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To make the wait for the release of Halo 3 more tolerable you can try to build this papercraft model of Master Chief.
The model is 13″ tall, has close to 2100 faces (over 800 faces for the gun), and is composed of 42 pieces (+ 10 for the gun).
The PDF files with the model and instructions are here
This is the creation of billybob884 and looks like it’s not the first creation, in the gallery you can see other papercraft models like Conker, Mr Satan, the RingWorld and more.
During this long time without posting anything in this blog, at night I have been (re)reading some interesting books that I’d like to recommend to you.
This books are of the cyberpunk genre and although it’s fiction the stories and what happen to the characters or what they do is based completely in real techniques and risks in the computer security area, which is one of the areas I’m really interested in and is part of my day job even when nobody in the office has any idea of what is possible and the implications if we where attacked by some. And I won’t even mention the procedures that are recommended to be followed in such a case.
In only 18 days it’s supposed to be at the theaters the movie D-War/Dragon Wars on USA and the trailer looks good, but lately you can’t tell from the trailers if a movie will be worth watching or not.
The theme (dragons) is not new or original, one recent movie about the same was Reign of Fire and it was a really disappointing movie, so I hope this korean movie is good.
Last weekend I saw a couple of posts about championships and contests, but not the kind you are thinking about, these are “unusual” at least for me and shows that there is a market for anything you can imagine.
The first one is the Rock Paper Scissors World Championship which got a post in Techcrunch , I’m still thinking the reason why it’s on that site but, that leads me to the other contest I want to write about.
With the new Streed View feature in Google Maps a lot of strange, funny and unexpected images have been discovered by the users and in one of Wired blogs (Threat Level) there is a request for the Best Urban Images Captured by New Google Maps Tool.
And in Mashable they have the top 15 (so far).
A few examples:
The Void
The internet sucks