Monday, May 12 2008 @ 04:48 PM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 333
This site's administrator was recently contacted by a Swiss newspaper which wished to use a photo from the wrongcrowd.com gallery in a newspaper article about HDR photography. How the Swiss tech writer selected this photo from the millions of high dynamic range shots out there will forever be mysterious, but the espresso stand on Kirkland's Juanita Beach is now famous among a small subset of German speaking Swiss newspaper readers.
Article text at the SonntagsZeitung web site PDF of the printed page
Monday, May 12 2008 @ 04:39 PM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 367
Sony Online Entertainment's game studio in Bellevue is on a mission
with "The Agency," a James Bondish thriller it has been developing
since 2005.
The mission's getting less secret by the day — especially since the
Sony division boss will talk it up during a games conference in Seattle
this week — but it's still pretty intriguing.Sony is hoping "The
Agency" creates a new genre that blends the action of first-person
shooting games with the immersive experience of massively multiplayer
online (MMO) games.
Thursday, May 08 2008 @ 12:12 AM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 397
How does Chev Chelios survive after falling out of a helicopter? What gimmick will move Crank 2 along? Latino Review has some intel for you, Crank fans. Be warned: the article contains spoilers about how the movie begins.
Tuesday, January 15 2008 @ 07:34 AM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 564
Sony Online Entertainment is producing a third-person action shooter MMO called The Agency. They showed the game at CES last week, and a flood of press coverage resulted. Here is a list of the articles which are known as of this writing.
Sunday, December 09 2007 @ 04:09 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 1,139
Speck makes a tight fitting plastic shell for MacBooks. In brief, the shell fits well and doesn't seem to add a lot of bulk to the laptop. There are cutouts for the ports, and it's pretty much something you can slap on and forget about. After a few days of use, the Speck shell seems like a viable alternative to using a slipcase.
It is likely that wrapping your laptop in plastic would prevent it from dumping heat as well. Here are before and after numbers, from a 2.4GHz 17" Macbook Pro. (Temperature data is from Marcel Bresink's free Temperature Monitor.)
The temperatures are up across the board, but by a small amount. The computer wasn't heavily loaded for these tests, so this does not represent the worst case scenario, but the increase seems to be reasonable. YMMV.
Tuesday, November 27 2007 @ 09:13 AM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 902
Whatever you might think about his politics, he's an interesting guy. This interview touches on current events, The Mist, and past movies. There have been so many movies and TV miniseries made from your stories and, not to be disrespectful, but some of them are stinkers. Sleepwalkers, Sometimes They Come Back and its various sequels, etc... How do you maintain quality control? Do you even try? I'd go crazy. I don't try to maintain quality control. Except I try to get good people involved. The thing is, when you put together a script, a director, and all the other variables, you never really know what's going to come out. And so you start with the idea that it's like a baseball game — you put the best team you can on the field, and you know that, more times than not, you're gonna win.
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."