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DIY : The picturetweeting bathroom scale (aka the worst christmas present ever)
A bathroom scale is probably the last thing you would want as a christmas present. Imagine unwrapping it and trying to NOT seem insulted and hurt? Can you imagine a worse christmas present? Well, how about bathroom scales that take a picture of you, from the worst and least flattering angle, and uploads it straight to the web through Twitter and twitpic? Yes, I know, it’s a horrible idea! Which means it simply HAS to be made. So I did, or at least a working prototype!
Mini-DIY: How to make your own Laptop mounted Document Holder
Silje wants a document holder for christmas, and I’m googling to find one that attaches to her laptop screen. But until I can find something to buy I wanted to try to build her one, to tie her over.
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DIY: Handpainted giftwrapping from cardboard boxes
How-to transform a boring cardboard box into something cute, beautiful and worth taking care of instead of throwing away, with very little work. This is a good little project to do with your kids.
FrankenDog – DIY animatronics – Bringing a dead i-cybie robot dog back to life
Do you have dead toys lying around? In this video tutorial I give new life to a dead i-Cybie robot dog whose “brain” was destroyed after it short circuited and almost caught fire. Learn how to animate the dead!
DIY: Play Rock band 2 with a real guitar and boxing gloves
This how-to takes you through the steps you need to hook your Rock Band guitar controller up to a real guitar. And, of course, to a pair of boxing gloves.
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DIY: How to make your own iPhone macro lens
Learn how you can take amazing pictures with a homemade macro lens for your iPhone or other smartphones.
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DIY: How-to repair a broken iPhone 3G glass front panel for about $24
Want to find out how to repair / replace the glass front panel on your broken iPhone 3G? Read my complete tutorial to learn how.
Good augmented reality examples
I wrote about Augmented reality back in 2005, but little seem to have happened in this field until this year, when good demos and sturdy real life applications started to pop up everywhere. Here is a collection of my favorite examples.
Get you popcorn ready! Voddler screenshots and details
Voddler is an eagerly awaited video-on-demand service with a business model quite like the popular Spotify. Here are some screenshots and gathered facts to tie you over until the real thing is released.
2009 Movie Marathon : June
“Fuckers like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you’re so creative. You don’t know what it’s really like to create something. To create a life and feel it growing inside you. All you know to create is death and destruction” -Sarah Connor
= Total waste of time, stay away
= If you have absolutely nothing better to to
= Weeeell, its ok i guess, it has parts worth seeing but don’t expect much
= Pretty good! but probably not wort seeing twice
= Really, really great
= A must!
- Chasing Amy () Funny, dirty and with signature Kevin Smith dialogue. Quotes: “It all goes back to something my grandmother told me: The big bucks are in dick and fart jokes.” + “It’s all about marketing: Over- or under-weight guys who can’t get laid are our bread and butter.” + Sign on bar wall: “And on the eight day, God created beer” + “You’re insane! Archie is NOT fucking mister Weatherbie” + “Everyone needs dick. Dykes: Bullshit posturing”
Chasing Amy (1997)
Cast: Ethan Suplee, Ben Affleck, Scott Mosier
Director: Kevin Smith
Writer: Kevin Smith
Runtime: 113 minutes
Genre: romance, drama, comedy
- Echelon Conspiracy () What a turd of a movie. Quotes: -”Some day all of this will be yours.” -”Really?” -”No.”
- Crossing over () What a sad world we live in. Interesting look into the immigration “business” of the USA. Quotes: “It’s easier to jerk yourself off in the shower than to rub her back for half an hour.”
- Last of the living () Great premise but shot by amateurs. “A cure? I know a cure! It’s called karate.” + -”Stand up!” -”Why because I don’t want to hit you while you’re sitting down.”
- Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure () Quotes: “This is a history report, not a babe report. But those are historical babes.” + Bogus. Heinous. Most non triumphant.” + “How’s it going royal ugly dudes?” + “What is a geek” – Siegmund Freud + “Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes.” – Abraham Lincoln
- Adam Resurrected () Gruelling and excellent. Quote: “God is out to lunch. He left a note on your arm.” (referring to concentration camp tattoo)
- Crank 2 () Woot! An audiovisual feast. Enjoyed the crap out of it, but it kind of crashed after 50 minutes. Two movie firsts for me: Silicon breasts with bullet holes + Guy with shotgun up his ass. Not pretty! Quote: “Fucking fuck your balls Chelios.”
Crank: High Voltage (2009)
Cast: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam
Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Writer: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Runtime: 96 minutes
Genre: action
- Terminator Salvation () Yawn. And the dialogue is so utterly predictable. Like: “If you pull a gun on someone you better be ready to use it”. Jadda jadda jadda. Terminator Salvation never takes the time to build up the characters, so you really never
cares what happens. And even besides that there is very littlesuspense. Seems like a webisode meant to tie the television series together with the first movies, but even without managing that, it is like there is a movie missing between this and the TV series. They even manage to squeeze in no less than two car chases, and I HATE car chases. “If you got a problem with the machines, he is definitely the guy to talk to.” If? IF? Who wrote this dribble! Quotes: “Get topside and tell those men to respond, even if they are dead.”
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Cast: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood
Director: McG
Writer: Michael Ferris, John D. Brancato
Runtime: 115 minutes
Genre: thriller, sf, adventure
- Terminator () My oh my how the effects have improved since 1984! I love how this movie takes its time to build up Sarah Connor. Compared to the newest Terminator film this old heap is so much better.
