January 2005 Archives

The Wang has been away doing real work (aka his Job) for the past few days, while recovering from a serious illness (a cold). Thus the crickets chirped quietly on the WWW pages, as I’ve copied and pasted some stuff from last week waiting to post them. Maybe just maybe, a post by post method might work, but too many blogs and too many sites do that alrdy. The Wang only handles large quantities. So, here’s ur daily dose of the iWang -age -y –ish thingy…

Good friend “E" introduce me to the concept of Twixter. Pretty much an article on how adults these days live of their parents, and refuse to become, well, mature adults, “Twixters". While “E" also sent me a nice world labeling of these people.

So after sitting and watching a minor marathon of the new Battle Star Galactica and responding to some blog-ish post today, I came to an odd conclusion about swearing and censorship. Now shows like Galactica and the ever-worshiped Farscape use these pseudo swear words in place of F**K, like frak and frell. Both of these words are used in the same way as fuck on these tv shows. Now I assume this is a clever way to get around censorship, and to bring some culture to these fictional tv worlds, but doesn’t this bypasss the whole point of it? I mean, are we not still teaching our “young" viwers to cuss, just not using what words we consider are cussing? So phrase like I like to have sexual intercourse with ur mother versus I like to fuck ur mother would make one bteer than the other? Simply replacing the a “dirty" word doesn’t really change the purpose of communication. The “Intent" is what we are trying to prevent people from learning when we censor TV is it not? By teaching another word like frak is no different? So we can hear kids att he schoolyards shouting, “Frak you u Son of a Bittle!" I guess that’s not to bad… or is it?

Sure, Newsweek just rub it in…

Midnighteye slams us with the ubber Best of Japanese 2004 films list. Each critic gives their best of, plus their choice for non-Japanese films. A good place to scrounge for what to rent at Cinefile and a overall list of some nice films. Midnight Eye in general is a great Asian film site that writes some intriguing critiques and nice articles about the whole Asian film market.

New prototype tires work without air.
(via BoingBoing)

The VW Polo car bomb commercial gets slapped for bad taste.
(via BoingBoing)

Seems like Quicken’s parent company, Intuit, is pulling a fast one over everyone over tax season, specially since they are integrated into every small business’s financial backbone.
(via BoingBoing)

How to defend one-self with an Umbrella.
(via BoingBoing)

Sweet Taru! Tokyo GameShow 2004 Cosplay pictures includes this little kid dressed up as a Taru from FFXI.
(via Game Girl Advance)

I knew Pokemon cause headaches, I didn’t know it causes cancer…
(via Kotaku)

Not that I’m down with a Star War RTS, but this picture look really cool…

(Gamespy via Joystiq)

So How Jedi are you?
(via Wicked Thought)

A parody of Ep. 3, funny stuff.
(via Golden Fiddle)

Check out the new Amazon search engine, A9. The best part is when u go for the Yellow page mode, they have pictures of entire neighborhoods

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(Yahoo via Tammer Time)

Well hope a smile is really contiguous, have a good night everyone!

Well, today will be a fast and short day, as the Wang is sick. Must have been of that drinking this last past weekend, or maybe its just the cold returning to SoCal like a stealthy ninja on telephone lines. Anyways, feeling sick and having actually work to do, makes today a short day, so we go with the fast, fire-and-forget posting style.

First up, the Japanese invented something called “Nipple Enhancer"

A commercial, written by my friend, Mr Starfizzy about why u shouldn’t have kids. Ok maybe he didn’t write it, but he should of.

U think the iPod Shuffle is small? Get a load of the MobiBlu DAH-1500. And it DOES have a screen!

The Japanese are appraised by Star Trek and Andromeda geeks every where as they unleash the OLED Flexi display.

MTV gives us this nice list of the top 20 videos of 2004. I don’t usually agree with the MTV pop-taste of music, but it’s a ncie way to see some videos.

The SF Chronicle tells us to have a crappy band name, cause good band names never become famous.

A nice page with a lot of Badly Drawn Boy concert tracks. If u like them, their live stuff there isn’t bad. Incase u don’t know who they r, they the ones that did the soundtrack for “About a Boy". And if u dotn know what that movie is about… then just click it.

MTV news tells us (7th paragraph down) that M83, French Kicks, Fiery Furnaces and Rilo Kiley are amongst the people conformed for Coachella. Now all we need is a full band list… anytime now Coachella people. Anytime…

Like Is said, fast short.. so we end on this:

(via Thighs Wide Shut)

Of course the big news of the day, the Oscar nominees are out. Here’s a nice compiled list.

