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OMFG this would be the greatest Katamari game ever made. Who knew an insurance commercial could be so fun.

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The british artist Banksy had a show in downtown LA this last weekend called Barely Legal. While it is getting a lot of press (at least locally), it's mostly dirty PETA hippies complaining that there's an elephant with paint on it. Luckily for those of us who couldn't make it to the show Supertouch has posted some photo's. Rumor has it that every piece sold opening night, and none of them for less than $100,000!

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The guys at Handsome Donkey are back with another short. This one is a love story of sorts, with a Handsome Donkey twist.

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Visor is a cool little OS X app that gives you a drop down terminal ala Quake.

Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake. Visor requires elements of Quartz only found in 10.4. Visor is compatible with 10.4 and higher only.

If you use the terminal often, this is indispensable. Not only does it take on whatever color scheme you have set for your terminal, it supports Quartz animations in the background. You really have to try it to see how cool it is.

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Most people have no idea that 6 seconds of drumming from a 1969 B-side is the foundation for almost all modern Jungle and Drum & Bass music. Used in literally thousands of songs, from hip hop to electronica, and even in commercials, the drum break from The Winston's Amen Brother is the single most used sample of all time.

Sure the video is kind of long (at 18+ minutes) and all you ever see is a turntable, but it's quite informative for those who dont know the story. Once it's been pointed out, you will hear sample's of this song everywhere.

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This guy was selling a nice video camera used on Amazon and was being pestered by Nigerian 419 scammers. When they went to the extreme of faking Amazon purchase conformations he decided to get revenge. Instead of getting a Cannon GL2 in his scamming little hands, this Nigerian recieved a box of feces, and had to pay the FedEx bill to boot.

"A day or so after listing the GL2 I started receiving emails from interested parties. I was immediately suspicious when I received multiple inquiries wanting to pay for the GL2 via Bidpay and requesting that I ship the Canon GL2 to Nigeria. Each time I responded that the Canon GL2 had to be purchased via the amazon.com purchasing system and that I could ship the GL2 to Nigeria. I also would inform the prospective buyer that I would ship the GL2 as soon as I received confirmation from amazon.com confirming the sale of the GL2. Soon after responding I would receive another email  that looked as if it originated from amazon.com, I believe this is called phishing, stating that my camera had been sold and to ship it to some person in Nigeria. Whenever I receive a sale confirmation email from amazon.com I log into my account at amazon.com to verify the legitimacy of the email and each time the camera was still listed as not sold and there was not any money transfered into my amazon.com account. At this point I was certain that the confirmation emails from amazon.com were fraudulent and I was being scammed."

The above photo is from the always excellent 419Eater.

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Long promised but never delivered, Tivo is showing early test versions of TivoToGo for Mac OS X at CES. TivoToGo lets you download recordings from Tivo Series 2 and presumably the newly annouced series 3 to your Mac and from there move it to other media devices. Burn a DVD, put it on your PSP, or watch it on your iPod Video. The question is: "How long till this shows up on BitTorrent?"

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LivePlasma is a music suggestion (movies too) service with a twist. It makes stunning relational charts with a nice and simple (DHTML??) interface. It's still in beta but seems pretty funtional to me.

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Kazakhstan doesnt like Ali G, damn commies.

"Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show", has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West."

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So I've been drinking (which I do a lot) and thinking (which I don't do nearly enough) and came up with something amazingly brilliant. But then I forgot it and scribbled down this instead. Like most of the women I sleep with, I am sure I'll regret this tomorrow.

Beer Container Protocol

Keg - Always the preferred container for Gods Gift. The man with a keg controls all. They can even be mobilized thanks to dollies and indentured servants. Bringing your keg out in public will attract moochers nine times out of ten, so be sure to bring lots of bear repellant.

Pitcher - If above mentioned indentured servant is otherwise occupied then this is your next best choice. Don't want to share your pitcher? Damn right you don't, and by drinking directly from the pitcher, no one but the drunkest slob will want to share your Saliva Pale Ale.

Pint Glass - Simple, elegant, and always there for you (unlike your girlfriend, who's always there for ME). In the Beer Protocol, the Pint Glass comes third.

Glass Bottle - Hey at least it's not a can!

Yard Glass - Frat boy novelty. If there's good beer in it, the second foot and a half will be warm and flat by the time you reach it. If there's bad beer in it, then I hope you trip and cut yourself on a yard of glass you schmuck

Beer Hat - Makes up for the use of cans by being considered formal-wear in Kentucky. Two beers at a time means you can get funk draster!

