The O’Blog

And while we're on advertisements, Guinness has a new ad out that is pretty damn brilliant. No, it's not the *brilliant* guys, it's just a really sweet looking bunch of cg if that kind of thing floats yer boat. We'll probably never see it here as it looks like it's a UK only [...]

Office Max put up the complete commercial set encased in a crummy flash file. Worth watching is the Christmas one, which I didn't know there was one, as well as it's making of, and the making of the one from the Super Bowl. It also has the complete extended version of him after [...]

I'm sure this isn't legal at all, but this site has a ton of mp3's of game soundtracks. Worth it alone for the 2 katamari games.
http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks.php

I always wondered what these meant, and having just read a random /. sig, I now know.
Know your latin:
i.e.: “id est” or “that is”
e.g.: “exempli gratia” or “for example”

Transparent Aluminum. Once again, reality meets sci-fi.

“No Doors. No Screen. No Roof.”
This small company of 7 takes a relatively small engine, combines it with a new frame and a couple of other essentials, and packages it as a kit for you to assemble for a mere 30k. The bonus? It's faster and handles better than most cars that are [...]

Before I forget…
iPod: meh, but damn I suddenly want it. Video function is pretty cool for the iPod itself, but with a dock that can video out and it only plays 320×240 seems kinda defeating. There's not much there that you'll be wanting to play on a tv or projector in a pinch, [...]

It would appear that Yahoo! is selling domains now as part of a reseller from some group in Australia, or perhaps I didn't read the TOS well enough and it just sounds like it's from Australia. The kicker is that for a limited time they're only $3/year with a 5 year max as opposed [...]

I went to Best Buy on Wednesday to get some new cheapo headphones. I wound up walking out of there with not only those, but season 1 of Battlestar Galactica as well. I then proceeded to put sleep aside and watched the 3 hour miniseries which I guess you can call episode 1, [...]