The Terminator (1984)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
Director: James Cameron
Writer: William Wisher Jr., Gale Anne Hurd
Runtime: 108 minutes
Genre: thriller, sf, action
- Caprica () Olalaa, I’m looking forward to this new television series. Quotes: “Find those things in life that make you cry, make you feel, because they will make you human” + -”There are no gods.” -”Then all the more reason to make our own justice”.
- Terminator 2 Judgement day () Fantastic action movie, and one of the few movies made where a car chase actually betters the film. “John Connor: We’re not going to make it, are we? People I mean.” Terminator: “It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.” + “Why did we get married, why did we have children. Your heart and your mind are in here (pats model of micro processor). But it doesn’t love you like we do.” + “I grew up in places like this, so I thought this was how people lived. Riding around in helicopters and learning to blow shit up.” + -”Are you ever afraid?” -”No” -”Not even of dying?” -”No.” -”You don’t feel any emotion about it one way or the other?” “No. I have to stay functional until the mission is complete. Then it doesn’t matter.” + “How where you supposed to know?! Fuckers like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. Think you’re so creative. You don’t know what it’s really like to create something. To create a life and feel it growing inside you. All you know to create is death and destruction” -Sarah Connor + “I know now why you cry, but it is something I can never do.” – Arnold + “If a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too” – Sarah Connor
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Director: James Cameron
Writer: William Wisher Jr., James Cameron
Runtime: 137 minutes
Genre: action, adventure, sf
- Terminator 3 : Rise of the machines () Sucks ass. Very poor acting, especially from John Connors character.
- Star Trek – Of gods and men () A fanmade mini series featuring cast from the original series. Worth watching if you are a Trekkie.
- Night at the the museum () Lots of funny and playful scenes and I love how they made the different artworks come alive, especially the paintings and photographs. Quotes: To Darth Vader: “There is too much going on here. You’re evil. You’re asthmatic. You’re a robot. And what is the cape for? Are you going to the opera?” + “If you’re not exited about it then why do you do it.” + “Do you know why I became a pilot? For the fun of it. Why else would anyone do anything.” + “The key to happiness is doing what you love with people that you love.”
- Dogma () Alanis Morisette is the cutest deity ever. And as always with Kevin Smith the dialogue is fantastic! Quotes: “You can’t be anal retentive if you don’t have an anus.” + “If I had a dick I’d go and get laid. Let’s do the next best thing. Let’s kill people.” + “Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.” + “Do you do anal? Is it true that chicks fart if you blast them in the ass?” + -”You knew Christ?” -”Knew him?! The nigger owes me 12 bucks!”
Dogma (1999)
Cast: Bud Cort, Barret Hackney, Jared Pfennigwerth
Director: Kevin Smith
Writer: Kevin Smith
Runtime: 130 minutes
Genre: adventure, comedy, fantasy
- Road of no return () Shit, even with Carradine in it. Had to FF through it, completely horrendous.
- Sixteen Candles () Can’t believe I have missed out on this! Classic 80s movie starring Molly Ringwall. Funny, and utterly charming. Quote: “Everything is just getting shittier, my family forgetting my birthday just makes everything much more vivid.” + “What do you have to complain about? I have to sleep under a china-man named after a ducks dork” + “I have had men that have loved me before, but never for 6 months in a row” + “Fully aged sophomore meat!” + Her: -”What’s your name?” Him: – “Dong”. Her: -”Whats you first name?” Him: -”Long”. Her: -”What’s your middle name?” Him: -”Duck” + “We’ve got a girl’s underwear, and 70 dollars. We are as safe as kittens. This is a great social opportunity for us!”
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling
Director: John Hughes
Writer: John Hughes
Runtime: 93 minutes
Genre: romance, drama, comedy
- Babine ( or ) My first french Canadian movie. Beautiful, but it falls flat in parts, and becomes a little tedious.
- What goes up () Nice! And interesting frame, the home town of the school teacher that was supposed to go up in the Challenger space shuttle, which exploded. But has really nothing to do with the accident.
- Somethings gotta give () Old people having sex. Uuuugh. :)
- Year one () Another in a long line of rather disappointing Jack Black flick.
- Sunshine cleaning () Lovely feelgood movie about death! Highly recommended.
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Cast: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin
Director: Christine Jeffs
Writer: Megan Holley
Runtime: 102 minutes
Genre: crime, comedy
- Virtuality () A pilot. When the main character changes personality in the second episode then dies in the third, you sort of get the feeling that this television series won’t be long lived.
- Return of the ghostbusters () No-budget fan flick. Quotes: -”I know someone who wants to beat your ass” -”Who” -”My balls”
- In your dreams ()
- The devils tomb () Quote: “My job is to get my team out alive. When I shoot somebody and they don’t die, it makes my job fucking hard.”
- Zift () Bulgarian. Quotes: “You’ve fallen son. As low as a worm. You’ve perished. Your wick has burned out. What path did you take to lose yourself?”
- The Hangover () Fun! Quotes: “Is this the real Ceasars palace? Did Ceasar live here?” + “The Best Little Chapel? It’s on the corner of Get a map and Fuck off. Find it yourself.”
The Hangover (2009)
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis
Director: Todd Phillips
Writer: Scott Moore , Jon Lucas
Runtime: 100 minutes
Genre: comedy
