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High Voltage
A hot air balloon caught up in power cables, light blue.
Game Set Match
Playing pong, old school gaming.
Road Block
A walrus blocking the road from an ice cream van.
Like Father Like Son
Two figures with cameras as heads, one large one small.
Pandamonium
A panda fighting off tanks and bombs.

Mozilla Update :: Extensions — Remove It Permanently: “Permanently hide content from web pages using the Context Menu. Simply, click and ‘Remove it Permanently’. Now includes previewing of items before removal, support for IFrame as well as lots of advanced features to make it easy for anyone to remove annoying content from web pages”
“This extension lets you remove annoying ad links, ad tables, wasted whitespace and other HTML “content” that AdBlock doesn’t concern itself with.”

This is what I have been waiting for in terms of a firefox extension. I no longer have to put up with ANY ads, annoying tables of content I never read, copyright text, bloated images, columns of emptyness left over from an AdBlocked banner, etc… . It has a high degree of control too, you can block the element for one page only, one domain only, similar pages only or just the website you are on. Aditionally there are “Undo Last RIP” options for mistakes in removing things, “Disable RIP” for current site/page/domain if things have been redesigned, etc… . No more bloated websites for me EVER. A great extension and another reason to use firefox.

Well, it’s E3 this week, and like many
other gamers I have been keeping up to date with the buzz of the industry. I’m
not going to post facts about new consoles or anything, I mean, who wants to
come here for a news source!? Suffice to say, I will post my opinions on the
upcoming entertainment mammoths.

Xbox
360 was the first of the three consoles to be
revealed, albeit on the shitty MTV extravaganza. The 30min advert packed show provided
us with a brief glimpse of the console shell, 10 seconds of game play footage
and some happy hobbits talking to professional no life gamers and the
invaluable opinions of the all knowing pimp my ride team. Fantastic, luckily I
downloaded this monstrosity and could skip all the shit, such as the Killers
performance. Of interest was Perfect Dark Zero. Of what I could glimpse I was
excited, things looked nice and really I was just happy to see that the game
physically existed. Upon reflection, the graphics weren’t amazing and at no
point did I feel myself saying ‘wow’. Moving on to the OurColony.net video, “a
flipped and goosed” version of the MTV show that gave a little more
information; I began being excited about the prospects of the new live
features, the video interactions, the new controllers, the wireless features,
the three core processing power and the USB device outlook. However, being a
gamer, the principle error in the unveiling of the Xbox 360 system coverage was
the distinct lack of GAMES. Nowhere to be seen were game trailers, game
footage, game announcements, game development. Aside from the EA developments
(tweaks) and PDZ, I’ve seen nothing. If I am buying a game console, the most
important thing to show me are the games, who cares about Xbox live if the only
game to support it will be Microsoft Solitaire 3D. So, while in the few days
running up to E3 I was excited… the thunder has since been stolen, by Sony.

lang=EN-GB>Playstation lang=EN-GB> 3, welcome chang3. I was awake in the
early hours of the British morning to listen to the Sony conference and the unveiling
of their new system. I watched the two hour convention with awe. I’m not a
particular Playstation fan boy, yes I own a ps2 but
my favourite console of the current generation is easily the Xbox. I wasn’t too
stoked about the ps3, I had subconsciously ignored the
hype associated with it. In watching the conference I had no real expectations,
I’d heard of the cell processor but nothing of its capabilities. When the 2
teraflop performance power of the cell, the graphics processing of the class=SpellE>nvidia RSX, the high bandwidth ram and bus, the 7 wireless
controller capability, the 1080p support and the backwards compatibility were
announced there was a gleaming grin across my face. Then I saw Vision class=SpellE>Gran Turismo, Motorcross

and Killzone trailers, I saw the real time Unreal Tournament
processing power and I was astounded. This is a console I so dearly want. I have
absolutely no care for the Xbox 360, despite their release of the sequel to my
favourite game, Perfect Dark. I honestly can’t wait to get my hands on the raw
power of this machine, whatever the price. And I may just have to get a PSP to
complement it.

Nintendo
Revolution. Not much on this yet but I’m hearing
some significant buzz concerning “touch” patents, a revolutionary controller
and backwards compatibility. I have faith in the innovation that is Nintendo
and I look forward to their future announcements (Mario 128? Please).

I’ve decided that I would like some ‘proper’ art to grace the walls of my room. I have film posters of the generic ‘movie loving teen boy’ aka the matrix, kill bill, etc… . I also have a large nuclear explosion photo and a rasturbation of Marilyn Monroe “popaganda”. But I’m not satisfied. I want something with style I guess. So I began browsing shops and art.com for prints that I liked. I found few that struck me but there were 3 I absolutely loved:

a) “Sphinxes with Dictionary” by Francine Van Hove

b) “Bunny Dressing” by Michael Sowa

c) Japanese import Amelie poster (featuring Sowa’s art)

There was also a lovely coffee and croissants photo I nearly purchased in the local arty shop on campus.