Monday, January 24, 2005

Chinese Military Train Soldiers To Be Gaming Geeks

It's hard to believe but it's true. A blog run by someone called Tian is reporting that during a CCTV (Chinese Central) TV broadcast, folks in the Chinese army are shown to be playing Counter Strike!
Instructor Wang Qiang quoted saying: "Our priority is not about battling Muslim terrorists, but to kick some teenager punks' asses. We are tired of getting our asses handed to us by some zit-faced kid living in Des Moines, Iowa."
Are the Chinese military that serious?

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

The P2P Manifesto

Despite what the RIAA or MPAA are doing, I think it's inevitable that P2P is here to stay. Here's a major addition to the movement for P2P-a manifesto for P2P. In a nutshell it's this...
P2P is unstoppable
P2P is positive for Companies
P2P is positive for the market
P2P is good for users

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Mario music sheet

Hip hip hooray! Now, I can play the Mario themes on my piano!

Monday, January 10, 2005

LEGO PC cases

I've mentioned it again and again, it's amazing what you can do with LEGO bricks. This folks has surprised me with what they did-a working PC with the case made of LEGO bricks. Everything is there, CD-ROM drive, HDD, cooling fans, and all the works. There's even a Shuttle-like case! Awesome!

World's smallest P2P app

Now, this is the smallest P2P app, ever. Edward Felten, CS Professor at Princeton and outspoken supporter of the digital rights, has written a P2P app called TinyP2P using only 15 lines of Python code. The purpose? To proof that P2P software is so easy to write that attempts to ban it is futile. The record and movie industry had better start to stop P2P and making use of it to provide legit content for folks to share, rather than brand file-sharing as a crime.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Famous moments using HL2

Someone has used the Half Life 2 engine to recreate famous moments in history that were captured in photos. There's one on the burning of the monk made famous during the Vietnam war, and also the one of the assination of Oswald. It's funny what gamers can think up of when they put their creativity thinking cap.

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

T-shirt blog site

Who doesn't like T-shirts? Especially those with cool, witty, and killer designs? Now there's a blog that features these desirable tees and also tells you where you can buy them. Give me more cool tees!