iZ3D's been doing the whole "3D monitor" thing for years now, with its first baby -- a 17-incher -- ringing up at $1,499 back in 2005. In the latter part of last year, you may recall that a 22-inch version emerged for $999, and now that 3D is all the rage, it's making a second push to clear out all that dusty inventory by lowering the price in dramatic fashion. As of this month, the MSRP on the switchable 3D / 2D display is just $399, and that includes three pairs of passive linear polarized glasses, all the power and video cables you need and gratis membership in the firm's "upcoming 3D gaming league." Oh, and if you're feeling fancy, you can snag a custom-painted model from Smooth Creations at $549 apiece. So, any takers yet? Or are we holding out for free-after-rebate?

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div align="center"a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Iz3D-Llc-926684.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-4-08-iz3d_livegaming1.jpg" //abr //div iZ3D's been doing the whole "3D monitor" thing for years now, with its first baby -- a href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/03/the-iz3d-lcd-monitor-helps-you-get-your-game-on-in-3d/"a 17-incher/a -- ringing up at $1,499 back in 2005. In the latter part of last year, you may recall that a 22-inch version a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/28/22-inch-iz3d-lcds-are-now-available-just-under-a-grand/"emerged for $999/a, and now that 3D is a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/tag/3d/"all the rage/a, it's making a second push to clear out all that dusty inventory by lowering the price in dramatic fashion. As of this month, the MSRP on the switchable 3D / 2D display is just $399, and that includes three pairs of passive linear polarized glasses, all the power and video cables you need and gratis membership in the firm's "upcoming 3D gaming league." Oh, and if you're feeling fancy, you can snag a custom-painted model from Smooth Creations at $549 apiece. So, any takers yet? Or are we holding out for free-after-rebate?br /br /[Image courtesy of a href="http://www.iceav.co.nz/images/content/articles/iz3D_LiveGaming1.jpg"ICEAV/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/displays/" rel="tag"Displays/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/iz3ds-22-inch-3d-monitor-stoops-to-399/"iZ3D's 22-inch 3D monitor stoops to $399/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:33:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Iz3D-Llc-926684.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/iz3ds-22-inch-3d-monitor-stoops-to-399/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391041/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/iz3ds-22-inch-3d-monitor-stoops-to-399/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iElBWMKvv5uKrtYFLdxS7vdwmUc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iElBWMKvv5uKrtYFLdxS7vdwmUc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=oAerhJD2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=oAerhJD2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=qJZuhHIE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=qJZuhHIE" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/DQIbQ0GaFv0" height="1" width="1"/

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Vers 2030, la Terre pense vivre sous une parfaite démocratie globale. Le nouveau président américain est d'origine chinoise et l'équipage de la première expédition vers Mars est composée d'astronautes représentant les cinq continents et tous leurs métissages. Mais une surprise de taille les attend : la planète rouge est devenue brune. Les Nazis y ont bâti Germania, la cité futuriste née du cerveau dérangé d'Albert Speer !



Tout ceci n'étant finalement qu'un nouveau prétexte pour Grégory Jarry de manifester son talent pour une re-lecture satirique de l'Histoire (avec un grand H comme la bombe) aidé par son comparse Otto T aux dessins humoristiques et néanmoins contrapunctiques. Derrière la farce spatiale se devinent de gros clins d'oeil à des faits de la dernière décennie et aux faciles manipulations induites par une consommation trop passive des boîtes à images. Jarry n'a pas placé pour rien Leni Riefensthal dans l'équipage du vaisseau nazi. La seule chose dont aurait pu se vanter la cinéaste officielle du IIIe Reich, c'est bien d'avoir été précurseur des mises en scène à grand spectacle les plus édifiantes. On peut aussi déceler un joli croc-en-jambe à ceux et celles qui actuellement, sous le couvert de soi-disant "modernisme" et autres "rénovations" ne sont que des rétrogrades à pulsions totalitaires.



J'espérais un peu plus — ou trop ? — de la conclusion de "La Conquête de Mars" bien qu'accrochant toujours au mauvais esprit salvateur de son duo d'auteurs. Il faut reconnaître que l'entité martienne inventée pour l'occasion ainsi que son utilisation changent des habituels petits hommes verts et autres créatures gluantes. Je n'ose même pas parler de l'horrifiante perspective (pour beaucoup) suggérant un monde apaisé car ayant aboli l'esprit de compétition...



