November 30, 2004
Coong Studios announces beatboxing game for PS2, PSP (Make music with your mouth - more interesting Korean console development.)
MBF Today: UK Guardian excerpts book on 'disconnected' kids ("..who are indeed disengaged from the mainstream... but they have passion and creativity that they channel elsewhere." Yay.)
1UP: Andrew Vestal's first impressions of Dragon Quest VIII for PS2 (Already shipped 3 million, sold through 2.2 million in Japan, Anoop@IGN also approves.)
UKResistance: Nintendo's 2005 line-up revealed! ('Please buy our next system! It will have all the games you have played before, and, best of all, THEY ALL FEATURE MARIO!')
Gamasutra: Soapbox - On Girls & Video Games (Free reg. req. - a feisty outsider's look at women and games, from my dayjob - also see recent Eastern European game development, Doug Church interview pieces.)
Archive.org: Paradigm X Vs. Peet [xgn006] (Some very creditable, freely downloadable netlabel drum+bass from Exegene.)
November 29, 2004
Gothamist: Why buses aren't allowed on the FDR ('The maximum height on the FDR is 9 feet and 6 inches... and the bus was over 13 feet.' Ouch.)
Trikuare.cx: Results of script-kiddie attacks on recent phpBB installs. (If you haven't, upgrade phpBB _NOW_ - both my personal site and a friend's site got hit by script kiddie defacement due to an evil overflow exploit.)
Kathy Griffin gets reality series, is Surreal Life 4 cabbie (Kathy Griffin is actually funny, esp. if you're reality TV/celeb junkies like us.)
Mod Soul Brother - now Creative Commons licensed. (My classic Amiga .MOD project now has permission from the artists to Creative Commons their work - no more ambiguity about copyright.)
Ebay: Super Monkey Ball arcade board with banana joystick! (Heh, great-looking control panel for Naomi arcade add-on.)
November 28, 2004
New Yorker: 'Something Borrowed - should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life?' (A great article on borrowing versus stealing - via Intelligent Artifice.)
Amazon.co.uk: Ordering from Jersey (Amazon have set up an UK-affiliated office in the Channel Islands so they can avoid UK VAT - neat!)
2CH 'Train Man' book bestseller in Japan (Book 'strings together emails peppered with slang and emoticons over 364 pages' - l33t!)
Big Train comedy series out on DVD in the UK (Was on BBC America for about 2 seconds, from the Father Ted creators, here's more info, surreal _goodness_.)
Archive.org: Time-lapse car journey from Vienna to Southern Italy [.MP4] (One of a newly uploaded series at Archive.org - someone should make a whole site/collection for these, they're wonderful.)
November 27, 2004
Roady2 XM receiver gets Walkman adapter (Including FM transmitter, and much cheaper than the MyFi if you already have a Roady2 - but will it work on the train?)
Engadget: The Triadex Muse algorithmic music generator (From Marvin Minsky and Edward Fredkin, and gorgeously retro-chic.)
Game Boy Camera tapdancing video [.MOV] (Forward near to the end for the full effect - LSDJ music, too, from Gieskes.nl.)
'Lone Gunmen' coming to DVD in March 2005 (The X-Files spin-off was geek nirvana, well worth another look.)
More effusive reviews for Khonnor's 'Handwriting' album! (More kudos for the previously Monotonik-releasing Khonnor - the UK Telegraph and The Wire rave - is the netlabel => mainstream crossover now proven?)
Goldie Looking' Chain - 'You Know I Loves You' music video [.MOV] (Still don't understand why they're not massive here in the States. Haw.)
November 26, 2004
NewsFromMe: DirecTV dropping Trio, channel may shut down? (Nooooo... I watch Trio more than most other channels, don't close it!)
Futurama co-creator David X. Cohen working on 'Grandmaster Freak & The Furious 15' with Ice Cube (A little old, but I completely missed this - it sounds great, make it, now!)
InsertCredit: Gyakuten Saiban 3 fan-translation in progress (The great GBA lawyer sim (!) gets fansubbed - also new Sakaguchi/Uematsu and HILL Project posts by me on IC.)
Jason Bergman revisits Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' (Watchmen movie allegedly maybe getting made soon, perhaps.)
NTSC-UK: Mamaru Made In Wario GBA review (Latest Japanese tilt sensor-using Wario GBA title reviewed.)
November 25, 2004
Japan Today: Nintendo now principal owner of Seattle Mariners (Go go Mario, go go Ichiro!)
