November 30, 2005
UK Guardian: 'Guardian website scoops Gervais podcast' (Sounds promising - via PaidContent, though it's, uh, free.)
Media Network: 'Siemens supplying latest Internet technology to Greenland' (Thinking about working very remotely?)
PR: 'Morita Tribute Features Classic Game Show Appearances on 'MATCH GAME'' (Worst. Tribute. Ever.)
Princess Cruises' 'Bridge Cams' page (Webcams mounted on the entire fleet of luxury ships - fun to spy exotic places!)
Official site of Mini Melodies C64 & female vocals duo (Here's a sample MP3, some odd smooth & bleep contrasts here from old Monotonik-er Linus.)
Idiot Toys spots 'the new best site in the world ever' ('This is a site of fake promotional images of business. It's brilliant, and the kind of thing we'd have done if we had (a) friends and (b) a suit.')
November 29, 2005
Religion News Blog/Dallas News on the success of the religious 'Dummies' books (Over 100,000 copies of 'Catholicism for Dummies' sold! Via FT)
Robot Dreams: 'The Best Robosapien V2 Videos So Far!' (Throwing bowling pins is the next step to sentience - via RW.)
Gamasutra: 'Designer's Notebook: The End Of Copyright' (The ever-entertaining Ernest Adams ruminates on copyright and games.)
UK Guardian Techblog lists the 'Top 20 geek novels' ('The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy' is number one. Unsurprisingly.)
Cobalt Pet gets a shortwave reception card from KBS South Korea (Shortwave radio is delightfully arcane - nice card, too.)
November 28, 2005
Dork Tidings: A review of the 'Kobolds Ate My Baby!' paper-RPG (Here's the official site - 'It's not your fault that the tastiest thing a Kobold has ever eaten is sweet baby!')
Readme.fi: 'Pelaajan niksikirja' - Finnish version of 'Gaming Hacks' (Wow, didn't know, need to get a copy - here's a digital excerpt, for the nosy Finn gamers.)
Xooglers: Talking about Dennis Hwang's Google logo variants (Here's lots of recent ones - Da Vinci's birthday++.)
'Dean Gray presents American Edit' mash-up album (Linked almost solely because of 'Dr. Who On Holiday' - mm, The Timelords. Via normalroach.)
Archive.org: Dead Eros - When EP [mtk156] (And, new on Monotonik, Ann Arbor, MI-based 'light, sinewave-strewn idm/dark, foreboding ambient'.)
Turntable & Blue Light has an overview of my netlabel, Monotonik (Nice to see Beak and Qeshi getting some love - plus more Monotonik reviews.)
November 27, 2005
TPOLM Lazy Sunday Radio is tomorrow, starts 1pm CET (The Barcelona/Melbourne/Helsinki connection - great fthr art too.)
The Comics Reporter interviews Martin Kellerman about Fantagraphics' Rocky (On the Swedish, painstakingly translated 'talkiest modern comic strip'.)
Gamasutra: 'Postcard: 'How to Manage a Large-Scale Online Gaming Community'' (Rich Vogel argues: "Win over your community so that they are forgiving of you when you really screw up.")
TVShowsOnDVD: 'Star Trek - Ultimate Collection Proves Popular!' (A 30% saving from the $3539.84 SRP! What a steal!)
Borat.kz: Borat's reply to the Kazakhstani government [.MOV] (Who threatened to sue him, as you may remember.)
Archive.org: Maus - Recogniser - [drift004] (Great free crunchy idm MP3 album - via boelex.)
November 26, 2005
Fortean Times reviews 'The Science Of Aliens' exhibition at London Science Museum (Here's the official site - fun idea.)
The Publican: Christmas beer round-up (Mm, 'Santa’s Piste', replacing 'Reinbeer's Revenge'.)
The Agony Column reviews Jess Nevins' 'The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana' (This book is droolworthy, from the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen annotator himself.)
