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via Flickr Photo Download: The Thing With Two Heads.

It sad but this was an actual real movie that someone spent money to produce.

Here’s the YouTube vid of the movie trailer.

New study finds close to one quarter of Xbox 360s fail within two years:

Sure, it’s not exactly news to hear that the Xbox 360 is the most unreliable console of the big three, but just how unreliable is it? Now there’s a point of contention. The good news for Microsoft, of sorts, is that a new study from SquareTrade found that just 23.7% of Xbox 360 consoles failed within the first two years of ownership, which is actually a fair bit better than some of the previous numbers that topped 50%. The study also found that 10% of PlayStation 3 users reported a system failure, compared to a mere 2.7% of Wii owners. The Wii actually fared the worst when it came to power and remote control issues, however, while the most common problems with the Xbox 360 and PS3 were disc read errors and output issues. For its part, while Microsoft hasn’t responded to this particular study, it has previously pointed to its ‘best warranty in the industry’ to reassure its users and, of course, to its more recently-produced consoles, which are less likely to buckle under the pressure of a marathon Call of Duty session.

[Via InformationWeek]

(Via Engadget.)

This Pneumatic Gun Can Put a Ping Pong Ball Through a Sheet of Plywood:

Ping pong balls are relatively harmless, most of the time.

Even if someone slams oneat you with a paddle, it never hurts all that much.

This pneumatic cannon changes that. [TinyEnormous via Make]

(Via Gizmodo.)

Penny Arcade! – The Circle of Life.

I love Penny Arcade. I’m not sure if I like this because I am currently playing Batman on my PS3 or it’s just that amusing.

New Batman game out tomorrow. Looks like it might be a good one. I hear the PS3 version is the one to get. It’s the one that I’ll be picking up for Sarah.

YouTube – Batman: Arkham Asylum Joker Trailer

Google Voice Invites are difficult to get. But US Military Personnel can get priority Google Voice invites thanks to a new initiative by Google to help them communicate with family and friends.

The most important requirement is that you need a .mil email address, which is proof of being in the US military. Secondly it is necessary to be in the US and have a US phone to sign up for Google Voice. Request an invite at the special military page and Google promises to send you a Google voice invite in 1-2 days. For rest of us, there is the usual Google invite request page.

Google Voice gives you a unique single phone number for all your phones, voicemail becomes as easy as email, and many calling features are free. This video will give you a better idea of how useful your Google number is.

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It’s time for me to play with my balls – my cannon balls, that is. I was playing Cannonballz the game. There’s no need to register or log in, but you can connect it to your Facebook account! It will snap your picture and upload it right to your Facebook page, so everyone can see how well – or badly – you did!

Cannonballz is the first ever Augmented Reality game using ZugMo Motion Capture Technology, Flash and Facebook to make both you and your friends the stars of the game. Think fast and move faster as you dodge pirate cannonballs while saving your Facebook friends to become a legend on the leaderboard. No proprietary plug-ins to play! All you need is the latest version of Flash and a webcam and you’re good to go!

The idea is to move around to avoid getting whapped in the head with a cannon ball! It’s actually pretty fun, and not as easy as you would think. It’s augmented reality. It’s like I’m IN the game. It’s based on motion, so you might want to get your butt out of your chair for once!

You’ll have hours of fun playing this game, trust me. I could totally forget to work, and just spend all night dodging the balls.

(Via Chris Pirillo.)

Got a little bored waiting for a phone call today and whipped up some Super Mario Brothers ringtones for my iPhone using GarageBand. Thought I would post them online in case any one else was a SMB fan and had and iPhone. There are ringtones from SMB 1 through 3 as well as one for the New Super Mario Brothers in the archive. Just import them into iTunes and they will be listed under Ringtones. All, except the New Super Mario Brothers Theme, are 28 seconds in length and fade out over the last five seconds of the loop. The New Super Mario Brothers ringtone is 39 seconds. It was a late addition to the pack.

Enjoy!

Click the image below to download.

It’s not that I don’t live to help America’s kids get an education but the ‘Burg is a little slice if heaven during the summer when most of the students leave to go home. It’s not like they miss being here either. A friend and I were talking about Steppin’ Out the other day and a student over heard us. “What’s Steppin’ Out?”

I just mumbled something about being mistaken and hearing us wrong.

No point in letting them in on the secret right? One less student at the last big party before they start back in the fall.

Friends - The Complete Series Collection

I’ll start by telling you that I am a huge fan of the television series Friends. There has never been, and I doubt ever will be, a show that I have enjoyed more than this show. I have seen every episode at least a dozen times each and because of that have most of the dialog committed to memory. So, when I found out that they had the entire show, all ten seasons, on DVD I started thinking of purchasing the set. The price tag was a little daunting but eventually I caved.

Then came the surprise. After watching the show from the DVD’s I started noticing dialog and scenes that I couldn’t remember ever seeing before. At first I thought it was just me not remembering some of the events in the show but after experiencing this with every episode I finally came to the conclusion that it was dialog and scenes that had been cut from the original episodes to fit network time constraints.

Some of the edited dialog was quite amusing and had me watching several episodes during a single sitting just to see the new material. So, for a Friends fan this little surprise was a very welcome, if unexpected, gift.

So, if you are thinking of picking up this set yourself hopefully I have just given you one more reason to do so!