La lecture de "Germania" pourra induire les effets pervers suivants : un petit sourire la prochaine fois que vous entendrez un tube de Bob Marley et verrez les pubs charcutières d'un sponsor du Tour de France. Et tant pis si ce n'est pas charitable ou chrétien (ou ce que vous voudrez) mais la dernière planche peut procurer la même délectation que lors de la fameuse scène d'"Indiana Jones" où un ignoble nazi fond comme de la cire chauffée à blanc.
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Titre : La Conquête de Mars, Tome 2 : Germania | Auteur : Grégory Jarry, Otto T. | Editeur : Flblb | Thème : Bande dessinée

YouTube is full of videos that don't require singled-minded attention, but trying to keep a YouTube page visible in the background for passive watching isn't easy. Digital Inspiration's Amit Agarwal...

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/youtube_at_work.jpg" width="494" height="200" align="center"/YouTube is full of videos that don't require singled-minded attention, but trying to keep a YouTube page visible in the background for passive watching isn't easy. Digital Inspiration's Amit Agarwal suggests two methods, though, that work great for browsing other sites or doing actual, you know, work, while keeping a video cornered and always on top. The first requires re-working a video link to its full-screen version and bookmarking it to load in Firefox's sidebarmdash;something we've a href="http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/Sidebar-GCal-agenda/2805347"covered before/a with a href="http://lifehacker.com/383481/put-facebook-chat-in-firefoxs-sidebar"many/a a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/google-notebook/open-google-notebook-in-the-firefox-sidebar-254789.php"other/a a href="http://lifehacker.com/390912/put-google-reader-in-your-sidebar"apps/a. The other method creates a mini-browser window that always stays on top using an a href="http://www.box.net/shared/4ej5cqoekj"AutoHotKey-coded app/a. Hit the link below for details on each idea, which should make burning through your favorite webisodes easier while still plucking away on your busy work. div class="related"a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/watch-youtube-videos-while-multi-tasking/5791/"How to Watch YouTube Videos While Working on other Tasks/a [Digital Inspiration]/div /p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=1c9ffde1574c3af74f4ff18c3910372bp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=1c9ffde1574c3af74f4ff18c3910372bp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=1c9ffde1574c3af74f4ff18c3910372b" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=BlPjrZ64"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=SgmKOdF7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=zvglbhXm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=zvglbhXm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=WJ94KoDL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=WJ94KoDL" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/lXC9iw1i1uw" height="1" width="1"/