Beer Bong - That sixer of Naughty Ice that some loser brought over isn't gonna drink itself. MGD, Bud, PBR, or any other beer that is only valuable for the liquor content can quickly drown your troubles via a large funnel and 3 feet of smelly rubber tubing from Home Depot.

Beer Can - Consider this simply a momentary container before filling your beer bong. Canned beer tastes bad, is not a usable weapon, and despite what your gay uncle told you, it will not make you forget that time he touched your no-no spot.

Plastic Beer Bottle - What good is a beer container if you can hurt a Major League Baseball player with it?

Beer Goggles - Not a Beer container but something everyone should always be wary of. If she's talking to you and not trying to steal your wallet, then she's ugly.

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From Witz.org via BoingBoing. I dont care if it's real or fake, either way it's still funny.

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Arggggghhhh me matey, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. The holiest day of the year for Pastafarian's around the world.

So grab your wench, fight the scurvy, and raise your grog!

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P.S. - Yes I know the PirateBay Logo is for a totally different type of pirate but it's such a cool logo.

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A guy by the name of Mr. Spiv has released a PSP SDK for Mac OS X!

"Precompiled binaries of Oopo's GCC 4.0.1 toolchain dated 20050725 and PSPSDK revision 792 for Mac OSX. This time also PSPSDK doxygen docs are included. Download the dmg (46 megs). The toolchain and the sdk installs under /opt/local/pspdev/. Remember to set up your PATH environment variable to point to /opt/local/pspdev/bin and PSPDEV to /opt/local/pspdev and PSPSDK to /opt/local/pspdev/psp/sdk PSPSDK documentation is located at /opt/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/docs/html"

Why not give it a whirl?

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I dont drink much Jagermeister, but this dispenser is so cool I may just have to start. It holds 3 bottles and cools each shot down to 12 degrees before dispensing. Of course I want one.

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Looks like an astute observer at the E3 conference noticed that the xBox 360 M$ had on demo was sticking out of a large box, that was whirring like hell...

Said observer walked around to the back and found not 1, but 2 Apple PowerMac G5's running a dev system of the 360 backed up by a giant home fan to keep the cool.

ahhhhhh, Feel the love.

Thanks to Gizmodo for the story

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Hack-A-Day has a link to instructions on how to make a lockpick gun out of nothing more than an old hard drive and a used mouse. And since lockpicks are mechanically the same thing as a tattoo gun (although slower and with a different tip) I bet you could use this for homemade body art as well.

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Looks like Asahi has created the worlds coolest mini-fridge. This mini-fridge has a 12.1" screen mounted on the front and a built in DVD player. but of course there's a catch. According to Gizmodo it's not availble for purchase, only as a prize in a contest. Perfect for every dormroom, bedroom, bathroom, closet, or in my car. Imagine the drinking games one could play with a few friends.....

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Someone at the BBC is smoking a little too much ganja.

"BBC Three, one of the public broadcaster's digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit song "No Woman No Cry".

It said the project would involve Marley -- who died of cancer in May 1981 at the age of 36 -- "spending one or two days with us", and that "it would only work with some participation from Bob Marley himself". "

Wow.

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One of my biggest pet-peeves on the internet is movies or trailers that are view only, and don't let you save them to your drive. There are almost always ways to trick your browser into downloading them, but they take a lot more effort than some cheesy trailer is usually worth. Enter iGetMovies (warning: french website). A free application made in Applescript studio, it copies the movie from quicktime's cache and saves it as a viewable quicktime movie on your desktop. This works for any quicktime movie in Safari or on the iTunes store.

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Rushing out to buy Chappelle Show Season 2 DVD today??? Don't bother, because it wont be there! The release has been pushed to May 24th. Industry people (this homeless guy I know who lives outside Paramount studios) blame it on the production delay of season 3 for Comedy Central.

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VW's new Golf GTi commercial is a must see. A video remix of Gene Kelly's Singing in the Rain breakdance edition.

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Those crafty Germans over at MacNews.de have gotten their sauerkraut soaked hands on some photos of the Mac Mini's logic board and processor. It's a fairly amazing piece of engineering.

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"Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer) Om Mani Padme Hum, invites the blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion."

Bare with us here, there is a point!