I don’t know when this happened, but it’s a good thing, now Yahoo map has a “traffic" button that can overlay the current traffic info over anything u mapped.

A moment of silence as the passing of a Entertainment Giant, the Pillsbury Doughboy.
(via Metamorphi)

Starbuck Locator from the Starbucks website allows u to see how many Starbuck minions are encroaching on ur home. The Wang has about 26 near his house…
(via Blogging.la

U know not everytime, a Young Asian girl with the name Kitty11_3 ask u to chat, its about some sort of scam. John Barlow gets a random global conversation with some new found friends over VoIP.
(via BoingBoing)

Calvin and Hobbs snow man done real!

Wired brings us this cool article about the Liquid Information Project from London. A project that will combine that’s “Wikipedia meets Hypertext." This is probably close to the Original "Xanadu" project from Ted Nelson, who brought us the idea and the word “Hypertext".

For those of u still asking me about the “rub it" song, Sega was nice enough to have a “Feel the Magic" demo on there website, so u can play it in flash. And it even comes with the full “rub it" song experience.
(via Geek on Stun)

Sony reviels its new Cell Processor. To be used in PS3 and other TV multimedia devices.

A moment of silence as the dread EAmpire claims another of the free-worlds… as Digital Illusions CE falls to the mighty Empire fleet.
(via Joystiq)

Askmen bring us their 2005’s 99 Most desirable women list. I cant say I agree with much of it, I would never put Belluci anywhere near the double digit area, she would a be a close 135 in my book. But it sa nice place to see a list of hott women. AskMen does seem to sway towards the fashion model and actress area… is AskMen a metrosexual magazine? Or is just plan gay? The Thigh Master isn’t happy about Her Royal Thigh-ness being 30 though…
(via Low Culture)

The Bomb-a-Tron! good way to figure out an excuse for work…
(via Grow a Brain)

If u r a Homestar runner fan, then The System is Down.
(via inscrutable )

Its DYNAMITE!

Fugu.

Just doing my part in it all… so past it on. The tape, a ring-esque video.

And little class, Inside the Actor Studio with the Simpsons… quite classic.

(via Achtung baby!)
and something a little more artistic today… as the iWang is shuffled into a “classic" mode on the equalizer. Be good!

This is an odd disocvery via BoingBoing. This link is to a “Betelnut" page. The betel nut is some sort of Palm tree looking plant, that produces a nut, I ‘m guessing Betel plant, and mixed with some sort of chew tobacco type of concoction. This is quite famous amongst the Taiwanese. In the recent years, the Betel Nut stands have turned into a cheap whore house look parading young beautiful girls selling the nuts. Sometimes they are know as “Betel Nut Beauties." I always assume this was just a scenery of Taiwan. I’ve never tried one of these nut things personally, they r rated close to cigarettes, and can only be bought by 18+ users. They also produce some nasty looking teeth and odor. But this page does give u a nice look into the Betel nut setup. Also mostly these Betel Nut girls are usually quite “owned" by their bosses, whom usually deal with the Taiwanese mafia, which always reminds me of British hoodlums.

Dr Dooms LiveJournal.
(via Wicked Thought

e23 is now selling Steve Jackson games in digital format. They even come with insurance that will allow u to download the file again, as long as u r registered. Currently GURPS 4th ed. Is still missing from e23. But they do have the GURP lite in PDF for free download.
(via BoingBoing)

I like these two photos of the Inaug fireworks, called ID4.

BoingBoing notifies us of this EFF Endangered Gizmo List. This list list out some of the famous techs that are taken out by Large Hollywood/RIAA types. This include things like the ReaplyTV 400 series, Napster and DVD X-copy. It also mentions the Induce Act once more and how it threatens current devices like iPods and CD-RW. The EFF also goes out to defend future techs, since these big industries have bought and lobbied their way into setting up an environment that prevents future gizmos.

UCI has just help us prove that men and women are different, men have more gray matter and women have more white matter… And that means? The same as before, women still lost, and write better novels.

Not one to point out all the dumb things that Nicole Richie do, but this clip is worthy of “Dirty Wind". Nicole Richie's Butt Readings from Letterman. If u r not down with the Nicole thing, check out the Letterman site does have a lot of good clips, I recommend a peek.
(via Golden Fiddle)

Specially for the Zombie Queen is this trailer for the new Tim Burton CGI film ( that looks like a burton claymation) of the Corpse Bride.
(via Golden Fiddle)

For those of us who missed all 3 shows of the Arcade Fire in LA, here’s some video of one of their performances, plus some interviews. The 4th video is a performance of my fav. Arcade Fire song, “Wake Up." The Arcade Fires are… a rowdy bunch.
(via More Cowbells)

Here is a gallery of Hong Kong apartment buildings. I’m thinking some sort of futuristic ant farms.

