February 14, 2008 at 11:49 pm · Filed under Sports
The Daytona circus is in town and will reach its climax on sunday 17th with the ultimate Daytona 500. Europeans are quite impermeable to that -special- kind of racing but I can tell I am a huge fan of these stock car races and the science of oval racing is far from being unexciting. Try to get this book, The Physics of NASCAR, by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky and have a look at this website if you want to learn more. Nascar.com is a pretty good website as well for rookies - check the Nascar 101 section.
Keep this in mind: Formula One is about Daft Punk but Nascar is about Lynyrd Skynyrd.
February 11, 2008 at 10:35 am · Filed under Video Games
Defcon’s gameplay is based on both minimalist mechanisms and design. The result is an intense and highly addictive strategy game: “It’s Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.”. Easy to learn and hard to master, it is the perfect tool when in need of nuclear warfare. After a bad day at the office for example.
February 10, 2008 at 10:41 pm · Filed under Movies
The legendary director George Romero calls Diary of the Dead “a re-jigging of the myth”. The myth, of course, is the one and only Night of the Living Dead (1968). This time, Romero’s next instalment in the series will look like an indie film, with real-life background and atmosphere. The plot? “A group of film students are making an independent horror film when they become trapped in a world being consumed by flesh-eating zombies. They then turn their attention toward making the film into a documentary on their personal horror experiences.”
Check Diary of the Dead’s MySpace page to view trailers and excerpts.
Realease date: Ferbruary 15, 2008.
February 7, 2008 at 7:11 pm · Filed under Sports
Dean Karnazes is one true hardcore runner. If you guys think you are tough, strong, violent, special, then try to push your body -and mind- as far as this man does. Check his accomplishments and wins there, it is truly outstanding (”350 miles in 80 hours and 44 minutes without stopping”, “single-handedly completed the 199 mile Providian Saturn Relay six times”, etc.)
Once, a running mate told this to Dean Karnazes: “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!”.
So true and challenging isnt’it?
February 1, 2008 at 10:35 pm · Filed under Sports
October 28, 2007: the Dolphins played against the Giants in London. October 26, 2008: the Chargers will face the Saints in London’s Wembley Stadium. The NFL is trying to spread its sport overseas, and considering the huge success of the Giants-Dolphins game last year (81,176 tickets sold), no doubt it is on the right way. More exposure for this sport in Europe can’ t be bad except for the hardcore fanbase which will have to cross the ocean to support its local team.
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