Off Topic: The Golden Age of Video
I can’t help but watch this mashup of movies and music on a regular basis.
Also enjoy this remix, but it’s quite a bit older.
I can’t help but watch this mashup of movies and music on a regular basis.
Also enjoy this remix, but it’s quite a bit older.
The Hurt Locker takes a visceral look at the role of an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team in Iraq at the height of the insurgency. As an avid movie-goer with a special favoritism towards military-themed movies, I must admit that a movie about disarming bombs would not – on the surface – be my first choice for two-hours of air-conditioned movie goodness. Fortunately, the director (Kathryn Bigelow) delivers such an suspenseful look into the life of an EOD technician that this is a movie that simply cannot be missed. From the opening minutes of the movie to its thoughtful conclusion, the directory strings you along (literally) through moments of quiet introspection of base life to heart-thumping, palm-sweating sequences full of excellent acting and impressive ultra-slow motion video capture.
The movie includes several cameo appearances from well-known actors (”You’re a wild man!”) and strong leading roles by Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty. Did I mention that I love military movies? Well, if you’re like me, you will certainly appreciate the attention to detail throughout the movie. Military units move and communicate realistically; the lead technician is always accompanied by support and cover units who must constantly survey the landscape, watching for potential threats. The bomb disarming (and more) scenarios are exactly in-line with what you would expect. In watching this movie it is hard not to gain appreciation for what the men and women of the U.S. Army Forces have had to overcome in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I highly recommend this movie; do be warned, as it contains scenes of intense suspense and violence. It’s unfortunate that the movie appears to have come and gone quietly, but I have no doubt many viewers will hear about The Hurt Locker again as the Oscar season draws to a close.
Read more reviews about this fantastic movie at Metacritic.com.
VentureBeat is reporting that Red Eagle Entertainment will be forming a video game studio to make games based on the late Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. This will coincide with the release of the Wheel of Time movies, of which they hope to have at least three (ooh, a fantasy trilogy, how new and exciting!). Here’s hoping they don’t release three good games, then create eight more long games that include one level to expand on the story and 15 levels that do nothing but drag on. Also not sure how I feel about their desire to make an MMO, though I can already link the main characters of the books to the generic classes that make up most MMO’s.
With the release of Bender’s Game, Futurama embarks on its third straight to DVD movie since production on the series stopped in 2003.
Over the course of 5 and a half years of playing WoW, I managed to pack on a few pounds…and by few I mean somewhere in the range of 80-90 pounds. It was a gradual gain over the years, compacted by my lifestyle decisions, namely:
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As a developer, forms are one of my biggest grievances whenever I am building a Web application. Why? Well, for one, there is nothing pretty about creating a form. Even the best Web designers, with all of their fancy CSS wizardy, struggle to build clean, consistent, and reusable form layers that can be used anywhere within an application. To complicate matters, nothing in the HTML 4 spec (though, this will change with HTML 5) provide any sort of functionality around form elements.
Today I consider myself a computer techie; I’m a developer by trade, a “technologist” in my free time, and a gamer at heart.
All of that had to start somewhere, right? Well, for me, it did when, at the age of 13, my father came home talking about a PC game he saw at our [...]
Sony recently announced the long rumored Playstation 3 Slim at the GamesCom conference in Germany, as well as a (much needed) price drop to $299. The new PS3 Slim has gotten rid of the shiny, fingerprint laden exterior and replaced it with a matte black casing, removed the Spiderman 3 font, changed the power button, [...]
I recently came across an article on Elder Game regarding World of Warcraft and how many of Blizzard’s employees had shifted onto new projects (Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, Unannounced MMO), while a newer and less experienced team was handling the current live content for WoW (dubbed the B Squad). Being a longtime (and current) player [...]
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