• Kevin Smith is doing a sequel to Clerks called The Passion of the Clerks. It\’s about Dante and Randal 10 years after the original. Hmmm…I thought Kevin Smith wasn\’t going to make anymore Jay and Silent Bob movies? I thought he was only going to do \”mature\” movies like Jersey Girl now?

  • Police: Drunken Man Drives Home with Decapitated Friend

    A drunken driver hit a telephone pole support wire that decapitated his passenger, police said.

    He then drove 12 miles home and slept in his bloody clothes, police said, leaving the headless body in his truck.

    Damn, that\’s really drunk.

  • This guy is my new hero.

  • Cool gallery of cameras used at the olympics. That stuff is hardcore. Lots of Canon hardware.
    [ From Gizmodo ]

  • Comparisons between Star Wars Special Edition and the forthcoming DVD editions. For the most part the changes aren\’t as drastic as between the originals and the Special Editions. They cleaned up the lightsabers and lasers, and the rancor looks much better now. Let\’s hope George Lucas is finally satisfied.

  • Ha ha, this is great. Multiplayer online gamers are outsourcing the boring muck work in online games, i.e. the tedious stuff you have to do to make money in games like Everquest and Ultima Online. One guy even made a business out of this, hiring people in Russia to earn game money, then turning around and selling the virtual money to real gamers.

  • Good article about the timing technology used at the Olympics.

    The cameras used in track and field are the most sensitive. The extremely fast cameras, which take 1,000 images per second, shoot only the first 8 millimeters of the finish line. As the runners cross, the cameras capture their bodies in a series of thousands of minuscule bits, first photographing the tip of the toe, then the finger, then the tip of the nose, with resolution so fine it can pick up the hair on runners\’ bodies.

    All those thousands of pictures are then electronically pieced together to reproduce a photo finish. That\’s why the runners\’ bodies look distorted in official finish line recordings — because the picture is not an actual picture but a visual re-creation of matter crossing a point in time.

    [ From Kottke.org ]

  • A very thorough look at the Grail diary from Indiana Jones. There are only 6 of the props in existence, and 3 have been sold for $18,000. Lots of good photos of some of the drawings that were only briefly shown in the movie.
    [ From moleskinerie ]

  • Home Automation Inc. is making a product that automates your home using a Windows Media Center PC. It lets you control lighting, air conditioning, heating, security, and other stuff. Sounds neat, but you do really want Windows controlling things in your house?
    [ From Gizmodo ]

  • The Aquada is a \”High Speed Amphibian\”, a car that can turn into a boat. It actually looks fairly decent as a car, but as a boat, well, it looks like a car on water. I wanna see someone drive one of these full speed down a boat launch ramp. The cool thing is it has 3 abreast seating with the driver in the middle and slightly ahead of the passengers, just like the McLaren F1
    [ From Bobby ]