Archive for August 13th, 2008Filed under: Videos and Screenshots It’s Metal Gear Solid 4 … meets “Thumb Wars.” This lengthy ad does Kojima Productions justice by taking a humorous concept and running with it … all the way. Clocking in at almost four minutes, this thumb-recreation of MGS4 is in fact, an ad for the upcoming Japanese mobile game, Metal Gear Ac!d Mobile. [Thanks, Gambit07! Via Kotaku]
Not often, we find Salman Khan coming out of the closet and speaking freely in justification of himself. His new show, Dus Ka Dum has branched out his career as a TV show host and he is more than loving the new role he has to play. Filed under: Green Tech  MIT is in a twisted, propeller-capped knot this morning heralding a new discovery it says will unleash a solar revolution. However, the “revolutionary leap” inspired by photosynthesis is not on the glamorous front-end of energy collection, rather, it’s related to a simple, highly efficient and inexpensive way to store that energy when the sun doesn’t shine. “This is the nirvana of what we’ve been talking about for years,” says Daniel Nocera, MIT neomaxizoomdweebie who with Matthew Kanan developed the unprecedented approach to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases using the sun’s energy. The gases can then be recombined later inside a fuel cell. The key components to the process are a pair of catalysts (one consists of cobalt metal, phosphate, and an electrode; the other, platinum) which produce the O and H gases at room temperature and in neutral pH water (i.e., tap water). While similar solutions exist for industrial use (primarily), these are very expensive and require specialized environments. “This is a major discovery with enormous implications for the future prosperity of humankind,” said James Barber, a leader in the study of photosynthesis at Imperial College in London. “The importance of their discovery cannot be overstated since it opens up the door for developing new technologies for energy production thus reducing our dependence for fossil fuels and addressing the global climate change problem.” Nocera concedes that further engineering is required to commercialize the approach but hopes to see it implemented in household fuel cell systems within the next 10 years. Click through for the video breakdown. [Source: MIT News] Continue reading MIT Makes ‘Revolutionary’ Solar Power Storage Breakthrough Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Celebrities, Heroes, Casting, Reality-Free
Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello is reporting that Seth Green, who played Oz on Buffy and currently is one of the brains behind Robot Chicken, is joining NBC’s Heroes this season. He’ll have a multi-episode storyline with fellow Robot Chicken-er Breckin Meyer. They’ll play two comic-book aficionados who cross paths with one of the heroes, though it’s not certain right now which of the heroes they’ll interact with, in what way, or what their character names are going to be. Is this good news for the show, or are we already starting to see too many new characters for the show so soon after new characters were introduced in the strike-shortened, fan-hated second season? I agree that it’s an awfully large cast right now as it is, but I also understand that as the seasons go on and new plots develop, new characters are necessary. And having a fan favorite like Green (playing someone geeky) might be fun.
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Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is planning to build an AIDS clinic in Ethiopia for her daughter Zahara to manage when she grows up. Jolie will make a trip to her adopted daughter’s native country to discuss building the clinic as part of the work of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, a charity she set up with her husband Brad Pitt in 2006 for humanitarian aid around the world, reports Contactmusic.com. ‘We will be building a Tuberculosis/AIDS clinic in Ethiopia. The one we plan for Zahara to take over when she is older,’ Jolie told Britain’s Hello magazine. Jolie also hopes to take son Maddox to his native place Cambodia as part of a separate charity trip that the family is planning once newborn twins Knox and Vivienne Marcheline grow up a little. ‘The next trip for our foundation will most likely be Asia to follow up on the situation in Burma and our work in Cambodia. The boys have been asking to go there, so we will take them when Knox and Vivienne are a bit older,’ she added.  So you’re already rather late to the office, and you know you can’t start off the day with a cold breakfast, despite the fact that your office microwave has not been fixed due to budget constraints. Good thing the 12V In-Car Microwave is able to keep whatever bagel or sandwich you brought with you warm and toasty, as it is powered through the vehicle’s cigarette ligther socket. This allows you to heat up even a frozen pizza during peak hours, making you appreciate nasty traffic crawls all the more while making the other drivers around you hungry and green with envy. The 12V In-Car Microwave will retail for approximately $180. Source article | Add a comment Remember Cliff, the Youtube Guitar Hero (excuse me, Rock Band) Musician? He was pretty awesome right? He’s currently in a competition. Not for the highest score, but for the most style. As you can see here, his style is pretty much greater than anyone else’s style in the competition. He’s the only one rocking out, and the only one getting the crowd worked up. Yet he’s still sinking fast to second place. How is this? I do not know. But I do know that the guy who is threatening to over take him - Brian “Just Stands There All Boring” McCormack does not deserve to win this one. I’m asking you to vote for John Roskopf (Cliff’s real name, oh internet) because he rocks. SNTC officially has an investment in this tournament. Please vote for the real rocker. Please vote today - contest ends midnight tonight. And please vote more than once. Just give it about ten minutes to forget your IP address. If he wins, I will make an extra special post of…something wonderful to thank you guys. We cannot let this injustice stand! Filed under: Action, Drama, Casting, Deals, Scripts
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Thanks Lelonopo, for adding your image to the Slashfood pool and reminding me to make some cookies! Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Gaming  We’ve been hearing whispers that an Xbox 360 price cut is in the works, and now we’re starting to see some evidence — VGChartz scored this image of an unknown retailer’s inventory system showing the 360 Arcade dropping to $199 on September 7th. There’s no word on whether the rumored 60GB and Elite price cuts are coming as well, but they’d certainly be welcome — and with Rock Band 2 scheduled to hit just a week later, we’d say next month is looking like a good one for Xbox fans. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments |
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