TV Squad editor defends The Tony Danza Show's parrot (My brain is broken - if you watch The Soup [which you should], you might find this extra-hilarious.)
MJZ.com: Spike Jonze's store-demolishing ad for The Gap (Never spotted this - there's also his excellent Ikea 'lamp' ad and a great Levi's one up there - semi-via RW.)
November 25, 2005
Improbable Research: 'How distracting is Onanism?' (Very distracting, or not distracting enough?)
Warren Ellis posts a pic of a bootleg DVD with the Global Frequency pilot on it (Lots more info on the show online - as well as the pilot itself, somewhere.)
Moggieboy: The Fall's Mark E Smith reads the soccer scores on the BBC (The post-nearly man gets out of the house, to pleasant effect.)
UK Independent on advert soundtracks making bands famous (Some of the examples seem a little off, though, esp. Badly Drawn Boy/Gap - via Music Filter.)
BBC: Scottish band Looper have made 500,000 UKP in ad/film music (Mainly from one track, too, the official site has free MP3 EPs as a thankyou.)
Archive.org: Harry Houdini's voice, recorded onto an Edison wax cylinder in 1914 (Voices from the past.)
November 24, 2005
Xbox.com: My Xbox 360 Live gamer card (Notable lesson thus far: Mutant Storm Reloaded is very, very good.)
TV Tip: A&E's 'Knights Of The South Bronx' movie (Ted Danson. 'Walt' From Lost. Directed by a Hughes Brother. This is all you need to know.)
CityPages: 'The Mad Scientist' (Talking about intelligent design critic and Pharyngula blogger PZ Myers - via amk.)
IHT: 'The nerds get their revenge in Tokyo's new Cool Central' (A fun round-up of why nerd is now cooler in .JP. Via CB.)
Yahoo! Photos: 'Robotica' custom $200,000 motorcycle (Engineering to extremes produces, well, this.)
Random tip 'o the day: Slayeroffice's 'Color Palette Creator' for webpages (I found this very handy when tweaking colors (using hex) for a new website.)
November 23, 2005
DVD Savant reviews the 1933 King Kong special edition DVD (Definitely giving this a rental.)
Defamer: 'One More Angel In Ugly Dog Heaven' (Aww, poor ol' Sam has gone to terrify the doggie afterlife.)
ARGN on the 'Edoc' hidden-message clothing line (As mentioned, the new Wired has pics - cool-looking clothes with secrets.)
Internet Archive changes Grateful Dead archiving policy (Presumably GD-impelled: ' Audience recordings are available in streaming format (m3u). Soundboard recordings are not available.')
November 22, 2005
Trio closing down as U.S. cable channel (Relaunching as broadband-only, aw - I really liked its chutzpah, this is a shame - via PC.)
Kieron 'NGJ, haw!' Gillen gets Image Comics graphic novel series (Congrats, Kieron - best of British, etc.)
MTV: Mike Mills, (probably!) Hammer & Tongs confirmed for next Director Label DVDs (We can only hope for the hinted-at Shynola, too - via DF.)
White Stripes - 'The Denial Twist' music video [.MOV] (Wow, single-take, Conan has a square head, lots more info via Director-File's new Michel Gondry blog.)
Gamasutra: 'A Game Developers' Bill of Rights' (Eric Zimmerman is a smart cookie - this is a vitally important document.)
Various - 'a.a.v.v.: breaking down the barriers 1995-2005, ten years of afe' album (Gigantic free anniversary MP3 collection which includes neat new Planet Boelex MP3.)
November 21, 2005
I'm easing off on game-related links here for a while (Check [part of] my dayjob, Gamasutra news, instead - and wait for exciting announcements, ohyes.)
Music Thing shows off Moog papercraft (Including a Klaus Schulze special edition!)
2005 World Scrabble Championships - game archive (You can interactively forward through matches - neat!)
Kotaku has Spike TV Video Game Award winners (I was on the (large!) voting panel for this, pleased to see RE4 (and We Love Katamari!) won stuff.)
