3D Gadgetry

Since I was a little kid games have saught after a realistic feel to them. They have come out with visors that you can wear, some fancy electronic motion sensing suits, or just some plain two colored lenses in some glasses.

The gaming industry has tried to capture this realistic feel at an affordable price for a long time. There was the Nintendo Power glove, Virtual Boy and now the Wii. All of these products from Nintendo shared the same goal; make the experience more realistic.

Johnny Chung Lee has come up with a system that gives a player a more submersive feel in a game than we have ever had before at a descent price. This price is about the same price as a Nintendo Wii. It is the same price because he uses the Wii's technology to implement his design. His design is called head tracking. Head tracking tracks the angle of your view(the position of your head) and then adjust the picture to that angle creating a realistic view and feel to the game.
Check out his video that he has made to show this in action.

One For Zoop

Ch--Ch, Ch, Ch- CHECK IT OUT.

Link picturesquely pilfered from Nah Right

In America You'll Never Be Free...

This is not the America I signed up for. I've said constantly that I'm in love, in fact straight up INFATUATED, with the idea of America. But the execution of the idea known as "America" leaves much to be desired, at best. At worst "America" is a sick joke, a trojan horse created for those with the greatest amount of avarice at heart to run rampant and unchecked.

The latest examples of American hypocrisy can be found here and here. Both are short, but even if you don't wanna read 'em just take a look at the titles.

So as you can see, it doesn't matter what side you're on. You think differently? Welcome to Guantanamo Express.

Last time I checked, America was born out of protest and subsequent action.

9-11 really did deal a deathblow to America. Now the president government can call you a terrorist and legally detain you for as long as they please. No trial, no jury, no problem.

(And don't think because you're a citizen it can't happen to you. Ever heard of "home grown terrorists"? When the government gets to define "terrorist", what makes you think they won't use that to stay in power?)

Your neighbor won't even miss you. He'll probably let his dog sh!t on your lawn.

Wake up.

I Wish Her Heart Still Was In Rhymin'...

Can you believe it's been 10 years since Miseducation dropped? Man, I can remember sittin' in the middle of the street blastin' Doo Wop out the boombox.

Check out the 10th Anniversary piece Rolling Stone put together for the occasion. It's all the behind the scenes ish that I could read about all day.

I need some more Lauryn Hill in my life.

My favorite joint off the album:

Common: Announcement [Video]

Feat. the services of Thelonious P

Lotta fresh videos comin' outta that G.O.O.D. Music camp...

Update: The powers that be continue to shoot themselves in the foot. However, you can catch the video here.

Ok, It's about to go down. Please step up. 5 4 3 2 1..

It's the return, burn like a supernova.

Statik Selektah: Take It To The Top [Video]

My favorite joint out right now. The people might be familiar with Cassidy, but Sai and Term are a couple of the ONLY reasons Hip-Hop hasn't died yet.

Be Clear: Cassidy mixtape verses > Cassidy album verses.

Introducing: Kabuki Man

I think it has happened to all of us at one point or another, you meet someone or hear about some 'celebrity' and you get the taste of bile, mixed with disgust and hate in your mouth. (Please at least click on the second link there) These people are very much similar to an arch nemesis, although, unlike a nemesis, you need not actively engage in thwarting. These people shall henceforth be called Kabuki men. (Remember where you heard it first)

For example: Superman's arch nemesis is, of course, Lex Luthor. However, I'm sure his list of Kabuki men went something like this:
Doomsday
Ultra-Humanite
Mister Mxyzptlk
Brainiac
Natural Disasters
Bizarro
General Zod
Darkseid
Human Ignorance
Buttons/Zippers/Velcro

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

They don't see me but they hear me
They don't feel me but they fear me I'm illi

Vexed Addendum: I can already hear it now: "But why 'Kabuki Man'? There's nothing inherently devious or sinister about the Kabuki in and of itself. So why the slandering of a classical Japanese performance style?" But alas, the association is derived from an ancient proverb that dates back eons 2 months ago.

An extremely successful and skilled American tea merchant once came across a storage canister amongst his wares, which bore the visage of the Kabuki. Due to its slightly non-Western origin, the merchant was unable to sell the canister using conventional salesmanship. As a consequence, he decided to embark on an epic quest to sell the canister, using all the knowledge of black-market nuclear trafficking and close-range weaponry peddling he possessed.

And so with a singular and soul consuming focus, the merchant went about soliciting the canister to all who entered his establishment (and even those who didn't). Despite the ferocity with which he has gone about his task, the merchant has not rid his store of the Kabuki canister, even to this day. It simply gathers dust comprised of broken spirits and dashed ambition. As the only blemish on an otherwise stellar sales career, one might describe the Kabuki canister as the merchant's-- *Cue dramatic music* ARCH NEMESIS!

So, we at M-Theory feel the Kabuki to be analogous to the person/place/thing we find to be most egregious to the human/mutant/alien race at any given moment.

Now may be the appropriate time (after all my logic and my theory) to add a Mothaf*cka. (So all you ignorant cats'a feel me.)

Kanye West: Good Morning [Video]

Man, i'm glad this video is so dope.

A.) This is just some fly Neo-80's sh!t. (Don't forget where you heard the term first.)

B.) I don't think I can take another video in a smoke filled club, with questionably aged hood rats willin' to be somebody's jump off for a Coach purse and some Cristal. Oh, and 24's. Can't forget the 24's... For a better description of said tom-foolery, listen to the 3rd verse of this.

Oh, and thats how my eyes look when I wake up too.

mushed peas

skrrrrrrrrt

so i know im a little late but i would like to let all you's know that pau scored more points than kobe.

as you were

Warren G/Travis Barker/DJ AM: Regulators [Live] [Video]

We're Daaaaaaamn good too.

