The Wii has been hacked and someone ported mplayer to it so that it’ll play DVD’s now and do other cool home-brew stuff. Cool. See also.

They’re triple-dipping another Lebowski with a 10th anniversary … DVD(?!?!!). WTF? Why not Bluray? Oh and your site sucks. You’re welcome.

If you know me, you probably know that I LOVE me some Boris. Well Boris are good buddies with this band Sunn O))). One of the Sunn O))) dudes plays a Bean (like me) and I’d heard some of their stuff on Skreemr (beware the popups!) so I thought I’d pick up one of their records. Bzzt. Not so great. Some cool drone stuff, but too much demon-voice (as Ed calls it) for me.

My big project release is inching closer. Don’t forget to breathe!

A while ago I picked up an HP dv2845se (laptop). I’ve had an HP workstation (from the workstation, not desktop line) at work for years and love em. The laptop, however is a piece of crap. They keyboard loses strokes. The trackpad falls asleep randomly. The soundcard is a soundcard in only the most academic sense of the term. It’s completely useless for doing any kind of recording even with a fancy mic hooked to it. The video card over-heats all of the time. The wireless is a bit flakey and was somewhat of a pain to setup in Linux. It’s almost enough to make a guy buy a mac. Ha! I’m kidding of course.

I have to imagine someone makes a decent laptop. I wonder if I’ll be forced to buy a gaming laptop just to get something capable of doing real work.

I keep meaning to do my youtube savant documentaries post, but wonder if folks actually watch the vids I post especially when they’re long-ish. If you do, post a comment! These docs are great!

Audio-surf claims to make a video game from analyzing your music. Seems like a cool idea.

Thanks wordpress for losing a huge chunk of my post!

I saw it on Chris Blizzard‘s site and he links to the O’Reilly article about it.

The jist is that there’s some “holy shit” bug that threatens every single implementation of DNS and that the dude who found it will be letting the cat out of the bag on Aug 3 of this year.

The video is a bit weird though. The panning of the audience and the guy’s delivery almost make it seem like a parody or a joke. It can’t be, though, right?

I saw this on Boing Boing and I don’t really have time to add a lot to it right now, so this one goes out to the folks who can’t handle the traffic of megablogs like BB. Every one of these is simply great. Well worth your time.

• Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight
• Jeff Han’s touchscreen foreshadows the iPhone and more
• David Gallo shows underwater astonishments
• Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth
• Arthur Benjamin does “mathemagic”
• Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
• Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen
• Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do
• Al Gore on averting a climate crisis
• Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks