Optimus Keyboard News

Added on February 22nd, 2007

Some great news for people who have been waiting on the Optimus keyboard from Art Lebedev. No, it’s not out yet, but it’s really great news for people who don’t want to spend $500+ on the keyboard. The keyboard will have user-changeable keys, which means that there could be several models of it. Some less expensive than other.

Optimus Keyboard from Art Lebedev

So basically a “starter model”, could merely have the F-keys as OLED displays, the next model could have the full QWERTY layout as OLEDs, and finally the “full model” could have all 103 OLED keys as in the original concept renders. Another thing to note is that there can be three different types of keys on the keyboard. Standard plastic, backlit single-function and OLED keys.

And finally, Art Lebedev plans to sell the keys separately as well, so you can basically order three or five OLED keys if you want, and when they arrive, you can replace your standard plastic keys on the keyboard with the brand new OLED keys. Quite cool if you ask me.

George Takei(Sulu From Star Trek) VS Tim Hardaway(The Homophobe)

Added on February 21st, 2007

I have been debating the whole day on what to post on my blog today, initially I was thinking about posting a link to another blog where they have collected lots of free illustrations for Adobe Illustrator, but then I realised that this video from George Takei is just so much much more funnier that I decided to post about it instead. And also, I doubt that most of my readers do professional or semi-professional designing anyway.

George Takei - Mr. Sulu

Now, we all should know who George Takei is. He played Mr. Sulu in Star Trek, even though I don’t like Star Trek I still know this. A while ago he “came out of the closet” and publicly said that he was indeed homosexual. With which there is nothing wrong of course. At least not to most people. But then there are people like Tim Hardaway, who seem actually like a cool guy, an NBA star who has won many cups, awards and what not.

But then he says something like, “Well, you know, I hate gay people. I let it be known I don’t like gay people. I don’t like to be around gay people. I’m homophobic. It shouldn’t be in the world, in the United States, I don’t like it.”

And that just ain’t right. Luckily enough, there are people who view this with humour, and actually make fun out him for saying such things. And this is where George Takei’s video comes in, it’s just such a brilliant reply to Hardaway.

Watch the video at Influks.com.

Dead Parrot Sketch Re-enacted By 419 Scammers

Added on February 20th, 2007

It’s one thing to make the scammers reply with humorous replies, or even produce art pieces such as a wood carved Commodore 64. But this one takes it to a whole new level. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know who Nigerian 419 scammers are(like there’s anyone on the internet who doesn’t know who they are and what they do) or even the story behind this video, because it’s all explained in a short introduction in this video before the sketch itself.

I must say that these guys are actually quite good, at least the one with the dead parrot. For those of you who haven’t seen the original sketch by Monty Python, you can watch it YouTube as well.

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