November 20, 2005
U.S. TV recommendation: Sundance Channel's 'I Am Not An Animal' cartoon (Here's more info at the BBC - from Steve Coogan's Baby Cow.)
Yahoo!/Reuters: 'Radish recovering after murder attempt' ("People discouraged by tough times were cheered by its tenacity and strong will to live." Via FT.)
U.S. TV recommendation: Morrissey's 'Who Put The M In Manchester?' (A great concert film from his latest tour - gay/lesbian channel Logo is also showing UK series Bob & Rose, which I've heard good things about.)
Yahoo!/AP: Golfer John Daly to star in reality show for The Golf Channel (This might actually be fun.)
Teriyaki Boyz - 'Heartbreaker' 45-second video clip (It's the 'PV streaming' link in the bottom left - Daft Punk-produced Beatles-dressing Bape oddness.)
AlienLovesPredator.com Escherizes Starbucks (The normal webcomic itself is also great Odd Couple-esque stuff.)
The Stanford Chaparral student magazine archive (Some of the cover art is lots of fun, also handy stock tips available.)
Archive.org: Sonic Walker netlabel DJ mixes (Some new, really neat mixes of freely downloadable net.label tunes - nice Thinner special.)
November 19, 2005
Ben '222b' finds a 'lost' U.S. Treasure GBA game (Wow, I've never seen this before, and there's still 79 on eBay, collector-geeks!)
Rummage Through The Crevices: 'Seven Sonic Sculptures From Utvaer' (Remote Norwegian islands++)
Edge Online chats to the Harmonix guys ('We had to cut it out of [Guitar Hero], but we had a solo improvisational mode that was almost awesome'. DOH!)
Idle Thumbs interviews the VideoGaiden/ConsoleVania guys (They're cool - episodes watchable online - via ShackNews.)
1UP: 'Desperate Measures' (Now we have our office Xbox 360, I'm not staying up all night to get mine. Maybe.)
CNet News: 'Will small publishers still have game?' (Good stuff from Monsieur Terdiman, now dug in at CNet.)
Blue King Studios: Rick Dakan's 'Geek Mafia' novel (The City Of Heroes co-creator looks like he's writing something v.semi-autobiographical. Intriguing.)
Gamasutra: 'Organizing And Formatting Game Dialogue' (Red Storm's Rafael Chandler is eminently practical.)
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter: ''South Park' duo in 3-year Paramount deal' (Their new company? 'Trunity, a Mediar company, a division of True Mediar, a Unity Corpbopoly.')
PSP Updates: Homebrew DDR clone for PSP that uses StepMania files (Wow, pretty impressive - lots of songs to choose from, too.)
UK Guardian: 'Do your bit for the games industry this Christmas' (Good recommendations, all.)
November 18, 2005
GameSpy puts its foot down on non-multiplayer testable game reviews (By... just giving them a different rating? How is this taking a stand?)
Gamasutra: 'Play More With SNK: Kimura, Falcoon On SNK's Return' (Ooo, Falcoon. Actually, grumpy Falcoon.)
Hollywood Reporter: 'Sponsors go ape over advergames' (Virtual apes dodging Pringle cans sounds like an Onion story.)
Gamasutra: 'Media Consumption: The Longest Journey's Ragnar Tørnquist' (He's from Norway, likes A-Ha.)
Best Buy threatens Kotaku [successfully] over leaked Xbox 360 launch details (Whatever the outcome, Kotaku could have been less whiny.)
Wooster Collective points out PSP 'street art' in U.S. cities (I find this eye-pleasing, therefore am cool with it.)
GAF: Special Japanese 'War Of The Worlds' Xbox 360 faceplate to celebrate DVD release (Mm, limited edition stuff - via Gamewatch originally.)
Gelflog talks to New Yorker journalist about Borat (As he says, we hope the Borat movie is better than the Ali G one.)
Aggro Me interviews text adventure legend Scott Adams about EverQuest II (From typing to ganking.)