Edutopia: 'The Muddle Machine: Confessions of a Textbook Editor' (Interesting stuff indeed, from a new George Lucas Foundation non-profit educational magazine.)
O'Reilly releases Japanese-only 'Blog Hacks'? (Very odd, it's not in the U.S. release queue - wouldn't it sell well in the States?)
NPR: 'File-Sharing Tool Grows in Popularity' (About BitTorrent, mentions my LegalTorrents site and interviews LegalTorrents content suppliers Lawrence Lessig and Rick Prelinger.)
Ukrainian politician allegedly poisoned, including before and after pics. (Wow, 'acute pancreatitis, a viral skin disease and nerve paralysis on the left side of his face' around election time - scary.)
November 24, 2004
LegalTorrents: Wired Magazine Creative Commons CD hits 10,000 downloads (Not bad for less than a month's worth of BitTorrenting.)
GameSpy's World of Warcraft weblog (GameSpy are hiring some neat writers (Tom Chick, Bruce Geryk, Mark Asher) to talk about WoW - excellent.)
Tendomfg: 'Halo 2' review ('I mean how cool would it have been to start rocking out with a Mario emblem and jump on Xbox Live'?)
InsertCredit: Akella producing 'Inspector Glebsky's Puzzle' adventure game (My latest ic post, on an intriguing-looking Russian adventure game.)
Big Dutch ISP XS4ALL officially sponsoring Internet Archive's European mirror (Cool animated GIF of the 100 terabyte rack - also see Babelfished page - their help with bandwidth is much, much appreciated.)
Square Enix's 'Kingdom Hearts' gets mobile version from UK developer (..which would be Superscape, who are developing it for Disney Mobile. Old, but _very_ under-reported.)
DIYGames: Independent Adventuring for October 2004 (Jozef Purdes is a wonder, summing up some great freeware PC graphic/text adventure goodness.)
Kempa: Japanese gramophone model kit exposed (The paper cup Edison Cylinder kit looks even cooler.)
November 23, 2004
Digging up who's behind the 'JFK Reloaded' shock game (Apparently an ex-exec at VIS Interactive (now BAM), but it's not completely clear.)
UK Telegraph: The rise of Christian chick-lit? ('When she goes on a date she wears strappy shoes "to represent the humble sandals of the Carpenter".')
1UP: GoldenEye: Rogue Agent review (A possibly damning indictment of EA's 'super-studio' model, imho, and especially EA LA.)
'Snaggletooth Killer' to get 'Extreme Makeover' (Well, at least it isn't a serial killer version of 'The Swan'?)
GameDaily: Which game magazines/websites score harshest, most forgivingly? (In general, the harsher the publication, the better?)
November 22, 2004
Archive.org: 'The Secret of Monkey Island 1 1/2' Lego movie (Silly dubbing, but fun nautical backdrops for this brickfilm - there's also a sequel available.)
Bizarre Korean Street Fighter live-action movie excerpt [WMV] (It's particularly weird how many minor SFII characters they bothered to show in the intro - via Fort90.)
LegalTorrents: Lifeform Project MP3 Archive Vol.1 (Great CC-licensed stuff from the Atlanta-based electronic netlabel, my first LegalTorrents update in a while - also recompiled the Monotonik torrents.)
Yahoo: Dame Edna a Giddy Broadway Delight (Dammit, missed her show in San Francisco, largely through fear of audience ridicule, but her Trio marathon recently was divine.)
MSNBC: Hardee's serves up 1,420 calorie burger (Mm, perfectly spherical, here I come.)
November 21, 2004
Archive.org: jm_ - 'ASC.' ambient DJ set (Perfect Sunday afternoon chill-out set, with all Creative Commons/netlabel tracks.)
GameSpy: Heather Graham talks EverQuest II (Every bit as dumb as it sounds.)
Amazon.com: 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete Series' for $247 (38% off) (Wow, that's a lot of Buffy - I'm almost to the end of Season 4 of Angel via Netflix.)
Top Shelf: Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's 'Lost Girls' now due Summer 2005 ('Familiar faces from Wonderland, Oz and Neverland... meet as grown women in a mysterious hotel in 1913 England.' Long, long delayed, probably controversial, now part of Top Shelf's 2005 line-up.)
TPOLM's Lazy Sunday Radio special broadcast (From the Helsinki-founded ex-demo-scene ninjas, streaming audio from 'Barcelona, Paris, London, Sydney, Stockholm, Stavanger, Helsinki and maybe even the moon!', starting 1AM PST Sunday.)