(via DataWhat?)

LotR: Denethor is a Vampire! gif

(click to start over new or these others: 1 2 3) (via DataWhat?)

UPDATE: DataWhat also puts this link to Something Awful’s forums that continues in the ways of the LotR animated GIFs, but warns us of the hobbit on hobbit overt-tone that is well associated with those forums.

Yup this is pretty much what a work day is like… at least between the blogging.
(via DataWhat?)

Terra Nova talks of the true connection between Thottbot.com and The Cosmos interface. If u r not a World of Warcraft fan, then u probably don’t know what the Wang is talking about. WoW, a MMO from Blizzard allows the users to manipulate the UI via XML scripting. Now Cosmos was nice enough to create a program that allows non-programmers to create and modify their own UI. Thottbot.com is a website dedicated to MMO information, listing quests, NPCs, drop rates, crafting plans, and general forums for WoW. Now the ingenuity of these two is that the Cosmos interface CAN send information directly from a play’s UI to the databases of Thottbot. Information can be created as soon as a player 1st access it. Terra Nova explains that the future of information is management.

Geek out with this Vader Mask and Voice changer!~

And we end the day wishing wafer-thin Mischa a happy “legality+1" birthday.

Today the iWang continues from a long series of talk about the recent TV shows of interest on other blogs of note, and start with this bit of info. The Museum of TV and Radio in LA is having a TV fest, organized by shows. The 2005 William S. Paley Television Festival Will take place through out 3/2/05-3/16/05. With important shows such as Deadwood and Lost having their entire cast at these panels. SO for u lost fans, mark u r calendars for Sat. March 12 @ 7p. Cause EJ will be there… is this something worthy to miss a game for?

This Aritcle is little out dated, written in 2002, but it definitely that the World’s largest Porn collection is in SF. I guess that means u r de-throned, Porn-king! But really though this is an interesting author who wrote about a lot of weird stuff, check out some of his other articles.

50,000 Giant squids sacrifices them self in proclamation to the O.C. I guess they don’t like Summer either.
(via BoingBoing)

NC soft will not go gentle into that good night
(via BoingBoing)

A cute Flash Animation about a cow, and the very leather-loving farmer… Mostly SFW.
(via Screenhead)

Watchout, or u will anger ur girlfriend, and she will delete your lvl 42 night elf.
(via Kotaku)

This is… wrong.
(via Goldenfiddle)

For those of u who care, (Mr. Starfizzy) The Fiery Furnace will be @ Coachella. Though I still cant find a full lineup of Coachella, but the last rumored, crpatastic list is gone… and now we’re back to unknown, cpet a few bands claiming that they “will be there."
(via Thighs Wide Shut)

WAaaahhhhaaahhahhhhhaaaa!

(via PlanetDan)

Alright short day, backs to works.

This might be another relatively slow week as the Wang, no officially renamed to be the iWang needs to catch up on work stuff. Month of slacking has force results on my “work" to be, well completed. Thus juggling the multiple task that the iWang has in a day (e.g. Video games, sleep, food…) the iWang needs to go into “shuffle" mode and spend sometime on work. So today will be another light does day.

First off I like to introduce all u movie buffs onto the following blog. This is Greencines, Greencine Daily. It’s a ncie blog about all things movie, leaning towards the indies. So give a browse once in awhile, as Greencine still holds up its indie roots, and stays true, in the sea of mail-to-rent DVD super giants.

At least somebody is getting some action…

There were threesomes, twosomes, and some onanism amongst a few disconsolate singles who floated alone on the scummy waters of love. A female drifted by, absolutely covered in males. Watching her contentedly drift by, the English gentleman next to me remarked: "They're really pounding her."

The robotwars are reallying shaping up, as The Koreans plans to put centrally wireless controlled robots in post-offices, with net guns.. I mean they are alrdy planning to take over our kids…
(via BoingBoing)

The Induce Act just wont die. Now in its California State law form. Check here for BoingBoing’s coverage of the new bill started by State Senator Kevin Murrady (D).

Oh best title ever: Lindsay Lohan can’t swallow! (SFW)
(via Fleshbot)

EnGadget grills Apple about the tough questions.