DevilDucky.com: Gorillaz' 3D hologram performance from MTV Europe Music Awards (Difficult to work out without being there, but wow, that looks impressive.)
UC Santa Barbara audio cylinder digitization project (Around 5,000 up already, for example 'The Teddy Bear's Picnic' from the Edison Orchestra, 1908.)
November 17, 2005
Flickr: My new photo-roll (Including pics of neat artcars parked in San Jose and Halloween Rollo dress-up pics, also mirrored on the diva's blog. Sorry.)
Business Week: 'The Many Ways to Make a Game' (Referencing the Experimental Gameplay Workshop guy's Gamasutra piece, even.)
Findarticles: Complete text of December 2005 'Computer Gaming World' (Wow, thanks, FindArticles - via QT3.)
GameSpot: 'Yuke's: Behind The Scenes' (Very good feature profiling the Japanese 'Smackdown' game creators.)
MTV News: 'Violins Control Violence In Experimental 'Mortal Kombat'-Inspired Project' (Nice write-up of fun concept.)
Oregon Coast Aquarium's 'Turtle Song' gets award, 'Stepmania' song (Here's the lunatic song, here's the file for StepMania, the world is crazy.)
Shacknews on Will Wright's 'Smart Bomb' book appearance (Nice to see 'The Last Express' get some well-deserved love.)
Oregon Daily Emerald: 'Rally protests AXE ‘game of seduction’' ('Signs with slogans such as “My body is NOT a game! ‘Mojo Master’ is lame” were carried.')
Joystiq: 'French stamps to feature video game icons' ('I'm not surprised to see they're including Pac-Man, seeing as how the whole game involved running away.' Oh dear!)
November 16, 2005
'The Steam Review' weblog (Independent blog monitoring Valve's ever more interesting content delivery platform.)
Eurogamer's first impressions of DS 'Brain Exercise' (Muh brain hurts. Hopefully this will remedy.)
Ill Clan: 'Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will' (Live machinima fun from the Ill Clan crazies.)
Australian Carlton Beer 'big ad' (Definitely a big ad - here's more info on the lyrics and general ridiculousness.)
UKR's 'Blue Sky In Games' Campaign ('We want to play in a HAPPY PRETEND LAND, not a shit version of an American slum full of mixed-race gangsters wearing licensed sportswear!')
Wall Street Journal talks, implausibly, text adventures ('A New Life" consists of nothing more than text on a screen, and a blinking cursor awaiting players' commands.')
November 15, 2005
Music Thing: 'eBay of the day: Coolest thing in the world, ever!' (The 'Cyborg Biolab Biofeedback Rack', of course.)
Gamasutra: 'Playing Catch-Up: Crack dot Com's Dave 'DDT' Taylor' (Another good retrospective on a mid-'90s notable.)
UK Yahoo!: 'Kazakhstan threatens "Borat" with court' (Watch the MTV Europe Music Awards if you can - it's on U.S. MTV right now. You'll get the idea.)
Shrapnel Games: 'Weird Worlds' playable demo (Great news, Digital Eel releases SAIS source too, most interesting.)
Dub Beautiful @ Archive: 'Wavelord - Live at Subzero Frequencies 5-18-01' (JHNO's electronic jazz quartet caught live - totally lush, free.)
ffwd mainblog: 'November Spawned A Monster' (Just a rare ffwd blog update, with info about the next Game Developer and other miscellany.)
Gazunta's 'What Was That Game?' wiki (Didn't realize this had been wiki-ized - very neat - also see What Was That Movie?.)
Derek Yu: 'Googlopia' comic (Welcome to the wooorld of tomorrow!)
MTV News: 'Beck Gets World's Only 'Dream Robots' Dancing To 'Hell Yes'' (Hell yes... video not available online yet, tho, doh.)
Gamasutra: 'Question of the Week Responses: Underrated Games?' (Hopefully not too many people plugging their own games, heh.)