On Some Other Sh!t

"You need some soul searchin', the time is now" - Nas

I just feel that quote is appropriate.

John Legend: Green Light [Video]

feat. Mr. 3 Stacks

Those in the know? They allllready know. But you knew that... No?

big dummies.

I was recently discussing politics with someone who I previously held respect for, that is until he told me the only reason anybody was voting for Obama was because of his skin color. No, seriously... I asked my non-caucasian friend who he was voting for and when he simply pointed to his arm, the once respected personage said, and I quote: "that's the only reason anybody's voting for him"

I have a co-worker who on two occasions has heard me listening to hip-hop. On both occasions she had the audacity aks "so, you're sympathetic to the plight of the black man?"




My Brain almost melted trying to tasdhn we fnsdof e sdoi

Quote Of The Day

"Great minds think alike great thoughts"

-Attributed To The Game

It's officially the new mantra. Catch Up.

Obligatory Olympics Offering*

*Technically not in direct relation to the Olympics. Just the greatest rendition of the National Anthem ever to be heard by human ears. [The best Anthem heard by Iguana ears is still embroiled in dispute.]

After hearing the plain Anthem rendition after every Phelps swim, I needed something a little Mo' Better.

I coulda used the Olympic games for endless amounts of blogger fodder, but that woulda just been water. [Note: Water < Hot Sauce]

*Scratches His Head*

I have recently realized that pessimists are always pleasantly surprised, and optimists are sadly disappointed.
also.
late people are generally happier than those who were on time, waiting for the late persons

Quote of the Day

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day

"The Greatest of all the accomplishments of the twentieth-century science has been the discovery of human ignorance." -Lewis Thomas

Quote Of The Day

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

-H.G. Wells

Quote Of The Day

Back to your regularly scheduled, only PASSIVELY aggressive, Quote of The Day:

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

-Stella Adler

Quote Of The Day

"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."**

-Noam Chomsky

NOTE: This is a classic example of an idea I've been nurturing and developing over the past couple of years, only to find it poetically and sufficiently articulated years before my birth.

**This is the reasoning behind my indignant laughter at individuals who demand that China cannot have both non-representative government and rampant capitalism. In fact, China's current political state is far more conducive to the execution of capitalism than that of the United States.

Sometimes I fear that the wool has been over the eyes of the American populous for so long that their collective ocular muscles have atrophied to a state indistinguishable from complete and perpetual blindness.

Look at that fag, I mean... flag!

Vexillology \vek-sil-AHL-uh-jee\, noun:

The study of flags.

(I was asked recently, where Vexed got his name, him and I have never discussed it, but this is where I assumed he got it)

ALSO:


Fact of the Day: Perseid
Among the best-known and most spectacular meteor showers are the Perseids, which peak about August 10-12. They appear to originate in the vicinity of the constellation Perseus, named for the slayer of the Gorgon Medusa and the rescuer of Andromeda from a sea monster. The chief characters in the Perseus legend, Perseus, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, and the sea monster (Cetus), all figure in the night sky as constellations.

So keep an eye out, for the night skys will be lit up like Chinese New Year. blat blat, blat blat, bla-ka-kat-kat. (yes that was necissary)

Quote Of The Day

"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night."

-Jean Baudrillard

Quote Of The Day

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

-George Bernard Shaw

The Life And Times of D. Carter

Yo I love articles like this. Blender follows Weezy F. around for a few days, to try and gain some insight on the Promethazine Kid. [Sidebar:]I'm just sayin'-- if I gotta get that screwed up to have that kinda stream-of-consciousness lyrical mindset? I might fall back one time and stop writing, just so I can live to see 30.

Behind the scenes joints always get me. Enjoy.

http://www.blender.com/LilWayneThereIsNoneHigher/articles/39237.aspx

CRS: Everyone Nose [Remix] [Video]

Feat. The King of the Coke Flow. Real Hip-Hop stand up.

Quote Of The Day

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

-Albert Einstein

New Orleans' Finest

Yo, i'm just sayin'... that man Jay Electronica? A once in a generation kinda poet. Check the clip for a FIRE verse.

Quote Of The Day

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

-John Galsworthy

Not Yet Midnight...

"If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day..." -Tupac Shakur

Not sure there'll be too many takers on this one. [Even though it may be the most pertinent post thus far.]

So the economy has been Goin' Down faster than Mary J. circa '94 this past year, and according to those in the know, we're gonna take a few more punches this round before the bell sounds.

All you have to read on this one is the headline:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/03/business/mortgage.php

And this one is a short, layman-termed editorial, letting you know what's in store:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/04/opinion/edkrugman.php

You might not have a mortgage, and you might not have any stocks or bonds, but if you think the comin' wave can't crash over you? Paisan-- you're already under water.

Quote of the Day

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -H.P. Lovecraft

Quote Of The Day

"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."

-Alan Gregg

Quote Of The Day

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

-Akira Kurosawa

Big Boi: Something's Gotta Give [Video]

Featuring MJB Da MVP.

And just when people were startin' to sleep on the less Avant Garde half of Kast, he drops some crucial commentary.

Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty droppin' in October.

Never odd or even

Palindrome: text reading the same in reverse.

Murder for a jar of red rum.
Some men interpret nine memos.
Dennis sinned.
Don't nod.
Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.

then again there are always 'word-unit' palindromes, to be read the same in reverse, by order of the words.

King, are you glad you are king?
Fall leaves after leaves fall.
You know, I did little for you, for little did I know you.
Escher, drawing hands, drew hands drawing Escher.
You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?


Join us next time for more word antics.

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