(via Jason Chen)

It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.

And it’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.

Everybody gets knocked down, how quick are you gonna get up?

Yesterday, Capcom made it official: Dudley’s back in Super Street Fighter IV.

Along with Ibuki, Makoto, and the earlier character announcements – Adon, Cody, Dee Jay, Guy, Juri, T. Hawk – that makes for a total of nine new World Warriors. Well, ten if you include Hakan, who hasn’t been confirmed yet, but everyone knows he exists already anyway. Add to that the fact that SFIV had 25 characters already (and all of them usable in one way or another – even Dan), this is shaping up to be a real battle royale.

I’ll say it now so it’s clear: while I enjoyed maining Balrog in SFIV, I will main Dudley in SSFIV, no matter how difficult he will be to use.

Game is slated to come out April 27, 2010.

Nope, I’m not excited at all.

UPDATE: Hakan’s been confirmed, so that’s ten new World Warriors.

When I saw the first teaser for this movie, I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to go see it, especially since M. Night Shyamalan has lately been focused on making weird movies with plots I can’t understand.

But after seeing the new trailer… wow.

Coming July 2!

UPDATE: The whole whitewashing issue has only recently been brought to my attention by my friends. I haven’t really heard about this problem before I watched this specific trailer, but that points more to my (past) ignorance of the whole situation rather than the gravity of it.

Honestly though, even though I probably should be bothered, given that the world of Avatar is decidedly Asian (or Chinese to be specific), I’m not. Think what you will of that. I still plan on watching the movie when it comes out.

I’m Here, Spike Jonze’s 30-minute short. Featuring robots, in love. Like the title of the post said. I feel like I’m being redundant here.

This is after the success of Where the Wild Things Are. It’s looking to be a good year for the director (if he follows it up with more films).

This short anecdote was shared to me by a friend over at RR. Perfect for my heavily-introspective mood lately. But really, who doesn’t like short nuggets of wisdom?

Enjoy.

An old Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A battle is raging inside me … it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The old man fixed the children with a firm stare. “This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.”

They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee replied: “The one you feed.”

I was fixing up my music collection earlier, and I forgot how much calm the cover of Morning View brings to me.

Then you follow it up with a round of Wish You Were Here, and suddenly you’re not in the city anymore.

I’m going there this March to go to my cousin’s wedding – and then Australia afterwards! To sum it up in a very understated manner, I’m very excited.

New Zealand, as you might know, is legendary for its beautiful and fantastical vistas which now only rarely exist elsewhere. Views like this…

…make me grateful that my eyesight wasn’t taken from me, as it could’ve been a couple of weeks ago.

Now I really need a camera, and know how to use it.

While the rest of the world drools/is decidedly lukewarm over the recently-announced Apple iPad, I’ve found myself wanting more and more, the Apple iPhone. Now that it’s gone through three generations, with each new generation adding more features and power to the devilishly beautiful device, and now that it’s backed up by more than 140,000 apps, and now that it has a sizeable market share that threatens Nokia and RIM, meaning better support, and well… you get the point.

I’ve been a bit of a journeyman over the years in the world of mobile phones, going from a Nokia 3210, then a Nokia 3310, then a Motorola clamshell design whose model number I can’t remember. After that came a Sony Ericsson, the Samsung E600, and finally the Nokia E51.

While the E51 is an excellent phone and one I would heartily recommend to anyone, I feel it’s time for me to go ahead and try an Apple product that’s responsible for my communication (all past experiences with Apple products have been solely for the purpose of hearing music).

I have a strong feeling I’m going to love it. Aside from the sweet design of the user interface, the rock solid iPhone OS, and its beguiling shine and chrome, it’s currently one of the most powerful smartphones currently out there. And who doesn’t love the feeling of having a powerful tiger, dressed up in a very nice package, all in their pants? Yes that’s right, no one.

I am aware of the caveats: poor battery life, exorbitant data transfer charges, and a few more. But some of these are manageable, most are avoidable with careful usage, and some I’m willing to undergo as necessary pains, because the device is that beautiful.

And I haven’t even started talking about jailbreaking it yet.

Made by illustrator Jim Tierney for his thesis project.

He speaks more about the actual creation process in this post. It’s pretty sweet to watch it unfold.

(via Boing Boing)