Monday, October 23, 2006
Microsoft to finance 'Halo' movie
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Microsoft Corp. plans to finance a movie based on its popular video game "Halo" after Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox backed out of the project.
United Press International - NewsTrack - Microsoft to finance 'Halo' movie
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Skype video for Mac
Skype for Mac 2.0 goes gold today, which means that we’ve tested it, you’ve tested it and we all agree that it does a pretty good job. Download it now and video call your friends, family, colleagues or anyone else you’d like to see face to face. Remember not only does it work with other Mac users but it also works with Windows users too. That means even more people for you to video call with.
Video goes gold - Skype for Mac
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Automatic Photo Pop-up
Our system automatically constructs simple "pop-up" 3D models, like those one would find in a children's book, out of a single outdoor image. The system labels each region of an outdoor image as ground, vertical, or sky. Line segments fitted to the ground-vertical boundary in the image and an estimate of the horizon's position provide the necessary information to determine where to "cut" and "fold" in the image. The model is then popped up, and the image is texture mapped onto the model.
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Google unveils election mashup
The Google Earth 2006 election resource tool, unveiled early Monday, indicates the country's 436 congressional districts with stars on the popular 3D map of the country. Clicking on a star pops open a bubble window that has information on the candidates in that race.googlelectThe window also includes links to news, images and Web search results on candidates, as well as to information on where and how to vote and campaign finance reform.
Google unveils election mashup | CNET News.com
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Paris Hilton’s version of ‘Spamalot’
Paris Hilton’s “friends” are getting spammed.Several furious sources who are on the list of the heiress’ friends via her MySpace account say they received emails supposedly from Hilton telling them that they’d won an expense-paid trip to meet her. When the “friends” clicked on the e-mail, they were taken to another screen, telling them, “Hurry! Only twenty prizes left.”They were then forwarded to a series of pop-up messages and questionnaires asking them to buy products and requesting them to supply personal information.
Paris Hilton’s version of ‘Spamalot’ - Gossip: The Scoop - MSNBC.com
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Friday, October 20, 2006
Zappa's Down at Fraggle Rock
Ahmet Zappa's gonna help us dance our cares away.The musician and children's author has signed on to turn the '80s-era muppet-fest Fraggle Rock into a live-action feature film.
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Action Jackson
Action Jackson - 70's action figure toy commercials
YouTube - Action Jackson - 70's action figure toy commercials
WIDE AWAKE 666
This October you’re in for a real treat! Prepare to savor every gooey drop of this deranged collection of drawings, comics and stories from some of your favorite indie artists like Jeaux Janovsky. Wide Awake is a horror-inspired comic anthology sure to chill you to the bone (well, maybe the funny bone).
WIDE AWAKE PRESS - Comic Publisher Greenville South Carolina
technorati tags:art, entertainment, comics
Voltage Self-Illuminating Hair Gel
A patented process takes ordinary hair color and makes it extraordinary, by adding self-illuminating glow! Voltage does not rely on UV, neon or black lights to create glow. Instead, it produces its own light! Tiny, microscopic particles in the gel come together in the mixing process to produce a bright colorful glow that can be seen in partial light and in the dark for at least 6-8 hours (technically, this incredible effect lasts more than 24 hours at a diminishing glow). The glow is bright enough to even use in lieu of a flashlight to go through a campground at night!
Voltage Self-Illuminating Hair Gel
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Studios pull out of Halo film
Fox and Universal reached an agreement whereby they would team up to fund and distribute the movie - but just ahead of a key October 15th milestone date, the studios approached executive producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh demanding that their deals should be improved. Jackson and Walsh refused, and now Fox and Universal have pulled out, leaving the Halo movie without funding or a distribution deal.
News - Studios pull out of Halo film // Xbox 360 /// Eurogamer
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
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