November 20, 2004
Archive.org: Sense - 'Further EP' @ Monotonik (Latest from my net.music.label, Australia's Adam Raisbeck, late of Belgian label U-Cover and Lee 'Metamatics' Norris' Neo-Ouija, with some rather lush idm electronics.)
Ex-America's Army creator heads up new USC GamePipe research lab (The video game education/academic research sector is really taking off.)
Igloomag picks best 10 net.label albums, singles of 2004 (Good list, unfortunately not linked to the free downloads, but do a search at the Internet Archive for the artist/album names and you should find 'em quick.)
GameSpot's DS Nintendo Launch Center feature (Hoping to sneak to Target early, pick up a DS, Super Mario 64 DS, Feel The Magic: XY/XX, tomorrow morning - damn those shortages.)
Fry's B&M selling 'Gaming Hack's for $20, with $20 mail-in rebate! (Wow, so my book is essentially available for free - wotcha waiting for?)
November 19, 2004
Digital Bridges: 'Galleon: Dusk' mobile phone game (Toby Gard's aeons-in-development Tomb Raider follow-up gets a mobile spin-off? Weird.)
Internet Archive's webpage snapshots held admissable as evidence in-court ('Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys rejected Polska’s assertion of hearsay, holding that the archived copies were not themselves statements susceptible to hearsay exclusion, since they merely showed what Polska had previously posted on its site.' Good stuff.)
InsertCredit: Gadget to play .NSF music files on a real NES (Another one of my ic posts - this is great for listening to the 2A03 material!)
Weekly World News: 'World's Greatest Pick-Up Line: I'm A Big Fan Of SpongeBob SquarePants' (It's all about getting into Bikini Bottom.)
Soft Skull Press: 'Gamers' multi-author book (Got a copy of this at work, slightly alt.trendy writerly contributors, but some interesting alt.takes on gaming.)
Video-Fenky: 300th entry, still obsessing about 'Whiplash' (Kevin Gifford's cultish love for the Crystal Dynamics flop is semi-adorable.)
November 18, 2004
NCSX: Some great Japanese videogame toys for 2005 (Wow, there's supa-cool retro Nintendo watches, there's more Super Mario Bros dioramas, there's mini-Sega arcade cabinets, including the one I own.)
Jones Soda Co. enhanced holiday soda pack released (Now including Turkey & Gravy Soda, Cranberry Soda, Mashed Potato & Butter Soda, Green Bean Casserole Soda, Fruitcake Soda, mmm.)
Insert Credit: 'Jets 'N' Guns' indie shmup released (One in an occasional series of Insert Credit posts from me, myself, and eye.)
50th Anniversary Namco Wonder Box 39xCD game music set! (Wow, puts the boxed Grand Theft Auto soundtrack sets to shame.)
Archive.org: Transient - 'Over The River And Through The Woods' downtempo album (On the excellent One label, great electronics from the sometimes overlooked, pastoral Transient.)
November 17, 2004
Textfiles.com gets cease and desist from catheter manufacturer (On erotic stories, trademarks, and hilarious shenanigans - via Waxy.)
Gamasutra: WayForward To The Handheld Future (The guys behind the cult Capcom-published Shantae for GBC talk about GBA, PSP, DS. [Dayjob bias alert])
2004 Interactive Fiction competition results (Check out Andrew Plotkin's reviews for his own take on 'em, too. Via The Inbetween.)
GameSpy reviews 'Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines' (The Source-engine game released this week that isn't Half-Life 2 - already getting roundly ignored, seems intriguing.)
Second Life citizens add Neverland theme park (I never got Second Life running fast enough on my underpowered home PC, but now I want to buy a new one, already.)
Staccatomusic: new Creative Commons online radio show (Uses electronic tracks largely from the Archive netlabels collection, good stuff, all mixed up.)
November 16, 2004
Gamasutra: Soapbox - Has Mobile Game Innovation Ended Already? (Free reg. req. - intriguing Costikyan editorial, also notable for a nother yummy Mehlos illustration.)
Luxo: A blog dedicated to Pixar Animation Studios (A great example of an intelligent, beautifully focused blog site - also see RealityBlurred, ToughPigs.)
EA, Cherry Lane form new music publishing company (Not quite a takeover, as rumored, but an interesting progression of the not-horrible EA Trax-style concept.)
Archive.org: Adam Butler, live at Slow Sound System (A great live set from Butler, AKA Vert, who records for Mouse On Mars' cult Sonig label.)
