Yeah, I know, this isn’t really geeky in itself, but since each and everyone needs to be alone with themselves sometimes, I thought you guys would enjoy this incredibly beautiful and uplifting video. Enjoy!
[Via Reddit]
Friday Morning Humor: NO IPHONE USERS [PIC]
[Source: Craigslist]
LOL: Star Trek PSA [PIC]
[Via Gizmodo]
Awesomely Geeky Video Game Song Medley
What can I say? This guy is just awesome… almost as awesome as Jonathan Coulton, but not quite. He’s got quite a few crumbs to eat before getting there! (Code Monkey FTW!)
Every Lightsaber Ignition and Retraction [VIDEO]
The following clip shows a montage of every single lightsaber ignition and retraction from all the Star Wars movies. Shame on the creator for forgetting to add all those from the Clone Wars animated series and from all the various fan films on the Internet. This is an outrage to Star Wars enthusiasts everywhere.
[Via Buzzfeed]
Solar Roadway Prototype
Yes, in concept a solar roadway would be amazing, but I see a few problems with the idea. First, these roads could almost only be installed in countries where there is no snow and where the temperature doesn’t get too cold. Oh, the road’s surface could be heated, but wouldn’t that cost more energy than can actually be produced? Second, what happens when the pavement gets dirty? The efficiency of the pannels would then be severely affected. And what about the price of installing these things? I’m sure the people behind the idea have thought of many of these issues, but unfortunately, they’re not covered in this video, and the official website does not give much more details.
Simple iPhone jailbreak doomed by security fears
As we had speculated, Apple is about to release a fix for a flaw in the mobile edition of Safari. The bug had been exploited by enthusiasts to allow a simple, no-computer-needed form of jailbreaking, but had the potential to be used for more sinister purposes.
Although the jailbreaking technique was packaged to resemble an app (for user comfort rather than to mislead people), it actually involved visiting a page in Safari on an iPhone or other device. It now appears the technique took advantage of two distinct flaws in the browser: one was that the way it handled PDF files allowed code to get into the browser, and the other was that that code could then get out of a protected ‘sandbox’ within Safari and get into the root control of the entire device.
While many people looking at the situation noted that the flaws could pose a serious security risk if used by malicious sources, Apple first responded to the issue after a warning by the German government. That’s not unusual: Germany has a department dedicated to information security and regularly advises the public against using particular pieces of software while a bug remains unpatched.
Apple now says: ” We’re aware of this reported issue, we have already developed a fix and it will be available to customers in an upcoming software update.”
In the meantime, it’s probably safer for iPhone users to steer clear of opening PDF documents in Safari, including via search engine results lists. While there’s no evidence yet of hackers exploiting the flaw, any hoping to do so will be acting quickly in a hope of getting to devices before they are updated.
The people behind the jailbreaking trick, the iPhone dev team, have kept busy however: they’ve now extended their network unlocking tool ultrasn0w to cover the iPhone 4.
Jedi Mind Trick: Not The Droids You Were Looking For [PIC]
You Have Dysentery: Oregon Trail-er
“Pa, I got me another one, that’s over 1,400 pounds of meat!”
“Son, We can only carry back 10 pounds…”
Tags: Oregon Trail
The Sims Get All Medieval On Us
Last week I talked at length about the sexualization of women in video games, and a commenter suggested that I might want to consider just giving up and play The Sims. While I’ll try not to be insulted by the remark (um, yeah, that didn’t work), up until yesterday I really had no desire to play The Sims to speak of. While I recall, dimly, playing Sim City at a point during the 90s, it’s never really held much appeal to me. Too much nothing happening, you know? I need swords and fights and…
What? Now they’ve gone and added swords? Well played, good sirs, well played.
Yes, indeed. EA has announced The Sims Medieval, which ensures that I will lose at least a few months of my life in 2011 to questing, fighting dragons, forging swords, and keeping my little village happy.
From their release, via G4:
Everything in The Sims Medieval is crafted to create an immersive medieval world, from the quest-based gameplay, to the medieval objects such as swords and stocks and thrones, right down to the warm look of the characters, and the painterly approach to the world itself. Players can choose to customize every new Hero that comes to the kingdom, including selecting their traits and their fatal flaw. Players get close to their characters, not only sending them on epic quests, but also making sure they carry out their daily responsibilities such as healing the sick, trading for exotic goods, or forging armor. From having a baby to competing in a royal tournament, what happens to their Sims is up to the player. The time of romance and chivalry is back with The Sims Medieval.
Well, if it’s even half as good as that I’ll play it. Okay, so I don’t know what “warm look of the characters” means. From my studies of the period, I was thinking, you know, more full of boils and wallowing in filth, i.e. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But I suppose you can’t get away with too much boom and doom in a video game. A fatal flaw also sounds a little odd, since consigning your characters to deal from the get-go feels a bit masochistic, but well, let’s hope they know well what they’re doing. I mean, if every detail has been attended to, medieval snobs like myself won’t have any issues.
And let’s hope the game is engaging, too. I agree with G4 that, for the most part, the Sims oeuvre has really tapped out. There’s only so much you can get out of the structure. But moving backward in time, well, that’s quite clever! I know it’s piqued my interest.
How about you guys? Desperate attempt to keep afloat, or perhaps a ticket to new popularity?
Tags: the sims, the sims medieval