The News Ninja

Newsfeeds of the day 30-10

The News Ninja — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:01:03 +0000

- Apple doesn’t accept cash anymore to buy an iPhone Again a really great idea from the marketing department. If only they worried about the customers… This is bad publicity and will be canceled in the future, I’m sure.

-The Wall Street Journal reports that there will be a Google (powered) phone… I hope they wake up several company’s in that business!

- Living Dead Dolls pencil sharpener

Further I read a short article about net neutrality, or the lack of it. Seems that in the States, there’s this big control issue about the way the internet functions. I’m sure (pretty sure) that in Europe there won’t be such a control fight. If this is pushed through in the USA, it will have an effect on the way the internet functions. Charge extra for certain websites, slow others down etc. I hope that people wake up sooner than that and that the internet remains neutral!

Impressions of the day

The News Ninja — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:39:47 +0000

I felt the need to restart this blog. Somewhere deep inside is the need to put online what goes on in my mind and my life.

Links from my google news reader feeds:

http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Article:Stanley_Meyer_Harmonics

http://pesn.com/2007/10/28/9500454_RasmussenHydrogenArson/

Picked up from the Dutch Newspaper Telegraaf:

- The British army makes a tank invisible (bbc link)

- Green light for the Segway (will be allowed on the streets, after the EU gives an ok)

Still have a need to structure this blog into a direction that feels good, but probably this will be done on another day.

Take care

Heavenly Sword

The News Ninja — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:21:15 +0000

This surely seems like a nice game, only for PS3 so far: http://www.heavenlysword.com

Be sure to check the rest of this website, for more animated series, more making of, the trailer etc..

I started with the making of… I really dig sites that show the making of first, sort of like King Kong director Peter Jackson did with kongisking.net

An inconvenient fact

The News Ninja — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:27:56 +0000

The Vancouver Sun had an interesting piece about the co-founder of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore. He mentions in this text that the environment will be supported the most with planting new trees and using more wood. A new, young tree pulls CO2 from the atmosphere at a much faster rate than the old tree, as the last one is already full with CO2.

His best quote for me is this: ‘To address climate change, we must use more wood, not less. Using wood sends a signal to the marketplace to grow more trees and to produce more wood. That means we can then use less concrete, steel and plastic — heavy carbon emitters through their production. Trees are the only abundant, biodegradable and renewable global resource.’

It seems to me that most environmentalist have a wrong view about the solution for the issues they speak about. The most I ever did was sending Greenpeace some money, so I really have no right to say they are wrong. They fight for something they believe in. However, in the fight, most of the time you lose track of why and how. Fighting against, isn’t my idea of a solution, but that’s a different story.

Found through digg.com

Look at all these rumours, can’t take it no more…

The News Ninja — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:01:02 +0000

There seems to be a hype about the Google phone again. Earlier this year it was reported (and denied to the max) that Google was developing a mobile phone.

Now the rumours are back and probably here to stay

PodTech:Talking emotional software design in games and iPhone

The News Ninja — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:30:10 +0000

Interesting video from the Scoble show, about emotional software design in games (and iPhone)… Some food for thoughts!

[podtech content=http://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/07/PID_011912/Podtech_Apple_iPhoneDevCamp.flv&postURL=http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1572/talking-emotional-software-design-in-games-and-iphone&totalTime=604000&breadcrumb=bfb17525e9894be4bc5c3741139e1398]

Brix, the Iphone killer design

The News Ninja — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:54:56 +0000

Now here’s a design for an iPhone killer: The Brix Phone

From their site: ‘Brix is a phone. The entire surface is a touchscreen. By stringing together multiple Brix, you expand the screen real estate. Suddenly video is bigger.’ They must have had the iPhone as an inspiration.

I don’t have an iPhone, as I’m in Europe, but this concept would make it seem out of date. At least, the size of the screen is as big a you want it to be… This is a great concept!

First Post… Welcome!

The News Ninja — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:17:50 +0000

As always, a first post must be an intro to what is going to happen on the blog. Let me explain why I came to this blog and it’s name… Once upon a time I was a ninja, wandering around in the world… Ok, sorry, couldn’t resist…

I like reading articles, news in general about a wide variety of subjects: technology, computers, internet, 3d animation, games, science, personal development, consciousness and much more. I also like to do deep searches into how things work, how I can integrate it in daily life and I had a problem with spreading this information all around my hard disc. I wanted to have a blog where I can get my thought on digital paper and still find things back whenever I need it. I started some other blogs, but they where too focused on a particular subject, which narrowed my expression. My main attention is technology, computers & science, which I love dearly. I can’t explain this, but I always looked for answers on the technology side.

And now the name: I bumped onto a site that had the name ‘ninja’ in it and I thought it was a good idea to gather news, write articles etc. on a blog as a ninja. In my mind, a ninja is unpredictable, as am I in what grabs my attention, so it all came together in the name The News Ninja. I found out that the name was not taken too, so I registered the name, but will not use it, until I have a decent amount of interesting articles/ readers. If not, then why should I invest, right?

So I will write articles and link to interesting news and maybe some people find this interesting enough to come back to this blog. Make comments, which are hopefully constructive (go to this link for more info), give suggestions about the articles/ links etc. to let me know what you think.

CU,

The News Ninja (at gmail.com)