Sorry, Blogger was basically frozen solid for hours today, so your traditional Friday links post to facilitate goofing off was delayed.
First off, DQ Film Consultant and Nicest Person in the World Ben Ormand has written an E3 summary (focusing on Microsoft) for Xbox Nerds, and you can find it here.
Here's Reason #500 why Oblivion is totally, unreasonably cool: a bookbinding mod. That's right--a mod to replace the cover of all 300 books in the game. I don't know why, but the sheer uselessness of that is totally appealing to me, and the covers are absolutely beautiful. Here's a link to the story.
From Akihabara News, an image of the world's thinnest e-paper--only 0.29mm thick! It's bendable as well. Here's the link.
Here's something amazing via Coolest Gadgets (thanks Engadget). The description:
A new parachute system known as the Gryphon has been designed by ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH and Dräger (not sure how you’re meant to pronounce that). The Gryphon enables parachutists to fly through the air at high speed before opening their chutes, so they could be dropped miles away and fly to their intended targets.
One picture is definitely worth a thousand words in this case, and you can see it here. Batman's got nothing on that guy.
Here's something strange and cool (sorry, forgot where I first saw it)--the Sheep Market. Here's the description:
The sheep market is a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Each worker was paid $.02 (US) to "draw a sheep facing left."
It's just as funny as it sounds, and here's the link: the sheep market. Of course you can buy one.
From Sirius, a link to an amazing story about this:
An apparent crater as big as Ohio has been found in Antarctica. Scientists think it was carved by a space rock that caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250 million years ago.
The crater, buried beneath a half-mile (1 kilometer) of ice and discovered by some serious airborne and satellite sleuthing, is more than twice as big as the one involved in the demise of the dinosaurs.
The crater's location, in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia, suggests it might have instigated the breakup of the so-called Gondwana supercontinent, which pushed Australia northward, the researchers said.
Great story, and here's the link.
A few days ago I linked to Anandtech's detailed article about the Nforce 590 chipset. He's published the companion article for the new ATI Crossfire Xpress 3200 chipset, and you can find it here.
One thing I noticed about a few of the new motherboards is support for the Dolby Headphone standard, which is a fantastic feature and one I'm definitely going to want.
So maybe you got something done on Friday afternoon, but now Monday morning is definitely shot.