2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003

The Shining is one of my favorite movies and directed by one of my favorite directors, Stanley Kubrick. So I was really intrigued when I found a link to a remake of the original trailer.

A post-production house organized a competition where assistant editors ‘re-cut’ trailers for famous movies to try and make them seem like different movies.

The one that won was the re-cut to The Shining movie. The movie was originally a horror / thriller yet you would never ever imagine that with this re-cut trailer, while watching it I kept thinking it was another movie. [Video 9.36MB]

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Update: This is the original trailer. [Link]

Hmmm, would customs let me bring this in? Only $29.99 [Link]

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There is an article on CNN.com about how U.S. troops have been sending pictures from Iraq of dead people and other subjects to a certain website to get access to their porn. They don’t mention the website so I am going to mention it, its NowThatsFuckedUp.com

The website became famous like a year ago when they posted pictures of this army chick serving in Iraq posing in the barracks with her weapons naked. Since then they have added more pictures of naked army chicks serving in Kuwait and Iraq and the website has become very popular among army men. The website seems down now, if you are in Kuwait it will also most probably be blocked so you need to use a site like proxify to get access to it.

Someone just sent me this, I hadn’t seen it before. [Video 386KB]

I had an invite for wordpress.com and I didn’t know what username to get. Then I remembered when I signed up to 23hq.com I was able to get the username “mark”, so I tried mark on wordpress.com and it was taken, I decided to try the next 4 letter word that came into my head which was fuck and it signed me up! I was expecting maybe a step 2 or confirmation screen but it just took the word fuck and now I am stuck with fuck.wordpress.com. I guess it’s cool…

“This is a real but minor issue involving a vendor quality problem in a small number of units,” Apple said in a statement, referring to the reports of seemingly unprovoked nano screen breakage. “Our figures show this issue has affected less than 1/10 of 1 percent of the total iPod nano units that we’ve shipped. It is not a design issue.” The company said affected customers should contact Apple to arrange for a free replacement unit. [Link]

I just downloaded two amazing freeware games for the mac. Both of them are shooters, fast and have great soundtracks. For Gunroar make sure you select the mouse as your targeting tool and then use the letters W A S D to move around. Both games are easy to pick up on and have a nice retro look to them so have fun.

Gunroar
Torus Trooper

Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore. [Link]

Google Video have stopped using VLC and now use Flash to play the movies. This means I can finally check it out using my Mac! [Link]

1. Saleen S7 Twin Turbo — $670,384 (Europe)
2. Pagani Zonda C12S 7.3 Convertible — $598,025 (Global)
3. Koenigsegg CCR — $562,659 (Global)
4. Koenigsegg CC8S — $522,120 (Global)
5. Porsche Carrera GT — $484,151 (Europe)
6. Maybach 62 — $457,991 (Europe)
7. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren — $456,526 (Europe)
8. Maybach 57 — $389,226 (Europe)
9. Rolls-Royce Phantom — $328,750 (Global)
10. Spyker C8 Double 12 S — $325,560 (Global)

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A guy in the office got four iPod Nano’s, 3 black and 1 white. It has attracted a large crowd here in the office and everyone is ooohing and wowing. It looks extremely tiny in person, it’s very cool. Definetly going to reorder this now instead of the Sony Walkman Bean which I found out today you have to use a special Sony software to copy music onto the walkman and the software doesn’t work with Macs.

Update: Ok, I am just confusing myself to much. I just decided that I am going to hold out till the next generation iPod gets updated so then I can carry all my MP3s with me. I don’t need super tiny MP3 player. Will use the Shuffle till the new iPods come out.

The iPod Nano problems seem to have hit the main stream media. Today Gizmodo, Engadget and iLounge reported on the issue. It will be interesting to see Apple reaction to all this. [Link]

Where did this come from?? I was just at the SonyStyle website when I found the Walkman Bean. The MP3 player looks really cool but the coolest thing about it is the built-in USB connector! So you can use the Walkman as a flash memory drive and a MP3 player. A full charge also lasts 50 hours! A 3 minute charge will give you a 3 hour charge! They come in funky colors and the most expensive one, the 1GB is only $149! The only downside, the ONLY downside is the fact that it doesn’t play AAC files.. but I guess I could get over that… [Link]

I was talking to BusyNow the other day about which game would be the coolest on the XBOX360 and the most important one we should get. It was a bit confusing because of all the great titles, today though I decided which game I NEED to have.. Perfect Dark Zero. I have it on the N64 and its a really cool game but the XBOX360 version is like so fucking different. I just downloaded a video of the game in action and the graphics are just unreal. Check it out. [Video 5.5MB]

Shot in Kuwait, video courtesy of Q8speed. [Video 176KB]