because pixels look better after post
the Hot Spots Showcase 3: The Best in Animated & VFX Commercials is back for 2005!
In its third year, the Hot Spots Showcase, a collection of some of the best animated and visual effects commercials, IDs, PSAs and music videos, has returned. Rick DeMott brings you the best of the best.
<the_JinX> Now, Play Russian Roulette In Bash, Just Run This Line:
<the_JinX> [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live"
<psychosquee[]> the_JinX: What are the odds?
<the_JinX> 1 in 6 chance of removing your linux
* psychosquee[] has quit IRC (Connection reset by peer)
<^sWift> haha
thank goodness for Bash.org
a new website, registered to Microsoft went live on August 20.
well - this is even more obscure than ilovebees.com… good thing the hardcor fanboys have already opened an investigation into the matter…
the iPod nano has been disassembled by some folks over at a Japanese website. the text is all in Japanese, but of course the pictures are in plain english. 
iPod nano - disassembled (in Japanese)
hilarious video of the week… 
this is the hardest i’ve laughed for quite a while! 
First Aid (direct link, 726k WMV)
at an Apple Media Event in the Moscone Center West in San Francisco last night - Apple has had some very big announcments to make.
first off was the iTunes mobile phone. the Motorola ROKR E1 comes with iTunes and can hold about 100 songs. Steve Jobs said “The way we think of this phone is, it’s really an iPod shuffle on your phone”. the ROKR E1 is available now in the U.S. and expeceted by mid-September in the U.K.
the iPod nano was announced as the successor to the iPod Mini line. the nano is flash memory bases instead of using a hard drive and comes in 2GB and 4GB models and is alot smaller than the original iPod (80% smaller). the new iPod is half the thickness of the iPod mini, supports the dock connector and features a colour display that can support photos.
iTunes 5 was also released. the most noticable changes are the streamlined design, but there’s also lots of much-requested features that have made it into this new version.
William Bart has posted a thread over at the MacNN GUI forums showing the work that he’s been doing at The Skins Factory. there’s the initial development drawings for the official Batman Begins Windows Media Player skin - as well as lots of renders and you can even have a look at the animation of the skin.
also featured is the Alienware Invader WMP skin, also with the startup animation.
check out all the sweet sweet eye candy at the MacNN GUI forums. 
BBX Studio
The Skins Factory
Batman Begins animation (direct link, 13.9MB .mov)
Alienware«ó¢ Invader animation (direct link, 30MB .mov)
the Marvel Dot Comics site has been hacked by core-project. in case it’s fixed before people can see it - here’s what was on the page:
id
uid=0(root) guid=0(root)well, we got root again!
for the old times…
core-project hack-style.
core-project is:
J0shua | L0rd_Byr0n | hellsink | gridrunk | h4rv3st | losjack | tox
meet us at irc.gigachat.net ircd at #core-project channel !
or email us at coreproject@gmail.com
peace.
this deface is dedicated for old friends..
in memory of:
LinuxLover, WFD, tty0, RB Team, cr1m3 0rg4n1z4d0, 0xff, fux0r Inc, Perfect.br, WOH, Silver Lords,
poizonb0x, BHS, Nukkets, DarkCode, MIH, prime suspectz, r00t-access, limit.br, Hi-Tech Hate,
Supreme Entity, Crime Boys, Insanity Zine Corp, panicool, hackweiser, SecurityBR, ScorpiontKTX,
AIC, Data Cha0s, Tzunami-, Trippin Smurfs, Hax0rs Lab, The|Saint, [RaFa], dawgyg, B_Real,
shazam, diablow, DkD[||, PhrackMan, buttp!ratez, tw34k, rD, FonE_TonE, ezs, Fluffy Bunny,
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Apple has an interview with Soho VFX in the Pro/Film section of thier site. of course, the Toronto-based studio talks about how they used Shake to bring together the tough shots from F4.
