Category: Entertainment

Hot on the heels of the ever-popular song graph meme, we have cartographorisms: Get your fix of topographical humour over at the New York Times. Read more →

I could use one of these monkeys to write my thesis: More great comics here from the talented penmanship of Mrs Stuart. Read more →

As the BBC prepares to announce the tremendous success of its free Beethoven downloads, the Independent reports that classical labels are less than rhapsodic: This week the BBC will announce there have been more than a million downloads of the symphonies during the month-long scheme. But the initiative has infuriated the bosses of leading classical… Read more →

An engineer working for leading electronic video game publisher Electronic Arts has become the second staff member to file a class action lawsuit against the company, seeking back pay, damages and penalties for unpaid overtime: Leander Hasty, who has worked for the firm since mid-2003, filed his suit yesterday against the company, arguing that a… Read more →

This Japanese site has some remarkable panoramic images of the region’s passenger trains. Dozens of photos have been stitched together to produce a single image spanning the length of the train. This one, in particular, is quite cool. Amazon.com have a peculiar product in stock: Barbie and Ken as Arwen and Aragorn. Though their plasticised… Read more →

There is an interesting Xbox plexiglass modification here, which turns an unassuming black plastic cuboid into a horrid display of light and sound. Taiwanese manufacturer of optical drives, Lite-On, is estimated to ship 1 million drives next quarter. Given that their technology ranks among the cheapest, quietest, and most reliable equipment I’ve come across, I… Read more →

This week’s raging controversy involves the premature release of source code to a hotly anticipated game into the wild by an unknown cracker. The game, of course, is Half-Life 2, and its developer, Valve. Well, it seems that Valve has sprung a leak, so to speak… See this statement from chairperson Gabe Newell. Apparently, the… Read more →

May I present some interesting links which have found themselves encoded, compressed, transmitted, decoded, and displayed upon my various internet access points around the house, my work, and uni. Warning: laughter more than likely. First up, now you can own your very own George Bush 1:6 scale replica. Not meaning to jump on the Bush-bashing… Read more →

This week’s theme is technological developments. For the new reader, Quae Vide is a weekly column highlighting the author’s picks from the web in a particular field. We’re always open to suggestions for topics – use the comments feature or send me an e-mail. Technological Developments: Nuclear-powered drone aircraft that can fly for weeks on… Read more →

The rumours were true: ATI is to power Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox2 console. Under the just-announced deal, ATI will produce the core graphics processing unit for the next iteration of video game consoles. Shares of the Markham, Ontario-based graphics chip maker jumped as much as 13 percent to their highest level since March, 2002 … Nvidia’s… Read more →