Economist write this interesting article about the future of tech. The big issue, battery power. As they show that portable devices are growing in power hunger, while there has been no improvements in battery tech, cept a few fuel-cell concepts in Japan. Take a look at this Economist article, specially for u gadget types.
(via EnGadget)

As Noble_zone discuss the 3-4 weeks wait for an iPod Shuffle, I read upon this Rueter article that does stat the Shuffle’s shortage. But we also brought u the cool new iProduct poster from Gizmodo. Thus proclaiming my self the iWang.

Move over movie industry… the Gaming industry just made a whopping 9.9billion dollars in 2004. This is definetly going to make the big business put their business foot in the gaming industry more and more. Thus expect more movie tie-ins, sequels, star cameos, and craptastic games. We have to thanks these numbers to big money maker games such as Halo 2, and GTA: San Andreas.
(via JoyStiq)

Speakingof Halo, The people who brought us Command and Conquer, is doing a version of C&C set in the Halo world. Get ready for the Warthog Rush!
(via JoyStiq)

So in further gaming rumor, Nintendo’s Revolution at the E3 and the Xbox 2 for the Q4 of 2005. We don’t know how accurate these bits are, but hey, it’s the blog sphere, take it or leave it.
(via Kotaku and Gizmodo)

FFVII: Advent Children Trailer (Right click for save as)
This thing looks amazing!
(via inscrutable)

Not that I want to, but everyone is doing it… here’s the craptastic trailer to the upcoming Fantasitic Four
(via Noble_zone)

and to end the day on something completely insane…

(via inscrutable, though I saw it on Thighs Wide Shut yesterday, this is one I’m stealing from.)

So much for a light day… guess I should do some work.

SO how was everyones 3 day weekend? Well the wang spent most of the time indoor, ate at Tea Station 3 times. Hung out a little with the new temp-roomate. And played WoW till the sun came up. Oh and I saw Appleseed, follow Noble_zone)’s comments on his LJ.

So one day we will sit around the campfire and tell kids story about how the NanoWars begun.
(via Zibacco)

Jack Jack Attack!
(via Noble_zone)

Good friend Adam brings us these pictures of exotic sea creatures washed up on shore Sri Lanka after the Tsunami.

The Japanese likes everything small and portable:

(via Gizmodo)

So after Noble_zone’s Lost debacle last week, I came across this article via BoingBoing about how ABC admits to padding shows so viewers, specially those with DVR cant tape them right, or switch channels for another show.

ABC is unapologetic. "It's not my job to make it easy for people to leave our network," says ABC scheduling chief Jeff Bader. "Our whole goal is to get people to stay with us from 8 to 11."

(via BoingBoing)

The iPod Shuffle Autopsy (not for those who can handle seeing the inners of gadgets)
(via Waxy Links)

I thought Peter Jackson is doing the Hobbit after King Kong.. I guess not..
(via Goldenfiddle)

Finally, Bill gets one…

And here are some cool pictures for the Batman: Begins.
(via Noble_zone)

This girl can eat…
(via Thigh’s Wide Shut)

Thank the Thighmaster for this image of the day, u can even see the thigh master’s trademark angry kid in the middle. Thanks for the bandwidth… soon when I get real traffic, I’ll stop linking photos… (^_^)

(via Thigh’s Wide Shut)

Livejournal is dead today. Atleast this is what their site says:

Our data center (Internap) lost all its power, including redundant backup power, for some unknown reason. (unknown to me, at least) We're currently dealing with bringing our 100+ servers back online. Not fun. We're not happy about this. Sorry... :-/ More details later.

Bring 5.5 million bloggers to their withdraw-knees and lamentations. I think it’s the work of some malicious MSN spaces employed hacker out to dethrone the Six Apart/LiveJournal giant.

UPDATE
Update #1, 7:35 pm PST: we're up on 'dirty' power for now (it works, but it's unreliable), and we're working to assess the state of the databases. The worst thing we could do right now is rush the site up in an unreliable state. We're checking all the hardware and data, making sure everything's consistent. Where it's not, we'll be restoring from recent backups and replaying all the changes since that time, to get to the current point in time, but in good shape. We'll be providing more technical details later, for those curious, on the power failure (when we learn more), the database details, and the recovery process. For now, please be patient. We'll be working all weekend on this if we have to.

BTW trying out the horizontal rule today to break individual entries.

