This speed painting is a masterpiece, and the author - Nico Di Mattia is one hell of a talented guy! His speed painting videos have been viewed by tens and millions of people on Youtube.

I watched all of his videos and this is the one that I like the most: Speed painting of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character from Ghost Whisperer . The combination of 2 types of art: wicked drawing skills and blending music make this video unbelievably captivating. See for your self:

You got dazzled didn’t you? If so head over to Nico Di Mattia’s youtube channel and watch some more videos!

If you played the game you will love the movie.

Max Payne - The movie based on the game with the same name created by Sam Lake presents the life of a detective - Max Payne(Mark Wahlberg) who’s wife and son were killed by 3 robbers and if he would have gotten home 10 minutes earlier he could have saved them.  He killed 2 of the robbers but never got the 3rd one, and thats why he transferred himself to the unable to solve cases section.

Since the murder of his wife he’s been pursuing leads that lead to dead ends. Till one day when he went to one of his informers where he met a russian chick who wanted to sleep with him. Max throws out the chick and the next day his former partner asks Max about her.

It turns out that the chick got slaughtered and Max’s wallet was found there. Max denies all charges, Alex discovers a resemblance(tattoo) between the russian chick and Max’s deceased wife. He tries to speak to Max but he gets murdered.

Max teams up with Mona Sax(the russian chick’s sister) and they find out that the wings tattoo is for protection. Later Max will find out that his old friend P.B killed his wife and it was all because of a drug their pharmaceutical company developed which created super soldiers.

The drug worked only on 1% of the test candidates, the rest had terrifying hallucinations and died. P.B puts 2 vials of the drug into Max’s pocket and wants to kill him creating a suicide scene. Max escapes and jumps into the freezing water from where he manages to get out to shore.

He can barely move so he drinks the vials and starts seeing demonic angels. He gets back up on his feet and goes back to the company where he kills more than a dozen soldiers, gets shot with a shotgun, an uzzi and still manages to Kill P.B and survive. Along with his survival his hallucinations dissappear.

Slayer’s Thoughts

The movie was great and captivating. At first i thought that they used fake snow, but later i read that the movie was shot in march near Torronto(CA). Also when the death angels first appeared and in a scene they pulled out a guy from the window i thought that they really existed. Only when they talked about the drug i figured out that it was just a hallucination.

I really liked that in the movie actors from Prison Break(Amaury Nolasco) and Heroes(Brea Grant) starred. It was in the same time weird and cool.

I gave the movie a 4.5/5 rating because the survival of Max is exagerated: he’s got no vest and he still survives a bullet in the arm, shotgun shells in his shoulder and 2 uzzi bullets in his chest.

Slayer's Rating:

You can notice that the widget has changed in my sidebar(and yes it became smaller) so now it’s your chance to vote for your favorite company. The nominations round was a success, but to the voting round only the most voted companies made it.

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ZoneAlarm is a software firewall originally developed by Zone Labs, which was acquired in March 2004 by Check Point. ZoneAlarm pioneered the personal computer firewall used by over 60 million people worldwide, and our parent company, Check Point Software, invented the enterprise firewall used by every member of the Fortune 100.

Zone Alarm is celebrating its Firewall Birthday and with this occasion you have the chance to get a fully licensed copy of Zone Alarm PRO.(click)

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The Zone Alarm PRO suite is valued at $19.9 and contains:

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Anti Spyware protection - which prevents you from accessing sites which contain malicious code. The anti spyware databases are hourly updated.

ID theft protection - which will help you protect your identity and prevent hackers from stealing it. It also has a built in credit reporting feature(for people in the US only).

Root & Boot Protection - imo this is the most important segment of Zone Alarm, which provides enhanced Antivirus and Operating System protection.

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Check out a full feature list on the Zone Alarm PRO product page

Remember guys, this promotion lasts only 24 hours. You have to enter our email and Real name and you will get a confirmation email within 48 hours.

I’m not a Zone Alarm fan, but getting A premium product for free isn’t a bad thing.

i played battleon about 6 years ago, got to level 54 and sold my account. Ahh, the good old days when everyone in the netcafe was playing it and we were bragging about who’s character is better.

After that I quit and I only played with some colleagues on Informatics class at school when i was bored to death by the lame things that we had to do(for example: make calculations in MS excel), and so I got my account to lvl 58 with cool items and skills and spells.

Today it crossed my mind to log-in and what do you know? my account was still active. As you can see in the image on the right i last logged in almost a year ago. You can view my character’s page by clicking the image.

I played like 7 hours and i did the latest quests and all quests that I still didn’t finish(i have a free account, so there weren’t so many) and i got my account very close to level 60.

After doing the Frogzard Hunter quest part 3(to get health potions) i decided to do the new part: part 4. There after lots and lots of rounds of fighting mobs i got to the last mob, but before that some creatures fell from the sky. So i started reading the dialogues(glad that i did) and check what one of the creatures said:

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LMAO at the creature! “Leave Britney Alone” LOL. This line worth all the fighing and mob killing!

Battleon is still a very cool and complex game, which is for all ages, because sometimes you gotta have some strategy to move to the next round, but now that I “refreshed” my account i think i won’t log in for an other 100-300 days again.

