Moment Factory's NIN Tour Video (2)
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Moment Factory, the company who provided the unique interactive systems used on the current tour, have made a short video detailing some of the video effects and how they work - click here to watch it on YouTube.
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jamie said:
seriously awesome
10 More Unsolved Mysteries of the World - The List Universe (4)
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There is no doubt that some of our most popular lists are ones which revolve around mystery and intrigue. Fortunately for us all, there is no end to the number of weird and wonderful mysteries in the world, so we are now able to present our fourth list of unsolved mysteries. So - onwards to the world of the mysterious! 10 The Grooved Spheres Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been ...
Amy Winehouse has brain damage? Get out! (3)
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Remember when Amy Winehouse went to the hospital in July for a "reaction to her anti-drug medication"? Turns out Amy really smoked her face off for 36 hours straight which leads doctors to believe she's now permanently brain damaged. The Sun: MEDICS are worried Amy’s brain was damaged by the cannabis overdose – she displayed symptoms normally associated with schizophrenia. The pal yesterday said: “The future is bleak, bleak, bleak. Mitch does everything he can ...
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wow, brain damage from pot
Gun O'Clock: It's Time To Shoot Something! (2)
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The Gun O'Clock is similar in design to this alarm, and puts a new spin on the "annoying as all hell" alarm clock market. When the "Pi Pi Pi Pi Pi Pi Pi" alarm sounds, a target pops up and you have to shoot the bullseye enough times to stop the noise and reset the target. The $40 alarm is currently available for preorder and is sure to make getting up a lot more shooty. ...
A Mysterious Discovery in New York (4)
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In April 2007, shortly after I first met with Zack Snyder and started design work on Watchmen, we received a mysterious call at our Warner Bros. offices from a location scout in New York. He's found a house he thinks we need to see, and there's only a short time to see it before it's going to be demolished. The next day we fly to NY, taking the cab directly to a brownstone street in ...
Comic-Con (6)
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Comic-Con was great this year. Thanks to everyone who attended the Watchmen panel or stopped by the booth to say hello. It was great having the chance to show a little additional footage and hear what you all had to say. Here are hi-res versions of the limited edition Comic-Con posters. -Zack
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hoosteen said:
Dunno about "the visionary director of 300," but I'm still ridiculously amped about this.
Wii Nunchuck Steers A Electric Canoe (16)
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Filed under: Transportation While it's not quite the feat that an actual Wiimote-paddled canoe would be (or nearly as silly), this nunchuck-steered contraption is still pretty impressive in its own right, and quite the change in pace from the usual Wiimote-controlled robots. At the heart of the rig is the always-useful Arduino platform, which employs some custom software to control the two electric motors powered by a pair of golf cart batteries, along with some ...
'Punisher: War Zone' Red-Band Trailer Goes for Sort of a 'Grindhouse but Retarded' Look (2)
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Who would have thought Beer for My Horses would prove itself the better vigilante justice movie of the year? I watch probably a dozen shitty trailers every week, but this is the first time I've ever felt actual embarrassment for everyone involved, including myself for watching (and, even worse, listening). How do you make a movie seem like a straight-to-DVD version of itself, probably called The Disciplinarian? Answer below the cut.
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Sean said:
After watching this trailer, I have decided not to see this movie at all.
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jamie said:
this looks wicked... Punisher War Zone movie, ultra-violent and most likely mindless... should be aces...
New Watchmen Video Game Groundbreaking, Unnecessary [Watchmen] (2)
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Okay, Warner Bros, I'm willing to grant you that Zach Snyder's heart is in the right place with his movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. After all, he's gone on record multiple times about his respect for the original comic, and his desire to stay true to the spirit of that series. But the newly-announced video game tie-in to the movie that calls itself an "action brawler" and introduces new characters to ...
Inside the Owlship from the Watchmen (6)
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Sure, you've seen the sweet footage of the outside of Nite Owl's garage-made submersible ship in previews for Watchmen. But today, io9 takes you inside the Owlship. From the floor at Comic-Con, where all 800 pounds of the ship sat behind velvet ropes, we got a long, loving look inside the steampunky, industrial ship. In this video, you see the cool walls, seats, computer displays, and (of course) the two owl-eye front windows. This is ...
Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction (27)
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You can tell a lot about a science fiction book from its first sentence. Those first few words (or few dozen, in some cases) have to pull you into the story and bring you into a whole alternate world. A good first sentence "hooks" you, pulling you into the story with a quick jolt of action and mystery. But a great first sentence does way more than that — it establishes a tone, it sticks ...
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i love the Neuromancer cover
The Official Communist Party Quick Travel Guide To The 2008 Beijing Olympics (2)
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Drew Magary’s Balls Deep column runs every Thursday afternoon. Drew’s new book, “Men With Balls,” featuring 100% new material, is available for pre-order here. You can email Drew here. Read him during the week at KSK. Greetings, roundeye! The Glorious Party of Chairman Mao eagerly awaits your arrival here in Beijing for these Games of the 2008 Summer Olympiad. Our preparations for the Games are now complete. We’d just like to let you know that ...
Oh My God! It's A Giant Cow! (1)
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His name is Chilli and he's described as a gentle giant. His owners have contacted the Guinness Book of Records who are currently assessing his credentials and comparing them to other big bovines. The black and white Friesian bullock weighs well over a ton and is the same height as a small elephant.The heifer, who is almost as high as he is long, lives at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Chard, Somerset, England, after he ...
GPS Gaming Technology Lets You Race Against F1 Pros In Realtime [Interactive Tv] (3)
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iOpener's GPS technology is made so you can take real-time data from an F1 race and use it to race against those same drivers in a video game. By placing combination of Differential GPS and an Inertial Management Unit on a car, it can track its location accurate to 30cm and get the data to gamers in under 5 seconds. iOpener doesn't plan to develop games themselves, but want to make the technology open to ...
The Penny Arcade Fallout Comic Begins (1)
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Today we posted the first Penny Arcade Fallout comic that begins an original series/story that Tycho and Gabe did for us. When we first approached the guys about doing this, years ago at this point, we really wanted to do something where they just kind of ran with it. Let them come up with their own ideas, whether it was a bunch of standalone strips, or one that worked all together, or whatever. We really ...
Kid Takes Down Cable Repair Man with Well-Placed Punch to the Crotch [Simple Things] (1)
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It's very well possible that this video is fake or staged. Then again, it's also possible that it's real, and this annoying little brat of a kid just delivered the gleeful revenge of ten thousand pissed-off cable customers to one unsuspecting cable guy's beanbag. The world may never know. [TastyBooze; Thanks, Blakeley!]
Tyrannosaurus Rex STAN Skeleton Fossil Replica (1)
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By Andrew Liszewski Museum gift shops are usually a great place to find a unique gift, particularly if you’re shopping for someone who’s interested in science or history. But why walk away with just a book about Tyrannosaurus rex when you can own a full-size fossil replica of your own? ‘STAN’, as he’s come to be known, was discovered by Stan Sacrison in the Spring of 1987, and 3 years later the Black Hills Institute ...
