Best and worst thing EVER. Thanks again to Sturgisfinger for ruining my weekend sending me this shiite.

Yup, we have our own island on Lively by Google.
If you haven’t already signed up, go ahead and do so.  Perhaps JFinger will see you there in 3D.

We are called “FistOfBlog”, if you didn’t know that already.
The URL is:  http://www.lively.com/dr?rid=3792478808357083948

I tried to embed the island in here, but it didn’t work. Oh well, go to the link above, sign up, get an avatar, get dressed and go!

Holy crap. This guy uses a Wii remote to create a desktop 3-D experience for himself.

I get sick just playing first person shooters. This would probably result in instant vomit from thumb.

Holy crap! Index tipped me off to this. It’s great. Greater if you’re a nerd. Digit will get special pleasure from this.

You can watch it below in the youtube, or you can see it in its native habitat (funnier) here

Next week, ATI will start selling their newest GPU (that’s Graphics Processing Unit for all you fruitputer people), the Radeon 4000, for about $200. That is HUGE! Considering most of the time the newest video chipset hits the market at about $600 and over the course of about a year and a half will come down to $200, it’s awesome news. But the even better news is the new Cinema 2.0 technology that comes with it. According to InternetNews.com:

Hail, hail the GPU. At least that seems to be rallying cry of competitors ATI (owned by AMD) and nVidia, two of the leading purveyors of graphics processors. At a media event here today, AMD previewed its next generation Radeon 4000 chip capable of up to a teraflop performance.

“This chip can execute a trillion floating point operations per second or the same as a teraflop computer. This is a phenomenal leap for a chip that only measures a centimeter on a side,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president of AMD’s graphics products group.

He said the Radeon 4000 will be available next week in PC add-in cards, branded Radeon HD, for about $200. Desktop and notebook computer makers will eventually incorporate the chip as well.

Want better gaming and graphics? Bergman claimed the Radeon 4000 offers more performance that all previous game consoles combined. He also said it has 100 times the compute capability of the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer that beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov back in 1997.

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Just to give you an idea of how awesome this is, check out the videos of some of the tech demos.

RUBY Demo rendered using 2 of the new GPUs and an AMD Phenom X4 9850 Processor:

Bug Snuff Film’s Scorpion Demo, also rendered using 2 of the new GPUs and an AMD Phenom X4 9850 Processor:

These were both rendered real time, not prerendered movies. This will all be available NEXT WEEK!! SUCK IT, XBOX360!!!

Now we just have to wait for the software to catch up.

You seen them in Bellingham because we are close to Canada. But for most of the USA, Smart Cars aren’t really in the “know” yet. That is changing. SmartUSA is starting to crank out new cars for the USA and have big plans for us.

But I think their car is completely stupid and misleading.

That’s right, you heard me. Stupid. Misleading.

Why?

They are not electric cars like many of you think. They are stupid because they must take premium gasoline. They are misleading because they only get 40 mpg. They are tiny, yes, so you can park next to that huge SUV that will crush you. Stupid. Misleading.

What we need today is an alternative, not another stupid misleading gas-guzzling car. Tell you what, turn this car into an electric car — and while you are at it, turn the Mini into an electric car like they did for the Italian Job, and we are in business.

So pass on this one, friends, because they are both stupid and misleading.

I’d like to see this used in an MMA match.  

…just got in, and in my inbox this morning was this email from ITWorld.

Brilliant, eh? Wow - I never thought about that before!

Web Conferencing. What a fricking concept.

Oh, wait a minute, let’s look at the calendar, yep it’s 2008.
Whose idea was this at IT World? Did they just warp off some kind of Benjamin Linus trip?
Polar Bears, anyone?!?