Star Wars: New Empire

OLPC, after years of launch... still unbeatable!

this laptop never fail to amaze me. i support this project.

9 year-old kid created a starwars website !

Today I stumbled upon a Star Wars blogsite created by a 9 year-old kid. Can you believe that??? And I checked the source, he's not using any content management system (cms) to aid him. He's using purely html codes.

I thought he might be 9 when he created this during the time of the movies like revenge of the Sith which is 2005 making him 13 already but his images were from the new Clone Wars series so the site is quite updated, at least 2008 or current. Therefore he's really 9.

I'm impressed on his skills considering his age. Kids usually don't have interest yet on such matters. I have a niece with same age so I can relate and I'm really amazed.

Here's his site: http://www.schwef.com/nolan

The force is strong with him.
A jedi, he will be.

Tweet using command line

simple script that will allow you to send tweets from the command line:

The script you will see takes exactly one argument: your tweet. You use it like this:

$ ~/bin/tweet "Writing my TechMails"

Successful tweet!

Once you run the script and look on Twitter, your post is there for all to see. The script itself uses nothing fancier than cURL to post the text provided to the script.

The text must observe shell constraints: it must be properly escaped for special characters (such as "!" and "?"). The script doesn't require the tweet to be in quotes; you could use:

$ ~/bin/tweet Does my tweeter need quotes\?

Successful tweet!

and it would work just as well.

The script itself:

#!/bin/sh

tweet="${@}"

user="username"

pass="sekret"

if [ $(echo "${tweet}" | wc -c) -gt 140 ]; then

    echo "FATAL: The tweet is longer than 140 characters!"

    exit 1

fi

curl -k -u ${user}:${pass} -d status="${tweet}" 
https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml >/dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then

    echo "Successful tweet!"

fi

Output of the cURL command is directed to /dev/null because it returns some XML that we don't need to care about. The script also makes sure that the tweet is 140 characters or less, and exits with an error if it is longer.

Star Wars Timeline

The Star Wars Galaxy

Star Wars: The Old Republic Cinematic Trailer

So fucking damn great video, this is. --Yoda

I have never seen a Vader-looking Sith fight like this!

10 gaping plot holes in 'Transformers 2'

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1093927

From Notorious to Famous...

Kevin Mitnick, the famous hacker of all-time, now a security consultant.

Every doing, wrong or right, every fall, every step back, opens a window of opportunity to leap forward. Everything happens for a reason.



Read the full article here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10269348-83.html

Beware of Transformers Toys (see video)

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Chevy Camaro... now available for your garage!

TF RotF Tokyo World Premiere

TRANSFORMERS 2 Tokyo World Premiere (Extended) from PPC Interactive on Vimeo.

Robots Auditions for Transformers RoTF

• Drill's Audition
• Freddy's Audition
• Mario's Audition
• Vicki & Danielle's Audition
• Hiro's Audition

Optimus Prime and Jetfire Combo

The New Palm Pre

The Metal Cast - SFX Mag Article

Ako Mismo Dog Tag Day

Michael bay's Financial Involvement in Transformers Movie

Aside from the million dollars Director Michael Bay harvests from the movie, he gets an estimated 8% on Transformer toys tied to movies.

Some of Bay's blockbuster action movies are Bad Boys 1 & 2, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Island, and ofcourse the biggest of all, Transformers.

Here's his exclusive interview from Forbes.

the New PSP Go

TF2: RoTF Mall Events

June 6-7 : SM Manila
June 6 : Market Market
June 7 : Glorietta

June 13-14 : SM The Block
June 13 : Trinoma
June 14 : Gateway Mall

June 20-21 : SM MOA
June 20 : Robinsons Ermita
June 21 : Shangrila

June 28 : Megamall

TF2: Revenge of the Fallen --- Toy Launch

Hundreds or maybe thousands of TF fans and toy collectors flocked at the Atrium, Bldg A of SM Megamall last May 30, 2009 for the awaited launch of the movie's toys.

Cybertron Philippines organized the event well with great exhibitions of various transformers collections, games for kids, freebies (masks, posters, key chains, stickers, pins), and promos. They also had a "toy vault" plus 137 "mini-con in a jar" raffle.

Hasbro categorized the TF toys especially the movie versions to:

Leader Class: P2,999
Voyager Class: P1,699
Deluxe Class: P699
Scout Class: P649
Legends Class: P349

Toy collectors, fans, bumped and grabbed with parents and kids like it was a food crisis. To be among the first who have the new movie collectibles, some made reservations, others fall-in-line, while the rest grab every opportunity whenever a toy kingdom staff open a box.

It was so over-whelming that whenever you see someone holding a new or rare piece, you'll ask "san mo nakuha yan?". It was like a chaos. You'll see buyers with basket full of toys. My personal comment to them was "Grabe naman bumili ang mga ito". And at the end of the day, I just realized... I am one of them. I bought 1 voyager class and 4 deluxe, all movie versions.

Our toy launch experience gallery

For more of the toy launch pics, visit:

• http://transformersph.blogspot.com/2009/05/revenge-is-coming-toy-launch.html

• http://robotpilipinas.multiply.com/photos/album/57#

Wren's Transformers G1 Collection

Optimus Prime - Autobot Class Leader;
Rodimus Prime - New Autobot Prime Leader when Optimus died at the Movie Finale of the G1 Animated Series
Jolt - The new Chvevrolet Volt Autobot in the TF2:RoTF Movie;
Classic Bumblebee - The Yellow Volkswagen Autobot Warrior, closest to Spike;

In Robot Mode:
Optimus Prime, Smoke screen, Sun Streaker, and Rodimus Prime

In Alt Mode

TF2:RoTF Trailer1 & 2 merged

TF2: RoTF Toy Launch

An Audi R8 decepticon, SIDEWAYS

The medic, RATCHET

Classic Ratchet from a white ambulance van, now to a slick yellow armored fire department emergency vehicle.

The hot, trigger happy, armored autobot, IRONHIDE

Classic IronHide from Red Nissan Van to Black GMC Truck.Optimus Prime's toughest and bravest autobot. Still loaded with the attitude.

the sporty, SIDESWIPE

From Red Lambourghini Countach to Silver Stingray Corvette

DEVASTATOR, The 7 constructicons in 1

Scavenger + Scrapper + HighTower + LongHaul + Rampage + Mixmaster = Devastator

I never imagined that this multi-bots transformers will be live in action. Devastator was the common match to the Dino bots in the animated series.

the female bike, ARCEE

The FALLEN...

RAVAGE, the four-legged decepticon

Ravage used to be one of soundwave's tapes.and now a usb...

MEGATRON in New GALVATRON Mode

In the ending movie of the animated Transformers series, Megatron died and was risen in space in a new form and name, Galvatron. From a gun, now he's a canon/tank.


Same concept with the new Transformers 2: Revenge of the fallen movie, Megatron was resurrected from death and transforms into a cybertronian tank.