Webzen gives us more net-zen Today the album cover Zen. Specially check out the Bollywood album cover.
( via BoingBoing )

For those of u who r still reading this, u might be able to catch the repeat showing of Galatica on Sci-fi. For those u who cant catch it, go to their forum, and listen to the geeks whine.

ROboshark to be displayed in Birmingham, UK in 2006. Maybe Samael Jackson will be there to tell us about how fast snow moves…
( via EnGadget )

Rumors of the Powerbook G5 for Q2 of 2005. About frickin time, I think Apple’s been to busy flashing their iPods.
( via EnGadget )

IGN does their right as gaming reviewers and “demand" future of gaming to bend to their will. Ok maybe they just hint at it, or ask it nicely. But really gaming has been a bad puppy of spoiled household, and deserves a little discipline. Otherwise, its going to go the way of the movie industry.
( via JoyStiq )

Wired gives the one word review to Elektra, "dull".

click here for the new Hitchiker’s poster
( via Goldenfiddle yes, he’s back. )

Nicole Kidman Filming in Shanghai with Wong kar Wai? Could it be this? anyone know anything about this movie? An Orson Welles remake?

Fantastic Four clip… from MTV.
( via Thighs wide shut )

Where the hell did this come from? And why has no one made fun of it yet?? The Thighmaster find all the cool stuff.
( via Thighs wide shut )

some of u woill really like this 30mm gattling gun firing clip.

The Montage Google

The Human Virus scanner. Quite neat, it determines what u know based on what icons u know.

( via Weblog: sex, fun and musicvideos )

Night folks. Have a fun 3 day weekend!

On the new iPod Shuffle craze, here’s the new Shuffle Ads

As my talk with Noble_zone I introduce him to some other small wearable MP3 players like the EMP-Z II Plus or the iRiver N10. Both are small and wearable. But more expansive because they actually have LCDs. The N10 actually uses an OLED screen. Both only have max size of 512 Mb and more expansive for the smaller size.

With the iPod Shuffle, Apple really embraced the whole random music mentality, with this “shuffle" concept. They took the production value off with out a display, but turn the whole thing into a media culture. EnGadget gives a review on the Shuffle. The thing that interested me the most is the “Auto-Fill" feature in the new iTune. This will randomly place songs into ur Shuffle, so the whole experience can be very very random. But this cuts into my original complaint, that if I do find one of these random songs interesting… how do I know what it is called?

And for those of us who have an iPod alrdy, here r 3 easy steps to convert ur Full iPod into a Shuffle.

( via EnGadget )

In tech news… a new plastic material created by the University of Toronto can catch 30% energy form the sun compare to the modern day solar cells that can capture only 6%. The cool thing is that this material can be “sprayed" onto anything. Here’s the Roland techno version.
( via EnGadget )

I want one of these…
( via Gizmodo )

So if u haven’t gotten into World of Warcraft yet, it might be too late, as Blizzard pulls the game from shelves due to server overload.
( via Joystiq )

Even Flies are faking it now days…
( via BoingBoing )

.:DataWhat:. Brings us more tsunami photos/videos.

Wired’s Top 10 Vaporware of 2004

Big news, Cars of 2005!! ( note the extra “!")

Have a good night folks, as I’m going to brave the traffic on the 405.

Its going to be a relatively slow week, since I’ve been slacking too much at work and should do some real time “working". But still I find my self reading so much stuff online, and go, hey I need to post that. So here’s lighter bits for this light week upahead.

To all u blog readers that keep blogs of ur own, here is Bloggercode

A part of me always feel that I missed out on the life of Taiwan kids, or adults. Sometimes I find myself wandering back to Taiwan’s online community. Today I finally found the motherload… I learn how to write blog in Chinese. And lets say doors are opened. Like I didn’t waste enough of my time reading English blogs, now pages upon pages of Chinese blogs. Here’s a Yahoo Taiwan search for blogs which is 部落 ( for those of u who read Chinese, TRADITIONAL Chinese.)

The Copyright wars are on. Apparently, long long ago, the MPAA and RIAA alrdy hired people to put up corrupt files on file-sharing networks.

This guy with going for the golden idol also…

Buffy’s sister is all grown up. She is now old enough to act in crappy movies just like the rest of the Hollywood teens.

They American TV audience is dead. I mean this in a both-show-is-crappy kind of way. I mean this is like choosing between two people that u don’t want to run the country… … …

A McShoawma?
( via Thighs wide Shut )

Alrighty, short day, gots to go. So I leave u with this bit of nastiness, from the thighmaster.

