Ahh, its a tricky question for the world, mostly because its more or less a game of pin the tail on the atlas. And to demonstrate this principle some enterprising Americanos decided to do a street survey and asked people to name where the US should invade next, and to help the viewers also got them to stick a pin into an atlas of where these coutries are. The fun bit is how the atlas is slightly wrong in the the nice big obvious country a the bottom (being Oz) is labeled North Korea, with New Zealand being South Korea.
Watch it, its painful

Update: Linz noticed the awsome text at the bottom of the video, and i

Ok, as Linzi had a go at me about my previous rant and i want to clarify my position about the issue of creationism in science class. Its NOT about creationism per say, its about the political correctness of forcing a belief issue into a class not suited to its teaching. I am against the idea of what is basically a story in the media pushing the idea that our schools need to reform their approachs to the teaching of these subjects. Yes teach creationism, i think its a damn find principle, as is evolution theory, but dont mould them together to make the polititians go “Look at us creationist types, we’re keeping your loud outspoken members appeased”
And in

“Creationist theories about how the world was made are to be debated in GCSE science lessons in mainstream secondary schools in England.
The subject has been included in a new syllabus for biology produced by the OCR exam board, due out in September. “
BBC News

Farewell sensible studies placed into their own sensible categories. Science is taught in Science classes, Religious/Belief matters are taught in RE classes. This Cross mix of ideals is going to make students get so damn confused about what is Hypothesis based on repeatable observations and evidence with Hypothesis based on opinion and conjecture. Science classes are based on evidences and experimentation which produce facts, two parts hydrogen, one part

After news that the Beeb were looking into streaming out BBC 2 over the net a few months ago, a trial was setup. Now while this needed registrations and suchlike it was a bit of a flawed system. Locked into Windows Media Player, the interface was buggy, it wasnt that fun to use.
However, the boffins at BBC R&D have been tinkering away and have released a Trial Multicast of BBC and ITV channels. Yup, ITV are involved as well, this is how big this move is. The multicast trial is only avaliable to users of certain multicast enabled ISPs, if your isp is one of these :

JANET
C & W (but not Bulldog)
clara.net
NetServices Plc
PlusNet
Zen

Its coming together at last, i decided to take time off from fixing the vector maths that are causing me alot of headaches and spruced up the interface and functions. I also fixed the Crowd Panel threads so rendering is done in its own thread at last. no more locking from sleeping the wrong threads. I dont feel like its so far from being workable, i can implement loading alternate XML Scene sheets easily now, runtime controls are hooked up properly, all i need is to make a DataPanel which holds a list of the entities on a scene for detailed feedback of the plebians on a floor. This should also be relativly

Found this amazing video from the Games Developers Conference by Will Wright, the guy behind Maxis, bringing games like Sim City, The Sims, and so forth. Hes in my top 4 developers list, including such legends as Chris Sawyer(Transport Tycoon), Peter Molyneux(Black and White), and John Carmack(Wolf3D/Quake/Doom/Keen).
Will Wright was demonstrating a fantastic looking game which keeps to his principle of no violence in games (albeit a bit here and there) Spore is a game that spans from evolution of a tiny tiny organism eating green blobs to fully fledged intergalactic sci-fi, with everything in between. Its an epic 35 min video, but i couldnt take my eyes from it.

Bra SimThe world of the internet is a dark and myseterious place as many times i have observed. However, this is both Cool and Funny at the same time. Not content with allowing women to meerly be objects of facination when designing bras for sporty types these clever people (probably blokes) have created a Bra Simulator. Its technically advertising for a Sport Bra. You can go along and select your Cup size (A throu to FF&G) and then your level of activity from Light (Yoga) to Extreme (Horse Riding) all to be followed with a beautifully presented strip of modeled animations. A Noody one for the virtual blokes out there, a Bra’d version and a

I blogged many moons ago about a beautiful advert by Sony for their Bravia TVs. Its a stunning piece of work, 250,000 bouncy balls thrown down a San Fransico hill. Visit the Bravia Advert site for more information about how it was made and the music and downloads etc.
However, not to be outdone, and as an excuse for fun on multiplayer games, a group of BattleField 2 players recreated the advert in their own image. Snorken Productions are credited with making this, but i have no idea what that means, simply put, go and check it out, its very silly.
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