What we have here is Reyn Ouwehand performing a fabulous modern version of the "Green Beret" theme by (the great) Martin Galway.  It also happens to be an excellent example of what a single talented musician can do with a handful of instruments and a loop machine.

Did you know that your camera enabled computer can spy on you? Did you know that by watching that video or playing that cute game you may be allowing a site to watch you? Did you know that YouTube (via s.ytimg.com) seems to be one such site?

Lean how stop this here.

Another first for Nostromo, he has (to my knowledge) created the first 60 fps AMV.  He used special software to interpolate extra frames into the Anime to make it effective.

God it's smooth. It might as well be an advert for HD.

24 fps may be the minimum rate for smooth images (in a medium that produces motion blur), but it is clear that the eye can keep up with higher rates.

Probably much higher.

A couple of my friends are into steam punk, and I have just seen what I am sure they would regard as a wonderful birthday or Christmas present: HD3 Complication's Bi-Axial.

Ah dammit, how did I miss this?

19-May-2008 - Arthur W. Burks, Early Computer Theorist, dies.  Burks worked on Eniac, (amongst other things) and wasn't one of the "old guard" so much as he was part of the "original guard".  I guess there aren't many left.

This is a gem from Yahtzee (of Zero Punctuation fame) which I found over at despotliz's journal, where he takes a rather articulate exception to the dissenting email he received following his, apparently, controversial review of "Super Smash Bros. Brawl".

When critic’s attack. 

So I looked into it...  then I unblocked it.

For those that don't remember the last time (it was defeated in the US Congress back in 2006 thanks to a large body of opposition from artists, photographers, designers, etc.), the act was to amend copyright law such that any work not officially registered would become excluded from most copyright protections.