Website: Omegle

Well, if you happen to have the extreme desire to chat/video strangers then I recommend this site to you. A friend of mine showed it to me. If you're not so keen here's why you SHOULD (or not);

1. They don't know you. Don't nothing you say matters.
2. It's fun to pretend you are a 18 year old girl.
3. You know what else. Hehehe.

That's all there is on the site really. I mean you could spend hours pretending to be a young sleazy teenager (lol) and waste your time, but I'd rather do something worth while.
WARNING: REVEAL NOTHING OF YOURSELF ON THIS SITE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS ON OMEGLE.
Have fun talking to strangers!
Credit goes to CG for showing me.
Omegle

Website: (The customer is) Not Always Right

 

If you happen to be really bored, I suggest you check out this site. It's filled with real accounts of customers that are really stupid and mess up when dealing in employees of various stores. The funny stories are tagged, so you can just click on the side and see what you want. You could consider this site like the Fail Blog of text instead of images. Get ready for some fun stuff.
(The Customer is) Not Always Right

Barcode Generator

Ever wanted to write your name in barcode? Ever wanted to decrypt the hidden language of barcodes? Well here's the solution! Barcode generators create barcodes for you. A barcode is a code (duh) that represents data as bars so that machines (like scanners) can read them. There are lot's of different types of barcodes for different things. For example;  Code 25 interleaved 2 of 5 is used in libraries while Code 11 is for telephones. Code 128 is the most common. Great uses for barcode generators:
Forging codes to feed to Skannerz toys for your alien needs
Making a cool title like the one on this post
Learning barcode language to dodge teachers
For art
For making your little brother sell-able
And lots of other reasons

So check out some barcode generating generators and be hip, cool and in fashion for 2000!
(The title says Barcode Generator)
Free Online Barcode Generator - by morovia.com

Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex Review

This one looks ok

So does this one

Released on the 20th of July 2010, the 7th book of the Artemis Fowl series follows Artemis as he suffers from a magical illness known as "Atlantis Complex" causing him to be distrustful of anyone, count everything in fives (sentences, steps, etc.), believe four as unlucky and eventually split personality
Artemis is in Iceland, demonstrating his latest experiment to Holly, Foaly and Wing Commander Vinyaya. A new technology that will save melting glaciers by snow crystals that reflect heat.
A unidentified fairy space probe suddenly crashes into their shuttle, killing Vinyaya and her team of LEP. Artemis starts to go crazy, believing that Foaly is here to steal his invention the "Ice Cube". Amorphobots roll out of the probe and start to attack them. Escaping, they eventually discover that the "evil guy" is Turnball Root, deceased Julius Root's brother who is locked away in an Atlantian Prison.

While the start is a bit confusing, the rest is good reading and locks you on like a little magnet bent on global domination.  The book is the first to feature Atlantis, the underwater metropolis complete with water elves and giant domes. While a children's book, a surprisingly large amount of people die. And the ending is bittersweet. I won't ruin it for you but Turnbull isn't trying to take over the world. Not a good deal better then the last but refreshing after dwelling with all those times with trying to stop someone stealing stuff.
There's a nice dose of action in this one aswell.
Story: 8
Writing style:7
Genre: Sci-fi fantasy

Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver Differences

Hey all! If anyone has ever wanted to see the however minor differences between Pokemon Heart Gold and  Soul Silver editions, then I've done their dirty work. Here's the link.

Serebii.net - Heart Gold & Soul Silver version exclusives

Game Emulation

Ever wanted to play that old NES game that isn't around any more? Don't your parents want to waste money on your silly Nintendo games? Do you not have a console? Then you have just been bathed in mythical light! Game emulators are the way to go!
An emulator is a program that mimics the functions of a system using another one. In this case we're talking about a console (like a Xbox) or hand-held (like a GBA) to a computer. Game emulators run on these things on ROMs (Read Only Memory image). While emulators themselves are squeaky clean, a commercial ROM is illegal. Home-brew ROMs are clean.
 Lots of people use emulators for an equal (or greater) amount of reasons. Most people will play emulators for a few basic reasons; it's free, the game isn't sold any more or you can take that PS3 game around in a laptop. Of course there are the basic downsides as well. For one thing, you can't really lug your desktop around (sure you could a laptop but it's not the same) for hand-held games. Also, many of the games you might be itching to play are, as I said before, illegal.
Seeing as most people disregard the "illegal" part, emulators are thriving. A few have become well known on the net.
Some good emulators:
No$gba - Nintendo DS and GBA. Setup may confuse some.
VisualBoyAdvance - GBA, GB and GBC. Keys can jam on action games.
BoycottAdvance - GBA. Can't play as many games as VisualBoy. No speed multiplier.
Project64 - Nintendo 64.
DeSuME - Nintendo DS. No speed multiplyer.

