Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer

Just read a fantastic article over on WIRED by Thomas Goetz regarding the extreme importance of the early detection of cancer cells. How research into detecting cancer at the early 90% survival rate is far less then the research that goes  into actually curing the cancer when it’s already way past that point and [...]

WordPress 7.0 – “Coltrane” released

The latest addition of WordPress has been released. This latest addition revamps the Dashboard allowing a large amount of customization. You can now arrange, configure, or hide the shelves you want. Lots of good stuff inside.

‘Unoffical’ Canon 5D Mrk II HD Demo Movie: ‘Tokyo Reality’

via Akihabaranews.com.

Gear used:

Canon 5D Mark II 14mm f2.8L II 17-40mm f4L 50mm f1.4 90mm TS-E f2.8 135mm F2.0L

Tokyo Reality (Canon 5D MarkII) from utsuru on Vimeo.

YouTube Contest: Produce something watchable

Seems YouTube has put forth a contest for users to submit videos that are actually watchable.

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video

Robots And Monsters! Charitable goodness

Joe Alterio created a charitable effort of drawing Robots and Monsters for $50 with most of the fee going to a charitable organization. $50 gets you the original work of art created by either Joe Alterio or one of the other talented artists he’s enlisted who help out in their spare time.

The charity [...]

Photojournalist James Nachtwey’s TED Prize

“The TED Prize, an initiative of the TED Conference granting recipients one world changing wish – is asking bloggers around the world to help in making photojournalist and 2007 Prize winner James Nachtwey’s wish come true this Friday, October 3.

Nachtwey wished for help in breaking a news story in a [...]

Canon 5D Mk II announced! 21mp + HD Video love’n!

Canon.co.uk has finally announced the new 5D Mk II. It has a very nice and respectable list of new features and even better, a wonderfully low price tag. I’m really happy to see the new body is metal as well as environmentally sealed. The new 3″ VGA view screen is also very welcomed, as [...]

Killzone2 Multiplayer Trailor from Leipzig

Gizmodo: Inside The LEGO factory

Gizmodo recently went on a tour of the LEGO factory and recorded it for the all to see. The article makes for a great read and the accompanying videos make for a fantastic viewing. So instead of trying to whip up a creative linguistic summery I’ll simply nab a quote from their website:

While [...]

First Watchmen trailer now on line

Read over at Gizmodo UK that the first trailer for the much anticipated Watchmen movie, based on the amazing graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, has appeared on-line. Looks like a pretty good dose of fucking awesome if you ask me.