Archive for August 2006
Dane Cook rocks
30 August 2006. Tagged stuff
Dane cook is the biggest things in comedy right now. With films, comedy dvds and a HBO show this is a guy on the up and up. But he is also pretty nice guy. On his myspace account that he personally administrators. He is the most popular person on myspace with 1.5million friends on there. He is truly one of best stars in hollywood now.
Not many people know what he plays a little music as well. His song, I’ll never be you about beating up/ becoming a cool kid, I find both funny and relatable.
If your feeling bored in a lunch time or something, do check out this web site danecook.com, it has lots of news, free audio and videos to fill up your time.
wii vs ps3
29 August 2006. Tagged computers, videos
An interesting video that I found on the internet it. It is spoofing the MAC vs PC advert with the new games constoles the Wii and PlayStation 3. It spoofs the advert well but behinds up lots of interesting points. This advert has an interesting sexaul element which I know a couple guys who will buy a Wii because of this advert and sadly, a couple more that will buy a PS3 because of this.
The fact it is a little sexual, it has been taken down off you tube and displayed the following message.
This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube’s user community.
To view this video, please verify you are 18 or older by logging in or signing up.
MTV effects
29 August 2006. Tagged music
Mtv has changed the way that we all look at music. I did much reading up on the subject a research paper for I did in A-level Media studies. For this research paper I asked myself this simply question.
What is the effect of MTV of the music industary and aritst promotion?
I did lots of research and even setup a blog, to get feedback with like minded people on their thoughts on the true effects. When doing this project I found out some interesting facts.
The following quote was from http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_mtv.shtml
The Effects* According to some research even modest viewing of MTV and other music videos results in significant exposure to glamorized depictions of alcohol and tobacco use, alcohol use linked with sexuality, and violence and weapons.
* When lyrics are acted out in a story telling music video, their impact is enhanced.
* Music videos appear to contribute to teens’ desensitization to violence.
* The use of violence by music video stars makes it normal and more acceptable.
* At least two experiments show that watching MTV results in more permissive attitudes about sex. One of these (Calfin, Carroll, & Schmidt, 1993) found that college students who were assigned to watch MTV developed more liberal attitudes toward premarital sex than their peers who did not watch MTV as part of the study. In the second (Greeson & Williams, 1986) found that seventh and ninth graders were more likely to approve of premarital sex after watching MTV for less than one hour.
There was also another article that discussed the effects of MTV on the world that many people may find interesting to read.
Even through I handed in the research paper, I still thought it may be interesting to share the finding of the paper with the world. The blog that I created is still running and can be found at http://mtveffects.blogspot.com
The paper will be uploaded soon….
1024×786 and up
28 August 2006. Tagged updates
This blog no longer surrports any screen resoltion below 1024 by 786px. This move comes as a detailed look at stats of the site showed that no user had of this site use less than this resoltion. With this change means that more and larger pictures can be posted.
If this move effects you, please contact the admin.
Thanks
Spacedmonkey
Power Rangers spoof
27 August 2006. Tagged videos
As a kid like most others I was a massive fan of power rangers, my god I thought they rocked. When doing just looking around on YouTube I found a video the spoofing the rangers. The video is called Rolling Bomber Special. It is good on many levels. First of all it is extremly odd which I enjoy. It is also something that many people don’t get to see, making it very different. Also it looks like it was a fan movie which I am a fan of. But when through it is a fan movie, it has extremly high production values. The mini movie managed to also transport me into being about 7 years old again. I hope you enjoy it.
Firefox crop circle
23 August 2006. Tagged computers, images
The world has truly gone firefox crazy, becuase believe it or not, this picture is real.Made by some local fans of Firefox, the Firefox Crop Circle project shows that we have so much passion for the web browser that the logo can now be seen from visible from space.
Quote from the offical web site.
Planned in under two weeks and completed in under 24 hours, the crop circle had a final diameter of 220 feet. We constructed the circle in an oat field near Amity, Oregon, where it was completely invisible from the road but unmistakable from the sky. Our team consisted of 12 people, mainly OSU students, and we carefully stomped down oats from 3:30pm Friday afternoon until 2:30am, putting on the finishing touches between 7:30am and 11:00am Saturday, August 12.
Read the article of how it was done at http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle.
Odd site
23 August 2006. Tagged stuff
When doing some research of the new mp3 player from microsoft called the Zune, I found a site called www.comingzune.com. It is very cute and I thought I would share it with you. It is very random and not what I would exept from microsoft. Enjoy!
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