This is what Israel Does: No More Mr. Nice Guy…

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Manga Bible — Genesis to Revelation with giant killer robots

The Mecha Manga Bible Stories comix I blogged earlier today’s got competition from another manga Bible called “The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation,” a single volume from Ajinbayo Akinsiku, who is training to become an Anglican priest.

In a blurb for the Manga Bible, which is published by Doubleday, the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, is quoted as saying, “It will convey the shock and freshness of the Bible in a unique way.”

No doubt. In the Manga Bible, whose heroes look and sound like skateboarders in Bedouin gear, Noah gets tripped up counting the animals in the Ark: “That’s 11,344 animals? Arggh! I’ve lost count again. I’m going to have to start from scratch!”

Abraham rides a horse out of an explosion to save Lot. Og, king of Bashan, looms like an early Darth Vader. The Sermon on the Mount did not make the book, though, because there was not enough action to it.

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This is hard core… and to think I got excited when I found the Manga Shakespeare Series… The guys in SEA don’t miss a beat when it comes to “Manga-nizing” any topic and any book under the sun.

This should be pretty interesting reading.

Technorati Tags: Manga, bible, Giant Killer robots, Hard Core

100 Ways to Use your iPod to Learn and Study Better

If you think that iPods are used just for listening to music, you obviously haven’t been keeping up with the latest technology The Apple-developed music player now features all kinds of accessories to help you study better, and now other companies are in a rush to get their designs in sync with the iPod. Pre-teens, college kids and even adults are taking advantage of the educational benefits an iPod affords them. From downloadable podcasts to just-for-iPod study guides and applications, learning on the go has never been easier. To find out about the many different ways you can transform your iPod into a learning device, check out our list below.

Link: The iPod Hacker

Technorati Tags: iPod, Hack, Study

Here, have a piece of my heart.

Valentine’s Day. (or as per Electric Spaghetti… VD) Something about pagan religions and its just something I don’t celebrate… you know. I seem to just switch off when faced with these bloody marketing holidays.

“im sick of cute hearts and kittens and shit.
the only red i wanna see is blood.” – earlier conversation on Gtalk…

There it is… just watch the 14th Feb come around and everybody gets a crash course in heart surgery, figuratively of course. And you hear, everywhere, the philosophy of love being talked about and spread at expensive prices across work desks and door steps and under candle light dinners… One day as a memento to show some love.

But if you look at divorce rates and domestic violence, why the fuck don’t these people show the love during the rest of the year too? I swear the guys go all out ‘cos they just see another chance to score… at least once this year. Cynic or Realist? I guess you can argue pessimist, but the facts are there, son? you better recognise.

Okay, this post isn’t a simple bitch about VD, but if you want a solutions… keep it in your head that the love needs to be shown just as much outside Valentines as it does on this day. Pagan religious holiday or not, the philosophy endures. what is love? Another Solution… spread the love to someone who doesn’t have it. Shit, there’s tons of people out there who need some of it. I just saw a whole bunch just driving to the supermarket.

You got it? get your ass outside and Give someone a piece of your heart… today and everyday.

Peace,

M.

Technorati Tags: Valentines Day, VD, Cynic, Day

Links 11-02-2008

The Evolution of Languages
New languages often evolve quickly, in a sudden burst of new words coined as groups of people strive to describe the world around them, says an international team of researchers.

Ubiquitous WiFi
A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge are working on solutions to make WiFi as ubiquitous as possible utilising neighbor-fi, legislation, etc.

Technorati Tags: Languages , Wifi, Evolution

Are You a Hard Core Gamer or Casual Gamer?

Well… which one are you? 8bitrocket has made a manifesto and the term “mid-core gamer”. For people like me who aren’t hard core into gaming, but aren’t exactly casual either…

He writes…

Hardcore gamers consider me a casual gamer and casual gamers consider me a hardcore gamer, so what am I? …In any case, I have decided to call myself a MID-CORE gamer. I have no idea if there is another term for me or the millions like me, but I like this one and I’m sticking to it. I know it’s not CATCHY or SEXY, but it is accurate… I always hear industry people talk about CASUAL and HARDCORE, but never the in betweens like me. I have to search online and bargain bins for games that fit my needs.

Although MJ is most definitely a Hard-core gamer… I’d say I’m between casual and mid-core… making me mid-casual? say what? do we really have to be politically correct about this? Maybe MJ can write a new thesis onthe strata of gamers in modern society to supplement his theses in “Islam and video games” (told you he was hard core)…

Anyway.. my favourite game that I played is Thief II on PC, loved it ever since I played it. My latest completed game is the classic, award-winning, “Another World” and lately I’m playing American McGee’s “Bad Day in L.A.” and “Stolen” which is like a mix of Thief II and Tomb Raider.

so…back to the question…Are you Hard-core, Casual or Mid-core?

Technorati Tags: Games, Mid-core, gaming

Microsoft is Stupid, Apple is not…

Jim Lynch says that the problem isn’t Windows users… It’s Microsoft!

My boss Lance recently wrote a column about how Macs need security software too. In his column he pointed out that Mac users are no smarter than Windows users. I respect where Lance is coming from, we’re all human and quite capable of making mistakes. However, I think he got it wrong. It’s not necessarily just about the users, it’s also about the companies and people who create the operating systems that we use each day.

