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Johnny Chung Lee unlocks the Wii’s hidden potential.

In a collection of videos, notable for their lucid explanations, the Ph.D. graduate student from CMU’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute shows exactly how versatile the “Wiimote” system can be. Among the uses he convincingly demonstrates: a virtual-reality head-tracker; a virtual whiteboard on a wall, tabletop, and laptop screen; and a Minority Report-style arm-waving and finger-pointing multitouch user interface.

As of September 2007, Nintendo has sold over 13 million Wii game consoles. This significantly exceeds the number of Tablet PCs in use today according to even the most generous estimates of Tablet PC sales. This makes the Wii Remote one of the most common computer input devices in the world. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated. It contains a 1024×768 infrared camera with built-in hardware blob tracking of up to 4 points at 100Hz. This significantly out performs any PC “webcam” available today. It also contains a +/-3g 8-bit 3-axis accelerometer also operating at 100Hz and an expandsion port for even more capability.

So that’s the geeky shit. Check out this video and have yer mind blown.

Check the full article on CNet’s News.com here. You can also visit Johnny’s Wii project page to see more examples, as well as instructions on how you can do this yourself!

Bill Maher talking some straight talk to the religious test for office.

Lego master Mark Kelso has just recently put the last brick on his model of the Invisible Hand, General Grevious’ ship from Star Wars Episode III.

Yes, that photo of him and his model is to scale—it’s frickin’ massive! This sucker took him 9 months to build, it’s 231 studs long (73 inches to ya non-Lego-geeks), 41 studs wide and weights around 30 pounds! This things looks like it’s straight from one of the StarWars sets. Click through to see more screenshots!

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Straight from SmashingMagazine.com comes this awesome list of wordpress themes. Dang, now this just means I’m going to be trackin down a new theme for my site again!

High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.

In this article (snagged from smashingmagazine) they present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.

Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog.

The full list can be found at  smashingmagazine, below are a few of the ones I found most impressive.

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Chidi Ogbuta of Allen, Texas, had a wedding cake that looks just like… her. A couple of comments on this as this gal has some seriously ghettotastic issues:

• I can hear her now “does that cake make my butt look fat?”.

• I suppose her husband really can have his cake and eat it to!

• Besides, what’s wrong with eating your wife on your wedding night?

• Probably the only time you could say, “I’ll take a breast piece.” to a wedding cake.

Take a look at this 3rd pic… is her taking his first slice out of her vag…. oh nevermind.