http://neorants.com just another geek with a blog Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:10:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article was written almost 2 years ago, and was pretty darn prophetic, if you ask me (which you didn't). Sums up a lot of the problems I always had with MySpace, and why I can actually tolerate Facebook. http://neorants.com/2008/08/19/the-death-of-myspace/ Image Metrics has some pretty amazing facial animation tech on their hands. There's another demo at the link. In case it's not clear, the face on the woman in the video isn't real, until they remove the overlay at 1:30. http://neorants.com/2008/08/19/insane-facial-animation-tech/ This is just scary parenting. I don't know what else to say. As a lifelong gamer, I can certainly appreciate the lure of playing video games over going to school, but if I'd ever told my parents I wanted to do this, they'd have (rightly) spanked me silly. From the ... http://neorants.com/2008/08/18/parents-let-kid-drop-out-to-play-guitar-hero-professionally/ This song has really been an inspiration to me lately. It helps remind me just how big God is, and how He doesn't need my help to accomplish His will. He's fully capable of doing that on His own. All he requires of me is a willing heart to obey ... http://neorants.com/2008/08/18/you-are-god-alone/ LiveLeak.com - Female reporter hit by zorb ball The balance of the universe is upset by reporters who attempt to act EXTREME. Thankfully, order is restored. http://neorants.com/2008/08/14/reporter-hit-by-cosmic-smackdown/ Entertainment Weekly's writeup about the making of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (which, by the way, is worth picking up on iTunes if you missed it) is a really interesting read. It covers everything from the initial pitch to the actors all the way to the extras they want to pack ... http://neorants.com/2008/08/13/dr-horrible-an-oral-history/ So I got tired of the old layout, wanted something cleaner and... bluer. Switched from post categories to tags, as well, and implemented Gravatar support for comments. If you don't have a gravatar account, check them out. A lot of blogs support them, they let you attach a little avatar ... http://neorants.com/2008/08/12/site-update/ ...owns Yodas. That is all. http://neorants.com/2008/08/11/zasalamel/ Check out this slide show at Discovery Tech. Not just because it's interesting, which it is, but because of this mind-boggling sentence on the last page: Pearson conducted this experiment and some related studies on more than 11 participants. So... 12 then? Usually, when I see some scientific study that says it's ... http://neorants.com/2008/08/11/more-than-11/ I had no idea they were such talented mimics. ;) http://neorants.com/2008/08/06/amazing-australian-lyrebird-video/