Frankly, there’s no other way to say this: Microsoft is stupid and Apple is not.

Technorati Tags: Windows, microsoft, Apple, Mac, Users

South Africa: Ignore the Doomsayers…

This is the letter Alan Knott-Craig (MD of iBurst) sent to his team:

Hi guys,

2008 has certainly started with a bang! The future was rosy on 31 December 2007, but suddenly everyone is buying candles and researching property in Perth!
A combination of recession in the USA, global equity market negativity, high interest rates, the National Credit Act and power outages have combined to create the perfect storm.

But don’t panic!

This is not the first time there’s been doom and gloom. Every few years the same thing happens. We experience massive economic growth, everyone is optimistic and buying Nescafe Gold, and holiday homes, and Merc’s. The positivity gets ahead of itself and the economy overheats, and then panic sets in because the economy seems to be collapsing when in actual fact it’s simply making an adjustment back to a reasonable level.

It happened in 1989, when SA defaulted on its international loans and the stock market and Rand crashed, it happened in 1994 when the ANC took power and everyone thought war would break out, it happened in 1998 when interest rates hit 25% and you couldn’t give away your house, and it happened in 2001 when a fairly unstable guy by the name of Osama arranged for 2 Boeings to fly into the tallest buildings in New York!(side comment – wtf? there’s no proof of that, but I’m going for the bigger message of this write-up)

On each of those occasions everyone thought it was the end of the world and that there was no light in sight. And on each occasion, believe it or not, the world did not actually end, it recovered and in fact things continued to get better.

I think 2008 will be a tough year, but I also see it as a great opportunity to seize the day whilst everyone else is whinging and get a front-seat on the inevitable boom that we’ll experience in 2009, 2010 and beyond.
Make sure you make a mental note of everything that is happening now, because it will happen again and again, and if you don’t recognize the symptoms you’ll be suckered into the same negativity, and forget to look for the opportunities.

It’s easy to be negative. Subconsciously, you WANT to be negative! Whenever you open the papers they tell you about the goriest hi-jacking and the most corrupt politicians. Why don’t they dedicate more pages to the fact that Joburg is the world’s biggest man-made forest, or to the corruption-free achievements of the vast majority of public officials? Because bad news sells. Good news is boring.

SA still has the best weather in world! We’re lucky enough to possess a huge chunk of the world’s resources, i.e.: gold, platinum, coal, iron. The growth in India and China will continue to accelerate (India and China sign 10mil new mobile customers every month), and so will their demand for our resources. The government has already embarked on massive infrastructure projects (some of them a tad late, i.e.: electricity), and this will pump money into the economy.

We are all lucky enough to be a part of the birth of a massive and all-encompassing industry. The Internet has and will continue to change the world. The enormity of its impact is up there with the wheel, electricity, TV, telephones, and possibly man’s greatest ever invention, coffee. Not only does it open up an entirely untapped world of commerce, but it is also the ultimate disseminator of information and news. Apartheid would not have lasted 40 years if the Internet had existed! And you’re part of it!
I’m looking forward to another year of ASA complaints, IR issues, Plug & Wireless parties, BTS roll-outs, billing runs, irate customers, happy customers, orange bubbles, faulty elevators, etc, etc. The nice stuff makes me feel good, and the challenges remind me why we can beat the competition. Most importantly I’m looking forward to having fun and making memories.

So ignore the doomsayers, install a timer on your geyser, and buy Ricoffee for a couple of months.

Cheers,
Alan

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Personalised Music Magazine

This… this just rocks. It’s a Music Magazine which tailors itself to your tastes.

Customised content has long been held up as the Holy Grail of digital publishing, and idiomag is making that promise a reality with a personalised, daily digital magazine about music that is based entirely on members’ individual interests.

Launched just over a year ago, UK-based idiomag uses a system of weighted tagging to customise both content and advertising to readers’ personal musical tastes. Readers initially name their favourite music topics and weight the relative importance of each of them in the content they will view. idiomag then uses that information to serve articles, tracks, videos and other multimedia content in a high-quality, audio-visual virtual magazine format that readers can enjoy in page-by-page fashion. idiomag has content partnerships with publications including Billboard, 365mag and Hip Hop Nation as well as popular blogs such as Aurgasm and BlogCritics. It has also built up a large team of its own journalists across the UK. As readers rate the appeal of the content they view, idiomag intelligently adapts subsequent issues to reflect those changing preferences.

Not insignificantly, advertisers benefit from idiomag’s personalisation system as well, with the ability to serve nonintrusive, full-screen and rich-media advertisements that closely match readers’ interests. A newly incorporated social element, meanwhile, uses Facebook integration to let readers get their idiomag within the social networking site, view their friends’ magazines and capture articles they like, submit articles, and view trends and favourites among the other idiomag readers on the site. idiomag also offers widgets to incorporate the magazine on other social networks, blogs or home pages. Subscriptions to idiomag are free for readers; advertisers are charged on a CPM basis, and revenue is shared with content providers based on their content’s popularity.

When readers get the content they want and advertisers reach their target audiences in a targeted way, it really is hard to see a downside. One to bring to other niches, localities and topic areas!

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Technorati Tags: idiomag, Music, Magazine, customised content

I Renounce Thee, Satan!

hahaha.
Classic.

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