In a look back at Vice's widely popular The Vice Guide to North Korea, never before seen footage is used to tell the story of the North Korean "film industry."

A superbly researched and liberally foot-noted deconstruction of The History Channel's fraudulent, pseudo-intellectual masturbation serial Ancient Aliens.

Intro ( 0:00 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/124-2/
Puma Punku ( 3:38 ) or
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/puma-punku/
The Pyramids ( 22:41 ) Or
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/the-pyramids/
Baalbek, ( 37:40 ) Or
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/baalbek/
Incan sites ( 55:33 ) Or
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/incan-sites/
Easter Island ( 1:01:33 ) Or
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/easter-island/
Pacal's rocket ( 1:05:36 ) Or
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/pacals-rocket/
The Nazca Lines ( 1:13:10 ) Or
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/nazca-lines/
Tolima "fighter jets ( 1:21:16 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/tolima-fighter-jets/
Egyptian "light bulb" ( 1:27:01 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/112-2/
Ufo's in ancient art ( 1:36:08 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/ufos-in-ancient-art/
The crystal skulls ( 1:46:38 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/crystal-skulls/
Ezekiel's Wheel ( 1:58:17 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/ezekiels-wheels/
Ancient nuclear warfare ( 2:11:16 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/ancient-nuclear-w...
Vimana's ( 2:20:50 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/vimanas/
Anunnaki ( 2:32:52 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/anunnaki/
Nephilim ( 2:54:37 )
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/nephilim/
Conclusion ( 3:07:10
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/misc-and-conclusion/

My blank Das Keyboard Model S has pretty much had its last run. Purchased last March, it had seen the last of my days as a smoker and consequentially the switches have become a little gummy. Now that everyone and their uncle has a blank keyboard I pondered what would have the same level of bad-assery while being unique. Thanks to WASD Keyboards' custom laser etching and engraving it's now easy and affordable for anyone to design their own keycaps and it didn't take me very long to think of using bar codes.

WASD lets you choose from a selection of mechanical Cherry MX switches; I stuck with the Blues because they're what I know and love. You also get to choose from a range of keycap colours; using their flash-based keyboard designer it's easy to mix and match to get your ideal colour coding. The etched (contrasting colour) or engraved (indented) design can also be done in the flash designer but for full customization PDFs, Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw documents based on provided templates are accepted. This is the route I would have to take to get bar codes.

Not knowing anything about Illustrator before diving in, my alignments are a little off in some places but not to the point where it's noticeable. To make things go swiftly I used a font rather than generating individual bar codes for each key. Since Code 128 requires start, stop and check characters (which would take up far too much space on many keys) none of these bar codes are scannable with a bar code reader but the font does create valid individual character codes. Ideally, characters should be converted to objects before submission but being useless with Illustrator I submitted the font in my order comments and the staff were kind enough to play along and install it. You can grab your copy at http://k-fox.net/code128.ttf

Much to my surprise my order was already being worked on the evening it was submitted and it shipped two days later. That's some seriously fast turnaround for any sort of custom order. The keyboard itself is built like a tank and I'm overjoyed at the feel of my fresh, clean Cherry Blues!

Great job, WASD - you've landed a repeat customer.

After a series of rate hikes and cuts to Telus' service coupled with the death of my Optimus One's SD card reader I decided it was time to get a big shiny phone. The kind that I could brag about.

Meet the $649 Samsung Galaxy S III:

His name is George, and we've become very intimate friends. Here's why:

No more lagging. No more crashes. No more having to restart to switch to 3G after leaving a hotspot. Absolutely love Ice Cream Sandwich. One giant problem: does not ship with flash.

I read about Adobe dropping flash support for Android and Linux in general a couple months ago so I wasn't shocked to see it missing. I was perturbed by the fact that it is not possible to install it from Google Play, which automatically opens when one goes to the Get Flash page on Adobe's site. Apparently, it's "not available in [my] country" which I felt was a little racist against Canadians.

The good news is it's still possible to side-load the flash .apk from their Old Version archives at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html. The page says the last version is intended for Ice Cream Sandwich, so no clue if this will still work once Jellybean has finished rolling out. Contrary to some guides, I'm able to play flash in the stock browser without having to use Dolphin.

Another unfortunate oversight is the lack of USB Mass Storage Device support; one can either connect with the MTP or PTP protocols but this forces (at least) linux users who want to quickly mount the external SD card to use camera software instead. Fortunately, this too can be remedied by side-loading an APK provided by Kopfgeldjaeger at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009.

I was tickled when my USB On-The-Go cable worked as soon as I popped it in. My new memory stick launched the stock file browser and my wireless USB keyboard and mouse also worked without intervention. Using a mouse on the phone is pretty friggin cool, if not practical.

Vice travels to Chihuahua where kidnappings and murder are a virtually daily occurance to meet with Mormon colonists, including relatives of presidential candidate Mitt Romney for a look into the drug war south of the border and how United States policy affects the daily lives of nothern Mexicans.