MacSaber makes Gizmodo's Top 5 Hacker Vids

December 28, 2006 3:04 PM

MacSaber makes Gizomodo's Top 5 Hacker (?) Vids.
posted by juv3nal to MetaFilter-Related at 3:04 PM (17 comments total)

Gizmodo even.
posted by juv3nal at 3:05 PM on December 28, 2006

Hey, I read a website started by that guy.
posted by cillit bang at 3:23 PM on December 28, 2006

Engadgiboingizomodo.
posted by loquacious at 3:24 PM on December 28, 2006

har har Macsaber's one of the first little addons I stuck on my Macbook Pro when I first bought it. soooo geekily delicious!
posted by lonefrontranger at 3:50 PM on December 28, 2006

Accelerometers are the new black.
posted by cortex at 3:56 PM on December 28, 2006

I am so very proud.
posted by mds35 at 4:05 PM on December 28, 2006

Nifty. But Matt, what's with the dead-serious gaze? Are you deadly serious about something? Something that you are gazing at perhaps?

[The Lifehacker Wii home automation was pretty slick.]
posted by quin at 4:19 PM on December 28, 2006

So it's just a vid of Matt mac-ing off?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:29 PM on December 28, 2006

The dead serious gaze was me trying to do the same one the original star wars kid did.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:36 PM on December 28, 2006

Matt has one of the better dead serious gazes on the Web. The perfect balance between dead and serious. It's a gift.
posted by wendell at 4:43 PM on December 28, 2006

MacSaber is also one of the first things I downloaded for my MacBook Pro.


Just don't tell anyone I own a MacBook Pro.
posted by eyeballkid at 7:44 PM on December 28, 2006

Wow. I just watched that video again (for the first time in a while) and you have some serious anger going on Matt.
posted by eyeballkid at 7:48 PM on December 28, 2006

So do you have the Banhammer hooked up to the motion sensor, is that how you ban people? That would explain the anger.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:08 PM on December 28, 2006

Anger? Surely the banhammer is wielded with delicious glee.
posted by hangashore at 9:03 PM on December 28, 2006

Why do I get the feeling that Matt's Banhammer was actually a beta-test version of the Wii nunchuks?
posted by wendell at 12:27 AM on December 29, 2006

mathowie: "The dead serious gaze was me trying to do the same one the original star wars kid did."

The comments I've seen about your video makes it clear to me that hardly anyone ever saw Star Wars Kid. I guess the kind of exposure that made a video considered "viral" in 2003 doesn't hold up to scrutiny in our modern post-Ben-takes-a-picture-of-himself-every-day world. Sad, really. I feel for Ghyslain.
posted by Plutor at 7:34 AM on December 29, 2006

mathowie: "The dead serious gaze was me trying to do the same one the original star wars kid did."

And from the blog entry about it:

I went for accuracy, combing my hair down, putting on tight khakis and a striped tight shirt, and following his first set of movements.

I'm very amused at how you stress that you are trying to look like the SWK. We know you aren't so truly dorky that you wear your hair like that and would make such a serious video. ;)
posted by frecklefaerie at 3:45 PM on December 29, 2006