You’ve seen Siri rap, play the piano, and sort out even the most impossible schedules for good ol’ Saint Nick. Now, you get to see Siri act, as the digital assistant stars in The Holiday Horror Movie. Okay, it’s actually a spoof trailer for a fake slasher movie, but the clip is something worth watching if you like extra heaps of cheese with your humor and have an extra two minutes on hand. The Holiday Horror Movie trailer starts off with a bunch of kids getting an iPhone 4S for Christmas. Siri then somehow becomes autonomous, and proceeds to murder the proverbial crap out of everyone, Jason-style. Fun! [video after the break].
You might have noticed something different on Google’s homepage today: the usual logo has been replaced with a Google logo-looing guitar. One that you can actually play – provided that you can make heads or tails of the ten strings and the chords they’re all bunched together as. Anyway, the playable-guitar-logo-thing commemorates the late Les Paul’s 96th birthday.
Nvidia and YouTube has teamed up to put out a number of free 3D videos that you can view for free. While anyone can check out the 3D clips posted on YouTube, it’s not exactly for everyone, because you’re going to need to view them using Nvidia’s own 3D Vision kit to get the full effect. The effect being what Nvidia calls the best 3D videos available on YouTube.
If you have a PC, Google TV, iOS or Android device and a couple of hours to burn, here’s something you might want to have to check out. Okay, you really don’t have to do it but since you have time to spare, just go for it. YouTube is serving up full movies for free. And we’re not talking about previews, teaser clips, or do-something-to-watch-them tricks here: we’re talking full-length films that you can burn a couple of hours with. Granted, we’re not exactly talking about premium Hollywood hits here either, but hey, if you like classics and B-Movies like Alice in Wonderland (the 1949 classic starring Carol Marsh; not the weird, trippy one that stars bug-eyed Johnny Depp), Supercroc and Horror of the Zombies, awesome for you.
Here’s what just went down during day two of Google’s I/O 2011 keynote: the Chrome Web Store has expanded to 41 languages to give more people access to the apps, and they also mentioned that they’re only getting five percent of app revenues, so 95 percent of the app’s price goes to the developer. That’s all good and well, but what does it mean to the average Joe? Unfortunately, the announcements won’t make much of a difference to you if you use Firefox or IE to surf the web. But here’s something that might make you want to switch: Angry Birds just jumped to the web, letting you sling these unhappy avians towards green pigs like you would on a smartphone or tablet using your browser… if you don’t own or don’t have access to a smartphone or tablet. Awesome if you’d rather use a mouse to play the game, and good news if you don’t own an Android or iOS device. Best of all, it’s totally free, as long as you’re running Chrome. (Actually, it looks like the game will be able to run on other browsers that supports WebGL, but Firefox 4 is currently not supported… yet.)