There are a lot more. I just don't know them. C:
Check out:
The Emulator Zone
Cool ROM
Dope ROMs

Anyone have anything to share?

Scissors Paper Rock? No... wait...

Now, you all should know how to play scissors paper rock (or rock paper scissors for American translation :D) right? Ever realised that you are bored with 3 choices and that you have over 20% chance of drawing? How boring is that? Well, there is Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock to play. You might be satisfied with five. But for the hardcore dudes here's a new one (a person on Gameface101 showed me this). With 15 choices, the chance of you hitting equal are super low (best played with a larger group). The chart is easy enough to understand (but hard to remember). Each choice defeats every thing 7 to it's anti-clockwise side. Fun.
Blue

Holidays!

It's winter break for the members of BlueJamK. Celebrate!

New Ipods, Jam's Point of View+ Review

Now, most of us if not all of us must have at some point in our lives owned an ipod. They are the king of the MP3 world the: Nano, Touch, Classic and Shuffle.

The new touch: The touch is a great device, giving you the versitility and apps of a iphone in a much more affordable and indespensible device (it's thinner too) but all of the touch fans always wanted a feature the iphone and old nano had, a camera.

Apple responded and now the ipod touch with camera has arrived. It can video, take great pics and has a retina display ( for all that arent apple geeks that means the screen responds better to your finger and the display is clearer)

I commend apple on their efforts! 9/10

Now the new ipod nano (cringe)

I see what apple wants to do with their new product. They want to make a ipod touch style ipod that you can take everywhere and use its cool apps and so on , but what I can't understand is that why would they make a ghastly new ipod that looks as crap as it is when they had an awesome model already in the stores. It's like they upgraded it just for the sake of... well nothing.

You see I loved the old ipod nano it was: light, stylish and had the most awesome video camera with a squillion different effects on it, in other words it was awesome.

Also the touch screen can be a bit glitchy and I loved the old control wheel, if they take that off the classic I will personally drink 200 gallons of whisky and fall into a coma for 45 years.

So Steve Jobs, I hate your stupid new nano: 6/10

The new shuffle:  Yes, it is brillant. I am so pleased that apple went back to the old shuffles controls they are great, unlike the stupid old shuffle which you controlled by pressing a certain part of the headphones which is impossible to do without dislodging 10 vetebrae in your back.

Apple has also adopted a groovy square shape for the shuffle. This looks pukingly bad on the nano but orgasmic on the shuffle, no wonder Blue wants to collect them all: 8.5967.

So overall apple you did a pretty good job.

Jam

Best Internet Browser Poll

There are many internet browsers. Really big ones and the really small ones. Then the ones that you can make yourself with some Python code. Obviously not many people know the small ones (like Konqueror and OmniWeb) so this poll is about the big ones. Contestants
Mozilla Firefox 3.6: Famed for being customizable in more then one way. Personas, themes ,about:config editing and thousands of add ons. Main opposition of Chrome
Google Chrome 2: New browser by Google (they'll have cars next). Looks flashy with themes available. Main opposition of Firefox.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8: The stock web browser for Windows. Not as fast as Chrome or Firefox. Flashy.
Opera 10.6: Advertised as being the fastest (not really). All about speed (lots of speed options). Looks funny.
Safari 5: Apple's web browser. Very popular among ipod users.Can customize browser. 
A poll is up. Choose which one you think deserves this Poll Award. Go Firefox!
Blue

Advertisement Awards

The poll has closed! Here are the results!
XXXX Beer: 1

Sam Kekovich: 0 Dominoes (2010 World Cup): 4 Old Spice: 7 The winner is Old Spice! No surprise here, it won the best ad of the year award from somewhere.  Jam was is busy so I did his ad duties instead. C:

New Logo

You may have noticed we have a new logo. Well, not new exactly. We just got it. That would mean new, but when you think "new logo" you think of dumping an old one and getting another one right? So the title should say "Got a Logo". Yeah, it's on the background aswell. Please tell us if it's distracting. Then we can track your ip address and find you! Jks. Continuing, if you have any problems with the logo, the colours, the fonts, the placement, your conspiracy theories or whatever racist thing you have made for yourself out of it then please contact us (yes it's true, most racist thoughts are made by yourself). Uh...contact us if you have any questions other then those as well.
Blue

Lawnmowers and Soul, a rant by Jam

Lawnmowes can be great and they can be amazingly crap. Don't get me wrong they are very useful and some of them are awesome, like the self propelled ones and the cool ride on ones but these are extremely expensive. I used to own a old Honda 2 stroke mower that lasted 25 years!The only problem with it was it was impossible to start; a fact that is not helped by the ironic tag on the fuel tank saying Honda, easy start mower. If you have ever tried to start my mower you would know it is imposible to start it without reducing your pelvis to dust.So recently I got a new one and I don't really like it. It just hasn't got the soulof the old mower. Don't get me wrong it runs brillantly, so much better than my old one, but things than run better than my old mower include, the Bin Laden hotline and the Gold Coast bus network. But ask yourself this question, when did humans decide that our frontyard fields have to be trimmed? Why do we mow, really it is stupid!

