Weezer - Paranoid Android Cover

Nice cover by Weezer of this great song from Radiohead.

Twitch tears Hangover II apart

I kind of saw that one coming. The trailers looked just too similar to the first part...Now I do not share the opinions of all movie critics but Twitsch is a site I can almost always trust. They are really good and the reviewers most of the time have the same opinions about movies than I have. So here is the review of Hangover II.

And its bad....The movie is not supposed to be funny at all and just copying the first part..in a bad way. I probably still watch it but now I am not expecting much anymore.

Chainfire 3D = Pretty awesome: Play any game on your Android

This here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.cf3d

lets you play Tegra 2 games on any Android device. Well at least you should have a 1Ghz processor but it works flawless.

Chainfire3D is an intermediary OpenGL driver. What does that mean? It means that Chainfire3D sits between your apps and the graphics drivers, and can intercept and/or change commands between the two. It has some built-in functions, and can be further extended with plugins to provide extra functionality.
!! Chainfire3D is for 1ghz+ devices only !!
!! ROOT is required for this program, as well as a writable /system partition. S-OFF is also required on HTC devices !!Features include reducing texture size and quality to reduce memory use and potentially increase game performance, as well as increasing memory use potentially increase performance."

ISAN DANCEHALL THIS SAT 28.05.11 @ COSMIC CAFE on RCA brought to you by ZudRangMa Records

DJs Maft Sai & Chris Menist (Paradise Bangkok) shift focus with their latest project, 'Isan Dancehall'. With an emphasis on music built for sound systems, outside parties and the worldwide dancehall, from Kingston to Ubon, from Accra to Khon Kaen, join their journey through tough basslines, heavy percussion and music designed to move any crowd from around the globe. Isan Dancehall - get ready for the Afro/Asian Soundclash.....


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PARTY INFO:
Date: Saturday 28th May 2011. 09pm - Late
DJs: Maft Sai, Chris Menist
Music policy / File Under: ISAN ROOTS, RAGGAE & DANCEHALL.
Door: 200 Baht + 1 Beer
Where: COSMIC CAFE, RCA BLOCK C

Fpse for Android: best PSX emulator yet

Just bought fpse yesterday on the Android market and it is a great emulator. Most games run very nicely on my Sony Arc phone so you don't even need a new dual core phone. Single core is enough. It is also much beter than the free psx4droid where I couldn't find a single game that runs.

As psx4droid was already removed from the market because of obvious legal reasons I can very well imagine that fpse will go the same way sooner or later. So it would be a good idea to download it as long as it's there!

Fuji Feather 2011 Fixed Bike

Thinking currently of getting a new fixed bike. It has been too long and I kind of like the new Fuji Feather. 20000 Baht in Bangkok. Thats 657 USD or 467 EUR. It is a beauty:

Sony's Managers apologizing for stolen Playstation network user info

I had to post this apology from Sony's top managers. Just look at he image below:

I think that is pretty funny. Not that it helps the victims much but at least they apologized. And I heard that there will be additional presents made to all affected users that will give them free access to the Playstation network or specific content. Le's see how that plays out.

Having said that, it is pretty unbelievable that after this went down, today it was just announced that the Sony network has again been breached. Apparently Sony Online Entertainment networks were hacked and credit card information was stolen from more than 12000 members. Sony definitely has a security problem when this can happen 2 times within such a short time period.

Din Tai Fung in Bangkok Open Now at Central World

I mentioned Din Tai Fun before in this post here. It is the single most famous Taiwanese restaurant that has now finally opened its long awaited Bangkok branch. Never understood why it took them so long as Din Tai Fung is already available in nearly all other Asian countries ..... would make sense to me to open in food crazy Thailand much earlier. Anyway, here are 2 more images of Din Tai Fung in Bangkok. You can find it on the 7th floor at Central World right next to AKA restaurant. It's hard to miss.

Thailand's new Film Rescue Unit Launched

The Thai Film Rescue Unit was launched to protect old Thai film. There are already cases where some old classics of Thai film were just thrown away and now there is no proper copy left. When you go for example to the Thai Film Database and go to some older movies you will realize that here are hardly any images or any other info left for some movies. This might sound strange but this sometimes just means that no copy of the movie exists anymore as there was never really any film archive that secured the old film.

On Monday, Thai Film Archive Director Dome Sukvong and Minister of Culture Nipit Inthrasombat launched Thailand's first Film Rescue Unit, a squad of archivists who'll go around the country to retrieve unwanted film rolls and home movies, which are believed to exist in abundance. They will bring those films back to the headquarters in Salaya for preservation and archiving. Later, the films or fragments of films will be shown to the public, and these homemade videos by various citizens will prove to be a visual document that's as important as books and journals in the National Library.

"There are so many films that people want to throw away - something shot by their fathers or grandfathers and locked away somewhere in the houses," said Dome. "We have been campaigning for the people to understand the importance of visual documents that exist in their own homes. They're the cultural heritage of the country.

"Today, we prefer to transfer films to digital storage, but digital devices are not stable and the quality of the picture is incomparable to good old film."

The Film Archive has long sent out teams to hunt for films, but a limited budget meant the operation was not properly sustained. Since the Film Archive gained the status of a public organisation two years ago, it has upgraded its mission preserving, restoring and distributing moving images, historical and contemporary.



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