So I like gizmos and gadgets a plenty.  I am a huge fan of technology and every now and then I have been known to want some really cool gadgets.  Well today my friends…I have found something that I litterally almost threw up with excitement about.  I will let the video speak for itself.  It’s totally legit and with the small price tag of $3,000 I should have it in no time…Enjoy.

I recommend everyone check out http://www.searchme.com

It is a fantastic.  Kind of like CoverFlow on iTunes, you can see what web pages look like before you click them.

I definately have neglected this blog because of the new JustIn Control blog.  Sorry.  It has kind of consumed my life.  I’ll get back to The Captain’s Quarters eventually.

Being a fan of the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and the History channel, this show could be one of the best and most interesting I have ever seen.

Click the image to go to the National Geo site.

The Radiohead video for “House of Cards” that used no cameras or lights, only fancy lasers, just hit the web, and it’s just as crazy and trippy as the screenshots suggested. Check out the video, and below it you’ll find another video that details just how it was made. Did I mention that because this video is pure data instead of images you can manipulate it in real time using a visualizer? Because you can. Also be sure to check out the awesome visualizer, which lets you manipulate the data to adjust the image and rotate around the objects in real-time. The most fun time waster you’ll find all week, guaranteed. Make sure you hit the play button on the visualizer. It is worth the wait.
(I got my info from Gizmodo)

So we became eligible for an early phone upgrade and my wife decided it was time that I got a nice phone. If you have ever seen any of my phones, they have all been kind of the lower end, but functional ones. This is quite the jump. It is amazing! It’s the Blackberry Curve. Has an amazing camera on it too, which I know is a feature that people with other models of this great phone don’t have. It has been so much fun learning all of the features and especially typing on the QWERTY keyboard (so long T9 and your consistent use of a different word than what I want). I know that there is a lot of stuff you can get on this phone. I’ve found a few things, but I need all of you experienced BlackBerry users to help.

Here is what I’ve found and installed:

• Beyond411 – A great little app that provides free and convenient mobile search on your Blackberry. It’s cheaper, more effective, and more complete than calling 411. It also gives instant directions to the place you need. Really a must-have according to online BlackBerry users.
• Google apps (mail, calendar, picasa, etc…) – this is amazing by the way….
• TuneUsIn – free mp3 ringtones

So if you know of any great Blackberry apps or resources please let me know.

Italian artist BLU is famous for painting politically and socially charged street murals, but his recent project involving street animation may be his most visually stunning. Called MUTO, the video is a series of digital stills assembled from sequential paintings on the streets/walls of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It’s been floating around a bit, but if you haven’t seen it, the effect is a sort of living, evolving mural that follows a dramatic, character-drive storyline. And if you watch one thing online today (or tomorrow or the next day), this should be it:

Fantastic flick.  I suggest everyone see it.  It makes my heart happy.

Here’s a couple different trailers too in case you haven’t seen them.

So a movie that I heard about last year and have been wanting to see is Sunshine, from the director of “Trainspotting” and “28 Days Later”, Danny Boyle.   It also stars (see the universe reference) Cillian Murphy, the guy from “28 Days Later”, the Scarecrow from “Batman Begins” and the creepy guy from “Red Eye”.

The premise of SUNSHINE is that in 50 years from now the Sun is dying. It is no longer providing the energy and the light that mankind needs to survive on Earth. The entire global community pools its resources to send a mission into space to deliver a bomb to reignite the part of the Sun that is failing.  The story focuses on the eight astronauts and scientists who lead this mission.  On their journey towards the Sun the crew stumble upon the ship that was sent on the same mission seven years previously, the Icarus I, drifting in space.  From this point on things start to go very wrong and it’s about how the crew react under the enormous pressure of their endeavor to save mankind.

This movie started off great!!!  It was really fantastic.  I thought it was incredibly fascinating how they portrait the sun and it’s power.  It’s something I can’t fully comprehend.  And lately I have marveled at space and the universe and just how massive and how perfect it all fits together.  Truly an example of the Creator’s work.  That is what drew me to want to watch the movie.

Then the end kind of went crazy and seriously flipped out.  I have a way of ruining endings to things, so I won’t describe what happens.

All in all I give it a solid 7 out of 10 but only because the ending really didn’t fit.  It was almost like they hired some weird crackpot to write the end.  It really didn’t flow. Actually I had to watch it in two parts.  I started watching it this morning, then had some chores and errands to run, and when I got back to finish it, I almost wondered if someone switched the DVD on me.  Because right when I came back is when things started getting weird.

Would I recommend it to my friends…sure why not.  I’d even watch it again because it starts out really great.  I just hate the ending.

Sorry it’s been so long…been super busy. Enjoy this little viral video gem I found.