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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/asia/26warlogs.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

and to round out today’s posts, a really interesting article on teh wikileaks stuff about our military in Afghanistan. I’m really quite ignorant about all this, so it’s pretty fascinating (and depressing) stuff. Anyone see that Rhestreppo(sp?) movie?

Sooooo I know at least one of you already got starcraft II. I’ve played thorugh a little bit of the campaign, and impressions so far are quite good. I’ve only really checked out the terrans, but the large number of new units are both really cool and daunting. I suspect I will never ever be good at this game, but i intend to have a lot of fun with it. Also, graphics are very very pretty, and it’s cool seeing all the well animated crowds of units move around together.

Thoughts from the rest of y’all?

(also, the ability to legally download the game before it’s release and hten jus tinstall it on release day was quite awesome, imo. I used to get pissed at Steam for requiring an internet connection to play its games (for the copy protection), but I’ve come around and now I really like this digital way of distributing games. I espescially like the way steam and blizzard keep track of which games you own, so you can just redownload them to any new computer and not have to worry about losing/scratchign the game discs.

http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/2010/06/volkswagen-driven-by-fun-the-slide-the-shopping-carts-the-elevators/

even though it’s advertising, I still think it’s pretty cool to build a giant slide in the subway station. Also, Josh – is Alexanerplatz one of the stops by you in Berlin? I can never keep my platzes straight…

Almost related to diablo II being 10 years old – there’s a huge sale over at the STEAM store right now. I think it may be today only. Tons of games are like 70% off. Halflife 2 is $4. Lots of much more recent games for like $10. Worth a look perhaps.

SOoooo, shrek 4 comes out this weekend (well in the US anyway, not sure about ze germany). Can’t say I expect anyone here to go see it in the theater, but you can see some of my stuff in the trailer, from the comfort of your youtubes

my stuff:
Ink drop/sparkle poof 0:27ish
feather disappearance 0:40ish
dents in teh discoball 1:54ish
dragonfire 1:58

I’m just now wondering if I already posted this awhile ago and I can’t remember… so please forgive if it’s a double post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWw5YdW57Es

I’m told this is old news for the internet-savvy, but it’s new to me…. and I lolledzorded. SO I’m posting it anyway.

http://www.johnnolanfilms.com/animatronics/showreel-flash-2010.php

really cool show reel of a bunch of animatronic work (i.e. robots used for animation). It’s like the stuff from Labrynth and Jim Henson stuff, but looks more sophisticated.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html

interesting article about the use of powerpoint in the military (and how much it’s hated by some)

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index.html