ffwd: Linklog

I-Ching Calculator from Douglas Adams' 'Dirk Gently' novels ('A Suffusion of Yellow'! Via Crummy.)

Kircher Society on 19th century freakshow pics (Hurrah for pinheads!)

Reality Blurred: Fox Reality doing 'My Bare Lady' reality show ("...will follow a group of U.S. porn stars as they travel to London and attempt to carve out acting careers on the West End stage.")

Weird Al Yankovic on the end of the Coolio beef ('I doubt I’ll be invited to Coolio’s next birthday party, but at least I can stop wearing that bulletproof vest to the mall.' This beef, in case you forget.)

Valleyschwag.com - $15 a month for random tech company crap (I'm tempted - via BB, which has reviews.)

GSW: 'Gitaroo Man Sings Again, In A Different Tone' (Gitaroo Man is one of my fave PS2 titles, great to see it going to PSP.)

SGS: 'Postmortem: Worky's Challenge: Seriously Safe At The Workplace' (Worky is my new hero!)

GSW: 'Game Ads A-Go-Go: A Brief Guide to Gaming Diseases' (Yay, suitably silly.)

YME recommendation: Susumu Yokota - 'Symbol' (Click if YME user - beautiful classical-sampling Japanese electronica album - here's excerpts, and a review.)

Archive.org: 'Among Your Souvenirs' U.S. Dept of Agriculture PD film ('Fun to see are the many tacky souvenirs pictured and Pestina, the slutty cartoon character meant to represent foreign insect pests.')

Music Thing on an insane Jean-Michel Jarre music video (I used to love Jarre in about 1988.)

AV Club interviews Matt Groening ('I'm not very fond of the Simpsons fishing lures. They just look like little Bart toys, except they've got nasty fishhooks in them.')

Slate: Paul Fusco's post-Chernobyl pictures (Relevant on 20th anniversary, via Antipixel.)

GameSetWatch: 'Special Feature: Halcyon Days - CGW In 1984...' (Yay, GamePro veteran Kevin 'Magweasel' Gifford previews his new GSW column.)

Buena Vista publishing Lumines sequel, PS2 version, Every Extend Extra, Meteos Disney Edition! (Ooo, oo, ooo!)

GSW: 'What About Brian Makes Game Designers Instantly Cool' (Oo, "the fictional arcade semi-hit “Throttle Autobahn”".)

YouTube: Dixie Chicks - 'Not Ready To Make Nice' music video (Neatly directed by Sophie Muller, and a rather wonderful fuckyou regarding their previous issues.)

GameSetWatch: 'Comic: The Multicart Project: Part Seven' (Next week's is even crazier. If that's possible.)

WFMU: 'God Curses a Blue Streak on Public Access TV' (It's a one man show!)

Pink Tentacle: 'Portable fuel cell powered by water and aluminum' (Well, vaguely portable.)

Gamasutra: 'Interview: 'The Father of Home Video Games': Ralph Baer' ('I've met [Nolan Bushnell] only once. We were supposed to meet on several occasions, once to have a face-to-face play-off in Pong, but he never showed up.')

Thaum - net.label artist interview site. (I linked these individually, now there's a site for them, more interviews soon.)

'Yahoo! Radish' YME playlists blog (Really the only good one out there right now, and it's just by one person - should I make one?)

AP on Gizmondo guys' Swedish background ("By American standards, they were no mafia... There was nothing Cosa Nostra about them. They were a group of guys who liked cars and boats, and who got the money for it through debt collections.")

GameSetWatch: 'Investigation: GamesRadar's Launch Spin' (On stats, and spin, and the consumer game website biz. Fun!)

IFC Blog: Nicely linked list of Cannes Film Festival line-up (A little old, but easy to read.)

Stereogum: Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy' live on UK Top Of The Pops (Wonder if it's gonna blow up in the U.S. too? Danger Mouse & Cee-Lo++ - via EW PopWatch.)

Cryptomundo: Penn & Teller doing cryptozoology debunking on Bullsh*t with fake Bigfoot video (Here's the vid in question - plenty of skepticism at the time from some, mind you. Haha, and P&T's production company is called 'Seymour K. Learly Productions', cute.)

Underwater Overground party in Croatia this July features... (...long-time Finnish Monotonik releaser Planet Boelex playing live.)

Zombietime: deconstructing the ridiculous kooks at Bay Area protests (There's a (somewhat NSFW) hall of shame, too.)

Music Thing: 'Incredible Triadex Muse triple pack on the 'bay' (Wow, beautiful vintage synth/lightsynth alert.)

Silicon Beat: Google takes down Miro image on homepage (This is all a bit odd.)

Gamasutra: 'Cheer Up! Video Games are in Great Shape' (Yay, a good antidote to too much 'X is dead' whining recently.)