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/jono.png alt= pWhen I was a kid, I owned a a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_GenesisSega Megadrive/a (Sega Genesis for my American friends). I spent hours on that thing. Sonic The Hedgehog. Streets Of Rage. Desert Strike. Toejam And Earl. I loved it./p pOne game that was released was a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_SandiegoWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/a Back then it was marketed as emedutainment/em: essentially a sneaky way for parents to infiltrate their kid#8217;s leisure time with learning under the premise of it being #8220;fun#8221;. Of course, kids are smarter than parents give them credit for. Kids were wise to this and often avoided games like that like the plague. The mind of a 12 year-old concluded that enough time is spent in front of teachers, workbooks and exams without it invading precious Sega time. I was one such kid. I emhated/em the idea of edutainment. I didnt want to learn with my Megadrive, I wanted to shoot things with very large, very loud, deeply pixelated guns./p pThings change when you grow up (yes, I have grown up, smart arses). I now love learning. I love reading. I spend hours drowning in Wikipedia and exploring our world, our history and our patchwork of cultures. I love learning about people#8217;s experiences, perspectives and attitudes. I no longer have the 12 year-old mentality that learning is for school time. Learning really is genuinely emfun/em./p pNaturally, there are some subjects I like to learn about in more detail. Community (zing!). Computers. Free Software. Free Culture. Music. There are however some subjects that I develop a curiosity about and feel an urge to investigate. These subjects are not part of my daily interests and hobbies, but are temporary avenues of curiosity./p pOne recent example for me is emHistorical Jesus/em. A few days ago I read everything Wikipedia had to offer about about the subject. This was triggered originally by a history TV show which in turn inspired me to buy a book about significant events in human history. In this book I read about Jesus#8217;s Crucifixion and decided to further refresh my knowledge of the subject by hitting up Wikipedia. In this example we see two distinctive concepts: emPassive Education/em and emContent Aggregation and Linking/em:/p ul liemPassive Education/em - in my example of Historical Jesus, my primary focus was gathering the facts and the story. I was happy for this subject#8217;s learning to be passive. I was happy to merely consume the content and not interact with it much more than selecting what to learn./li liemContent Aggregation and Linking/em - learning has links and connections. I first watched a show about history. This intrigued me to buy the book on historical events. A section in that book inspired me to access specific content on Wikipedia. The thread that connected these different resources together was the subject of Historical Jesus and I aggregated the different pieces of knowledge together in my brain. My current knowledge of Historical Jesus draws from these different resources./li /ul pWhen we learn about our primary interests, learning is different. Our desire is often for emActive Learning/em. We not only want to know the subject, but we want to immerse ourselves in the execution and debate of it too. Much of this is not only collating general knowledge, as I did with Historical Jesus, but learning about more localised information too. When I learn about music, I want to know about local bands. I want to know when my favourite bands are coming to my area. I want to hear about music groups, gigs, and conventions near to me. I want to know about special offers in local music stores. In a nutshell, I don#8217;t just want to consume, I want to emparticipate/em./p pIn recent years, computers and the Internet have made both Active and Passive Learning incredibly accessible. The web has bolstered passive learning resources, and active learning has been thrusted towards us with online communities, social networking, community groups and discussion boards. No matter what you want to know about, the Internet can help you in both Passive and Active ways/p pBut lets get back to emWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/em. Although I could not stand the concept of emedutainment/em at the time, what that game emdid/em do that intrigues me is that it delivered education to people automatically. The education was emassociative/em: topics and concepts were delivered to you as you played the game./p pI find this really interesting. I find the concept of linking and associating different types of education and resources fascinating. This also holds huge opportunity for the desktop./p pA great example is a href=http://banshee-project.org/Banshee/a. For those who have been living under a rock for the last three years, Banshee is a media player. I have it open all day, delivering a fresh dose of metal to me all day long. Banshee not only plays music, but it brings many diverse music related activities together under the same roof: digital music, Internet radio, CD playing and ripping, meta-data editing etc. The Banshee bods have done a great job./p pBut the most interesting feature to me is its a href=http://www.last.fm/Last.fm/a integration. When I listen to a song (such as Hammerfall right now). The artist and track is posted to a href=http://www.last.fm/user/jonobaconmy Last.fm account/a. This in itself is not all that exciting. But what Banshee does that emis/em exciting is look up the artist of my current playing song and use Last.fm to make recommendations. It delivers those recommendations to me inside the application. That is emwicked cool/em. Sure, I could go and look up these recommendations on the Last.fm website, but I am unlikely to do that. Banshee does the work for me. The result is that this simple feature has helped me discover literally hundreds of new bands. Banshee linked and aggregated the data, and this resulted in better learning for this important part of my interests./p pYesterday I installed the a href=http://getsongbird.com/new 1.0.0 release of Songbird/a. Songbird is an iTunes like Open Source media player that holds some stunning promise. They have used Mozilla technologies and GStreamer to build a cross-platform media player. I know some of the guys who work on Songbird and wanted to give it a try: I had last used an early snapshot. While I don#8217;t want to turn this into a review (if you folks want a review, let me know and I will write one up), it ships with some interesting features that build on some of the concepts seen in Banshee. Oh, and Amarok folks, I know your media player has probably been doing all of this for years, so hold fire. img src=http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif alt=:) class=wp-smiley / /p pIn Songbird, for the artist of the song I am currently listening to, Songbird will go and look up data from a number of resources and bring it together. It grabs a summary blurb, discography, members, tags and links of the artist from Last.fm, a photo slideshow from Flickr, videos from YouTube, and News from Google News. Again, I could find this information separately without ever installing Songbird, but Songbird not only aggregated this content, but it linked it to an opportunity of curiosity (what I am listening to). I might never typically go and look for more details about emHammerfall/em, but when I am listening to it, it often triggers my interest. Songbird satisfies that curiosity before I even know I have it./p pAnother great feature of Songbird that builds on emactive learning/em is that it uses a href=http://www.songkick.com/Songkick/a to look up all of the artists in my playlist to see if there are concerts and shows in my area. With this feature I now have a list of all the up and coming shows for the artists I like (including all those obscure metal bands). This provides me with direct access to the local community and opportunities. That is one stunningly helpful and outrageously cool feature. My media player is stopping being a place to merely consume music, and instead becoming a place to aggregate everything these is about the music I listen to and the artists that make it./p pThis is an even more valuable proposition for a desktop. Just think of the range of types of media we consume and the applications that we use to consume them. Now mix this with the range of online sources of education and content. It could be really interesting to pull together these threads into one cohesive experience. I love that Totem in Ubuntu can stream BBC content to me, but I would love it to show me some information and products about that content too. I would love Evolution to provide me with an ability to easily look up terms, acronyms and products in my emails with a single click. When I look at photos in F-Spot I would love to see pricing for prints and frames to put my pictures in./p pIt would also be fascinating to identify the work-flow of education in a computer. From sourcing content in Wikipedia, how does it flow through text editors, communications tools, online services and publishing mediums? How can we identify these links in the chain and optimise them?/p pBig subject. I know. But huge potential./p

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