November 14, 2005
Cycling74 on JazzMutant's Lemur live controller (Like a hyper-customizable Kaoss Pad controller? Yum.)
LegalTorrents.com adds 'The Best Of Kahvi Netlabel Archives Vol.1' (Almost 1gb of free .torrent music goodness, largely in .OGG form, even.)
Archive.org AV Geeks: 'Living with the Atom' (1957 film on 'the morality behind the awesome power of atomic energy.')
4 Color Rebellion: Hi-res mod for emulated 'The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time' out (Nice idea, if tragically illicit.)
Private Eye's 'Funny Old World' on an Austrian town's shame ('Residents of two other Austrian communities, Windpassing and Wank on the Lake, suffer a similar reluctance.')
PR: 'Judge M Responds To The 50 Cent Video Game Controversy' (White rapper/coder 'professionally betrayed' by not being lead programmer on 50 Cent game, sets up Flash game, angry song to back it up.)
WISN: 'Golden Retriever Gives Birth To Green Puppy' (Immediately named Wasabi, of course - via Fortean Times.)
Jason Della Rocca has good pictures of the G* Korean game conference (Hoping to go to G* sometime - looks intriguing.)
Lost Garden takes a look at Guitar Hero, Weird Worlds sequel (Always well-thought out musings on game creation - darn, does Guitar Hero really have bad distribution?)
November 13, 2005
Insert Credit: 'Japanese Game Graphics' book (My quick write-up of an intriguing game book I think most people missed.)
Engadget on 'Katazukue: the tidy table' (Maybe you could file by weight and get it to fling items into specific piles?)
Supload.com: Dominic Monaghan from Lost's cheesy driver license (Grinning like an idiot++)
PCGamerpodcast.com: U.S. PC Gamer magazine's podcasts (Posted more as a reminder to myself to check them - apparently rather good.)
Yahoo! Photos: 5 olympic mascots for 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing unveiled (Apparently Jackie Chan guessed some of them ahead of time. So there.)
ThinkGeek: 'Spazzstick Caffeinated Lip Balm' ('Spazzstick is made in a vast underground volcano lair by the busy hands of industrious worker trolls.')
GuyCalledGerald.com: 'No Sell Out Part 1 - Legends / Wigan Pier Electro Retrospective - Mixed by Greg Wilson For A Guy Called Gerald' (The acid house legend finds his major influencer, gets him to mix things up.)
Op3n.net: Monotonik featured in Spanish 'Electro Trax' magazine (OK, they're noting Op3n, but Mono211/Monotonik is the label above it, woo.)
November 12, 2005
Bibi's Box points out good new Archive.org-hosted PD movies (Nice to see someone informed doing this - via WWMnA.)
RespectandTruth.com - Ali G quizzes NBA players (Much respect, man - via TV Squad.)
Official weblog for the Hellboy animated movie (According to sources, two feature-length movies for Cartoon Network/DVD showing - via Cartoon Brew.)
Official 'On The Edge' book website ('The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore tells the story of Commodore through first-hand accounts by former Commodore engineers and managers.' Ooo.)
Digg: New PSP-advertising Chris Cunningham ad (Mm, Chris Cunningham.)
1983's Video Games magazine on 'The Fight For Ms. Pac-Man' (We're featuring Pac-Man in the magazine next month, found this cute cartoon.)
1UP: Dave Smith & friend discuss the 'Path Of Neo' ending (The videos of the insanity are hosted on Xboxyde - absolutely crazed.)
'The Daily Show' showing in UK on More4 cable channel (Even the UK is not safe from Lewis Black.)
Gamasutra: 'Nintendo Entertainment System – Expired Patents Do Not Mean Expired Protection' (An IP lawyer looks at NES clones - much-linked already.)
1UP previews the Final Fantasy XII demo (Fanboys gnashing teeth, weeping as we speak.)
November 11, 2005
Archive.org: 'Retro Core Vol. 14' (Much cool game footage obscurity here, as per usual.)
