A Rubix Cube in 4 Dimensions.

I'll make a post about my absence later...until then, try your luck with this 4D Rubix Cube...thats right folks...a Rubix Hyper Cube. It's only entertaining because its so impossible to figure out; it is just fun to watch it animate.

A Darker iTunes.

Have you ever wish iTunes was black? I havn't. But if you have, or just plain-ol' don't like iTunes, then here is another free music library/player with A LOT of potential. It's called Songbird and it looks like a cross-platform (thats Linux too) iTunes clone. At the moment it is still in beta (version 0.1 to be exact) and is available for download for the Windows platform as a Proof-of-Conecept version. What separates it from iTunes, besies its colour and few interface tweaks, is that it has been built on the Firefox engine, is open source, and is extensible. This means that, like Firefox, anyone can create Songbird extensions that can add a great deal more functionality. Hopefully someone will be able to make an extension that gives Songbird the ability to sync with iPods. This way it could actually be an iTunes killer. One final and emphasized feature is Songbird's ability to play any song from any website. You can use Songbird as a browser and when you load a page with playable songs on it, Songbird will display a little window at the bottom displaying all the songs you can play. You can then play them in Songbird like you would any other file; this is a NICE feature. I don't have Windows and can therefore not test it out, but if anyone would like to, please let me know how you find it, either by commenting on this post, or be emailing me at leseeley [at] gmail.com.

FINAL POST (follow up).

Well, I got a few comments on my last post. They were unfortunately all "anonymous" and so I don't really know if they were all written by individual fans, or just one of my friends joking around. I am SURE that my Google Analytics page isn't working properly now because it still says I've received no hits today when clearly I must have if people are commenting. I did, however, check the stats page that GoDaddy provided me with, which, though not telling my how many unique hits I've received, tells me how many server requests I've received. Unfortunately, requests occur A LOT more than unique hits. For instance, when your browser loads an image, it sends a request to a server to send the image. But as it stands, it looks like people have been visiting my site and that something is wrong with my Google Analytic account. I shall resume blogging. I have, however, been blogging and seeding at NewsVine.com. A site that is still in beta and requires an invite to get in. I have 17 invites left, anybody want one? NewsVine is what I wish digg and slashdot were like. And I really shouldn't have mentioned Slashdot as I have long since forgotten that one. I just couldn't stand looking at all that ugly italicized text. Anyways, NewsVine offers news in two varieties: through the Wire (Associated Press) and through the Vine (user-seeded news and/or personal articles). It also offers commenting and in-line live chatting (there is some amazingly slick code behind that and pretty much the whole site). One feature I will definitely be using, is it has the ability to mirror a user's newswire posts to any other blogging site. This way I don't have to keep up my blogger account and newswire account at the same time. Probably the most interesting feature of all, thought not unveiled yet, is the way ads are handled. Normally, a site like this would keep all the ad earnings to itself, however, with NewsVine, a user keeps 90% of all ad earnings on his/her own column. The other 10% either goes towards whomever invited that user to NewsVine (so please write kick ass columns if you accept my invite) or, if the user was not invited (once NewsVine comes out of its Beta phase, no invites will be needed to access the site), the 10% will simply go back into NewsVine to pay for all that pretty code and bandwidth. I didn't link you to NewsVine because as it stands, no one is allowed to enter until they have been invited; if you go now you will be presented with a pretty login page and that's it. I could take screen captures and post them, but another guy already has, so just check out his personal review of NewsVine. If you want an invitation to NewsVine, email me at leseeley [at] gmail.com and I will add you to my invite list. I wrote my email address like that to prevent attack from spam bots that scour the web for email addresses.

FINAL POST

Last week I said "I will officially stop blogging all together if I get no hits for one week straight". It has been one week. I am not blogging anymore. If I ever get 10 comments on this post, I will begin blogging again. It's been fun.

Man Sings Jiggly Puff Song!

Found a video of someone trying out for American Idol, singing the Jiggly Puff song. If you don't know, Jiggly Puff is one of the originial Pokemon who used a sweet lullaby to lull his opponents to sleep; then pummle them.

Brand New Brand New Demos!

It wouldn't even be funny to make fun of my rediculous post name. So I won't. You can download studio demos from Brand New's upcoming album here. The catch is, clicking that link will make your browser start downloading the torrent file. If you don't know what a torrent file is, go here. Goodluck.

Google Video: Matrix Ping Pong

This video is exactlty as it sounds; two people playing ping pong with the same acrobatic style used by Trinity, Neo, and Morpheus in The Matrix. The one catch is, while you may expect computers to be used in the production of this video and its awsome effects, none are used. All the matrix-effects are conducted by a team of half a dozen folks dressed entirely in black. CHECK IT OUT.

Ever Wonder What Venus Looks Like?

I haven't. But maybe you have. And if you have, then you may want to check out these images of venus taken in 1975. And I don't mean a pretty picture from the comfort of a satellite; I mean images of the beautiffuly-mars-looking surface of Venus.

The First Face Transplant.

Ever seen Face-Off? Ever seen Mission Impossible 2? Well if you haven't, both of those movies feature face transplantations. Face-Off did a much better job of making it believable; MI2 was just plain silly. Either way, movie trivia is not the point of this post. The world's first face transplant patient has now begun her life a-new and with a new face. For details and a PICTURE, see my source article.

WTF.

No one went to my site this tuesday, wednesday, thursday (today). I will officially stop blogging all together if I get no hits for one week straight. Please don't make me a sad panda (props to those who got the South Park reference!).