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Creative marketing have done a knock out job with the Xmod. Check out that graph! It can't lie! Graphs are made using real data, nobody makes them up!


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I know, long time no update, but I have been busy.

I have been reading Treehugger for a while (via the excellent Bloglines, but I missed this first story that Virgin Fuel is on its way. I picked up on this via the news that Richard Branson has pledged $3 billion to fight global warming - that is all the profits from his transport businesses for ( Read more... )

There is an advert entitled Organic Health outside my room here at work. They mention homoeopathic healing and crystal healing. I wonder if you could combine the two... I think I should dangle a glass of water over peoples heads and charge them a fiver for the privilege.

It probably won't make anyone else laugh, unless you know Bruce Schneier, in which case you may have seen it linked from his blog. Well, I post this anyway because (a) I don't post enough and (b) it is superb.

Random facts about Bruce Schneier.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5261856.stm?ls

I thought I had found a great deal on DVDs (read data input error) and when I got to the checkout they were sold out!


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Hello!

I have been catching up with a little /. backlog during some particularly slow test runs and have discovered these lovely videos for those excited by video games.

I quite like the style of the TF2 video - the cartoon style characters is a nice touch. The gritty realism thing has been done and it is nice to see something different on offer. I ( Read more... )

The new awesomeness from Lucasarts. Possibly pre-rendered, though I expect that Source / Doom3 / Unreal3 could do it real time. Since it is a tech demo, it is reasonable to assume that it is scripted, but it isn't just a video. It is probably in a game engine, with all the actor actions scripted.