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I never got around to learning the pen tool, and it came back to bite me in the ass now that I want to learn Illustrator. I searched around for a good tutorial, and after lots of really shoddy ones came up with this:

This tutorial covers many of the points I have been struggling to [...]

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A friend showed me this a while back, and I forgot all about it until today, when I stumbled across it once more. This is an excellent video, one of the best machinima I’ve seen. Check it out:

Warning - this is a full length movie: 1 hour 40 minutes.
This was made by Lit Fuse Films [...]

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One of my favorite internet phenomena is Charlie the Unicorn. It is a series maintained by a group called “Filmcow”, and now has two parts. In case you haven’t come across this blissful acid trip of a video, check out the original:

More recently there has been a sequel added, which truly baffles the mind *glub [...]

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Myth: SuperAIDS is a kick ass form of regular AIDS.
 
Truth: In reality, SuperAIDS has little to do with regular AIDS. While regular AIDS slowly degrades the immune system slowly turning the body into a disease punching bag, SuperAIDS immediately renders the victim stupid and slightly resembling Tom Hank’s left nad. The host then proceeds to pour a glowing greenish [...]

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Before you read, note that this article is meant for the less technically adept, those who would normally worry about a virus. If you’re the type who’s been reading my GPU comparisons, overclocking instructions, or processor workings articles, you probably belong on one of those pages instead, heheh.
The amount of concern for spyware and viruses [...]

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Dell has done numerous silly or even stupid things in the past, but this one’s just plain special. Check out this keyboard layout:

And forget trying to actually hit the “\” key. Every time I look at this keyboard I find something else wrong with it. Some sort of foreign layout was shipped across Europe, to an “unspecified” [...]

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In an effort to enlighten those who haven’t seen all of the best flash work on the Internet, I’ve started highlighting the best flash authors around. This began with Cyriak, and will periodically continue. This post is about Weebl.
Weebl and his team have their own brew of flash. When you mix sheerly insane concepts with [...]

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Starcraft2.com, as of 4/1/08 has a unit called the “Tauren Marine” for the Terrans. Apparently Azeroth, the planet from the Warcraft saga, is located in the Starcraft universe. The Terrans stumbled upon it, and have recruited some Tauren.

Here’s the text from the new Tauren Marine page:
In the old Confederacy, terran marines were mostly criminals or [...]

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YTMND, if you haven’t come across it, is a site that allows users to create content that consists of a picture with a sound. Combinations of animated gifs, music, and clever choices of the two can create really funny pieces to behold. In it’s more recent history, it also has hosted flash videos, and more [...]

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It would appear that the final phase of Google’s ascension to power is coming to pass. Google and Virgin Mobile have allied, in a group called Virgle, to colonize the red planet. Over the next century, the group will do the necessary planning and building to start a proper colony. You can read about it [...]

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