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Wordle is neat project that takes a bunch of text or a link and finds common words and creates “word clouds” out of them.  Give it a go.  Here is mine.

That’s right.  You just got Rick Roll’d by a picture!

Batman has been in the news lately because of his tirade against a DP on the set of the upcoming ‘Termininator’ flick.  If you haven’t heard it, it is pretty amazing.  Someone has done a mashup of The Dark Knight’s rant and the infamous Bill O’Reilly outtake that I found way too funny not to post.  So, enjoy.  Warning, VERY NSFW for verbal content.

Pat Knight was a little upset that his player was thrown to the ground and even called for the foul to boot. He pleasantly suggested to the officials he did not agree with the call.

While news worthy, it also gives me an opportunity to post one of my favorite sound clips ever:

I really don’t have anything clever to say, just look at the awesomeness of this picture.

A year has passed since HD-DVD was given its fatal blow by Sony and the rest of the Blu-Ray consortium.  I hopped on the HD bandwagon in the Fall of ’07 when I purchased the HD-DVD add-on for the XBOX 360.  While not as robust as a dedicated player, it was much cheaper and it came with King Kong, the first season of Heroes, and five free movies by mail to sweeten the deal.  After Toshiba bowed out, I pulled the trigger on a PS3 so I can have access to Blu-Ray (BD) media and games that I couldn’t play on the 360.

Sony stormed the market with the original PlayStation, and dominated with the PlayStation 2.  However, the PS3 is shaping up to be a bust by comparison.  A year ago, a $400 PS3 bought you a fantastic upscaling DVD player, the most advanced and updatable Blu-Ray player, and game console that was starting to come into it’s own.  Sony has yet to drop the price on the console, and is rumored to still be selling it at a loss.  Microsoft dropped the price of the 360 and it sold like crazy during the holiday season, while sales of the PS3 dropped nearly 10% over last year?  What is the difference?  

Cost is a major determining factor.  A year ago, BD players were still over $500 and the cost was not coming down very quickly.  Now, you can get a brand name player for under $200, which makes the PS3 a much less attractive option at twice the price.  Secondly, there are very few exclusive AAA titles that are worth playing.  Uncharted was somewhat fun, but the end of the game was frustrating as hell, and I just plain gave up on it.  The paid demo of Gran Turismo 5 is VERY underwhelming.  Little Big Planet is innovative, but it just lacks something.  The PS3 has no standardization of online play, which Microsoft excels at.  The Playstation store is clunky and has had a number of redesigns.  Overall, there are a lot of aspects that are good about the PS3 experience, but nothing great aside from movie playback.

With the Wii STILL flying off the shelf, and the 360 selling strong, it is clear that Sony’s approach of using crazy new hardware (the Cell) that is hard to program on has failed miserably compared to the ease of development on the Wii and 360.  Microsoft and Nintendo both set out to make their consoles easier to develop for this round, and Sony did whatever they wanted because they thought they owned the marked and the developers would always support them.  Arrogance has put Sony in a position where Atari, Sega, and not so long ago, Nintendo have found themselves in the past.  And we all know what happened to the first two companies…

You know, I am not sure how they actually thought this was a great name for a product.

Advertisement for the ‘Wunder Boner’

A high school calculus teacher is selling ads on his quizzes, tests, and finals to help cover the deficit of supply funding for his classroom.  What kind of supplies are students using in a math class?

Either way, I know there were a few calculus and EE tests I took at Purdue that KY Jelly and Vasoline ads would have been very appropriate.

USA Today Link

See, its funny because I made a math joke in the title…

I actually saw this live on Thanksgiving day.  I saw his name during the list of guests and I was gluded to the tv until this amazing performance:

My parents had no idea why my sister and I were laughing so hard, and telling them it was an interwebs fad didn’t help much.  Bravo Rick Astley.  Bravo indeed.

Since I am new here, I figured I would pile on the Notre Dame love fest started yesterday with a Photoshop I did last year.  Since the Irish are probably Sun Bowl Bound (as a Boilermaker, I am all too familiar with that), I figure I should help remind those fans of their recent Bowl woes.

All Aboard the Chuck wagon