What do you get when you subtitle screenshots from Lord of the Rings with chat captions from World of Warcraft? A very funny animated GIF!

• Mirror 1
• Mirror 2
• Original (might be down due to high demand)

(Via Boing Boing)

Well, this would be a nice addition to my future digital camera! Canon just showed a prototype of an automatic smile detection system, which should enable future camera's to take the photo at just the optimal moment that everybody smiles and has his or her eyes open.

(Via Übergizmo)

Handy: PSP subway maps from all over the world. No Rotterdam and Amsterdam included yet, but it might come in handy for me while travelling abroad.

Update: found links for Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

I never talk about work on my blog. Firstly, probably nobody is interested anyway (which may be true for the rest of my blog as well, but like to think otherwise ;-) ), but secondly my employer might not like it. The last reason is illustrated in a funny way in this Dilbert comic.

My all time favourite 8-bit game still is M.U.L.E.. I still sometimes play this game on my original Commodore 128D or a Commodore 64 emulator on my PC or telephone.
Now someone has created a way to play the Atari version of M.U.L.E. online with 4 players! Check the Atari MULE online site for details.

Some Super Mario fan with time enough on his hand is busy writing a Super Mario Opera! You can preview this work in progress at this site.

(Via Boing Boing)

World of Warcraft is getting more and more like real life: now a plague has been running around. Look for details in de WoW forums.

A movie of this plague in action (ED2K link)

Screenshot with appropiate music

Funny dance remix of Lord of the Rings (WMV format, 4.8 MB).

(Author's website)

Owning a AV Receiver, Media Center PC, a digital cable set top box, a TV and a DVD player is great. The downside is that they all come with their own remote control unit, so I had to use three different remotes just to watch TV (viewing using my TV, sound via my AV receiver, signal from my digital cable set top box).

Last week I have bought a solution for this remote control jungle: the Logitech Harmony 885. This remote control emulates all other remotes, has a nice color LCD display to see what you are doing and works by activity and not by device.

For example: to watch TV I know just push the button 'Watch TV' instead of getting my TV remote to power up my TV and switch to AV1, my AV Receiver remote to power the receiver up and switch to TV input and my STB remote to power up the STB and switch to the correct channel. Works like a charm and the remote is very easily programmable via USB connection and internet!

Relaxing flash animation, apparently controlled by your local weather conditions and time: You make me feel.

From the creators website:

The Unseen Video,
a weather controlled, dynamic music video for Mike Milosh's - You Make Me Feel.
The Unseen Video is much more than a normal, static music video. It is a video that is affected by the weather and local time from the position of the viewer.
We want to create new synergies between the music, the video and the surroundings of the viewer. Every little change in your environment ensures that you will never see the same video twice. The look of the video might slightly change within an hour, but will have a whole new character in a few months.

(Via nu.nl)

Flash animation about the new form of democracy post-US intervention style: Democracy Lite.

(Via nu.nl)

Anti-piracy ads tend to be very annoying, especially when you are forced to watch the ad each time you start a legally bought full-price DVD without any possibility of skipping it, it almost makes you downloading the illegal version instead.
But at least this Japanese version is artistically more interesting (but very over the top) than the Dutch one.

(Via Boing Boing)

Apparently lots of elevators have an express mode that lets you override everyone else’s selections and go straight to the floor you’re going to. You just press “Door Close” and the button for your floor at the same time.

I don't know if this works on non-US elevators too and I have not (dared to) tried it myself, but if it works it would be very cool ;-)

Read the full article on TheDamnBlog.

(Via Engadget)

Michael Jackson in a 8-bit retro gaming flash.

A very well made mix of video and animation in this short video: Platform Zero.

(Via Flabber)