k-rose can do no wrong!

me digg! G4/TechTV or whatever it is now is shit w/out the old crew. Social engineering aside Kevin Rose keeps coming up w/ winners. Released from G4 when they started to "gentrify" and turn it into nothing but games and game reviews (I still love you Morgan), Rose has gone on to create one of the fastest growing sites on the web, digg.com. However, I'm a bigger fan of the video podcast for the show called Diggnation (on iTunes too, obviously). He and Alex Albrecht (another G4 castoff) have great chemistry and actually make sitting on a couch w/ laptops funny. I keep finding myself laughing out loud at coffee shops unable to hold it in. The funniest for me so far has been the live show in SF where the bar and the audience were giving them free drinks the entire night; they were stupid drunk by the end.

This is an exciting and dynamic time for the web and all content related media. I wish I had looked into podcasting when I was at the bike shop. We could've set up a camera and just filmed. Shop talk is not for everyone, but if you can get by some of the subject matter, it's freaking hilarious. Maybe in the future.

Anyway, check out Digg and definitely Diggnation as well as everything else Rev3 has got their hands in. Nerds makin' good!

T-Tags:Diggnation Digg podcasting Rev3

not close and definitely no cigar!

In my search for new and interestingly designed site I came across this winner by way of Design Melt Down. I like drips and grunge and it has plenty of it, but unfortunately it has one major flaw...what the hell is Streetboarding? [ed.note-extremely one sided diatribe to follow!]

I will first off say that I know that doing tricks/moves/whatever and participating in any type of x-treme sport involves skill and the potential for maim and dismemberment. They all take dedication and courage. That's where I end it.

Everything (aside from the existance of skiing) is a conceptual derivitive of skateboarding. We were the first idiots. We started and you coined it x-treme sports. 99.9% of all trick names are born from skateboarding. The major difference between them and skating, THE BOARD IS NOT ATTACHED! Any skate trick involves making sure the board is attached to your feet. This is not accomplished by straps, bindings, glue or magic. You have to ollie into nearly every trick. You have to do a trick to get into a trick. Want to hit a handrail, you have to ollie. Want to clear a gap, you have to ollie. Want to do a 900, you have to ollie (although it's a little different). Let's try this w/ everything else. Want to hit a rail w/: snowboards, streetboards, skis, fruitboots (rollieblades), etc. just jump into the air and aim. Want to do an air, just jump and flail. You start to get the point.

The worst out of all of these is the booters. Nothing is more idiotic looking is some aggressive inliner grabbing their feet and calling it a grab! This is ridiculous. I will admit that I truly enjoyed blocking them on ramps at skateparks. The skates go backwards and the booter hits the coping. Fantastic source of entertainment. The next best was when they wanted to fight you all you had to do was push their feet. Once again, down goes booter.

I can go on w/ the examples of how much more complex a skate trick is vs. everything else; but I'll give you just one: flip tricks. Trick into trick, game over. Think of this: kickflip into crooked grind to varial heelflip out. I'm done.

Nice website though.

Photo courtesy of Transworld Skateboarding and Atiba Jefferson.

it is better to look good...

I think I found this site while playing a round of "Follow the Link". You know, start w/one site, find their links, click on an interesting sounding site, peruse briefly, then find their links...this can go on for hours! This is how I find the best stuff out there, especially in the design field. There are some real geniuses out there.

how do you program cold and bleak?

it's how you use it...

When I first put this computer together I was slightly concerned about Call of Duty 2 being able to run on it since I was using the 6600GT on an AGP bus and the forums were saying that it was giving the 7800 PCI-e problems. Since I've never used a 7800 powered machine, you can see that I'm not going to miss a higher framerate or more anti-aliasing since the game looks like this on mine! I have it set to medium to high textures, 2x anti-aliasing, 1024x768 screen ratio, w/ the screen output set to my Dell 2005FPW 21" LCD monitor's 1680x1050 supa-wide aspect. The card doesn't have to go through the cumbersome task of running it on the native aspect, but still looks normal on the screen w/ no slowdown. The words get a little fuzzy in this mode, but who's reading when there's Germans to kill! I haven't done any 3D testing to see what the system is capable of, but right now I really don't care.

postcards from the russian front.

It scenes like these that prompted me to find a screen shot program. I couldn't get over how the snow moves w/in the buildings, the lighting give a true feeling of winter, and the sounds (not in the screenshot, sorry) of scattered gunshots and artillery echoing throughout. As morbid as it sounds, I play this for the escape. With levels that look like this, it's hard not to get lost in it all; however when tracers are screaming by your head in lovely 7.1 surround you quickly get focused. I'll have to show some of the uniforms of the soldiers since they actually look like fabric! There are details everywhere that you can only see if you play the game multiple times; then you get a chance to smell the Russian winter roses, so beautiful this time of year.

As I see more scenes to snatch I'll post them. We'll drink in Berlin!