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Yup it’s that time of the week again. Late night on Saturday surfing the web, waisting my time before I drift off into a 8 hour coma. I’m straying a bit from the “youtube” standard and going with a 6 minute vid from gametrailers.com. This will be the nerdiest of my videos yet. It’s a gameplay featurette on the new Star Wars game called Force Unleashed. It’s set in the time between the 3rd and 4th movies.

Why I chose this video is the show off some of the amazing effects they were able to pull off by using some crazy new physics, ai and particle engines. Just watch the video and judge for yourself. I came away thinking that this is perhaps some of the coolest stuff I’ve ever seen in a game.

I know its Sunday, but it’s still late at night. This is an amazing goal by Rick Nash. Not a lot to say about it, just watch it and pick up your jaw off the floor.

Just two days ago Apple announced that the long awaited and expected update to the Itouch was being released. This was a small footnote of a bigger announcement at MacWorld of Apple TV 2 and the new MacBook air. This was great news, I thought as I read through the blogs covering the event. I had been waiting for mail, google maps, widgets, stocks, weather and notes since I got my itouch for Christmas. These apps came standard on the Iphone and I was surprised to find software that was already developed and shared the same binary as the iPhone didn’t come packaged with the itouch. The thing that makes me upset is that Apple wants to charge me $19.99 for this update AND they are shipping it bundled with all the new iTouches at no extra cost . So if you go and buy one 3 weeks from now, it will have all these applications built in and there will be no additional cost.

Apple is essentially screwing over anyone who was an early adopter of their new ipods. I did update my ipod to 1.1.3 hoping I would get something worthwhile out the free version of the update. All that I can see that changed is some button placement and the device is now setup to accept new software for when they launch the SDK in late February. I just hope someone designs all these same programs and releases them for free. There is already a large development community around the hacked iPhones/iTouches, I hope they get to see some profits from their hard work and innovative programs.

I’ve slowly been moving towards liking Apple, their design philosophies and innovations in the market. Then they try and pull a fast one like this. BAH!

I’ve decided to start a weekly feature where I’ll post random YouTube videos that I found either interesting or funny. This is not an original idea but hey, I figure most people that read my blog (all 3 of you) enjoy a good laugh here and there. For my first video I’m posting a very short video of a reporter named Chuck Storm having a bad day at the office. The main reason I chose this video is because #1 it’s funny and #2 the guys name is Chuck Storm. You know he was the cool kid in school, you don’t ever mess with a guy named Chuck Storm. Well that is unless you’re a poll or something.

This time last year a smart little comedy came out of no where. It was called Little Miss Sunshine and starred a great cast, had excellent dialog and a very peculiar story line. It was a formula that worked well and I enjoyed the movie a lot.

I got the exact same feeling from Juno. The movie is about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and struggles to deal with the entire process. She handles the entire situation with a quirky sense of humour and she easily carries the movie that involves some fairly well known actors that include Jennifer Garner, Michael Cera and Jason Bateman. We get to see Jason and Michael act together again after seeing them work together on Arrested Development, but in the end they don’t have any scenes together, which is a shame but makes sense in the context of the characters and story.

If you’re unsure what to watch this post holiday season and you’re tired of sugar coated overly bloated Hollywood stuffed movies then this is the flick for you. This is a movie about real people, going through real issues and the absurd reality we live in is what gives this movie it’s charm and humour. At the end of the film my friend who saw it with me stated that it felt “Canadian”, and if you’ve grown up in Canada and are used to shows such as Degrassi you’ll know exactly what he means. It had a great certain “je ne sai quoi” about it… and that is a good thing.

My hope after seeing this kind of film work so well two times that Hollywood starts to get it into their heads that audiences do not want to see Daddy Day Care 4 or Are we there yet 3. Give the masses intelligent well thought out comedies and I will reward you with my hard earned $8.99+tax.

It gets 8 blue slurpees out of a possible 10.