November 15, 2004
AP: TV emits international distress signal ('Soon, men in Air Force uniforms, a police officer and Mike Bamberger, a Benton County Search and Rescue deputy, were at van Rossman's apartment door.')
Salon: 'Anda's game' - Cory Doctorow story about MMO sweatshops (Ad clickthru required - a good, novel subject for fiction.)
The Director's Label music video collection gets box set (Damn, bonus DVD! If I didn't have all three of these seminal collections (Jonze, Cunningham, Gondry) already...)
Brine-pumping operation 'lubricated' 3.9 earthquake? (Evil geniuses of the world, take note.)
Kuma\War subscription wargame teaming with Maxim for 'Stories From The Front' competition ('The Cavalry rides to the rescue and knowingly rushes into their third deadly ambush of the day' - now you can play real, grim Iraqi battle stories, hurrah.)
November 14, 2004
Rollo's new weblog (Our brandnew 4-month-old _adorable_ black+tan dachshund's photo blog - he's the namesake of kings, musicians, and, mm, sweet, sweet candy.)
Nuby's Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw Controller (I bet Simon Pegg will be getting one of these.)
Bravo: 'Long Way Round' TV show (Just started watching TiVo-ed copies of this, great Ewan McGregor travel adventure doc.)
Amazon.com: 2 new reader reviews for 'Gaming Hacks' (Neither by close relatives, both reasonably complimentary - yay.)
InsertCredit: Kenta Cho releases Torus Trooper (Some serious freeware PC shmup goodness, from the master.)
November 13, 2004
SpikeTV: 'Hey! Spring Of Trivia' homepage (Great semi-insane Japanese trivia show, showing on Spike TV now - apparently : 'The series has even started a new trend [in Japan] - when people hear unexpected news, they slap on a nearby object and say "Hey."')
GameSpot: The Final Hours Of Half-Life 2 (Gigantic, excellent Geoff Keighley article on the creation of Valve's finally nearly-there giga-sequel.)
MCV: EA To Buy Cherry Lane Music? (Interesting rumor - Cherry Lane are music publishers, so great for licensing both ways (towards and away from games)?)
ThinkGeek: AntWorks space-age ant environment (Yes, a 'miraculous gel, derived from a NASA Space experiment, serves as both habitat and nutrition for your ants' - plus, it looks great!)
DIY Games: Interview with Josh Roberts of Chapter 11 Studios (Creator of forthcoming indie 2D adventure Rise Of The Hidden Sun, looking very interesting.)
November 12, 2004
Wooster Collective: Roadsworth street art, Montreal (Really cool, playful adaptations of regular road features.)
Cute/lame illustration for Spider-Man & Friends kiddie TV game cart (I like Hulk's pose - for the V.Tech V.Smile educational console, by the shadowy Shantae creators Wayforward - look for a Gamasutra interview with them soon.)
Man Blinded 4 Times In Same Eye (..or not. 'Blinded by a flying disc on a riverboat cruise with a Civil War theme?' Wha? Via Fortean Times Breaking News.)
Gamasutra: ' Funny, Me? On Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude and the Search for Humor in Gaming' (Free reg. req. - a designer discusses the birth of Larry's rather risque nephew.)
O'Reilly press release for 'Gaming Hacks' (The real one, as opposed to my made-up one for the hardcore gaming press, heh.)
Marvel sues City Of Heroes MMO over character designs ('Easily allows players to design characters that are virtual copies of its own superheros'? This one will be interesting.)
November 11, 2004
Ex-EA programmer Joe Straitiff continues ea_spouse's issues with corporate culture (I actually used to work with Joe when I was in game development - he's a great guy, and I'm sorry this happened to him.)
BitTorrent for Ilovebees.com DVD (Here's info on the DVD, here's the proof that free distribution is allowed, from ilovebees designer Elan Lee - via /. Games.)
Telegraph: Giant hail killed 200 in ancient Himalayas ('The balls of ice would have been falling at more than 100mph, killing some victims instantly.')
NFG Games: Impressions of Dreamcast title 'Baldr Force EXE' (Another brand new Dreamcast game for Japan, wow, but apparently it's not as exciting as many thought. Nice free Baldrbot, though.)
'Gaming Hacks' officially released by O'Reilly (My book for O'Reilly is now available in stores, yay, including Amazon for 32% off cover price - and yes, this is a plug.)
