Oh my sweet god! Now that’s a radio station I’d like to volunteer at. SLAM!FM from the Netherlands held a girls kissing contest. One more reason to like that country ^_^

Click here for the photos.

… and re-enacted by bunnies.

You know the times when someone talks about a famous movie, but you cannot enter the discussion because you haven’t seen it? Or you try to mention something very cool about a particular movie, but the others don’t get your point because they haven’t seen it?
These are the times for the followind Flash-Animations. Jennifer Shiman from AngryAlien has done all of these re-enactments, and they are a) funny as hell and b) really made up of the most thrilling and describing scenes of the parent movies. And now, without further ado, just watch them for yourself and have a good time talking about these:

Alien
Freddy VS Jason
It’s a wonderful life
Jaws
Scream
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Titanic
The Exorcist
The Shining

I stumbled over this story while reading some Crackpot Theories about J.R.R. Tolkiens masterpiece over here. While this particular story dates back to a 1996 posting in the rec.humor.funny newsgroup, it is nonetheless still funny. So humor really spans across time and maybe space…
Anyway here is the story about how one company poured all their malice and cruelty into one particular OS:

“What you did not know about Windows 95″

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit.

As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows 95 on my PC. I told him how happy I was with this operating system, and showed him the Windows 95 CD. To my surprise he threw it into my microwave oven and turned the oven on. Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: ‘Do not worry, it is unharmed.’ After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: ‘Take a close look at it.’ To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw a inscription, an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:

12413AEB2ED4FA5E6F7D78E78BEDE8209450
920F923A40EE10E510CC98D444AA08E1324

‘I cannot understand the fiery letters,’ I said.

‘No, but I can,’ he said. ‘The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:’

     One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
     One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them…

The Lord of the Rings, Tolkiens epic Story of good and ill, one of the most timeless books ever written.

LEGO, one of the most timeless and intelligent toys ever created.

It was only a matter of time until those two would collide. And while it would be neat to style LEGO-models like our most beloved heros, people out there even take the time to LEGO-ize entire excerpts from the books! I think that everyone alive has played with LEGO, or at least seen their children or grand-children play with it. Imagine back into the times when you made up your own reality, heros, villians, and even worlds. Only your imagination was the limit for this. While there are entire websites dedicated to so-called Brickmovies (like Cool Brick Movies) these websites only carry pictures imagined from the Lord of the Rings:

LotR Bricktales
LotR Brickshelf Gallery
LotR LEGO customs from the Movies
The advantures of Samwise (german)

Just found another of those tests on the internet, this time about your political preferences. I came out as an Anarchist, although tied with Democrat. This pretty much matches my real preferences, although I do favor Communism (the real Marx’ism one, not the russian bastardization) much more than those bars represent. Well but it’s a good guess I suppose and I just too 1 or 2 minutes to finish…

What Political Party Do Your Beliefs Put You In?
created with QuizFarm.com

Anarchism 100% Democrat 100% Socialist 75% Green 67% Communism 58% Fascism 17% Nazi 0% Republican 0%

Ever wanted to convert a Quicktime movie into a DVD-compative MPEG2 file? Ever had problems with capturing your video via Firewire? If you ever had questions or problems with video stuff, especially the technical side, then these sites are made for you:

slashCAM (german)
VideoHelp.com (english)

There are a lot of insightful and helpful tutorials, how-to’s, FAQ’s and answers on those sites, that have helped me often. And if you really can’t find your particular information on the sites, you maybe able to get help in their various forums.

Just in case you didn’t know already: When someone talks about Google News, they probably aren’t talking about the Newsgroups Reader (formerly known as Deja.com) but the real and new Google News Beta.

Now Google News really is something cool and serious at the same time. What it does is gather headlines from around the globe (or just your local area, whatever you tell it to gather and sort them into their respective ressorts. And so, when you read a headline on Google News, the link will take you to the page the headline comes from, like Time or Spiegel or others. But the real clue is that there are also links for all the other sites that have that particular headline and and article about it.

And this brings us to freedom of choice and freedom of information. In these strange times too much people only get their news and therefore their options from CNN or other big stations. But those of course only represent that the majority in the country (the Bush cabinet in case of CNN) wants to see and hear. So if you have the choice of reading the same news on like 20 different stations, you can gather the truth for yourself and really make up your own opinion.

Google News Beta

Well… it’s been over a week now since my last entry here, which has to to only partly with my second & final exam for the winter semester. But mostly it has to do with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - Sith Lords. Every day and every night since I got the game some days ago I play it. Although it is a bit bug-laden, and the engine is old now, but the game spreads its Star Wars flair everywhere!

And it is the most intelligent game I ever played, and the first game that not only touches, but dives deep into the realms of philosophy. In the gameworld you will learn to judge your moves, think about if helping everyone/killing everyone is really the right way to go, and for me, the most important question the game rises: Can the cruel deeds that one does in war be forgiven?

I have never before seen such eternal questions raised by a game, so this puts it very high upon my list. Now if you can get your hands on a copy of Knights of the Old Republic 2, and you are interested in either/and/or role-playing, tactics, philosophy or of course, Star Wars, go and get the CDs!

Or if you are still sceptic, read some reviews here, here or here.