In an endeavor that I’m sure will make many a geek salivate with pure lust, this guy has built a 5 terrabyte media server for his home setup; “I built a 5-terabyte media server with 20 250GB hard drives–it uses a pair of 500-watt power supplies and has 12 fans running full blast to keep [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Movies'
Dude Builds Ultimate Home Theatre
March 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Mobiles & Gadgets, Movies
Some guy who obviously has a lot of free time and a lot of money to spend has built the ultimate Home Theatre: The theater is 16′ tall at the front (slab to concrete ceiling), and 11 1/2′ tall at the back. About 21′ wide and 29′ long. This was an addition to the house [...]
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Lego Star Wars Rebel Attack Cruiser For Sale
December 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Movies
An awsome lego model of the Star Wars rebel attack cruiser is now for sale on ebay: Give a gift of galactic proportions this holiday season to your favorite LEGO® Star Wars™ Fan! Own a one-of-a-kind 8-foot LEGO Rebel Attack Cruiser™ model designed by LEGO Master Builder Erik Varszegi exclusively for display at Star Wars [...]
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Cinema To Return To Saudi Arabia
October 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Middle East, Movies
The BBC reports of the first “cinema” (check article to see why I put quotes around the word) to open in Saudi Arabia for 20 years: The authorities in Saudi Arabia have given permission for the first cinema to open there in 20 years, but the only clients will be women and children. Foreign cartoons [...]
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Daniel Craig To Play New James Bond
October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Movies
The BBC reports of Daniel Craing being the newest actor to play the three numbers we all know so well, 007: Actor Daniel Craig has been confirmed as the new James Bond. The English star of gangster film Layer Cake, who arrived at a press conference in London by speedboat, will play a tougher, grittier [...]
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Bad Movies To Blame For Moviegoing Slump
October 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Movies
The LA Times has a piece where studio execs are finally facing the music and giving themselves the blame for the recent slump in people going to the movies: One of Hollywood’s basic tenets is that when things go wrong it’s somebody else’s fault. Which is why it’s so startling, suddenly, to hear studio executives [...]
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Bill Gates & Napoleon Dynamite
September 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Microsoft, Movies
Betanews reports of a promotional video made with Bill Gate & Napoleon Dynamite: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has long used spoof videos to break the ice before his keynotes, and PDC 2005 was no exception. In ‘Bill Gates Goes to College’ the richest man in the world joins Napoleon Dynamite to fix computers at his [...]
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Star Wars Models That Can Actually Fly
July 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Movies
I just saw this great link on Boingboing about people building remote controlled Star Wars craft that can actually fly! Check it out is you’re a Star Wars fan, you won’t be dissapointed.
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V For Vendetta Trailer
July 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Movies
Just a quick blurb to mention that the trailer for the new Wachowski Brothers flick, V For Vendetta is out. For those of you not in the know, this is a remake of the popular comic. The plot ouline is as follows: In a story where Germany won a future World War and Great Britain [...]
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Google Video Viewer Hacked
June 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet, Movies
Within a mere 24 hours of its release Google Video Viewer has been hacked by non other than Jon Johansen, of deCSS fame. The crack itself is actually quite simple and was just a question of reading the diff Google added to VLC (VLC being of course the player that Google based its video viewer [...]
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