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Koala Time!

Koala Time!

I’m currently in Sydney, Australia for a number of talks about Catholic New Media. And today I had my first encounter with a Koala!

Back to the Future and the Space Time Continuum

Back to the Future and the Space Time Continuum

The Back to the Future trilogy ranks high on my list of all-time favorite movies. Part II is my favorite of the three, followed by I and III. Even though I watched the trilogy multiple times, there is one continuity problem I can’t believe I never spotted before!
Remember how the ending of BTTF I showed Marty [...]

New Star Wars game features movie-like voice acting

Star Wars: The Old Republic will be a fully voiced massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, and although the look is kept somewhat cartoonish for the sake of performance (much like World of Warcraft), the game sounds just like a movie.

Star Wars Behind the Scenes

Star Wars Behind the Scenes

Check out this never-before-seen home video footage of ILM working on the effects of the first Star Wars movie:

Star Wars Behind the Scenes
I had this “Star Wars Behind the Scenes” magazine as a kid when A New Hope came out, and remember staring for hours at photos of the same scenes you see in this videoclip: the [...]

Organ Hero II Gameplay Footage

Jeff Miller unveiled the first images of a game that set new standards in liturgical gaming, “Organ Hero I“. I recently discovered what looks like in-game footage of the upcoming “Organ Hero II”!

The Official Game of Vatican II: Organ Hero

The Official Game of Vatican II: Organ Hero

I have recently joined the masses that, as soon as work is done and dishes are washed, exchange their dreary day to day lives for the life of a famous Rock Star. All thanks to the ‘Guitar Hero’ and ‘Rock Band’ games for the XBox 360, the PS3, the Nintendo Wii and even for the [...]

Pac-Man on Twitter

Pac-Man on Twitter

With Twitter, you can easily track and follow anyone with an account – as Pac-Man discovers to his dismay…
Illustration by Scott Hampson

Audioboo for Catholics

Walking through Audioboo from Mark Rock on Vimeo.
Thanks to Leo Laporte’s MacBreak Weekly podcast, I heard about this great new application for the iPhone, called ‘Audioboo‘. When installed on an iPhone, it allows you to record short, 5 minute long audioclips, and upload them to the Audioboo server, where they become instantly available as a podcast [...]

Be kind

“Unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18,3):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxm5ol6GE48

Archbishop Vista

Archbishop Vista

This ’steam punk’ PC is called “The Archbishop”, and it runs on (stained glass) Windows Vista. Soon available with a church mouse for navigation and with Holy Water cooling. It is unknown whether you can downgrade from ‘Archbishop Vista’ to ‘Auxiliary Bishop XP’.
Original article on Boing Boing


Father Roderick Vonhögen is a priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, the Netherlands and CEO of the international Catholic New Media Organization SQPN.com.

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