Alan's Mojave Weblog: 'Welcome to Mojave International Speedway!' (Vroom, vroom, up to 400km/hr.)
Music Filter: 'The Darkness Forced To Buy Their Own CD Off Of eBay' (Presumably with some kind of falsetto bidding method.)
Idiot Toys: 'Facts about Macs' (The UKR guys, who also run Idiot Toys, are the tech 'The Onion', I swear.)
GameSpy interviews WoW ninja looters (One of whom seems to be trying to be as stereotypical as possible: 'ive done ur mom, thats messed up'.)
Gamers With Jobs: 'Ends of Games' (Rather delightful meanderings about Spelunker.)
Eurogamer reviews Neversoft's 'Gun' (I'm a little disappointed - I thought it was going to be an unqualified rave.)
Insert Credit: 'Bobby Orogon in Matrimelee' (Ah, unfortunate.)
Jim Rossignol talks NGJ, GGJ (Good Games Journalism) (OK, I just made GGJ up, but that's what we're talking about, really.)
November 10, 2005
Patent Arcade on 'Roginsky v. Time Warner' ('Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt' fails to kick Time Warner's butt.)
Clickable Culture: Forterra suing former co-founder Will Harvey over 3D avatars (Over-extensive patents, or a real case?)
Archive-it - the Internet Archive's webpage archiving system, institution-specifized ('The annual subscription cost is $10,000 per year. This allows an institution to collect, manage and search up to 10 million web documents.')
Gamasutra: '2005 Austin Game Conference Postcards' (About 10,000 words of AGC write-up goodness, handily compiled.)
Information Week covers Second Life (Hey, a sister CMP publication to Gamasutra doing some game reporting, neat.)
IC: Tim Rogers on 'Smooth-skinned Training School' PSP game (Best thing about it - they don't even _check_ you're saying English correctly!)
PR: 'Digital Praise Introduces 'FLO: Return of the Water Beetles'' ('...brings children closer to God by experiencing "interludes" throughout the game in which characters Hermie and Wormie talk with God.')
Yahoo!/AP: 'The Weather Channel Brings in Lewis Black' (I'd watch if he narrated Storm Stories.)
Michael Paulus' skeletons of famous cartoon characters (I particularly like Pikachu - via giantsister.)
MI.biz: 'Vinnie Jones Takes On Starring Role With Greyhound Racing's First Mobile Phone Game!' (The star of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels concurred: "Greyhound racing is a great night out offering the punter everything.")
November 09, 2005
'Bodythumper: Starring Osaki Kim' official website (Aping Jack Thompson, and for charity, too - good by me.)
Neomarxisme has more on Bape/Rip Slyme supergroup (First single is Daft Punk-produced, scroll down for full, insane producer list - official site has more info, but can anyone point me to their new video online?)
Press The Buttons: 'Stewie Griffin Meets Doom' (And the SNES version of Doom, too.)
'Gaming, Learning, and Libraries' conference program is up (December in Chicago - anyone wanna cover it for Gamasutra?)
Fort90: Pic of Japanese boxart for 'My My Katamari Damacy' PSP (Are those his cousins, out to get him?)
The Comics Reporter comments on manga hitting U.S. newspaper page (Newspapers "...the first critters over the cliff in a potential, spectacular worldwide death of the general-interest publication"? Ouch.)
Mitch Benn & The Distractions - 'Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now' music video (Maybe in the UK, it's Green Day over here - via Gaiman.)
Vintage Computing: 'A False Messiah: The Generation NEX Sucks' (Whoa, not expecting that - via Fort90.)
UK Kia car ads designed by Peter 'Monsterism' Fowler (Scroll down - neat ads - via Cartoon Brew.)
November 08, 2005
Game|Life: Chris Kohler pokes Nintendo's Hideki Konno (Next Revolution game? Cooking sim, with 'a big wok that you use to cook Chinese food', apparently. Maybe.)
