But enough of that; I must return to what's really important to me and that's my reader fan base.

I'll be reviewing newer things over the next couple of days, with my main focus on video reviews. With all of the people in my house and mountains of homework on the horizon, it'll be tough to get one out, but I'll try my hardest.

Later today (or probably tomorrow), I will be discussing my new, unasked-for cynical view of video games and my new format of blogging. I will also be explaining the new direction this blog is going to be heading into, as there are already dozens of other, more popular blogs which relay video game news to the public. I will probably be shifting more towards my personal feelings on other news stories, rather than providing the whole news story and adding a bit of my opinion towards it. I think I would like it more that way.

Anyhow, talk to you all later, and thanks for your continued support of Tin Foil Hat.

Just finished watching a new video review of Dashwire by Jessica Dolcourt. Click here check it out.

So, in conclusion, not blogging for a day  has gotten me a bit out of the loop temporarily and the daily Tin Foil gaming updates shall resume later tonight, where I'll hopefully manage to get myself back into the blogging cycle and write a proper blog again.

As for Friday's video review, I'm not completely sure it's happening. I think the mic in which I use collects too much of my breathing and background noise and sort of makes me sound like a douchebag, so I might fully resume video reviews once I get a new microphone that doesn't suck as much.

But, that's about it. See you all this evening when I write something worthwhile.

-Alex

Finally, Victory against BPA... whatever the hell that is!

Water is amazing! Simply Amazing. Great for your body, Great for the planet... zero calories, filling, delicious, the essence of all things natural. We are mostly water, Our earth is mostly water. We send robots to mars to look for frozen water, it's THAT damn cool! Humans Love Water.

But over the past decade or so serving water in a bottle has become the norm, and that norm has become a mess of an environmental problem. We use too many plastic bottles and only 20% of them are put back into the manufacturing system. The rest sit in landfills or are incinerated, neither of which is all that great.

I became strikingly aware of this during a recent golf outing where at the end i had a cart full of bottles, most of them carrying water. So after that I took it upon myself to find a durable, portable, reusable plastic bottle similar to a nalgene. What i ended up settling on is the Camelback 750ml Water Bottle. It comes in many colors and two designs, with or without camel's um.... nipple.

Reusable water bottles are good examples of what I call "green by use" products (as opposed to "green by make"). The items itself is not recyclable, but its purpose changes the way in which we "use" complementary products in a way that benefits our resources. This product is well priced, well designed, affordable, resource friendly, and has mass appeal. Those traits award it 5 gears!

I got one for myself and the mrs., mine is a smokey gun metal and hers is dark red. If you haven't already I recommend you pick one of these up. You'll drink more water and pollute less.

Check out the video review and post comments! Drink up!

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But maybe now we can move into new conventions that look more like a tetherball game than a book.  Carnegie Mellon student Johnny Lee has prototyped the use of the Wii remote controller to show how an individual user can navigate in a 3D space.  

What's interesting for my work is the possibility of organizing one's personal information in that space to make connections faster across different lists: contacts, calendar, to dos, as well as the communication messaging actviities and reusage itself.  We can tether bits of our lives together to make a more interesting visual representation of our day, our work, our identity, our community, than we could have up to now in a 2-D environment of page or paper.  What goals would be associated with that potential?  Hmm..

Well, in the short-term Johnny's simple headtracking should prove the value of the telepresence for the individual user.  This headtracking mechanism could afford individuals in a geographically distributed team to "gather around", and so become of one mind in the deep engagement of the design they are discussing. 

What is missing in that scenario is the easy translation of everyday data into visual representations of data, a la Smart Money's Map of the Market or NewsMap if they turned 3-d to show other variables in play.  My husband's start-up ModViz, purchased this March by NVidia, had a product that dynamically generated 3-d, high resolution visualizations of complex data sets (like geological data from oil explorations).  Maybe the combination of all these technologies isn't far off at all.  Maybe we'll soon treat two dimensions as archaic, and be immersed into our work like never before.  Bring it on!

And, thanks Johnny Lee!

Rugby League Rankings' State of Origin Game One Video Review is now available to view below.

Please note that Friday Morning Five-Eighth will incoporate a streamlined version of the Round 10 NRL Power Rankings for this week only - normal Power Rankings will resume next Tuesday despite only 10 teams taking part in Round 11 of the NRL.

Relive some of the action with NRL.com Highlights of Game I.

NSW have taken out Game I 18-4 over QLD in front of over 67,620 fans at ANZ Stadium.

Full game breakdown via videocast tomorrow (my pregame prediction of 17-10 to QLD wasn't technically too far off the mark pick the score wise... but as a New South Welshman getting the winning team wrong wasn't a bad feeling at all)- but for the meantime here's a collection of photos that told the story of the night as NSW claimed a 1-0 Series lead and their second consecutive Origin victory following on from Game III last year.

Just hover your mouse over each picture for a summary of the events throughout the game.

NEW SOUTH WALES 18 (A Quinn 2, B Stewart, A Laffranchi tries; C Fitzgibbon 1/3, P Wallace 0/1)
defeated
QUEENSLAND 10 (B Tate, I Folau tries; J Thurston 1/2)
At ANZ Stadium, Sydney. Crowd: 67,620. Referee: T Archer.
Man of the Match: Greg BIRD (NSW).

NSW lead 3 match series 1-0. Game II is at Suncorp Stadium on June 11.

Exploring Horizons snapshots

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May's been a pretty busy month so far. I've gotten a little behind in posting. Here's what you have to look forward to this month: Exploring Horizons, our next featured video series. Next week's video review will be Exploring Horizons Land of the Giants - San Teadoro Sardinia.

Exploring Horizons takes viewers off the beaten path and to rugged natural, cultural, and historical destinations all over the world.

Stay tuned for some great DVD reviews and tips and tricks about how to make your next trip or honeymoon a breeze.

I'll put a review of Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the near future so be on the look out.

Gaming Vault is a project on the internet blog and video-wise. GV was born out of love for gaming and to share news, information, thoughts, opinions, reviews, previews, pictures, etc. to all the gaming-lovers!

If you love gaming, you're in the right place.
Since I'm just one person (for now at least) it's probable that the website won't have too much stuff posted everyweek but I will try to post as much as I can. Some of the features this blog (soon-to-be website) will have:

- Video/Written Previews - where we comment the latest demos / trailers of the newest videogames!
- Video/Written Reviews - reviews of the latest games I played
- (This one is still a project) Gaming Vault TV - A 30-minute/episode long series where we deal with the latest info on games (some Video Previews / Reviews will be built-in this series but will also be available to watch seperately)

The systems being covered are:
- PC
- PS3
- PS2
- PSOne
- PSP
- Wii
- GameCube
- Nintendo DS
- GBA
- Retro Gaming (MegaDrive, NES, SNES, GB, GBC, etc etc)

(Sorry but I don't own a Xbox or Xbox 360. If you own one and would like to be our Xbox poster/reviewer/etc, just comment on this post)

New stuff may come in the future, but for now this is what is planned. Check out soon for our video page on YouTube and maybe our first video/post.

Thanks for the visit, and don't forget to come back!

Gaming Vault

Download video HERE ... You can click that link and it should pop up asking you to download, you can put it on your iPod or PSP...

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Sorry for the bad video and audio quality, I was using my Rock Band mic and my Xbox Live Vision Camera...

Edit:Here is proof of the display not working.