Food recommendation: 'The Ernie Banks' pizza, Pizz'a Chicago, San Jose, CA ('Hoisin ginger lemon sauce, Thai chicken, red onions, shitake mushrooms, peanuts, shredded carrots, cilantro.' Yum!)
John Buckman of Magnatune on the online music business space (Mentions netlabels too, among other things - good overview of the competitors.)
November 10, 2004
'EA: The Human Story' @ ea_spouse's LiveJournal (Probably not a problem just confined to EA, but strikingly illustrated here.)
Nintendo DS promo video, redux (.SWF) (Not the one posted a few days ago, this one has footage from all the launch titles, plus Animal Crossing DS and a host of others.)
Gamasutra: 'Natural Funativity' by Noah Falstein (Free reg. req, original co-creator of Sinistar discusses primal blending of physical, social, and mental fun as being vital to creating enjoyable video games - neeto.)
Necromonopoly - a board game about 'land-grabbing the Cthulhu Mythos' (And yes, you pay rent in sanity for properties like Lost Kadath. Genius. Via OgreCave.)
Reuters uses BBC America 'The Prisoner' airings to reminisce (Nice to see this genius series revisited, now it's showing on BBC America again - check my photos of Portmeirion, if you haven't.)
Konami Japan's quarterly financial results, with streaming video (Fun to see sequentially bowing suits, also Konami's diet supplement business - yes, that's 'Flavangenol up 50'!)
November 09, 2004
SF Bay Guardian: 'Dachshund Revolution' (Group meetups for 'smooth, red barking machines' and their wiener brethren are _in_, baby - we're getting a black+tan dachshund soon, most likely.)
IGN: Hands-on with a retail boxed Nintendo DS (Check out the 'surprise' thumb strap as a stylus alternative - neat!)
Eurogamer: Kieron Gillen's belated, charmingly written review of City Of Heroes (Ultimately about 'hitting people in the face, while looking really good', he concludes.)
NCSX: Famicom cushion with Disk System add-on! (If you dig the Japanese version of the NES, geekiest. thing. evah.)
''A study of interaction patterns in Star Wars Galaxies' (PDF) (PARC academics discussing cantina interactions in SW:G - via Terra Nova.)
November 08, 2004
1UP: David Cross interviewed on his voice acting for both GTA: San Andreas and Halo 2 (Bit of a double voiceover whammy there, eh?)
Capcom's Viewtiful Joe game character goes real-life wrestling in Japan! (Insert obligatory Giant Haystacks reference here - via GeekOnStun.)
Archive.org: Volga - 'Kiasma' MP3 EP ('A project from Moscow that combines ancient pagan Russian folk songs with contemporary experimental electronics' - good stuff.)
Billboard Digital Entertainment award winners announced (EyeToy for game innovation, City of Heroes for best multiplayer, BioWare for best game developer - actually sensible!)
Private Eye: Lookalikes, Issue 1118 (The age-old 'wrong caption' joke never, ever, gets old. Nice Blair lookey-likey, too.)
November 07, 2004
Yahoo/AP: 'Read a book, get brain' bus ad causes controversy ('I went downstairs to the mailroom and showed some of the young guys a copy of the ad. I was watching their faces and they all start smirking.')
ARG News: ILoveBees game ends with a bang. (More info on the game's finale, which allowed players to meet the Puppetmasters in person and get a sneak-peek play of Halo 2 plus a DVD of the ilovebees audio.)
Weekly World News: Tom Ridge's house robbed 5 times in 3 weeks ('Whenever a kid rides by with a bicycle, Ridge's 'home alert' goes up to yellow.' Silly, silly WWN.)
InsertCredit: Pump It Up (Korean Dance Dance Revolution clone) coming to PS2 (My first in a set of occasional news posts for insert credit, for which I MT-ed their now multi-author news page - see a main ffwd blog entry for more info.)
November 06, 2004
Archive.org: Scanner Recordings for Washtenaw County, MI, October 2004 (Wow, local police/emergency scanner recordings, 24 hours per day for the entire month of October, recorded in OGG Speex.)
Marvel Comics - 'Forty Years Of The Amazing Spider-Man' CD-ROM (Oh. My. God. Here's the full cover art - a bit like the MAD Magazine collection, I love stuff like this - via EvilAvatar.)
4orty 2wo - the ILoveBees/Cloudmakers creators' company revealed (Here's the confirmation for ILoveBees - the management team includes all The Beast/Cloudmakers chief suspects from Microsoft, including FASA/Wizkids genius Jordan Weisman, Elan Lee, and Sean Stewart.)
