Check out this amazing video on how the 3D computer animation of the Death Star attack simulation was done for Star Wars, Episode IV.
This is pretty amazing, especially the point where the guy explains how he can rotate the 3D models by turning dials on some sort of giant console. Also, animating one single frame [...]

This is a truly beautiful mod, and one which probably required countless hours and huge skills.

(via Gizmodo.)

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A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World’s Densest Meet-Me Room:

In the bowels of the world’s most densely populated Meet-Me room — a room where over 260 ISPs connect their networks to each other — a phalanx of cabling spills out of its containers and silently pumps the world’s information to your computer screen.
Jeez, and I [...]

So, according to Apple, Time Capsule holds a
massive 500GB or 1TB server-grade hard drive
But what does that mean exactly? Some funky adamantium-based hard-disk, freon-cooled and guaranteed until the end of Time itself?
Well, nakedmac dissected his brand new Time Capsule and posted some pictures of the innards over at flickr. Here’s one extremely interesting photo:

If you [...]

It was only a matter of time before Microsoft officially discontinued manufacturing the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on, but it took them a few days longer than we expected. Their statement is finally out, and it signals Microsoft’s official withdraw from HD DVD on the console front.

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Optimus Maximus: at long last, we bring one home to test - Engadget:
“Typing on it, well, sucks. “

After all it’s a keyboard that costs a mere $1,490, you can’t have everything, right?

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We are all (too) familiar with the infamous BSOD, Windows’ Blue Screen Of Death. We have seen it, experienced it on our PCs, it made us cry…
And we are also familiar with public shame, like farting in public, having your 5 year old telling you out loud how ugly the lady standing 5 feet [...]

HiFi speaker design has always been a weird discipline, especially when you go into the upper range stuff.
But this has to be the weirdest I’ve ever seen:

I don’t know how they SOUND but I know how they LOOK: butt ugly.
At least, for a mere $999 you get a pair of dogs you don’t need to [...]