I'm back home, so I can watch videos again

A trailer for Call of Duty using The Wind of Change. Very nicely put together.

I was in Berlin about a year before the wall came down (my uncle was commanding the REME regiment there), and it was very odd (and cheering) to see it change shortly afterwards.

Computer games have come a long way since Space Invaders

A gameplay trailer for Battlefield 3. Which looks, to be honest, better than any movie computer special effects did ten years ago. The gameplay looks pretty standard for that kind of game, but the graphics are just outstanding. We're clearly over the uncanny valley, and working our way towards fidelity.

(Best watched full screen, in 1080p if your bandwidth can cope with it.)

Interesting Links for 4-3-2011

• There are fewer than half the number of CCTV cameras in the UK than previous estimates suggested.
  (tags: cameras TransparentSociety uk police society)
• NATO apparently having problems differentiating children collecting firewood from armed terrorists.
  (tags: nato afghanistan terrorism EpicFail)
• Humanist Census Campaign adverts rejected by rail companies.
  (tags: religion uk census)
• Okay, so the new iPad is made of awesome. Can someone please now design a decent non-Apple one?
  (tags: ipad apple)
• Radiohead marathon part 2 (from the person who reviewed all of the earlier Radiohead albums in one go)
  (tags: music radiohead review)
• A Dance With Dragons gets an actual, real, will actually happen, release date. Probably.
  (tags: books GeorgeRRMartin)
• Cannabis use 'raises psychosis risk'
  (tags: drugs psychosis cannabis marijuana psychology)
• Pope Book Says Jews Not Guilty of Jesus Christ's Death. Not sure why this is newsm when the Vatican said so in '65...
  (tags: Jews catholicism religion christianity)

Does Steve Jobs have a burning bush?

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