And now some Germans have made it even stupider! They have created a mower that weighs 100 tonnes and trims your entrire acearge in 2 seconds it costs 1.9 million euros and is as useless as a turd.

The Verdict:  If you want a mower buy a 25 year old one that cannot start.

Artemis Fowl Review

An ok version of the cover

Cool version front cover

Original cover

Artemis Fowl is a 12 year old criminal master mind. He lives in Fowl Manor (a really big house for rich cats) with is mentally ill mother, his bodyguard Butler and Butler's sister, Juliet. After his father disappeared a few years ago (along with most of the family's money) genius Artemis (yes, he is terribly arrogant) has a plan to recover the Fowl fortune. With gold stolen from Faries. Young Artemis and his bodyguard Butler search far and wide for a fairy, looking for a key to the secret civilization deep underground. Eventually, they capture a fairy (an elf in fact), Captain Holly Short of the LEP (Lower Elements Police). They plan to use her as ransom to receive one tonne of gold from the People (fairy civilization).

Written by Eoin Colfer (who is a comedian), this book is smart, witty and fast. Not to mention funny with numerous puns and jokes. The writing style is superb. Easy to understand for the younger and a nice relaxing read for the mature. The book is like a comic that has been filtered through a complex converter (there is a comic version, but I don't recommend it). As the whole book (and it's series) is based around master plans by Artemis, it is enthralling to see a plan being executed and explained (these are the parts where you go "Ahhhh! That's how he did it!"). I enjoyed reading this novel enough for me to motivate myself to be smart as well (yes, my grades are getting better).
Overall, a great read with humour and action. Positively awesomenessly.
Story:7
Writing style: 8 (for youngsters) 6 (because older people become very serious and want nothing to do with silly childrens books)
Genre: Sci-fi fantasy

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Preview

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Preview
OUTLINE
A NEW TRAILER was released recently on July 14, 2010 featuring the next and third instalment of the Assassin’s Creed Series- Brotherhood. The game is set in the Renaissance Period in Rome.

In the recently released trailer: it shows Ezio Auditore in the year 1506AD, on an “easy mission” to confront a leader of the Templars. From this, we see amazingly awesome graphics- faces’ description and detail of Rome is absolutely flawless- predictions of epic scenes as seen here, and some hardcore battling.

INFORMATION: The game is developed by Unisoft Montreal, and published by Ubisoft, and will be available on Microsoft Windows, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360. There are Single and Multiplayer modes, with both of them from 3rd person point of view.
Release Dates for 2010:
PS3 and Xbox 360:
North America: November 16
Australia: November 18
Europe: November 19
Microsoft Windows:
February 22, 2011

PLOT: The player once again controls the character Ezio Auditore through the genetic memory (previous memory) of Desmond Miles. Ezio needs to reorganize and recruit his previous members of his Brotherhood, and can do this by completing missions and going further through the game. Rome has fallen under the rule of the Templars, and your job is to rebuild Rome.

Weapons and gadgets are available such as: Da Vinci’s parachute- to jump off tall buildings, melee-knives, a range of weapons, throwing axes, and introducing the hidden pistol into battle.

MULTIPLAYER: Rome isn’t the only used city, with Florence being available to explore during the Multiplayer.

There are a range of game modes, but the main one to stand out will be “Wanted”, where 6-8 players will be dropped on a map, with one player to kill and penalties for being spotted. Graphics aren’t as impressive in the Multiplayer game mode as Single Player, but still awesome.

GAMEPLAY: There is more dynamic game play featured in Brotherhood. There is a brand new fighting technique called BAM- Brotherhood Assist Move- where you can call on your fellow assassins to support you in a fight.

Fight scenes are slightly delayed- you can only attack one player at a time.
Graphics are great, and Multiplayer game play isn’t seen as laggy.
This game is one to challenge all others, and is seen as the best of the Assassin’s creed series so far.
By K.

Changes around here... and a heads up

Imagine this hitting you. That what it was like for me. Just no pain.