GSW: 'COLUMN: 'Bastards of 32-Bit' - Pepsiman' ('Pepsiman's gameplay was once described to me as being "like Crash Bandicoot for idiots."')

NY Post on new U.S. magazine Shock ('One feature in the debut issue covers the practice of chasing dolphins into a shallow cove where they are slaughtered for food.' *sigh*.)

Y!MusicBlog: 'Mojo Filter vs. Yahoo! Music Unlimited, March, 2006' (Ian C Rogers keeping on with the YME playlist neatness - also, hilarious David Cross speech from SXSW. )

YouTube: Prince's 12-minute set at The 2006 Brit Awards (This just played on BBC America - holy crapola, Prince rocks.)

GSW: 'World Of Warcraft Power Leveling Infiltrates Local Paper' (Gold farmers be everywhen!)

MTV.com: 'Rebels Hurl Flaming Dodge Balls, Transform Clouds At Indie Games Fest' (Cute Stephen Totilo story on the IGF. With me in it. Sorry.)

Doc Searls' extremely elegant remembrance of the 1906 SF earthquake (Oh no, I'm linking to someone obvious. But this is beautifully written.)

Cartoon Brew on Cartoon Network losing the... cartoons? (I get depressed at targeted channels flipping to LCD.)

YouTube: Doctor Who 40th Anniversary Tribute Music Video (Still heart the Doctor!)

Mac.com: 'Dachshund watching in Japan' photo album (Two great tastes that etc! New Rollo pics up, btw.)

Digg: Major flamethread on whether HardOCP is using Diggbots (Answer - probably not, but they do have special threads just for Digg promulgation. *sigh*.)

SGS: 'The State Of Serious Games In Japan' (Some pretty interesting stuff in here.)

GSW: 'eBay Randomness Digs Up 1st Game Mag, Silliest Guitar' (Dude, stuff!)

Comics Reporter notes Mike Luckovich gets Pulitzer for editorial cartooning (Richly deserved - the full list is at Poynter - here's the winning cartoon montage at the AJC. )

YouTube: ' The Final Countdown... LIVE!' (Delightfully awful - Music Thing notes: 'There are numerous great things about it, like the moment when a roadie wearing hot pink short shorts wanders onto the stage, checks that the sound coming out of the speakers really is that bad, and wanders off.')

Cryptomundo: 'Yeti Yes, Corwin Hardly Bearable' (Why Jeff Corwin and the Abominable Snowman don't mix.)

PopJustice points out new Pet Shop Boys video, 'I'm With Stupid' (Complete with Lucas & Walliams being appropriately... stupid.)

GameSetWatch: 'Comic: The Multicart Project: Part Six' (Most. Disturbing. Pac-Man. Cartoon. Ever.)

Monotonik: 'Sinq - Passage [mtk164]' (New on my net.label, streaming link, rather gorgeous CC-licensed Dutch nu-chill album.)

Image: Happy Easter! (Jeebus. Via normalroach.)

GSW: 'COLUMN - 'The Gaijin Restoration' - Baito Hell 2000' (I didn't know the game had a Doom spoof in it, too - neat!)

Kircher Society: 'The Man Who Typed to One Million' ('Les is no newcomer to breaking records: Some years ago he broke the Australian Record of treading water.')

YouTube: Orbital version of Dr. Who theme live at Glastonbury (Orbital live was one of my top 5 gigs ever - this is for Virt, who's been threatening a Dr. Who cover version.)

NewsFromMe: Industrial film from the Monty Python folks ('I know it's for hairspray. But how often do you get to see Python work from this era that you haven't seen before?')

Battelle points out Akismet spam plug-in now available for MT ('It's elegant, and it scales.' Will try to test out.)

IFC Blog on critics being barred from reviewing movies ('If last year was the year of the Box Office Slump, this year is well on its way to being the year in which the Critics Were Cast Out.')

Gelflog on Tiger Woods' 'spaz' Masters comment (Another of these words with differing offensiveness across the Atlantic - see 'oriental'.)

Chuck Norris' Karate Kommandos cartoon now showing on Adult Swim (Go TiVo it - the episode i saw had parachuting alligators in it. [UPDATE: Of course it's on YouTube, ta AJ!])

Simon Thornton, Fatboy Slim's engineer, talks about a 10 minute version of Rockafella Skank (This is kinda neat.)

Thomas Dolby's weblog (Apparently he just had a run-in with K-Fed - via Bradsucks.)

Gamasutra: 'The Connection Is Made - Part 1' (On Game Connection, includes vital info about a DS aardvark game.)

GameVideos: Satoru Iwata's GDC speech highlights (Ridiculously delayed, but pretty cool.)

YouTube: Dr. Who Season 2 preview (Holy crap K9 holy crap Cybermen holy crap holy crap.)

