ffwd: Linklog

Slashdot's AMD 'Vendors' advertorial section (Done so hamfistedly as to not be offensive to me. Haw.)

The Superficial: Kevin Federline Jams To Popoza (For ABOUT TEN YEARS.)

eBay: Decision '92 trading cards (Dude, OMG, 'special subset on BILLIONAIRE Ross Perot!' I love trading cards as ephemera.)

West End Girls - 'West End Girls' music video [.MOV] (Swedish female Pet Shop Boys cover band? Woot! Via PJ video links.)

LegalTorrents: Biggish update w/new Librivox, OVO Zine, One netlabel .torrents (Another couple of gigs of new material - go check it :))

Archive.org: Melissa Welch - Myopic [Cam#090] (An extra-long track by one of my favorite net.label artists.)

MurderAuction.com: Extraordinary set of serial killer merchandise for sale (Lots of bad art/uninteresting letters by horrific people.)

Washington Post: 'The Peekaboo Paradox' (On the disorganized glory of 'The Great Zucchini' - also see follow-up, a wonderful story - via giantsister.)

Medicine Films: 'DJ Spin Laden at Buddy' (Allegedly Paul B Davis with a fake beard, cutting up Kenny G and playing along with a melodica. Perhaps I alone am amused!)

Pop Candy interviews George Takei (Takei is cool. That is all.)

Twitchfilm has trailers for Chappelle/Gondry's 'Block Party' film (I've heard of that Dave Chappelle somewhere.)

YouTube: Japanese live-action Spider-Man series from '70s (With obligatory giant robot - via KS.)

JeanSnow: 'New DS feature' (Silly makes-you-laugh Photoshop of the day - see recent JP charts for why.)

The Plagiary Journal official website ('Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification', I copied down. Via IR.)

Yahoo!/Hollywood Reporter: Eddie Izzard in FX's 'Lowlife' (Alongside Minnie Driver, this should be fascinating - never sure if Izzard (who is a genius) can actually act.)

DVD Savant reviews Toho's Atragon (DVD Savant is spectacularly literate - my favorite film reviewer.)

Google Video: 'Fear Of Girls' ('True Love is but a +2 Broadsword away.' Via BrokenToys.)

Fortean Times: 'Dance Macabre' (On 'the rise and fall of a singular antidote to the bite of the tarantula'.)

GameSetWatch: 'Disturbing Game Box Parody Art' (Wow, awesome SA 'outsider art' of the highest order.)

Sitcom.co.uk: 'The IT Crowd' sitcom (Looks rather smart - the official site will have it watchable online - via Cbakez.)

GameSetWatch: 'Beware The Animal Crossing Plaaague' (They'll be nailing crosses to doors pretty soon.)

Jason 'BBS Documentary' Scott on interviewing Pud from F*ckedcompany.com (Includes link to the video - fun stuff.)

Twitchfilm on the Asterix & The Vikings teaser (I love Asterix - hope this makes it to U.S. cinemas.)

CNN headline right now: 'Watch: Fist-pounding rage turns to grief' (Sensationalist media? Nonsense!)

Digital-Eel: Awesome new art: 'A View From Bandur, the Muktian Home World' (My new wallpaper - the Weird Worlds guys are tripped way, way out.)

LookyTouchy - Gus Mastrapa's new-ish game blog (Hey, this is fun - I met Mastrapa a while back when he was doing game coverage for Hustler, oddly.)

GameSetWatch: 'Magweasel, Ferreting Around In Classic Game Mags' (Blimey, he's adding new stuff already.)

Zerinnerung: 'Entactogen - A Story About Love' mix (Includes several Monotonik releases, yay.)

Roger Ebert on 'Movie Quote Whores of 2005' (A little more Gelf-like detective work - via Maragos.)

Comics Continuum: Top comics/graphic novels for 2005 by sales (Interesting for seeing the Marvel/DC/indie market share, nowadays - via WH.)

Consumerist: 'Does Gary Coxe Need More Self-Self-Help?' (Could this post be any more Gawker Media? Hee!)

Penn Jillette's Free FM radio show (Daily, and there are free podcast versions - excellent. Via BB.)

