Cool stuff you've found on the web

[MasterWuuf]

Lai: Now that was something COOL to find on the web. (hee, hee, hee)
I wonder if that was, in all actuality, HIRO who sent those drawings; considering the space/time continuum and all.
(Hiro was a character in the televised series 'HEROES' of late.)

[Lai]

HEHE
my english are bad but i love this one... especially cause i feel confident that his english are very smooth and excellent...and that point make this idea of a full payment with a 7 legs spider very funny for me

[Des]

Being a fan of the psychedelic rock band Gong (the inspiration for the story in my Angel's Egg dungeon) I was pleased that the old farts all got back together in 2006 for the Unconvention, then followed that up with a splendid new album (2032). They got some top Japanese animators to produce this stunningly good vid for the track "How To Stay Alive"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8ZESzpL3M

[MitchB1990]

Since you guys like this thread so much, I think it warrants a link to http://www.stumbleupon.com. You can check off subjects that are interesting to you and you just click the button and it randomly goes to sites that fall under any of those categories. Then simply click the stumble button to go to another, very fun and very interesting.

[Jan]

Ahh, the autumn... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8345213.stm - beautiful pictures and poems; tea with honey recommended, eventually slippers, and wood burning in a fireplace!

[Gambit37]

Cool Matrix scene done in Lego stop motion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64

& comparison with original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR4xDeiHrfA

[linflas]

Mamaaa... Mamma ?..... Mamma !...... Mamma ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7 ... r_embedded

[Jan]

By a strange coincidence, a friend of mine sent me a link to a video from my Dad's work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYRUqwd ... 0&index=10

I sometimes wish I didn't work at university.

[MasterWuuf]

I watched it. It didn't look like they were getting much done. Trying to get stuck?

Your dad works outside, huh? I hauled hay for a few years.

[oh_brother]

Star Wars facebook updates
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1794889

[Gambit37]

^^ He he, those are great

Here's two cool little Lego stop animations of a rally and grand prix:

http://www.bighappyvideo.com/2009/12/10 ... rand-prix/
http://www.bighappyvideo.com/2009/12/10/lego-rally/

[Gambit37]

A rather cute picture set of an AT-AT in various situations...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickisconf ... 113065419/

[Gambit37]

It's quite astounding the amount of CG and green screen that goes into modern TV shows:

http://vimeo.com/8006168

[T0Mi]

for all those who played RE4 and have fond memories of the shopkeeper:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXx0qwe0wc

[linflas]

Simple, light (4 Mb), free, open-source. VideoLan team strikes back on Mac, Windows and Linux.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vdwNsvbZI
I assume that you agree that VLC is the best movie player on all platforms.

[linflas]

The A-Team ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWR0_0Ya ... r_embedded

[MasterWuuf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qZy6ARqGC4

[Gambit37]

^^^ Love that Lego prank call, MW, very good


Here's something both funny and sad: Dating site axes 5,000 'fatties'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8439495.stm

[Gambit37]

Spinal Tap Amps http://xkcd.com/670/

Movie Narrative Charts (this one is very cool, clever & funny by the time it gets to Primer): http://xkcd.com/657/

[Ameena]

Thay Beautiful People thing sounds like rather a large amount of bollocks - whatever happened to "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and all that? Alright, so most beholders we know will chuck lightning bolts at us but that's not the point .

[Gambit37]

This is a lovely piece of simple and elegant Lego engineering, "Lego domino row building machine"

http://woodgears.ca/domino/

EDIT: And this guy has some awesome stuff!

http://www.philohome.com/mindstorms.htm

[Gambit37]

Best fails of 2009. There's some really funny stuff in here, shame about the awful music they added.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1927354

My particular faves are the two guys flying out of the speedboat, the kid in the hoody jumping the mini-chasm, the forklifts in the warehouse and the guy with the firework up his ***

[cowsmanaut]

Sandie has an item I was told should end up on fail blog.. they made a bookmark for kids that has what is supposed to be a heart shape at the top but the whole thing looks like well.. something that belongs a little lower than the heart..

anyway.. kinetic sculptures.. now you can have one of your own.. this person made a sun powered one, but now has released a battery powered one for anyone to have Aren't these things supposed to be wind powered?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq7j1m3f ... re=channel

[Adamo]

Doom1 conversion on good ol` ZX Spectrum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7cFGne ... re=related
...and a Wolvenstein 3D on ZX for comparision:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzm9KkJ5 ... re=related

[Jan]

Is it genuine, Adamo?

[Gambit37]

Doom1 on ZX spectrum? Goodness! Technically impressive, but it's not really Doom though -- it's still a single plane with no up and down, so it should really be called Wolf 3Doom or something

[Jan]

Well, I was just surprised that a computer with an 8-bit processor and 128k RAM would be able to display textured 3D graphics in real time. I remember I had some first-person-3D games on my Atari 800XL with 64k RAM too, but without textures, only plain vectors, no moving enemies, etc.

[Gambit37]

Indeed, I'm still very impressed that this is possible in 128K and on an 8bit chip -- but it's not Doom. The Doom engine was the next step up from Wolf 3D and added the ability to move vertically, which this ZX version doesn't have so technically it's not Doom.

[Adamo]

It is Doom, technically, just for ZX Spectrum purposes. It has textures, monsters, music, interface, text commands, even dead bodies lying on the floor. Everything that old, original Doom should have - I`m talking about Doom 1 from 1993. You couldn`t move head up and down, but - I think - in original Doom 1 you couldn`t, too (at least in original engine). Check the next link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmHagCm ... re=related

Plus, check out this Wolvenstein version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHxBpmh-PF0

[Jan]

Gambit is right - in the original Doom you couldn't move your head up and down, of course, but the structure of a level was not on one "flat" / plain level as in Wolf 3D - you could walk / move up and down (although it was not allowed to have two floors in one level, so every X-Y coordinate had always only one Z), so there was a vertical movement.

In Doom you also had the gun-swaying when walking, and the whole screen was moving when walking, I think.

And in Doom, the buildings and other structures were allowed to have also other than rectangular (90°) platform (base), they had windows, collums, etc. Non-rectangular shapes were allowed only horizontally, not vertically, of course.

So, as Gambit said, the movie that Adamo sent is more like Wolfenstein.