It's hard to believe that this extravagant plan is actually more conservative than the original, but prohibitive steel costs nixed an even more bizarre structure with almost no support beams and way more skylights. It's always safe to be pessimistic about these kinds of things, but the target date for completion is 2012. [Yanko]

The World Trade Center attacks mark a deep cut in our recent history that is still being processed. The French-American artist Douglas Edric Stanley has found an unusual – though obvious – metaphor with his work “Invaders!”, which is based on the 1978 arcade original. In his interactive large installation, the players must prevent the catastrophe by controlling the well- known cannon at the lower screen border with their bodies and firing it using arm movements. Like the original, this trial is ultimately
unsuccessful, thus creating an articulated and critical commentary about the current war strategy. In this regard, Douglas Edric Stanley sees Space Invaders as “a social tale that can be related to historical tales without losing its poetic power” (D.E. Stanley).

If by "poetic power" the artist meant "Mad Libs," then we're in total agreement. [GC Germany via Kotaku]

So, forgive them? Thanks, Reggie – Travis Hudson

BenQ MusicQ Site, Apology Letter

Translation and details after the jump.

The words are:

1st line: Even if
2nd line: The World is destroy to dust, I still believe in
3rd line: Music

So, "Even if the world is destroy[ed] to dust, I still believe in music".

The guy apparently is the lead singer for some Taiwanese/Chinese band called Mayday. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. The other half is getting your ad department to run their images past some Americans before putting them live. – Jason Chen

Thanks Mark!

BenQ must have taken a page from BlackBerry's Pearl Harbor ad campaign where the Japanese were depicted as dropping smartphones into the hands of screaming Cingular users. – Jason Chen

Product Page [BenQ - Thanks Nick!]