See the making of both “Bender”:http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/16629/BENDER-BENDING-RODRIGUEZ from Futurama, and “Wolverine”:http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/17065/becoming-the-wolverine from the X-Men. Both are mighty impressive!

The internet is a strange, wonderful thing. I was in high school when I first heard of Bryan O’Malley–or Mal, as he’s most popularly known as. He was active online: he helped run various anime art communities like the now-defunct FAHQ and internet comic forrays like Impromanga, while continually honing his skills as a comic […]

Anyone who’s a member of help forum or mailing list know that people ask the dumbest questions. From Java forums to PHP mailing lists to any help-related website — none are safe from stupid questions.

I could very well be the last person to come across this, but I had to post a link to […]

Kevin Yank’s SitePoint article, JSP Quick-Start Guide for Windows, seems to be a pretty good guide to getting a system set up for starting JSP development.

According to Yank, the guide is somewhat aimed toward developers that focus on design, but like to dabble in scripting.

Setting up a server environment to develop and test JSPs can […]

Simple, 10 second fix for the 4G ipod static problem.

RateTheOffers.com has a nice listing (complete with ratings) of the various offers gratis internet uses with their free ipods/flatscreens/desktops/handbags sites

Use ICFreePod to track your freeipods, freeflatscreens, and freedesktoppc status

IE’s handling of CSS filter:gray causes problems when printing multiple pages.

“Grand Theftendo”:http://www.grandtheftendo.com/ is a port of Grand Theft Auto III for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is Grand Theft Auto III running on an 8 bit, 256×240 resolution, 2 bit colour x 2 bit palette, 1.79 Mhz system, written entirely in 6502 Assembly Language! It includes the entire Portland city!

Unbelievable! Brian is porting […]

Do the ladies ever make fun of your small URL? They may say size doesn’t matter but we all know it does. You just aren’t a man unless you have a huge URL. Luckily there is help for those of us with “Tiny URL’s”:http://tinyurl.com/.
“HugeURL.com”:http://hugeurl.com/ can take your small or average-sized URL, and with the help […]

Jay Maynard does it again…. this time as Schlock Mercenary’s General Xinchub

Zend has announced the winners of its PHP 5 coding contest. The entry criteria were pretty flexible with the most stringent being that the application should be potentially useful to the PHP community.

The top three:

PRADO by Qiang Xue — an event-driven and component-based framework for Web application development in PHP5
wtcSQLite by Andrew Gallant […]

Electronic Arts released yesterday the playable demo for Need For Speed: Underground 2. For 346MB you can drive a Nissan 350Z through Free Roam, Quick Race and Online Mode. Since my computer is *really* slow for all the new games, I still didn’t got a chance to play it (the same way I still didn’t […]

After months of speculation and wild guesses, Sony finally announced that the PSP will be available on December 12th in Japan for 19,800 yen ($185 USD). The US/European release will be sometime in early 2005. There is also a bundle that will be available for 26,040 yen ($243 USD) that includes a Memory Stick Duo, […]

Apparently Apple also announced an “iPod Sock” today, though there is no mention of it anywhere on their site. This picture was in a group of iPod photos at News.com. They’ll apparently come in a pack of 6 colors for $29, and be available in November.
Weird.

The iTMS has been expanded and is now available in the following countries:
* Austria
* Belgium
* Finland
* Greece
* Italy
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* Portugal
* Spain
The songs are €.99 each.
The European iTMS currently has over 700,000 songs to choose from, and each country’s site should soon feature regional favorites, “top 40″ type charts for each country, etc.