A long time has passed since i posted in the Funny internet category, and today is the day when this will change!(well, not too much).

I woke up this morning and as usuall i checked the Buy/sell/trade section at digitalpoint. When i saw the thread paying 1.5$ to design a custom wordpress theme i said to myself WTF?!.

Here’s what the guy wants:

hi
i want a custom word press theme for my new blog based on fish breeding.
it can be either a 2 column or 3 column.but it have to be unique and rich in graphics related to marine life.
please post your theme’s screen shots here and i’ll choose the one i like.
payment will be made only via paypal.

I really liked Domainloco.net’s reply:

I know how you can get a “custom” theme for less than that!

Here are the steps:
1. visit google.com
2. click on the search box
3. look down to your keyboard
4. proceed to type in the word “Free”
5. and the word “wordpress”
6. finally type the word “themes”
7. click search
8. pick a good result
9. click on the link to visit the site
10. choose your theme
11. make it custom by adding your free domain name to it…

end.

enjoy!

By this time the guy probably got pissed and came with a very very bad comeback line:

sorry but my budget is low.
i can’t afford more than this.
i have seen designers giving free word press themes.
i just want one of them to design form me.
i don’t want it for free.instead,i’ll pay for it.

Giving away free wordpress themes are one thing and custom wordpress themes are an other thing. It’s like comparing the goat with the cabage,lol.

Its hilarious to see people wanting stuff like this for such a low price. They simply don’t think things over before posting…

The movie is played in the future when the whole world is messed up. Toorop(Vin Diesel)an ex-mercenary accepts Gorsky’s offer to take Aurora from Syberia to New York. In exchange he will get money and the chance to pass the American border using a Fake ID which is injected in his neck.

Toorop has to protect the girl by any means, and not her alone, because along with Aurora comes nun Rebeka who took care of Aurora like her own daughter.

In a private talk Rekeba tells Toorop what happened: a doctor visited Aurora, gave her some pills and since then she’s been acting weird like a schizophrenic sometimes. She also tells him that Aurora is a wonder child, who could talk 19 languages by the age of 2 and she knew things that she could never possibly learn.

At a train station in russia Aurora saves Toorop from a huge explosion, it was like she knew that the train will blow up, neither Toorop, or Rebeka can explain what’s happening with Aurora. Toorop fights all the hard conditions and finally gets Aurora to America where he has to sunder her to the Noelite group.

Instead of turning her over he decides to fight them all. A missile is launched which has a tracking device assigned to Toorop’s passport(embedded in his neck). Toorop man=ages to dodge the missle, but one more missle is launched, and the only way to dodge it would be for him to die so Aurora shoots him saying “I need you to live”.

A few hours later Toorop is revived by Dr. Arthur Darquandier, Aurora’s father who turns Toorop into a half cyborg replacing his arm end leg with robot parts. Toorop goes and finds Aurora at his old house from where he takes her to the hospital where she gives birth to twins(one caucasian and one black) and suddenly we are located in the future where Toorop is raising the kids.

Call that a stupid ending! o.O They should have put in a scene where they show what happens to Aurora and what does Toorop do and what does the Noelite group do. This was like reading the first 200 pages of a book and jumping from page 200 to page 250 skipping the pages between.

This movie is a great action movie and is worth the ticket price! Lots and lots of special effects were used and the screenplay is great!, but because they skipped a few scenes it gets only 3.5 stars from me.

Slayer's Rating:

I just found out about the competition(hopefully not too late[it's 15th November - 9PM here]) so i decided to put up this post about it.

The contest is held by WPWebhost and basically there will be 3 prizes awarded for the 3 coolest Wordpress blogs.The value of the prizes reaches more than 2000$(USD) Who wouldn’t want that?

To enter each participant must write a blog post about the contest and get at least 5 legit comments(shouldn’t be too hard with so many friends online on YM! now).

That’s about it. I’ve seen lots of submissions so far, and  some people submitted their blogs where they are using free themes. I’m not sure if they will be included in the top 20, but hopefully I will be!

If you dropped by feel free to leave a comment.

Thanks!

A few days ago I added my Custom Widgets v1.2 plugin to the Wordpress.org plugin database. As my download counter shows not many people downloaded from wordpress.org, most of them downloading the plugin from my blog.

Before i uploaded my plugin to wordpress.org i wrote a propper readme.txt file which is compatible with wordpress.org’s standards and included it in the package. I also updated the zip file located on my download server, so regardless of where you download it from you will get the same package.

Currently i do not have any plans for a next release of custom widgets, but most probably i will have to once wp 2.7 is released(to make it fully comptible).

If your using custom widgets please Rate my plugin Thanks!

I just got a notification from Adam that  Open Web Awards Round 1 - Nominations Round will end as planned Sunday night at 11:59 pm PST(7:59 am Monday GMT), this means that you still have a bit more than 48 hours at your disposal to get more nominations for your website/company! After 12 AM PST the widgets will automatically close.

Just think how cool would it be to be able to move on to the Second Round - The Online Voting Round where you have realistic chances to make it to the top and into the spotlight!

Till Tuesday evening we will find out who the winners of round 1 are and the Voting widgets for the Second round will go live on Wedesday on all Open Web Awards Partner Blogs.

Good luck to everyone!