January 2009
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Watchjeffrubinjeffrubin:
This week’s Bleep Bloop finds myself, Pat, Dan, and Gabrus playing around with avatars. Though Xbox 360, Wii, and Playstation 3 all have built-in systems to let you design your own characters, they are all very different and each perfectly reflects the philosophy of the company that designed it.
BLEHIND THE BLEEP BLOOP: This episode was originally going to be an expedition...
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Gamers *love* in-game advertising
Don’t believe me? Full article here.
“It’s fun to see things in games that are real.”
“You’d notice a brand if it wasn’t there… like they’ll put a false brand and I’ll be like, what’s that?”
“Like in Ghost Recon, you have the Dodge billboards in the urban areas, and I think that is pretty effective… it adds...
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WatchThese guys are great. Stumbled on them accidentally today and I am already in love.
This kind of thing makes me a) want to learn way more about film production and b) move to NYC
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The Greensborough School Choir - Nothing But A...
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Scamx0rs →
Great story about a poorly played Nigerian scam.
edit: and now its delightful sequal, chatting boy friend
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“The hoverboards used in Back to the Future II weren’t merely special...”
– snopes.com (proved ‘false’)
Man, kids in 1989 were gullible. If I were a parent then, I would’ve given my kid a crappy pink skateboard, ripped off the wheels, and— when it didn’t work— claimed my kid was just incompetent. That’d make be the coolest parent on the block....
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Curious
Three of my CH pictures have gone national in as many days…
Also: it’s come to my attention that my punctuation has evolved into an abstract artform, unrelated to any sort of common practice or style.
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7 am this morning
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“At a very personal level, I feel that we at MIT failed you and Scott. For this...”
– MIT’s president, Charles Vest as written to Bob and Darlene Krueger following the death of their son in a highly publisized alcohol poisoning case.
The role of the university president was very different back then. I would very much like to sit down and talk with Dr. Vest at some point in my...
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Math in Movies →
An extensive collection of movies and TV shows that, in one way or another, reference ‘math.’
As much as I rag on Harvard, this professor might have something here.
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WatchKyle’s mom at 2:40 ftw!
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WatchMystery hunt reminds me of two things every year:
1) That MIT really is an incredible place and I often fail to appreciate that in its entirety
and
2) People love nerds. Like, freakin’ adore us.
I guess it’s just a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
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Human's are predictably terrible at predicting the...
“God willing” is a phrase I have come to appreciate. While I am not convinced that God cares that much about my day to day life, I still like to acknowledge that there are so many factors in life that I have close to no control, or awareness, of. Hence, no matter how certain I am of some future occurance, I like to recognize that there are still a million things in this world that...
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I have recently learned to dislike snow but...
Winter is the one time where the world has memory