"They also believe you can produce the same effect by spinning the written form of the mantra around in a prayer wheel (called "Mani wheels" by the Tibetans). The effect is said to be multiplied when more copies of the mantra are included, and spinning the Mani wheels faster increases the benefit as well."

Remember "Giiiive me the kniiife" from Eddie Murphy's The Golden Child?

"His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has said that having the mantra on your computer works the same as a traditional Mani wheel. As the digital image spins around on your hard drive, it sends the peaceful prayer of compassion to all directions and purifies the area."

So just by downloading the above image to your iPod (or hard drive) you can bless it, and all that surrounds it.

All the Buddhist stuff in quotes came from here. Yes, this was sort-of mentioned on slashdot ages ago, but putting it on your iPod is my “spin” on things.

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MoshDaddy pointed out this really cool and trippy interactive flash movie. It's the work of a couple different artists, all intertwined on a loop that you can endlessly zoom in and out on. Since that description does it absolutely no justice just go check it out. It would make a killer Mac OS X screensaver.

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If Crucial get's their way, your PC will soon be sucking on a pacifier and waving glowsticks like a madman. They have added blinking LED's to some of their ram chips.

"Ballistix Tracer memory features two rows of eight "chasing" red and green LEDs atop the module, indicating memory activity by circulating at varying speeds. A custom-designed circuit relays bus activity to the LEDs, allowing them to accurately reflect usage of each memory module. In addition, eight blue ground effects LEDs emit a constant glow near the pins. "

The chips are on black PCB's and have black heat spreaders.

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Solving the age old problem of keeping beer cold on a hot day, Øyvind Arnesen built himself a portable peltier beer cooler. Battery, or power-over-ethernet powered, this cup keeps a glass of Guinness at about 7°C.

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Dear Red States,

Thanks a million!
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Courtesy Renegade Rice Cracker

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Some French university students made some really fun stop motion video's. There's not a whole lot of them, and they are pretty short so check them out. Found the link via boingboing.

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Joystiq has a wonderfull article up today. Step by step instructions on using the RetroZone kit mentioned here last week, to convert an original NES controller to work on a modern USB computer (or MAME box). Lot's of pretty photo's and simple to read these are the easiest instructions I have found.

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According to 1up.com, Brian De Palma's classic film Scarface is coming to console video game systems next fall via Vivendi Universal. The game will be third person and the story is by David McKenna (writer of Blow and American History X). No word yet if Pacino will be doing the voice-overs or what consoles it will run on.

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The always excellent Engadget has a great write-up on how to turn your iPod into a universal remote using the following:
"* iPod (doesn’t matter which one, we used our mini)
* PC or Mac with sound recording software (we used a PC with SoundForge)
* A Pocket PC (any Pocket PC 2002 / 2003 should work, we used a Toshiba and an iPaq)
* Griffin’s Total Remote Software and IR device"

Sure, you could just buy a Pronto Neo and have better controls and a better interface, but then you wouldn't look like a total moron pointing your MP3 player at your TV.

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The one and only Pussy Snorkel has to be the greatest advancement in sexual aid devices since the Baby Jesus Butt Plug:

"The Pussy Snorkel allows a man to continue breathing while performing oral sex on a woman in a spa, bathtub or even a bowl of green Jell-O. Insert the breathing apparatus into your nostrils, rub the clitoral stimulator against your favorite coral reef and start with the tongue action. With the Pussy Snorkel, any man can be a dive master."

Become a cunalingus master without the asphyxiating side effects for only $12.99 and be sure to grab the glow in the dark version, you don't want to go spelunking without a light-source.

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Apple Insider has published detailed illustrations of the liquid cooling system used in Apple's new G5. It looks very similar to the liquid cooling system developed by MIT students (who were sponsored by Apple) if you ask me. Keep in mind this entire system is enclosed in the heatsink.

I cant help but wonder how long untill someone tries to open their heatsink and destroys their new G5. Or some tech at CompUSA who cant even spell Macintosh wants to change out someones radiator fluid for them, only after Pep-Boys refills their car's blinker fluid of course.

