p>
Chinese Couple Sells All Three Kids to Play Online Games
ABC News Radio: (DONGGUAN, China) -- A young Chinese couple has sold all three of their children in exchange for money to play online games at Internet cafes, reports a southern Chinese newspaper.</p> According to Sanxiang City News, the couple met in an Internet cafe back in 2007 and bonded...
NHK Disaster Reportage
Japan had the best coverage of the disaster, and I don't mean quantity, I mean quality. Everywhere you looked, even BBC, news was exaggerated. How Japan's NHK Public Broadcaster Adapted to Cover the Earthquake and Tsunami - The Hollywood Reporter: As a basic rule, we don’t use adjectives, just stick...
How to build Apps
The ‘Facebook Class’ Built Apps, and Fortunes - NYTimes.com: The students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook. And, as advertising rolled in, some of those students started making far more money than their professors. They had stumbled upon one of...
Obama Speech Photographs
Obama Reenactment of bin Laden Speech for Press Photos Stirs Controversy: As President Obama continued his nine-minute address in front of just one main network camera, the photographers were held outside the room by staff and asked to remain completely silent. Once Obama was off the air, we were escorted...
Linux PC the size of a USB stick
Raspberry Pi Foundation: Provisional specification: 700MHz ARM11 128MB of SDRAM OpenGL ES 2.0 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode Composite and HDMI video output USB 2.0 SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot General-purpose I/O Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python) </p> Find a terminal with a keyboard and the place is yours. via. Slashdot...
Atari SD Drive Replaces Floppy Drive
A Little Atari 810 Disk Drive - rossum's posterous: Overwhelmed by a recent wave of nostalgia from playing Zork for the first time in 30 years I have built a working model of an Atari 810 that uses 8Gig microSD cards instead of 5 1/4 inch floppies to emulate up...
Copyright laws prevents release of historic jazz recordings
No logic to this. New creations should assume Creative Commons by default and if you want copyright, then you'd have to spend some cash on it. 1930s an audio engineer named William Savory (above) made a lot of high-quality recordings of live jazz performances of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Benny...