Every time I walk into a Walmart it takes my breath away. I’m just not used to these dimensions and you have to change your way of shopping. You better don’t remember you forgot to buy milk while standing at the check out. It will set you back 30 minutes Anyway – Walmart is cutting down DVD prices (up to 66% on some new releases) + free shipping and Amazon following suit!

For example – Star Trek XI (Widescreen)

Star Trek XI which I missed to watch in the movies ( sooo stupid) sells right now for $9.98. OMG RUN!

More info: Walmart DVD Deal

- DVDs for 1 Dollar

Wish a weather forecast by Obama or Angelina Jolie? It even gives you ideas on what do wear – with Obama Weather you never have to use your brain again. Perfect!

Link: Obama Weather

- Valencia Hotel: Vincci Palace

Mike installed Ubuntu and loves it. I can’t stop playing around with inkscape. Open Office is an essential! OpenSource Rocks!

- Better than free

Everyone heard about the Netflix Prize . The person or team to improve their recommendation system by certain requirements gets a Million bucks. Sounds great?

Well, we run Criticker:

We’ve always been a two-man team, without any funding or venture capital money, and completely unaffiliated with any other site. And couple of our users suggested to take part in the Netflix Prize. We looked into it and read their T&C and decided to sooo not take part. Since everything you submit to Netflix Prize goes over in their possession.

So 1 Millions sounds good but at the end Netflix paid $1 an hour in development and probably gained resources not related to make their recommendations better.

The New York Times has an interesting article – stating that a almost Netflix Prize winner has regrets.

We are very happy that we stood away from it and that we got to keep our simple but very effective movie recommendation algorithm.

Give us a try: Criticker

Not too long ago we released a new feature on our Movie Recommendation Site: Criticker which allows 2 people to receive movie recommendations both like. Perfect for set of 2 people not being able to decide what movie to watch.

In order to use this feature you have to sign up an account ( each person one account) with Criticker and start ranking a bunch of movies (the more the better). Then find your friends profile page and add him as a Kumple (buddy). Then you will be able to generate recommendations within your Kumpel Page. Just pick your friend from the drop down menu within the Joint Recommendation box and voilà … no more fights about what movie to watch.

Sounds more complicated than it actually is.

More info: Joint Recommendations

Related: Movie Blog – Movie Forum

The question is – are camcorders turning into cameras as well or photo cameras in to camcorders. The big Egg question! My brain is smokin’!

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More info: Zi8 HD Pocket Video Camera

- Super Cool Star Wars Merchandise

And I thought I was geeky. So Valencia in that week is host of the fastest internet connection in the world with something like 8,2 GB/s and the result of that are many, many connections to Asia … for some reason:

Wondering why!

Anyway, the full write up is on our Valencia blog with couple of pics of computer mods and kids camping in the parking house.

Link: Valencia Party 2009

- Congress Hotels / Convention Hostels