GameSetWatch: 'Rule Of Rose Scares Us Half To Death' (I'm genuinely scared.)

Xbox.com: My Xbox Live 360 gamercard (I got my own X360 for home, now - add me ('simoniker') if you know me, heh.)

TwitchFilm on the new Silent Hill movie trailer (Thanks to Christophe Gans/Roger Avary, _finally_ a movie adaptation I care about.)

Wholphin - McSweeney's new DVD art film thing (A Spike Jonze mini-doc about Al Gore? Neeto.)

MI6: Bond boats in Baltimore! (Including, yes, the 'Diamonds Are Forever Bath-O-Sub')

Gelf Magazine: more 'Scare Quotes' ("A screaming good time... marred only by a lazy ending.")

'Green Briar Picture Shows' movie weblog (Great stuff on cartoons, Buster Keaton, Oliver Hardy - via CartoonBrew.)

Blogspot: Net Label Charts weblog (More netlabel recommendation goodness, yay.)

Fangoria on Takashi Miike's dropped 'Masters Of Horror' contribution (Too hot for Showtime, apparently - will appear on DVD later.)

GameSetWatch: 'PangYa Gets A Little Hard Gay' (Oh, baby.)

Fangoria on Robert Kurtzman’s 'Asskickers Of The Damned' franchise (I love how half-assed this looks.)

Good Weather For Airstrike's Top 65 music videos of 2005 (Very good indeed - via Waxy.)

GameSetWatch: 'The Dark Side of Animal Crossing' (Particularly worth it for 'Dover School Board Targets Museum Exhibit'.)

Gamasutra: 'Schadenfreudian Slips - An Age Of Ornithology Postmortem' (The Schadenfreude Interactive guys are up there with Miyamoto, for me.)

The Stage's Newsblog notes bad buzz on Elton John/Anne Rice musical LeStat (Sat in San Francisco reading a London blog about a San Francisco show, I am.)

Regret The Error: 'A surprising report on Alito's past' (Bad Alito, no nomination for you!)

Twitchfilm on Disney's forthcoming 'The Wild' (An outside production, but, uhh, Madagascar, anyone?)

CNN: 'Is Finland laughing at Conan O'Brien?' (Or, uhh, vice versa? [UPDATE: it's a close call in the election, apparently.)

Sudomake digs on recent Monotonik release by New Delhi FM (Also found a nice review of an older 'official' Monotonik bootleg compilation, heh.)

Gamasutra: '2006 IGF Student Showcase Winners Announced' (Some amazingly good indie PC student games in here, many free to download.)

BBC: 'Blazing mouse sets fire to house' (With quizzical follow-up: ' Man's flaming mouse story questioned'. Via FT.)

GameSetWatch: 'Toshio Iwai's Electroplankton Inspiration' (I want several Tenori-Ons, now.)

Powys Media releasing series of 'The Prisoner' novels (And using Dr. Who script/novelwriters to pen them, too.)

Monotonik: Yuppster - 'Ambition EP' (New on my net.label, strident CC-licensed electronic music.)

Crummy finds 'Robotfindspanties' (Jiji almost promised that he would do Robotfindskitten for PSP, I just poked him again, hee.)

Scans of '70s electronic music mag Synapse (Just say yes to Jan Hammer - via Music Thing.)

Amazon: O'Reilly's 'Transmissions from Imaginary Places' game journalism book now listed (Edited by Rossignol and Gillen - includes my non-fiction piece, 'Manic Modder', on Matthew Smith and Andrew Broad, alongside material from a bunch of neat game writers.)

Sarah 'Jinjur' Dyer on the Mamido Burger 'fake fast food' sweet stand in Tokyo (Must go there while at TGS this year!)

Squar3: Info/trailer on 'Speaking In Code' electronic music doc (Via Philip Sherburne, who is co-producing.)

Gelf Magazine: 'Jelly D Takes It' (I'm all in favor of donut rappers.)

WFMU's awesome collection of velvet paintings (Zell Miller and Dick Cheney, even.)

