Hal's Blogs

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Katamari Damacy sequel in development

Eurogamer has an article that a Katamari Damacy sequel is in development.

# posted by Hal : 12:39 PM

Sunday, November 28, 2004

Build Your Own Arcade Machine Interface Kit

X-Arcade is coming out with a complete Arcade Machine Interface Kit.

# posted by Hal : 11:50 AM

Microsoft security chief uses Firefox

From the register, microsoft's security chief uses Firefox.

# posted by Hal : 11:48 AM

Thursday, November 25, 2004

First Gamecube ModChip

From Slashdot, comes an article that the very first Gamecube Modchip has been released.

# posted by Hal : 11:01 AM

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

JFK Reloaded

From MSN slate, there's a game out that let's you re-enact JFK's assassination.

# posted by Hal : 3:03 PM

Valve disables 20,000 Steam accounts

From Slashdot, Valve has disabled 20,000 steam user accounts belonging to "users who violate the user agreement".

# posted by Hal : 2:38 PM

Piracy Paranoia

A couple of interesting blog comments on the increased security around advance screenings of certain movies.

# posted by Hal : 10:33 AM

Monday, November 22, 2004

Homemade Portable PS2

From Slashdot, this guy's made his own portable PS2.

# posted by Hal : 9:24 PM

Third of Americans Say Evidence Has Supported Darwin's Evolution Theory

From gallup.com, only a third of americans believe in Darwin's theory of evolution.

# posted by Hal : 9:18 PM

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Coin-Op Television

Here's a website with "tv style" interviews with people at the California Extreme Classic Game Expo. http://www.coin-op.tv

# posted by Ray B : 2:02 PM

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Computer Screens cause Blindness

There is more then one report that excessive use of computer screens will lead to blindness. You know, the TV is a CRT as well!

# posted by Hal : 7:26 AM

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Disney developing 'Toy Story 3'

Well, the time has come for Disney to gear up its CG animated computer talent. Disney is developing, 'Toy Story 3'! How's that for originality?

# posted by Hal : 3:42 PM

Largest Digital Photo

From Slashdot comes a link to the world's largest digital photo at 2.5 GB of size.

# posted by Hal : 12:26 PM

The FedEx Logo

Via waxy.org, there's an interesting interview on 'the Sneeze' with the creator of the FedEx logo. Geez, after all this time, I just noticed the arrow in the FedEx logo. Very subtle and brilliant.

# posted by Hal : 8:52 AM

Monday, November 15, 2004

Fuck the South

A rant from the point of view of a "blue state" regarding the points of view of "red states".
http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

# posted by Ray B : 6:37 PM

Intel's New BTX Form Factor

From Slashdot, Intel has released the specs on the BTX Form Factor. This form factor takes into account noise, heat flow, space considerations, and best use of motherboard space for location.

# posted by Hal : 1:43 PM

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Grand Illusions

From waxy.org, here's a neat little 3D Optical illusion of a dragon. The first time I saw this little trick was in Disney World at the haunted mansion. It uses concavity to trick the eye into seeing something convex. Very cool trick.

# posted by Hal : 9:11 PM

Fantastic Four Trailer leaked

Looks like there's a leaked 'The Fantastic Four' trailer.

# posted by Hal : 12:10 PM

EA Employee Spousal Grumblings

Here's an interesting rant by a spouse of an EA employee:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/

# posted by Ray B : 10:27 AM

End of WinAmp

From Slashdot comes the news that Nullsoft, creators of Winamp, is no more. Hmmm, I firmly believed it as one of the best free mp3 player for Windows. What's a good replacement? I've heard some people mention iTunes. I suppose I have no choice now...

# posted by Hal : 9:38 AM

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

CNN Review: 'Polar Express' a creepy ride

Well, there's a lot of reviews of the "Polar Express" similar to this one. This CNN review is one example of a critic of the movie. It's as I said when I saw the preview... too unnatural. They were better off putting human actors into a CG environment like "sky captain", versus digitizing them to non-realistic characters. Apparently, the bad reviews of Final Fantasy were because the characters were unrealistic. However, the technology it took to do Final Fantasy AND the animation was far superior to that of the Polar Express (IMHO).

# posted by Hal : 3:18 PM

Microsoft Sees $100 Million First Day for 'Halo 2' Game

Well, looks like a big day for MSFT for the first day of release for 'Halo 2'. One hit for MSFT, versus countless hits for the PS2.

# posted by Hal : 2:33 PM

Nintendo DS: Nintendo DS In Our Hands

IGN has a hands on review of the Nintendo DS.

# posted by Hal : 7:54 AM

Saturday, November 06, 2004

Election perspective

Some very interesting 3D view of votes by county in this past election.... goes to show who supports Bush, no? Most major cities with any significant amount of commerce seem to know better.... However, I still like this perspective of things.

# posted by Hal : 9:05 AM

Friday, November 05, 2004

Chicken Little

....On the subject of trailers, Disney's first CG movie trailer, Chicken Little is available as well. Looks really good.

# posted by Hal : 4:32 PM

Star Wars: Episode III

The Star Wars: Episode III teaser is available as well....

# posted by Hal : 1:59 PM

Cars Teaser

The Cars teaser, Pixar's last film for Disney is up on Apple's quicktime page.

# posted by Hal : 1:40 PM

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Tarantino's Next Film

Quentin Tarantino is set to shoot his next film entirely in Mandarin! It will be a Kung-Fu movie, followed by a dubbed one with English (with the soundtrack out of sync, no doubt).

# posted by Hal : 2:57 PM

Monday, November 01, 2004

American Graffiti

From Slashdot, American Graffiti is lighting up the buildings with some campaign ads.

# posted by Hal : 1:20 PM