Nintendo plans to kick ass in the portable market for 2005.
( via Joystiq )

How do u bring a live chicken on to a bus?here's how.

The aftermath of the Tsunami is making the internet legit-spam a tolerable thing. I get one email after another from co-workers and families about tsunami support. I did get this cool email about the before & after comparison photos website. The one button-click for before after and the overlay makes u see the exact differences at the same spot.

Dolby goes crazy with 13.1 Dolby Digital Plus! Soon we’ll have the Dolby 2000 with 28.25 speakers and the automatic speaker cord managing system v3.6, not to forget the Magnetic Counter Shielding Systems for the entertainment room. Though, someone finally puts the HDMI to good use.
( via Joystiq )

The end of the world as we know it… MS and Sony are joining forces to force Evil-o-corp of music. Maybe they are scared of this… But maybe the silver-lining in all this is that maybe, just maybe we’ll get rid of WMA and ATRAC to form something even nastier with Uber-DRM.
( via Kotaku )

The drama of the Sim 2 hack is getting bigger. Now beyond the state of novelty, the hacks are self-replicating and taking unsuspected user’s neighborhoods all over the EA server.

EnGadget goes crazy on the CES floor with 50+ posts a day. And doesn’t fall far behind. Good day for blogshpere as the Bloggers truly takes the news gathering to a new level. Of course, they don’t have to worry about credibility like the big tech news sites. Well way to much CES new to blog, so just click on over to EnGadget if u r interested and give them a read. But don’t forget to come back, cause u know, what else would be the point if u just read these sites without me linking them?

But amongst the CES news, this bit about Verizon’s new EV-DO network is quite cool. Supposely, come 2/1, Verizon phones with the VCast service can start watch specially made content via their cellphones. Only4 phone at the time will be about to truly use the new 3g network.
( via EnGadget )

A picture gallery of the Japanese honoring the War-dead from WWII. Brought to u by the same guy who gaves us the ripping-show photos. The guy does travel all over Japan and I assume as a professional photographer. Some nice stuff, a lot of old veterans in military outfit.

But what I really recommend is this gallery he calls “Spieces"

Boingboing brings us this catalog of future materials: Biosteel, pervious concrete, Superblack, corrugated glass, rubber pavements/sidewalks, strawboard, conductive plastic, plasphalt, light-emitting glass, regenerative plastic...

The Dialectizer! Try out the Hack conversion, the sheer amout of “!" and LOLs they add just makes any website funy.
( vai .:Data What?:. )

This is kinda of cool, the site gives u movie screenshots, cept the “invisible" the actors. So u have to guess what movies it is from. give it a try

Wow, I though my friend Tom passes out easily and sleeps like a log, so we can vandalize him with a marker. check out these guys and their cool friends.
( via Thighs Wide Shut )

Worst Superhero Customs of all time.
( via Thighs Wide Shut )

Incase u haven’t seen it, go wath the Kingdom of Heaven trailer from Ridley Scott.

And a special thanks to the Thigh master for this:

I don’t know about the way he writes, but his taste in women is fine.

And a fine good weekend to u all, cya on the next working day.

I know White Wolf is on some sort of revision phase, but Pimp: the backhanding?
( via No one lives forever )

The new ScanDisk SD card design is to have a flip=out usb plug, Genius!
( via EnGadget )

Due to CEs, there are lots of tech/gadget news. Feel free to browser EnGadget or Gizmodo. Or try using any of the big tech news sites like Cnet and ZDnews. But I have compiled a few things below that strike great interest for me.

-DVR are the talk of CES. DirectTV is doing their own DVR, finally breaking from TiVo. While TiVo gets the Microsoft reach-around and continues to pimp the TiVoToGo. Not to forget, DTV getting their new Home server Media Center. And an overall trend for DVRs to go HD/Media Center-ish.

-Memory Sticks gets bigger while CF gets faster.

-XM Radio devices goes crazy portable, as Sirus sneaks in for the metal suit case!

-Samsung for the 80in. LCDs, this weird detachable 5.1speaker thing., and really really small cameras that the Japanese will love.

-Overall much of the CES news seems to be dominated by MP3 player, PMP, GPS devices, LCDs, HD tvs, and storage media.

-From the video game front, IGN covers CES.

-CNET sits down with Mr. Gates, as he dodges around the Xbox 2 topic.