Insert Credit: Tim Rogers on Gackt's Dirge Of Cerberus appearance (Informational and readable, 4 tens from Famitsu!)
Gamasutra: 'Koei Goes Canuck: On Koei Canada's Expansionary Aims' (Koei are an interesting company, to say the least.)
Smartbomb.us: official website of 'Smartbomb' game-related book (And their tour includes famous people, natch.)
1UP: 'Will Strip For Games' (Neat Maragos-penned article about gaming webcomics.)
Hollywood Reporter: 'Video games grow up' (Immaturity about maturity?)
Systrum.net - electronic net.radio station (Has been known to play some Monotonik, other nicer idm-ness.)
Yahoo! Music Engine recommendation - Sasha - 'Fundacion' mix album (Click if you subscribe to YME, try samples if not - here's info/tracklisting, a unique progressive/electronica live set featuring Ableton Live & more.)
'The Endless Forest' PC networked virtual pet screensaver (Or... something like that. Surreal. Via #ic.)
Insert Credit: '6955's unholy NES conglomeration' (My first IC post in a while, showing off an eight-NES music synth.)
November 07, 2005
Arctic Computer & Console Museum: ''Holland Bingo' -edition of the Philips VG8020' (An MSX that plays... bingo? Riiight.)
Lost Levels on the 'Final Fantasy 64' mystery (Excellent debunking, explaining from the more obsessive corner.)
BBC: Hundreds of pink hippopotami washed up on English coast (Pet toys overboard, captain! Via Fortean Times.)
Party game recommendation: Harmonix/Red Octane's 'Guitar Hero' (Highly rated and tested at a soiree last night - rockin' 'Sharp Dressed Man' is the tippety-top.)
Improbable Research on 'Concentrated Hi-Energy H20' (H20 + H20 = P40?)
The Triforce makes fun of Future's Golden Joystick Awards (The king is half-undressed?)
TV Squad reviews Cartoon Network's 'The Boondocks' (First episode tonight - restoring some sass to Adult Swim?)
ChainsawManiac.com - cute Game&Watch spoof for 'Resident Evil 4' (Fun stuff - via Wonderland.)
A Band Of Bees - 'Chicken Payback' music video (Notable because of extreme catchiness and weird DDR-aping.)
November 06, 2005
BriPro: 'Super Mario 3 Special (Game Boy/Color)' bootleg cart review ('Did I mention you can't go down any pipes either?' There's also a great 'Super Mario World' bootleg NES analysis - via ASSEMbler.)
ASSEMbler games on the Sega Genesis 'Sprobe' dev kit (More uber-obscure gaming hardware from the masters.)
SomethingAwful on 'Honest Game Titles' (All great, because they have insight into the game's soul, in Photoshop form. Pseuds corner!)
TV Squad: 'Country Music Television gets Kinky' (Kinky Friedman seems like a good reality show subject.)
Atomiswave.org - messageboard/info on the Sammy arcade system (Good to see collector support for the system, similar to sega-naomi.com for the Naomi.)
Internet Archive: Public Domain cartoons by Ub Iwerks (Here's more info - seminal pre-Mickey cartoons.)
Gamasutra: 'Postcard From SGS: How the UN Fights Hunger with Food Force' (Another SGS straggler, and another neat use of games.)
TomGreen.com has clips/video from the 'Prepare For Impact' album (Check the video for 'Teachers Suck', it's... almost Eminem-ish? His blog is fun, too.)
November 05, 2005
PopMatters reviews The Director's Label Vol.2 box set (A nice review of a great set - via Robotwisdom.)
Luxo: Totally cool Pixar-related carved pumpkins (A bit late, but for an Edna O'Lantern, you'll forgive me?)
Game Informer spills more beans about DS Wi-Fi fun (We will be mainlining Animal Crossing DS like there's no tomorrow.)
Edge Online FAQs up Lorne Lanning (Not that he plays games any more, but even so...)