BBC: New Dr. Who licensed to Sci-Fi Channel in America (Airing in March, YOU MUST WATCH, and U.S. DVD put back, so I'm glad I got the UK version for Xmas.)

EW PopWatch on Howard Stern's first day on Sirius (Hey, I didn't know that George Takei was his new announcer! Awesome blossom.)

Michel Gondry's video for Kanye West's 'Heard 'Em Say' (Bottom left link - possibly the cutest hiphop video ever, if a little watered-down Gondry - via CB.)

YME Recommendation: The Beloved's 'Conscience' (Click if you subscribe to YME, try samples if not - I forgot about their sublime electronic pop.)

Hacker.textfiles.com - defining the 'hacker' concept (Some university give Jason Scott a Chair, already.)

Reality Blurred on yet more new reality shows ('Among its new series are the previous rumored Gene Simmons show, Family Jewels.' For the name alone...)

The Economist: 'China beat Columbus to it, perhaps' (This is soooo forged, in my unprofessional opinion. Via MeFi.)

YouTube: Hasselhoff's 'Hooked On A Feeling' (Probably old, but has dachshunds in it, so there.)

GameSetWatch: 'OMG! Cats Sledding! OMG!' (As you can see, I'm making good use of my time.)

Getty Images videos on Google Video (Fun, though they need licensing for re-use - via AKB.)

Slashdot: 'On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection' (Roland Pikapika finally unmasked!)

The Smoking Gun on James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' (Dude - busted.)

ffwd linklog on semi-hiatus for a bit (Not total hiatus, but too much blogging is making me itch - check GameSetWatch and Gamasutra for my dayjob work.)

GameSetWatch: 'The Art Of Upsetting Video Game Developers' (I get angry on GSW again - rage alert!)

TwitchFilm notes 'A Bit Of Fry & Laurie' is coming out on DVD in the UK (A must-import, it's deliciously nonsensical.)

Engadget's full coverage of the Google keynote at CES (In case you missed this - some sites didn't get the Robin Williams stuff. Genius.)

Gamasutra: 'Game Developer January Issue Gets Zombified, Front Lined' (Here's a hi-res cover image, btw - great stuff.)

NYT: 'Coming Soon to TV Land: The Internet, Actually' (I'm excited by the idea of simple living-room based IPTV.)

Twitchfilm on new Nick Frost ('Spaced') show Hyperdrive (We don't see enough sci-fi comedies in the U.S.)

IGN announces 'Nine Dragons' for 360 while lazily dissing MMO fans ('Visually, the game so far shows itself with basic geometry, ordinary textures, and some basic looking combat, something most MMORPG fans are accustomed to.' HAW!)

GameSetWatch: 'Puzzloop or Zuma, Diner Dash Or Roller Rush?' (In which I have a little casual game cloning rant, thanks to Holly, who spotted Roller Rush.)

UK Observer: 'Sheep might be dumb...' (Officially voted 'Typo Of The Year' by Private Eye - but wait, there's more (scroll down!) classics for 2005 at the Grauniad.)

WFMU's blog appreciates HP Lovecraft (I also love Lovecraft - via RobotWisdom.)

Yank Blog: 'Weird Al Show' coming to DVD (Yep, those pop culture scamps at Shout Factory again.)

Wired News: List of blogs we're reading (scroll down) (Hey, ffwd links is on it - thanks, guys.)

PVRBlog on the TiVo Series 3 (Dual tuner and HD ready, oh mee gee!)

Rockcritics' '2005 Best Music Scribing Awards' (Mmm, lots of good journalism abounds.)

Evan Dorkin on the sadly unfinished 'How To Draw Marvel Comics The Evan Dorkin Way' (Also a great Mick Foley pitch on Evan's LJ.)

A Blog For You: Lukas 'Mortimer Twang' Nystrom's 8-bit mini-video (A fun anim from the genius Twang.)

CNN: 'Collectors go bananas for flawed $20 bill' (Eek aak ook $$$.)

Monotonik's new MySpace page (Thanks to Boelex for setting this up.)

Gamasutra: 'Media Consumption: 2K Games' Jason Bergman' (The wondrous Loonyboi gets a Gamasutra showing.)