"1. G5 processor at point of contact to the heatsink.
2. G5 processor card from IBM
3. Heatsink (also referred to as a 'waterblock')
4. Cooling fluid output from the radiator to the pump
5. Liquid cooling system pump
6. Pump power cable (usually connected to the main logic board, but repositioned in the above diagram)
7. Cooling fluid radiator input from the G5 processor
8. Radiant grille
9. Airflow direction "

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A chipped Xbox is useless unless you use Xbox Media Center, but the only Xbox Media Server for mac is xBmsx. xBmsx isnt bad, but it's nothing special either (I am not complaining, I am happy it works and is free) and is missing many features found on the PC server software. Luckily, MacOSxHints has step-by-step directions on setting up both the SMB shares on your Mac and editing the .ini file for the Xbox. Now maybe you can do something besides pirate games, you can pirate movies and music too.

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"Apple today unveiled AirPort Express, which it says is "the world's first 802.11g mobile base station that can be plugged directly into the wall for wireless Internet connections and USB printing, or thrown into a laptop bag to bring wireless freedom to hotel rooms with broadband connections." Airport Express also features analog and digital audio outputs that can be connected to a stereo and AirTunes music networking software which works seamlessly with iTunes, giving users a simple and inexpensive way to wirelessly stream iTunes music on their Mac or PC to any room in the house." AirPort Express features a single piece ultra- compact design weighing just 6.7 ounces, and will be available to Mac and PC users starting in July for $130'

I stole the above text straight from MacNN so any mistakes are entirely their fault. Needless to say we want one.

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A few days ago we mentioned Xlink Kia was coming to the Mac but they still haven’t given a release date (they also refuse to even confirm that it's being worked on in their forums).
Thanks to Aquaduct 2 we dont really have to care:

"* The power to play some Xbox Halo online. Lots and lots of Halo. And 45+ other System Link games too.
* The ability to register an XBConnect Tag and log in to the XBConnect server, where you'll find lots of Windows users who also want to play some Halo. You can use an existing Tag if you have one.
* An Aqua-beautiful browser to list games. Lots and lots of games.
* Live sorting and searching tools to manipulate the games list. 'Cause it's so full.
* A little yellow Connect button, to join in on those games.
* A chat interface, for both the XBConnect chat rooms and your own Aquaduct channel.
* A slightly buggy buddy list to help organize your posse.
* A mostly-complete step-by-step guide to using Aquaduct.
* Stuff I have forgotten Aquaduct does. "

Hosting doesn’t work yet and I wouldn’t try it over an airport network quite yet. But it works extremely well, especially for a beta.

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Gizmodo points out this killer $1000 Panasonic Vacuum tube car stereo. It plays back Mp3's from CD-R's, and how sweet are those analog gauges!!! Too bad it's only available in this ugly gold color, and only in Japan unless you go through an importer.

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Milkdrop has long been thought of as the best music visualizer on windows, and until now has never been available to mac or linux users. Enter Project M.

"projectM is basically a re-implementation of Milkdrop under Linux/SDL/OpenGL/XMMS. projectM already does some things Milkdrop does not (like infinite custom shapes/waves). projectM uses no platform-specific code outside of the xmms interface."

Don't rush to grab it yet though, the mac version has not been released yet. According to their site it will be available soon (a couple days most likely).

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Cult of Mac reports on a new Japanese accessory to turn your beautiful G4 cube into an ugly diakon grater and spend $300 in the process! Why????????

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iTunes 4.5 breaks all of the old tools for both decrypting encrypted AAC files and for downloading shared songs over the network. This guy not only figured out the entire authentication process but has written an application/library for playing back iTunes music in other programs besides iTunes or over a network. His whole site makes for an interesting read.

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Business as we know it in the San Bernardino Valley is at a standstill. Warehouses, couches, and sleazy motels all over Van Nuys and Chatsworth will be empty and KY-less for the next 60 days as the porn industry has put a voluntary stop to all productions. Darren James, has been tested HIV positive. He reportedly got it riding bareback in Brazil. Some news agencies are reporting that another actor has tested positive as well, but no name has been released. The 1200 regular actors and actresses are tested about every 3 to 4 weeks, and not a single HIV case has been found since 1999.

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Moshdaddy sent us this. Dont know who made it, dont care.

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As if you needed another way to waste time at work!
Chris Hilgert, creator of Penguin Smack and Orca Slap, brings us his 3rd game Seal Bounce. Orca's are gone from this one, but helpful seals are there to lend a fin.

There is also now a "Boss button", press B and the game window turns into a pie chart. I haven't seen this in a game since my SE/30.

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MacTheRipper is a new and free (GPL) DVD extractor for Mac OS X.

"MacTheRipper removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, and sets the disc's region code to '0' for region-free by default, and is capable of removing RCE region protection