How to Win at Chat Roulette

Here, Ben Folds shows how to win at Chat Roulette [youtube.com]. Here’s the original that he is paying homage to [youtube.com].

An Excellent Diversion

Take a few minutes of your time today to enjoy this music video from, of all things, a game soundtrack [youtube.com]. There’s just so much life in these cute little robots. I love how this is put together, the zooms to the beat, the understated visual effects, the short depth of focus. If I ever shot a music video, it would likely be something similar to this.

OnLive? More like OnDead.

Via Dubious Quality [dubiousquality.blogspot.com]:

“Details of the OnLive launch were released today, and I have a hard time understanding why anyone would still be interested.

What does it not get you access to? Games.”

Go read more there. Suffice to say I have no remaining interest in this product.

Toys, Toys, Toys

Yesterday I made the questionable choice of ordering one of the new 27-inch iMacs. There are many reasons I’d avoided an iMac in the past: it doesn’t allow end users to upgrade the hard drive, it uses mobile processors that cost more than buying an equivalent (and faster) desktop CPU, and it comes with a integrated (albeit beautiful) display – meaning that once the iMac has outlived it’s usefulness, the top-of-the-line Apple monitor goes with it.

While the hard drive on these new models remains outside the reach of all but the most dedicated hardware jockeys, they’ve fixed my other two complaints. The 27-inch iMac now has options aiming at the professional who doesn’t want a Mac Pro – including high-end quad-core desktop processors from Intel (the Mac Pro line uses server-class processors, which while having up to 20% higher performance than similar desktop processors carry a massive price premium… of sometimes over 200%). And that’s not all – check out this awesome piece of info from the official features page [apple.com]:

Mini DisplayPort.
The Mini DisplayPort lets you connect an external display, including the Apple LED Cinema Display, to your iMac. On the 27-inch iMac, the same port offers input, too. So you can connect any external source that has DisplayPort output … and use your iMac as a display.

Cheers Apple. This iMac is going to have a long life on my desk, even if only as an high-end monitor.