GameSetWatch: 'Are You Ready To Rock, UPN31?' (Dude, that's some serious cable news rockin' out.)

Gamasutra: 'Road To The IGF: Grubby Games' Ryan Clark (Professor Fizzwizzle)' (Go check ze Fizzwizzle, it's mighty fine.)

GameSetWatch: 'Watch Out For Cop-Man, Waka Waka?' (Wow, 'ghosts of former security employees'?)

TwitchFilm: 'Matt Groening Wants Walliams & Lucas (Little Britain) and Catherine Tate to Follow Ricky Gervais in The Simpsons' (Yes!)

LegalTorrents now distributing LibriVox PD book torrents (The first one is up already and there's a LibriVox-specific RSS - more at the weekend.)

Gamasutra: 'Game Logos A-Go Go: Hamagami/Carroll on Memorable Game Branding' (Neat piece on the Warcraft, Doom 3 logo designers.)

BBC 'Open News Archives' now online (Of course, the handy iconic license reminds us it's UK residents only, bwah.)

Walgreen: Meow Mix Clock (It sings the Meow Mix theme. Every hour. Every frickin' hour.)

'Micromusic Teletext Television' planned for Dutch art project (Here's more on teletext - submit your own art pages for this! Via Arcangel.)

Kaiju Shakedown on the Bollywood remake of Oldboy (Yes, that Oldboy - most odd.)

Yngwie.org: Yngwie Malmsteen fan art (So much great stuff - via ABLY.)

Popjustice's 2005 Readers Poll results (It's Kelly Clarkson all the way, naturellement.)

Burn Copy's 'The Year In The Internet 2005' (Michael Bell-Smith and Cory Arcangel asked some infogeeks, including me, about their favorite things of the year - woo.)

GameSetWatch: 'A Fond Farewell To Follin' (No, Tim Follin, nooooooooooooo.)

Regret The Error on several newspapers nicking/plagiarising a 10-year-old Reuters report (Sourcing is getting tragic on the rumor-strewn Net.)

XRRF: Top 40 UK singles/albums of 2005 by sales (Particularly interesting in the Top 10 singles, The JCB Song, which was an Internet meme to start with.)

NYT: 'Answering Back To The News Media, Using The Internet' (Interesting piece on ease of information dissemination - via Blogspotting.)

Textfiles.com exhibit on 'Phantom Access' hacking/phreaking tool (Mm, green screen Death Star alert.)

Monotonik: New Delhi FM - 'Daylight Confusion' [mtk158] (Newest CC-licensed 'different, resonant electronics' from my net.label, from an ex-Soulseek Records guy.)

TVGuide.com: 'Joss Whedon Eyes the Future of TV' ('The constant slew of cable mergers will result in the creation of CinePax, a channel that's just very confused about its morals.' Via whsqe.)

Just Jared: 'Kevin Federline's Popozao' (With lyrics and download link for K-Fed's horrific first single, huzzah.)

Chicago Reader's end-of-year Comics Special [.PDF] (They have the entire newspaper in PDF sections every week, I guess - via CR.)

Wil McCarthy's 'Hacking Matter' gets Creative Commons licensed (Looks like a good book - via BB.)

Datagalaxy.tk - another legal BitTorrent site (Lots of PD movies/etc, and demo versions of software, by the look of it - neet.)

Vorc: VGM or Chiptune Of The Year 2005 (Hally rounds up the year's chiptune goodness - yay, Kplecraft mentioned.)

No'Mo: 'Ready Or Not (DJ RN Remix)' .XM (Someone was asking about Nomo, the late '90s Mono mash-up sublabel, so I dug around and found this remix (actually, DJ RN = the late Ramone) of The Fugees from 1997, 8-channel 'tracked' stylee - try WinAmp to listen.)

GameSetWatch: 'Clarkson Vs. Virtual/Real Laguna Seca' (Jeremy Clarkson is all Tool Time, as per usual.)

Twitchfilm reviews Korean TV dramas in 2005 (Fascinating, even if I've never seen one.)

Gus Mueller: 'How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days' (V.useful for indie game developers, too - via DF.)