Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Coop Double Hitter - gaming goodness on mass

This little monkey has been a little slow with the posts the past couple of weeks, but it's good news for you my friends. 2 x Coop Eps back to back.

LittleBigPlanet (PSP), Mass Effect 2, Avatar (The Game)



Modern Warfare 2, Team Fortress 2, HALO & Many More…

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

At Work Over XMAS? ANNOY PEOPLE

DO THE DAFT!

Video Game Minimalism



There are more to see at My Modern Met, and yes, you can get them on a t-shirt.

I kind of like this one of Kratos from Gods of War

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Digg Dialogg - Peter Jackson Interview

Peter Jackson, the Academy Award winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the upcoming film, The Lovely Bones, talks to James Rocchi and answers a few Digg questions. District 9, Lord of the Rings and more....


Monkey's Christmas Wishlist

This silly season I find that I'm looking for the online bargains, trolling around the internets looking for some of the coolest things that I'd never buy myself. You know, some of that useless stuff that's great on Christmas Day then finds it way to the back of your wardrobe and some of the must haves for the debt inclined. So here we go...


USB Desktop Tanning Center

Ever been laughed at by your friends for looking nerdy? Ever thought that it could be due to you monitor-tan? Well this nifty little device plugs into your USB and pumps your face with luscious UV rays helping you to look active on the outside.



Livescribe -Pulse Smartpen


Ever wanted to get a soft copy of your minutes for work? Can be buggered re-typing it all over again? Well fret no longer... as well as having a little inferred camera in the nub to record your pen strokes there's a microphone so you can add notations which can also be converted into a txt document! Nice..





The New Tivo

With the new CASPA VOD service and unmetered downloads from a growing list of ISP's the new Tivo Dual HD Tuner PVR could be on top of any one's list. Currently it's around $2 - $4AU dollars to watch your favourite TV show using the service but coming April next year you'll have to option of watching the show with commercials for free. And it's not that bad as commercial content goes with 30 second breaks at the start, middle and end of your shows (more for movies) is a breeze compared to current scheduling practices. It's got one of the easiest user experiences of all other locally available PVR's and you can stream you're archived video's to the unit (Divx, Quicktime, MP4/H.264...) We'll see how the streaming goes, but for all the other features this is a total goer.



Darth Vader Unmasked - USB Stick

It's just cool.... in 2,4,8 and 16gb.

 






Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

There's something pretty sweet about waking up in the guts of one of your favourite fantastical creatures. I mean you even get a mini Light Saber on the zip as you slice her open and the head becomes a little pillow! For any Star Wars fan or any nerd at all... this will be hard to beat.


Kindle Wireless Reading Device

A virtual book. The digital ink simulates the look and feel of reading with no glare or refresh rate to strain your eyes. It looks real paper, and makes accessing the mass of features a cool and fairly painless experience.And there's no need for a PC as the build in Wi-fi and 3G lets you surf the net as well as access Amazons library of 360,000 books and 50,000 audio books. Other features like Read-to-Me Voice to text and wikipedia are cool too but need some work. For us Ozzies it gets a bit more difficult as only a fraction of the noted titles are available in Australia and but it can be made up for by the access to free out of copyright content from websites such as Gutenberg.org and the new ability to read PDF's. The high price tag is a total downer but this is a wish list I suppose....

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Tarantino Mixtape

A nice like mixup of Quentin Tarantino's work....

Friday, December 11, 2009

sepukoo.com - the latest thing in social networking?



sepukoo - Social networking suicide. The virtual life gets yet another simulated kink, but what happens when somone 'seppukoos' online and tops themselves in real life? It also occurs to us that it's just a matter of time before some online feud leads to a murder/suicide sitation where accounts get hacked, or information 'borrowed' and rather than an indidual voluntarily opting out of their online presence (which is what the site seems to exist for), they will get 'offed' by their adversary or some jealous and resentful 'friend'.

I guess it's one way to scare the crap out of your Mum (If she's the type to check your account several times daily, just to keep tabs), and you can always just reactivate your facbook account if you change your mind later (in fact, entirely getting rid of a facebook profile you have created is next to impossible), but what about all those cool buddies of yours who you only know through online chatting? that you have never actually met in person? Virtual grief is not something we've been planning on.

It's a viral newsbyte waiting to happen... and it could happen to you.

Supervillains in Love: The Monarchs

For fans of The Venture Brothers...