Richard Cobbett on horrid online-streamable film Repligator ('It’s that worst of all possible worlds - a cheap sci-fi movie that wants to be sexy and funny at the same time.')

Gamasutra: 'Das Uberspiel: Pitching Your Game To A Publisher' (The Accordion Hero folks have further handy tips for game developers.)

GSW: ''Shmup Me Up, Buttercup' - Don't Shoot Shoot Shoot That Gun At Me' (Wow, v.good Nullsleep column on shooters that aren't.)

Merck Records: 'Mergerz & Acquisitionz' Machine Drum remixes (Great idm album features Monotonik favorites like Sabi, Secede, Lackluster.)

Independent Games Festival Awards 2006 video (You get to see me in a jacket, and the Introversion guys swearing! Too much fun!)

8BitPeoples: 'Random - Happy Ending After All' (Went through the last few 8BP net.label releases - definitely my favorite, joyous Game Boy chip-pop.)

Serious Games Source: 'Why We Need a Corporation for Public Gaming' (First feature from the new B2B website, edited by Jason Dobson and myself, on games for health, education, military, and social issues. Fun!)

Gamasutra: 'Gamasutra Nominated For Webby Award' (Thanks to everyone who knowsme!)

GameSetWatch: 'Hover Bovver Gets The Hollywood Treatment' (Written by me, for me.)

ffwd: 'March, April Bound Into View All At Once' (Brief update on the main weblog, you guys know most of this already.)

Archive.org: Beaver Pond Timelapse (With one genuine beaver shot!)

Music Thing on the new Moog synth, 'Little Phatty' ($1500 is a little pricey, mind you.)

Coastsider on the Devil's Slide on Highway 1 in Bay Area (...which is slipsliding away, yikes. BTW, Coastsider is easily the best local community news blog I've ever seen. Via Kottke.)

Kaiju Shakedown reviews Miike's 'too hot for TV' Showtime horror episode ('If you look at this as a send-up of MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA it starts to make sense.')

Improbable Research on 'the Crackpot incident' (GPS motorists looking for Wensleydale being directed onto 4x4 track.)

Monkey Fluids - very silly '50s illustration-stealing webcomic (And filthy, too - via Ellis.)

News From Me highlights a number from the short-lived Charlie Brown musical (I... kinda like it.)

Paul Boutin notes that Wired's shark-jumping 'Push!' article has come mostly true (...albeit 'framed in an awkward push-vs-pull mediascape'.)

BBC: 'Hunt for real life 'were-rabbit'' (Uhoh, Gromit! Via CartoonBrew.)

Kircher Society on the world's rarest flower ('Huge, fleshy petals that can reach in extreme cases almost one meter in diameter and weigh over seven kilogrammes.')

Reality Blurred: Mark 'Survivor/Apprentice' Burnett, Steven Spielberg teaming for 'On The Lot' reality show (Contestants are producing a short film per week in different genres - sounds v. fun.)

Mojave Airport weblog captures successful-ish X-37 flight (Though the X-37 itself ran off the runaway on landing, doh.)

Evan Dorkin posts the cover to Dork #11 (Due out late summer, I am officially excited!)

Gamasutra: 'Event Wrap Up: Controller: Artists Crack the Game Code' (Totally fun game art stuff.)

GameSetWatch: '‘Cherish The Chips’ - Parity 'til You Puke' (Sucks that I missed this, sounds killer.)

Flickr: Made it out of NY via Amtrak... (...and wandered down to Boston. )

GSW: 'Special Report: Table Tennis Mayhem @ NYC' (Hey, I hung with Fort90 and Virt and Nullsleep and Bit Shifter all at once in NY last night - fun!)

Flickr: Latest NY pics added (It's gone from sunburn weather to SNOW here - luckily Nintendo World had hanafuda and GBAs to keep us busy.)

TV semi-recommendation: 'Sushi TV' on TV Guide Channel (When you stay in hotels, you watch weird stuff - bad U.S. voiceovers, though, sounds like the original UK version was funnier.)

Flickr: Latest pictures from NY visit (Added another 6, including a surprise GTA appearance.)

Flickr: 'New York, April 2nd' photo set (Pics from the first day of holiday, including Statue of Liberty, gigantic frickin' cruise boat, etc. Yes, yes, I'm inflicting my holiday snaps on the Internet - deal.)

Holiday time - off to New York and Boston for a week with wife/family (Will try to post pics on my semi-neglected Flickr stream and link here.)

Akimbo broadband TV service available for XP Media Center (...and therefore extendable to Xbox 360. I think I may try this when I get back from holiday.)

GameSetWatch: 'COLUMN: 'Bastards of 32-Bit' - Fox Hunt' (Yay for forgotten, terrible Capcom FMV games.)

Gamasutra: 'Game Developer April Issue Pits Kong Against Wright' (Latest issue of the mag - here's a big cover pic.)