This is a 1953 B&W film of a synchronized motorbike riding display done by the police in Rome, Italy.
This post was written by bullets on August 24, 2008
Impressive Drill Team Motorcycle Riding
Britney Spears Live
This is sound from just her microphone. In her defense, I bet there are plenty of people in the industry who also sound like that when dancing on stage. It’s probably not a good gauge of her voice.
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
This post was written by bullets on August 24, 2008
City Dance
Rarely do I come across a set of photographs that impresses me as much as this set has done. This is an absolutely beautiful series of photographs taken by Richard Calmes with dancers on the streets of a city. It’s just amazing how he captures the perfect pose with the cityscape behind each dancer. Simply sweet and simply perfect.
This post was written by bullets on August 16, 2008
World’s Fattest Man Goes On Outing
A 310kg man once considered the world’s fattest person left his home for the first time in five months at the weekend with the aid of a forklift and a platform truck.
Manuel Uribe travelled to the shore of a lake in northern Mexico without ever leaving his specially designed bed. A forklift hoisted the bed onto the truck, which then hauled him to the lake, where he snacked on fish and vegetables and joked with a local boat operator.
Looking at the boatman’s small craft, Uribe joked, “Too bad I can’t get on it — it would sink.”
Once considered the world’s fattest man when his weight hit over half a tonne, more than two years of steady dieting had helped Uribe drop to about 310kg in June — 250kg less than his former Guinness record weight of 560kg.
This post was written by bullets on August 16, 2008
3D Sound
This technique is called Binaureal recording.
You will need headphones for this to work…so close your eyes and make some quiet around you.
Let’s start with “Virtual Barbershop”:
Frizerul virtual
It really gaved me chills. You literally can hear a full 360 degree sound range with these next items: blow dryer (you had your hair done..so now you will have to keep it dry), some scisors, a lady has something to whisper on your ears (pay attention to her), somebody will light some matches and he will make quite a noise.
This post was written by bullets on May 20, 2007
Gaming News: Student arrested for making a map of his school
A Chinese student was removed from Clements High School in Fort Bend, Texas after parents complained he had re-created the school grounds in a game and uploaded the map for his friends to play. The boy was placed in the district’s alternate education school and later arrested, as the police considered him a “t erroristic threat”.
“They arrested him, Chen said of FBISD police, and also went to the house to search”.The Lin family consented to the search, and a hammer was found in the boy’s room, which he used to fix his bed, because it wasn’t in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police seized the hammer as a potential weapon.
The Chinese community and the boy’s mother have rallied behind him, saying the school has acted too harshly in the wake of the Virginia Tech shoot ings. No charges were filed, though the boy won’t be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies.
Photos of the CS map can be found here: (what a shame! this map looks pretty good!)
And here’s the actual map, minus the textures:
www.megaupload.com/?d=F48893HJ
rapidshare.com/files/29195663/clmbsp.rar.html
www.megashare.com/165325
Later Update:
I found the whole story (originally hosted on Fort Bend Now):
A Chinese student has been arrested in Texas, charged with “Suspected T errorist Activity”. This student was apprehended after parents discovered that he had used plans of his High School in the creation of a map for an online first person shooter. The authorities were notified after parents learned of the map from their children, who had downloaded it off of the internet.
“They arrested him,. Chen said of FBISD police, .and also went to the house to search.. The Lin family consented to the search, and a hammer was found in the boy’s room, which he used to fix his bed, because it wasn’t in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police seized the hammer as a potential weapon.
While no charges have been filed against the student, he has been removed from Clements High School and will not be allowed to graduate with his former classmates.
I don’t know what to say. For most of us who have ever designed a 3D environment, using familiar surroundings is very common place. With no sinister motive, designers use plans for all sorts of different areas to add variety to their designs. I don’t understand the punishment given to this student, who has been cleared of any premonitions for violence.
He has been convicted of no crime but then the school expels him? I guess “innocent until proven guilty” has no merit with the school board. Even with the authorities finding no evidence of gaming-related causes for the Virginia Tech shootings… It seems that we, as gamers, still are targeted as warped killers.
This post was written by bullets on May 3, 2007
