i regained my freedom!

After more then one hard month without internet i finally regained my freedom! So i'm back online. Think only nelson mandela can understand this feeling of regaining freedom.

Conflict: Denied Ops

The US government explicitly denies the existance of CIA's Special Activities Division. Their activities are put on *IGNORE* by Washington whom are keeping up the appearance they've never even happened. This is the general storyline of Conflict: Denied Ops, the latest FPS in the Conflict-series by Pivotal Games, published by Eidos. By the sound of that introduction one can tell tactical superiority is achieved by means of numbers and size, because officially, whatever havoc the player wreaks; .. it never happened.

Summarizing, Conflict: Denied Ops is a next-gen FPS set in volatile areas around the globe and features two player co-op. I suggest you should *NOT* view the non-existing trailer *NOT* shown underneath this post. Which actually happens to be pretty cool for something that doesn't actually exist.

Stop-Motion video

While I was surfing the interwebs I found this weird stop-motion video. I'm posting it because I want to see Dekus' creation he told me about.

Chain of pendulums

I made a simple MATLAB simulation of a swinging pendulum and tried to visualize the 'wave' behaviour by making a chain of individual pendulums, released from the same altitude(angle) but at small constant time intervals. It shows the motion of the pendulum vs time, but created by a line of pendulums in 3D space. high-res xvid

The Evolution of Tech Companies Logos

More crazy soldiers...

Before and after the human statue of liberty American soldiers made some more human art. I thought only communists did these things.

30,000 soldiers

21,000 soldiers

'Waterboarding is legal, White House says' - Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON -- The White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could authorize the CIA to resume using the simulated-drowning method under extraordinary circumstances. Waterboarding refers to a practice that involves strapping down a prisoner, placing a cloth over his face and dousing him with water to simulate the sensation of drowning. The technique has been traced to the Spanish Inquisition and has been the subject of war-crimes trials dating back a century. - Los Angeles Times

Waterboarding by American soldiers during the Vietnam war.

Waterboarding is sooo 1478!