Amazing ILM Halloween party T-Rex costume (Unfortunately a bit difficult to make out, but what a costume! Any better pics online? The party invitation is a doozy, too.)
November 05, 2004
NCSX: Tatacon sound game gadget (The cute mascot from Namco's great Taiko Drum Master gets his own 'Simon Says' (haw!) type game.)
AP: Obesity raising airline fuel costs (...by $275 million in 2000, according to estimates.)
Private Eye: Neophiliacs, Issue 1118 ('It’s official – genealogy is the new TV property porn.' What?)
2A03.org NES music archive gets massive update. (Wow, now there's 1284 freely downloadable NES songs to grab.)
Reuters: 'File-sharing network [BitTorrent] thrives below the radar' (My site LegalTorrents listed first in 'among the best legitimate sites for movies and music', yay.)
November 04, 2004
Game Developers Conference 2005: 'Game Design Challenge: The Emily Dickinson License' (The official GDConf 2005 site is live, and this talk... Will Wright, Richard Garriott, Peter Molyneux devising a game based on Emily Dickinson's poetry? Score.)
'Ipagos: Floatyboy' (Flash music video.) (No idea how old it is, but it's agreeably surreal and bleepy, so there you have it.)
1UP: '16 Season Sleepers' - overlooked Xmas games (For a print-mag, so a little woolly on dates, but bonus points for insane clay art.)
Siegfried & Roy drive-by an example of life imitating Ace Ventura? (As a friend pointed out, the whole deranged ex-NFL kicker thing is wacky, considering the first movie's plot. Not that S&R have started in the NFL recently.)
Gamasutra: 'Woofing At The Moon: On Mastiff's Small-Publisher Approach to the U.S. Import Gaming Market' (Free reg. req., the tiny La Pucelle Tactics publisher talks, uhh, tactics.)
November 03, 2004
Man mauled trying to convert African lions to Christianity (Target market perhaps not too well thought-out.)
UKResistance: 'Free tips book' for OutRun 2, Doom 3, Fable (UKR aping the UK magazine cover-book craze and being helpful, as always - 'Ideal for 35-year-old men')
Gamasutra: 'Soapbox: Why Virtual Worlds are Designed By Newbies - No, Really!' (Free reg. req, MUD co-creator Richard Bartle rages against the MMO machine, _great_ accompanying illustration by Erin Mehlos.)
Chow Magazine - a nu-skool food mag (Looks neat, Holly already ordered the trial issue - via BoingBoing.)
Christ-Centered Game Reviews looks at GTA: San Andreas ('...now us Christians must go into damage control and try to sheild ourselves from this digitized form of Satan.')
November 02, 2004
Malcolm McLaren claims to be considering 'anti-Pop Idol' show ("You have to choose the worst, not the best. One lesson is making the worthless valuable, then in making ugliness beautiful.")
Gamasutra: 'Not All Design Documents Are Created Equal' (Free reg. req., an excerpt from Richard Rouse's book is on the money regarding game design document bloating.)
IGN: Xbox Live Arcade review (Still a fascinating idea, even if the line-up and especially pricing isn't spectacular yet.)
E-Merl: 'The Mr. Nile Experiment' abstract webcomic (Surprisingly good, odd stuff, also see The Formalist for more intriguing Flash zooming oddity - via Gillen.)
Washington Post registered 'Washingtonpost lovesjesus.com' (Original reference was non-specific, Slashdot geeks found the answer - 2000 precautionary domain regs? Wow.)
Archive.org: 'Sadobabies - Runaways in San Francisco' (A "no-budget" 8mm video documentary made in 1986-8 about runaways in SF - more neat free stuff.)
November 01, 2004
Commodore 64 30-in-1 'TV Game' gets official game list (Whoa, Speedball, Paradroid, Cybernoid, Uridium, lots more!)
Video Games Live concert series FAQ (Now booking for 2005-2006, orchestra, choir, stage show, video, Tommy Tallarico, who could ask for more?)
P-Rappa's Nth Mile Dilemma (Apparently, a Parappa The Rapper vs. 8 Mile fan-film - yes, there's a trailer, too.)
Filmforce interviews _hilarious_ video game movie director Uwe Boll ("I think it was good that a woman wrote [the BloodRayne movie] because it has that erotic lesbian but violent... touch.")
TheJohnCleese.com officially opens for business ($50 a year subscription for John showing you round his aviary isn't so good, and some slight Flash hell, but there's some fun preview videos.)