Archive for April 11th, 2009

Susan Boyle – This woman blew everyone’s mind

Apr 11

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No one saw this coming.. With a voice like this, this woman is set to become one of the biggest singers to come out of the UK

SHE lives alone with her ten-year-old cat, has never been kissed, and is teased by children in the street. But 48-year-old Susan Boyle could just be the UK’s next singing sensation.

Devout Catholic Miss Boyle has been at the centre of a media storm since news emerged of how she wowed Britain’s Got Talent judges Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan with her amazing opera voice.

She has now been tipped to win the hit show and the chance to perform in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance later this year.

Speaking to the Evening News from her home in Blackburn, West Lothian, Miss Boyle – who freely says has “never even been kissed” – insisted she was unfazed by the attention.

Read the rest of the article here: http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/Talented-Susan-looks-to-have.5163658.jp

Tags: 48, Britains Got Talent, opera voice, scot, simon cowell, singer, singing, susan boyle, uk

A VERY sexy rundown of the PS3 – All Praise the PS3

Apr 11

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I’ve always given props to sony for the technological marvel that is the PS3. It is unfortunate that technological advancement as apposed to true play innovation was their main goal with this round and will be the cause of their downfall because this is a machine that if truly harnessed can change the world drastically. This commercial is damn sexy though, almost makes me want to go out and buy one, almost.. I’m a PC gamer till I die baby

Here’s what all that power can do.. Keep in mind this is in game footage, not prerendered.

To put it in perspective here

is a shot from Final Fantasy: A spirit Within. This shot had to be pre-rendered on millions and millions of dollars worth of SGI supercomputers

Now this shot from Heavy Rain is rendered in REAL TIME while you are playing the game on a system that costs less than 500.00 now:

Tags: cell broadband chip, commercial, playstation 3, power, sexy, sony, video games

Shape Writer for the Iphone – faster way to type

Apr 11

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http://www.shapewriter.com/

After spending 5 minutes looking for this damn thing for a friend I thought I woudl post it just because it looks so cool. Its an app for the iphone that allows you to type text by simply drawing lines through the keyboard that interpret the keys those lines intersect. The one reason I am not using an iphone or any phone that doesn’t hav ea keyboard is because i use my phone for text communication far more than I use it for voice communication(that is what skype is for), and texting on these phones just seems horribly painful if I can’t feel the keys. But this might just change me, not that I would get an iphone but maybe something else. Although it is not clear by the video below if this can be used for txt’ing or if it is just for email.. Hmmm

Tags: draw text, new way to type, shape writer, shapewriter, text on iphone, txt iphone

Where the Wild Things are

Apr 11

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What a delicious looking film. An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler

Catherine Keener	…	Connie
Max Records	…	Max
Mark Ruffalo
Lauren Ambrose	…	KW (voice)
James Gandolfini	…	Carol (voice)
Catherine O’Hara	…	Judith (voice)
Forest Whitaker	…	Ira (voice)