Orchestra:
Accordian:

One Guitar:

Two Guitars:

11-String Bass:

Contrabassoon:

Balalaika (Russian folk guitar):

Alto sax:

Ball-point Pen:

Beer Bottles:

Beatboxing Flute:

Ruler:

Tesla Coil:

Update: I had posted the wrong video for Beatboxing Flute. The video is fixed and I added 9 more videos. (New videos taken from here and here)

All stolen from the Neatorama blog post about fun facts about Mario:

It’s too slow to actually play and the controller on screen looks good but plays bad.

Update: Looks like a couple of l33t hackers got a hold of it and rewrote it so that it’s much faster. You’ll still have trouble if you have normal sized thumbs though.

Here is the article from The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

The actual files and all updates will appear here.

UCSC School of Engineering & Economics department decided to decorate their building with Postits. Here is the result.

I got it and I see the hype. I just played it for 3 hours without doing anything else by myself, Ignoring everything else that is going on. It is great. My fingers won’t move. I’m typing using a pen in my mouth. It is very difficult.

Guitar Hero 2 for Xbox 360

Looks like the PS3 is finally going to come out in Europe in March and it is going to cost £425. £425 is $840 US! Seriously, I don’t think Sony really wants the PS3 to be successful. They might be giving up on the division like they did with most of their other divisions. Sony’s pride is going to destroy them slowly.

For awhile, Sony’s SCEA division was the only profitable part of Sony. Now it has shifted to their TV’s. They have some of the best displays out there. The Sony Bravia video processor chip is probably one of the top 5 chips out there. Maybe they don’t believe that they can maintain two successful divisions at once, even though they have very talented people working and more resources than most. It might also be that they want the PS3 to be an HDTV accessory. If you look at it that way, the PS3 is a great accessory to your Sony SXRD HD televsion, but the Xbox 360 is just as good, if not better, and more importantly, cheaper.

This is a video of someone who hacked one of those portable credit card processors. I see these all the time at computer shows but the reception is bad on them so the vendors have to run outside of the convention hall to process credit card purchases.

Anyway, someone hacked them so that they could play Tetris on it. Here is the link to the article about it. Link

I was reading an interesting article about how the PS3 is a dud for Sony. Then I came across a preview for Gran Turismo HD, which the demo for is now available to download. As you can see to your left and in the screenshots at the article, Gran Turismo HD looks incredible. There’s no denying that it is by far the best looking game you can play on a console at the moment. Then I realized it’s not the best graphics you can possibly get at this exact moment and this won’t change for a long time. One of the biggest arguements for console over a PC loaded with a high-end graphics card, CPU, RAM, etc. was the price.

Obviously, you can easily spend more than $500-600 for the graphics card alone but I think there’s a line in price where the hardcore gamer that demand the highest graphics possible and the more casual gamer meet, and that line is lower than $600.

Sony has priced themselves out of the console wars. It no longer competes as a gaming machine, it’s an entertainment box with gaming capabilities. Sony admits to this. When the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on came out the PS3 was no longer the best entertainment box you could get. Now, both the 360 and the PS3 have the ability to play High Definition movies but one major difference, PS3 cannot play your old DVDs! The PS3 only has the Blue-Ray blue laser sensor that can only play Blue-Ray discs, it is different from the regular red laser used in normal CD/DVD players. So you would need a separate DVD player by your television to watch all those DVDs you’ve bought over the years. Either that or buy them again in Blue-Ray version, of course if the movie you want is under the studio that supports Blue-Ray.

Right now there is no way that I would buy a PS3 even if it was cheaper than the Xbox 360. I would not have fun with it. Then again, I’ll probably get one once Final Fantasy XIII comes out (the picture below is an actual gameplay screenshot).

Engadget reports that someone at CNNMoney.com rumored that the Wii could make an early release into the market. The Wii was slated to launch on November 6th (and probably still will) but industry insiders say that it’s due for October maybe even early September. This would make it pretty easy to decide what I would like on my October 13th birthday.

I just watched it again tonight. This scene is like my most favorite thing ever. My brain keeps trying to explode because of how awesome it is. Here is a torrent of the movie that’s coming out on DVD, which I will buy at least 5 copies of.