Apple Trailers - Peter Jackson's 'King Kong' (Holy crap, full trailer gorgeousness. Via everyone.)
Gamasutra: 'Postcard From The Montreal Game Summit: Call Of Duty 2 Postmortem' (Game 'made in two years in a $14.5 million budget' - next-gen is expensive!)
IWR: British Library, Microsoft sign digitization deal ('A spokesperson for the British Library confirmed that digitisation of the titles would be carried out by the Internet Archive, the organisation behind the Open Content Alliance.' Rock!)
Garry Whitta's 1UP games blog (The oldskool journalist and now film/comic writer also has a infoblog and official site. I'm not stalking him, honest - via QT3.)
November 04, 2005
Archive.org: Psilodump - Jag Och Psilodump [mtk155] (Latest from my net.label, CC-licensed 'spectacularly eclectic 6-track electronica EP'.)
In Focus interviews Harold Ramis (Complete with obligatory Ghostbusters 3 questions - via Gothamist.)
Aggro Me summarizes the changes to Star Wars Galaxies ('Is this decision by SOE incredibly courageous? Incredibly foolish?' A very big deal.)
Deviously Artistic - blog featuring the best of DeviantArt (Top-quality online-submitted art of various kinds - via Jarkolicious.)
GameSpy hands-on previews Mario Kart DS (Also, 1UP hands-on previews Animal Crossing DS - it's going to be a portable Nintendo Xmas!)
GamesAreFun: Gackt to star in Square Enix's Dirge Of Cerberus (Uber-androgynous J-goth fans go wild, apparently - this means you, Brandon.)
Wooster Collective: 'Walk and Keep Walking' (Fun street art in New York, one presumes - via giantsister.)
Andore Jr: 'Portugese Box Art: ICO, PS2' (Weird, weird, weird, good. Via Nich.)
Stereogum has an excerpt from Kevin Federline's new album (Britney's spouse gets jiggy with it, references opera singers.)
Wired News: Chris Kohler's new 'Game|Life' weblog (It's all about games. Woo.)
November 03, 2005
Fantagraphics: Eldon Dedini's samurai Atari players (A rare video game pic from a long-time Playboy cartoonist with a Fantagraphics book out next year.)
Insert Credit on the Sega private arcade show (Please, ladies, Afterburner Climax is not the name of a prophylactic.)
EW Popwatch: Margaret Cho not happy about Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Girls ('In Cho's mind, ''a Japanese schoolgirl uniform is kind of like blackface.'')
Comics Reporter: 'Asterix & Obelix' creator loses court battle over product called 'Mobilix' (Apparently, rhyme is a crime.)
ARGN: Perplex City ARG live event includes intrigue, helicopter (Woo, ARGs and helicopters, like peaches and cream.)
Off The Telly interviews Father Ted's Arthur Mathews (His other sitcoms are unfairly obscure, as this piece points out. Via Blue Cat.)
November 02, 2005
LJ: Eric-Jon 'Aderack' Waugh makes a Dalek in Graffiti Kingdom (The Hot-B published RPG is firmly destined for cultness, and E-J is Dr. Who obsessed.)
Gamasutra: 'Hazmat: Hotzone - First-Person First Responder Gaming' (About the New York Fire Department using an Unreal Tournament mod for hazmat training, and my final SGS write-up.)
Gamasutra: 'Postcard From SGS 2005: Inside The Institute for Creative Technologies' (On the Army's funding of some people to go scan the Acropolis. Really.)
November 01, 2005
Gamasutra: 'The Esoteric Beat: Commentary, Mods, Sfeer' (Rossignol ferrets out some very cool mods.)
Gamasutra: 'Postcard From SGS 2005: Riding the Cutting Edge of Distributed Intelligence' (A pretty much insane, intriguing keynote from SGS.)
Gamasutra: 'Postcard From SGS 2005: Computer Gaming to Enhance Computer Science Curriculum' (An interesting look at why Microsoft cares about games for CS education.)