BrickFest sounds like it was soooo cool. It was a big Lego convention in Portland this past weekend. They had a 4.5 foot high roller coaster, a model train layout, and a big moonbase. Some dudes also set a world record for speed-building a 3000 brick Imperial Star Destroyer.
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Cool interview with William Gibson, who\’s promoting the paperback version of his newest book Pattern Recognition. The tour was in town 2 weeks ago, though I missed it.
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This very technical PDF details how they did the Superpunch scene in the Matrix Revolutions. Nice pictures too.
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There\’s a post at Something Awful from a dude whose mom is a packrat. Her house is full of crap she bought on eBay and won\’t throw away. It\’s insane! Jesus christ, how can anyone live like that?!
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All the instructions for every Transformer ever made. Those Beast Wars ones really sucked.
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Beware of iPod auctions on eBay that lead to pyramid scams. They offer an iPod at a ridiculously low price like $40, but the catch is you need to get other people to sign up before you get it.
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The Japanese release of the Alien Quadrilogy comes in a badass replica of the alien head. They should package more movies in special cases. I bet even Gigli would sell well if it came in a replica of Bennifer\’s head.
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The New York Times has a long article on The Virus Underground. It points out the differences between virus writers, the guys who do it to learn more about computers and how viruses work; and script kiddies, people who just download the code, pretend they wrote it, and set it loose on the net to cause trouble. The virus writers say they\’re not doing anything wrong cause they\’re not actually spreading the viruses.
We may have created the monster, they\’ll say, but we didn\’t set it loose. This dodge infuriates security professionals and the police, who say it is legally precise but morally corrupt. \’\’When they publish a virus online, they know someone\’s going to release it,\’\’ says Eugene Spafford, a computer-science professor and security expert at Purdue University.
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German band Eisbrecher are including 2 blank CD-Rs with their newest album.
\”We are of the opinion that the music buyers are criminalized enough and have been made responsible for the wretched state in the music industry. We are giving them the chance to make 2 legal copies for private use with \’official blanks\’.
[ From Slashdot ]