In other tech news, here’s a story about a Holographic storage medium, that suppose to store 1.6 Tb. ( yes terabyte ).
( via EnGadget )

Zyros, professional Halo player, aka Worlds Best Halo Player. Dude made 80k last yr in the Halo circuit… There’s a Halo Circuit?
( via Joystiq )

"He is our last hope, no there is a another…" as Vivendi denies rumors of their help to Ubisoft, but Infogames comes in and promises a last hope against the EAmpire.
( via Joystiq )

American Cinematheque, the people behind the Eygptian theatre, has renovated the Old Aero theatre in Santa Monica. There first big event is a series of double features for the Golden Globe Foreign film nominees. Of interest, is the House of Flying Dagger and The Motorcycle Diaries Double Feature. The listing shows that directors Zhang Yimou and Walter Salles “might" be there to introduce their films. Here’s a listing and info.

The Aero theatre does have a nice 2 movie a night thing going, here’s a 2 month schedule.

ohhh…. Isnt that sweet?
( via BoingBoing )

Its official, Six Apart bought LiveJournal.
( via BoingBoing )

The Bush Twins have Their own talk show in Hollywood? Well I guess there will be alcohol.
( via Defamer )

become elite in LA, and use the Secret In & Out Hidden menu items. Or the Starbucks Drinks simplified guide.
( via Screenhead )

Top ten worst record covers… and they r bad.
( via Weblog: sex fun and musicvideo )

A Mario Spoof of that German sing dude we had awhile back…

A nice way to review albums of the year.. by calling them bastard child of x and y in so and so, on something. Otherwise, u might gain the wrath of Uncle Grambo

And have a good night folks!

Still riding the New Year wave of celebrations we bring the panoramic view of major cities on New Year eve. Including the homeland, where, Taipei 101 stands.

A cute Korean Flash Animation about the evil snow white and the puss n boot in a cloak. Also has golum and the matchstick girl amongst other characters.

It’s a Chinese Spy Buoy I say!
( via BoingBoing )

The Knights Templar in Hertford, UK? Or wacky prankisters? u be the judge.
( Guardian via BoingBoing )

BoingBoing post this article from Clay Shirky of Corante. This is a series of responses about the recent trend of Wikipedia as a source for information. The concept is that too many people view Wikipeidia as a credible source, though fact-check frequently it is created by users and input by anyone. Buy Clay compares Wikipedia to Britannica and states this quote:

"new media don't succeed because they're like the old media, only better: they succeed because they're worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at."

( via BoingBoing )

The Save Guardians of Order Campaign.

Cole Marcus, 4 year old drummer, damn he’s going to get all the 3 year old girls…
( via Weblog: Sex, Fun and Musicvideos )

Scissor Sister’s new controversial “Filthy Gorgeous" video. (NSFW) And I’m soo deleting their MP3 form my hard drive. I should of after that last SNL performance.

Cool wushu staff versus 3 segment staff fight. Looks old or it could be the “modern" PAL system.

If u like Megaman of have a lot of free time, take a gander at this Megaman version of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

In regards to Noble_zone’s post about the world’s tallest bridge, here’s some Satellite shots.

A very LONG but cool essay on the big computing platforms of date, written by Neal Stephenson, called "In the Beginning was the Command Line“. I’m only a bit into it, but it has some cool concepts about Apple, Microsoft, Linux and others. This link is actually to an annotated, updated version of the essay to catch it up to the modern day, 5 years later by one Garrett Birkel. Good read if u r really into the history of computers and operating systems. Plus this guy is old school, has a character sheet of himself in some sort of Wizardry PC game from the late 80s on his website.

The Best of Photo Journalism of 2004 3rd place winner in the Feature Picture Story category is Mark Zaleski. His Entry consist of photos for Riverside County. Most of his 3rd place entry consist of the Riverside Corner’s office, pretty morbid stuff. But some really good photos. The above is my favorite. Another recommended entry by BoingBoing is David Hoegsholts entry of the Prostitutes of Copenhagen.

PC world brings us the big news today, the new that we are all waiting for… ok maybe I’ve been waiting for, pictures of cool stuff from the CES 2005. But EnGadget has a motherload of info on CES today… made my Engadget RSS feed window uber-scrollable.
( via Gizmodo )

There will probably be no Xbox 2 announcement at CES.
( via Gizmodo )

This article drops 2004 MMO names the likes of god has not seen. And then proceeds to bust out more MMO acronyms for 2005. Get a big year’s end review of this year in MMO, and what’s to come.
( via Joystiq )

Speaking of which, RPGDot gives us this big list of PC RPGs to look forward to in 2005. Not to mention part II coming tomorrow.