Y'know, I was looking at the blog today when BOOM a missile hit me. Not a real missile of course. The "missile" part was just an abstract way of saying "big" which in turn can also mean "huge". This huge thing that hit me was confirmed by my good friend Carl, Jam and K (not at the same time of course). The back ground looks bland. Like, stripey kind of bland. I mean, it's just some template made by some person who was really bored or had a high paying job. Great. This means that over the weekend (I've got homework like all smart people C;) the blog will be recieving a makeover along with a whole fist full of posts. Not just a hand, a fist. Of course the posts aren't certain to come (mine are as usual :p) but hey, everyone needs a life right?

Blue

LOL Limewire!

When I first discovered (I was actually told by my good friend Carl) this little flash animation, I was baffled by it's sheer stupidity and randomness. Of course, all it features is a little 10 second loop of some guy singing and little pirate things dancing across the screen with the words "LOL Limewire". So, being a really strange person, I decided to do some research on it. Here's what I found:

1. The little tune apparently comes from the silly and annoying kids tv show, Lazy Town
2. The words "LOL Limewire" are there because Limewire got sued for piracy
3. The lyrics are:
4. Do what you want cause a pirate is free
   You are a pirate!
   Yar Har fiddle dee dee
   Being a pirate is alright with me
   Do what you want cause a pirate is free
   You are a pirate!
5. The .swf is available if you type in LOL Limewire into Google and click "I'm feeling Lucky"

Of course I won't post it here because not only will it drown out all patience from any unlucky readers with it's never ending loop, but it's also really annoying after the 5th time. Check it out if you can!
Blue

Metroid: Other M Preview

Metroid, a classic 2D game of fun shooting and jumping around in a big red/orange suit. Most of us will remember playing this game at some point in their childhood. Those who don't probably played Pokemon or Mario (they're all good). Well, a new Metroid game has arrived. Announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009, Other M will delve deeper into Samus' (main character) story. Although already released, this article is designed to be an incentive for you to buy the game. Hence "preview". "Preview" also means "I haven't played this game yet."

INFO:
Other M is produced by Nintendo, created by Team-M a combined group of Nintendo, Team Ninja and D-Rockets. It is a return to the main series, not Prime and is released on Wii.
Release dates:
North America, August 31, 2010
Japan September 2, 2010
Australia September 2, 2010
Europe September 3, 2010

Story:
The story revolves (as usual) around Samus Aran, a bounty hunter in a big suit. The game is chronologically placed between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion. The story is fairly complex unlike most other Nintendo games.

Gameplay:
Other M is the first Metroid game to feature first person sniping. While you can't move when in this sniping mode, you have increased accuracy, a neat crosshair to aim with, lock targets and see enemies in cool 1st person view. The sniping mode is also used for exploring to discover hidden items. Other M is also the first game in the entire series to feature a melee combat system that require some timing (like combos). You can use the Sense Move to dodge enemy attacks, Counter attack to counter attack, Lethal Strike and Overblast (for finishing moves) and Concentration Tecnique for regenerating health.

Special Features:
If the right goals are matched, players can unlock a special two hour film that contains every cut scene in the game and some clips of gameplay by the developers. FUN!
Check out the trailer!

Check out the gameplay trailer!
Blue

Apple ipod Nano Gen 6 Preview

As you might have heard, the new gen 6 ipod Nano has been released. It features a small square design with a screen of 240x240 pixel resolution. It has a clip just like the ipod Shuffle and is available in seven colours that make collectors drool. The 6th gen is 46% smaller and 42% lighter then the gen 5 model. But even with these features, the biggest thing is the ipod Nano's heat sensitive touch screen. Now with the ability to respond to your spinning, sliding, tapping, swiping and shaking commands, the ipod Nano is just like a compact, baby version of the ipod Touch (which there is also a new model). Though still with only a max of 16GB of flash memory, the new design really brings out the meaning of "nano".
Although Apple fans will be over the moon with the upgrade, others will find many faults. For the first (and least significant), the new ipod requires you to download iTunes 10. A massive filesize for people with slow internet connection. The screen is over 100pixles shorter then the last one (generation 5) and features no camera or microphone. Worst of all there is no video playback, meaning all those movies, clips and other things that you might have would have gone to waste. All this means that it isn't much more then a slightly larger ipod Shuffle (which there is also a new model) with a touch screen. Don't worry sport people, it's compatible with Nike +
Overall, I'd stay with the 5th generation or get the ipod Touch. Shuffle is not recommended.
Blue

First Follower and some bumps in the road

Hey all, nice day? Sorta. Maybe. Not. Communications between us has been smashed into some sorta, anti-hole in the road. AKA a bump. Probably because I'm tired. need to sleep... ANYWAY forget about being totally pessimistic, we finally have a follower! Now, many blog dudes would be like, "Oh Em Gee I get followers in my sleep". HAHA well done, you deserve a medal. No that was a joke.
Do not fear reader(s)! More media/stuff coming along in a bucket load.