I just feel compelled to eternalize the final moments of the Tachikomas, the think tanks in “Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex”. Their curious personality, points of view, and the questions they ask, or how they behave, really attaches you to them. So here goes… one of the most legendary moments in Ghost In …
Monthly Archive: July 2009
Jul
30
So, what exactly is a Stand Alone Complex?
So today I have seen the end to the second season of “Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex” – 2nd Gig. As there appears to be no 3rd Gig coming, this probably was really it… I know that there is a movie which came after that, entitled “Solid State Society”. Sounds interesting. To make …
Jul
30
Rap Chop remix now real commercial
A while back, I posted an infomercial inside which a man named Vince is trying to demo and consequently sell a kitchen helper named Slap Chop. The device supposedly cuts practically any sort of vegetable into handy pieces with just one or two slaps. Steve Porter, a known DJ and audio hacker, took the entire …
Jul
29
Jul
27
Looking for a new music player? Try Exaile
Songbird is pretty nice alright. It’s built on Mozilla’s code to create the Firefox of music. However, it is not native, not to Linux anyways, which causes problems. So I was looking for another music player that would have the same or similar functionality… and I found one. The name is Exaile (probably pronounced “exhale”, …
Jul
24
Microsoft Patches Linux
What? o_O Press release of Microsoft of July 20. REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2009 — Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux …
Jul
23
Search the web… and save the planet
I know what you’re thinking. Whatever there was in my food, it was strange. I can relate, I’d think the same thing. Fact is the last thing I’ve eaten is a Whopper. And it didn’t taste strange. So what is this post about? Well. I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon this, but it …
Jul
20
FAIL #15
Only in Irish newspapers. Namely Metro, which is given to people in the morning. What?
Jul
20
18 billion suns – a galactic whopper
Let me show that number to you: 18,000,000,000. That’s 18 billion. This is the amount of suns the biggest black hole ever found, measures in weight and size. On a side note I’d like to mention that a more accurate name for this phenomena actually is Black Star. They found this sucker a while ago, …
Jul
19
I'm now officially a Drum Hero
Let’s just say that a spark was lit up in me during the past week in the office. This spark involves me realizing that not only is it fun to play drums, it is also fun to learn to play it. So I got myself the full Guitar Hero Band Pack, which includes the guitar, …