In the spirit of the japans matrix ping-pong game, we bring the Japanese Matrix Poll-vault. These guys are creative…

Natalie Portman is to be in the new “V for Vendetta" movie. But have we not seen Kiera with a shotgun?

And for ur Fiery Furnace news of the day:

( via thighmaster )

For guys only… or the hot lesbian women, i give u Jessica Alba in very little clothing
( via thighmaster )

And because of that above we end on:

Well I’m out for the day… cya all later!

Welcome back from the fun-filled vacations. The Wang was quite mellow-out during the whole xmas/new year period. Due to a Office Mandate, I had 9 days off. Thus, I stayed home a lot, saw some movies, and played a lot of Video games. But anyways, let the interesting stuff begin.

First off, I come back and logon to Trillian and it notifies me of a new version. The New version 3. I’m always hesitant for the Trillian numbering system since only their “PRO" version goes by real numbers, while the free one has always lingered in some beta 0.73 kind of setup. But to my surprise, the new Version 3 basic is free. And I must say, it’s a very nice upgrade. Off course including all the new features of the newer MSN and Yahoo messenger, Trillian goes into a plug-in mode, where each service is a plug-in. Thus future IM services can be easily added. New looks and management makes the new trillion flashy and user-friendly. Additional features include spell checker and Wikipedia links, right on the message windows. Not to mention the Pro version can install a Rendezvous plugin that allows “server-less" IM. This is something that Noble_zone has been looking for his gaming ways. Also the “tab" theory of Firefox/Netscape browsers has been added to manage multiple pages and chat windows. Lots of good stuff. I give a big approval for the new upgrade.

U can find the download link here.
And the a link the Cerulean Studios, that makes Trilllian.

The Great Eagles! Real proof that New Zealand is, in fact Middle Earth.
( via Zibacco )

BBC does this cool article on Americans and Blogs. Stating that high rise of blogs are due to the poltical events of this year, and the blogs that commented on them. Also the article points out that most people like to read rather write their own blogs. Another BBC article talks about the word “dooced". Which pseudo means getting fired because of something u blogged.

So Feel the Magic is big on the Nintendo DS. Rub it!
UPDATE: And if u can read Japanese, here’s a site dedicated to the Rub it song, and anything techno-dance track. Lots of Flash animations with the Rub It song, and lots of DDR music. Plus some weird video clips that I don’t recommend. But here are some nice SWFs: here, here, here, and here

Concrete that can display information.

21 inch OLED Display. For those of u who don’t know what OLED is, here’s a nice Definition It’s a purposed method to replace LEDs. It is cheaper but have a shorter lifespan. But more advances are suppose to be coming on the OLED front.

Cingular claims to hit 3 Mbps in its new 3G-esque Cellphone network.
( via Gizmodo )

Roland brings us this neat article about how close we are to getting engineered enhancements to our eyes

The French wont let Ubisoft go down easy. “I shal taunt u a second time…"
( via Kotaku )

Wired gives us the Best Games that we missed of 2004. There is again another mention of Katamari Damacy

Another cool wired article about the darkside of the interenet used in Pirating. The article does talk about cool techniques that people use, that sounds right out of some sci-fi movie. But apparently these are the real-trick of the trade of the hackers and piraters. Techniques and structures used by hackers are like a giant corporation, well oiled and each position has a duty in the bigger scheme of things. Also the article talks about what the government is doing to battle this.

Don’t know how accurate this is, but SixApart is trying to buy LiveJournal
( via BoingBoing )

Video and pictures from the Tsunami, some scary stuff.
( via BoingBoing )

Speed hack for Firefox However it comes with warnings.
( via BoingBoing )

I’m certainly not interested in this info, but I’m quite sure some of u are. Gay Hanky Infos
( via Skeet on Mischa )

The Theme from Blog
( via Waxy )

Big Starwars picture, with anyone important… here’s the article.

Check out the Pump Up the movie website. The fake no-cellphone movie has done well as a website. Thigh master recommends the “toss the cheerleader" game.
( via Thighs Wide Shut )

And we end on:

Special Shout-out to Mr. Starfizzy, have good trip in the motherland.

So finally after a long break for Xmas and new Year, the Wang returns in full glory, at its real-name site. Welcome to WorldWideWang.org

So now in its official home the WWW blog will soon go through some cosmetic changes, like anything aging, it need a different look. So for those of u who have been following this, update ur bookmarks, history, or memories. For those of u who are new, Welcome.