Binary Expressions

My brother Tux wanted me to find some podcasts or vidcasts that teaches Japanese to help him in the class he is taking. I found a bunch of them and figured I would share them with everyone else. Enjoy.

Learning Japanese

• JapanesePod101
• J-Edutainment: Japanese Vocabulary over beats or at Feed Burner
• Japanese Wisdom (video)
• Learn Japanese @ Japancast
• Learn Japanese
• Learn Japanese Online
• Learn To Speak Japanese

General Japanese

• Made in Japan
• Planet Japan
• Josh in Japan

I came across this amazing web site with robot videos, Roborama. They are all worth watching in my opinion. It’s amazing how far robots have come in in my life time.

Source: Roborama.info
Bonus Source: Robot-Dreams

This is great on how they set it up and used nintendo chacters and made it look real.

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I ran across a new TV show done by Channel 4 in the UK called The IT Crowd. The show is about 3 employees working at Reynholm Industries in the IT Department located in the basement. The 3 employees, Jen (IT Boss), Roy and Moss are scorned and mocked by their fellow co-workers as geeky losers that are doomed to never make it back into the so called normal society.

I’ve watched the first 3 episodes available so far and it’s very entertaining and humours. Granted the show is for only a certain type of audience as it’s has many geeky technical references. I highly recommend this show to those that like this type of geeky entertainment. The coolest part of all about this show is that Channel 4 is making the episodes available for free online. Unfortunately Channel 4 only keeps the latest episode online and for UK residents only. One could get around all this if one could find a UK based public proxy server service, send in a comment if you know of one please. However for now one can use web based file hosting services and BitTorrent. See the below links.

Source: The IT Crowd Official Site
Source: Post 1 at Boing Boing & Post 2 at Boing Boing
Source Download: All Three episodes via BitTorrent

I ran across this video on IFILM called “Nintendo: Oldschool Revolution” that is quite humours and done quite well. Check it out.

Source: Nintendo: Oldschool Revolution

Well here’s another great collection of Super Bowl XL commercials. Thanks to IFILM.com we can all watch them at our leisure. I haven’t watched them all yet, but so far I would have to say my favorite of all is the “Michelob Ultra: Touch Football” commercial. Very funny. Enjoy.

Source: IFILM Superbowl XL Commercials

News about the new Spiderman 3 and talking about the game.

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Wow this guys can do alot of weird trick. His famous trick floationg in thin air i cant do same witht he card thrown at the window.

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I’m happy to say that my name and one of my web sites was mentioned on the podcast show called MommyCast episode #29, “The Week Before School”. It may seem silly to some but to me it’s nothing more exciting to hear your name and web site mentioned on a show that is broad casted world wide. I hope parents and children get to enjoy the web site I originally created for my children. The web site is called “The Kid’s Bookmarks” and can be found at http://www.adamsdesk.com/kidsbookmarks/. The web site was created for children in the age range of 2 to 8 (suggested ages). The site was designed with the following goals in mind, visual identity of web site, readability for those that can read, hand/eye mouse coordination and learning how browse the Internet in an safer environment. Since each link is open in it’s own browser window with most the the menu gone this ensures the children will get back to where they started by just closing the window. You can read further about the site and my message to parents by going to Statement to Parents and Information About Web Site page.

Please feel free to send in your comments and suggestions. I would love to read them.

Source: MommyCast
Source: The Kid’s Bookmarks
Source: Statement to Parents and Information About Web Site

If you haven’t seen it already you have to make sure to go and see the movie trailer for Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. The trailer doesn’t show much of the movie but enough to me to say that most likely this will be another great family movie with great humour. The movie is expected to appear in movie theaters some time in 2006. No specific date has been set that I’m aware of.

Source: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - (movie trailer)

Hi folks. I apologize for the down time of posts. My hosting provider was having load balancing issues that was not anticipated. However everything I believe is now resolved and I’m back here doing blog entries. Here’s a quick recap of the missed TWiT episodes which if you have not listened to yet make sure you do now.

Episode #9 - June 19, 2005

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and Robert Heron
Topics:

• Windows Updates - should they be daily or monthly?
• Burning in Gaming Machines
• To Update or Not to Update Drivers
• and so many more topics

Running Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Download Sources:

• This Week in Tech - Feedburner Feed
• BitTorrent seeds - high quality
• The Official TWiT Mirrors Page
• TWiT mirrors

Episode #10 - June 20, 2005

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David Prager, and Yoshi DeHererra
Topics:

• Server woes
• Good, Cheap, or Fast - pick any two
• Yoshi’s new job at Gentle Giant Digital
• Firmware 1.5 for Sony PSP
• and so many more topics

Running Time: 58 minutes 58 seconds
Download Sources:

• This Week in Tech - Feedburner Feed
• BitTorrent seeds - High Quality
• The Official TWiT Mirrors Page
• TWiT mirrors

Episode #11 - June 27, 2005

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David Prager, Roger Chang and special guests, Jessica Corbin, Chris Pirillo, and Andy Walker
Topics:

• Server woes
• Good, Cheap, or Fast - pick any two
• Yoshi’s new job at Gentle Giant Digital
• Firmware 1.5 for Sony PSP
• and so many more topics

Running Time: 1 hour 18 minutes
Download Sources:

• This Week in Tech - Feedburner Feed
• BitTorrent seeds - High Quality
• The Official TWiT Mirrors Page
• TWiT mirrors