May 31, 2006
Splice Music alpha version (Totally interesting online music collaboration tool from Tpolm crazies and Wendell (ex-Meetro.))
YouTube: Recent Sprint dachshund commercial (I keep saying we should start a dachshund weblog - then you guys wouldn't have to see all these links!)
May 30, 2006
LegalTorrents: Monotonik's 2006 releases so far [380mb .torrent] (For those who missed out, the 9 releases on Monotonik so far this year, handily bundled - great headphone-centric electronica, even if I _am_ biased.)
Improbable Research on 'crisp sounds' ('We investigated whether the perception of the crispness and staleness of potato chips can be affected by modifying the sounds produced during the biting action.')
Swapatorium: Amazing estate sale find includes dachshund float from 1932 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade (Totally cute dachsie!)
May 29, 2006
Flickr: A few more pics from Lake Tahoe... (Particularly nice - this snap of the view across the lake from Baldwin Beach.)
Tahoe restaurant recommendation: 'The Naked Fish' (Just near the NV/CA state line and the casinos - a great sushi place.)
May 28, 2006
Flickr: In Lake Tahoe this weekend, new Flickr pics up (Uh, we weren't expecting it to be snowing!)
May 27, 2006
GSW: 'Why There Are No Indie Video Games?' (In which I get grumpy about a Slate article.)
Gamasutra: 'Schadenfreudian Slips: Waiting For Hasselhoff' ('Am I courting madness with this karting madness?')
May 26, 2006
Archive.org's American scanned books (Libraries scanning PD stuff - fruits online now! Bigger Canadian version already online.)
Brilliant But Canceled - streamable shows (I liked it more when it was on my TV (Trio), but it'll do.)
May 25, 2006
Kaiju Shakedown on the Weinstein's new DVD label Dragon Dynasty (Sounds POSSIBLY interesting.)
GSW: 'COLUMN: 'Parallax Memories' - Snatcher' (Good primer if you haven't played Kojima's pre-MGS cult classic.)
SGS: 'Addressing PTSD, Psychotherapy & Stroke Rehabilitation with Games & Game Technologies' (The Virtual Iraq therapy game material in here is pretty... eye-opening.)
May 24, 2006
GSW: 'GameSetCompetition: Win Totally Cool Death Jr. Swag!' (The velour coffin case thing is ace. And I don't even like Sisters Of Mercy.)
Gamasutra: 'GDC Radio: Building Community Around Pollinated Content in Spore' (V.good audio lecture from Spore developer.)
May 23, 2006
GSW: 'Rumble Roses XX Gets Raunchy On Xbox 360 Live' (Somewhat NSFW, amazing what you can get from Xbox Live nowadays!)
Legaltorrents: Added Pearl Jam 'Life Wasted' CC-licensed music video (Since Google Video's copy is going to be behind a paywall soon, or something weird...)
May 22, 2006
Regret The Error on The Sun's ever-classic UK newspaper journalism ('No revellers dived into bedrooms in search of drunken romps.')
Jean Snow on new 'Iceberg' building in Harajuku (Looks great at night - daytime pics also neat.)
Apple.com: New 'Get A Mac' ads (Behind the zeitgeist, I like 'em, though the page crashes my PC (hmm!) - via everyone.)
Archive.org AVGeeks: 'Our Obligation' ('Amazing work of melodrama for PTAs and school boards, this film tells the story of a school fire, the panic that developed and the loss of life that occurred.')
TV Squad: Sky remaking McGoohan's 'The Prisoner' (Don't think the Eccleston rumor is credible, but interesting to see how they remake my favorite TV show ever.)
May 21, 2006
Flickr: Pics of Rollo on the beach at Carmel (We went down there today - dachshund + beach = fun.)
Legaltorrents: Exegene netlabel MP3 Archives - Vol.1 [.torrent] (960mb of Creative Commons licensed drum&bass from my legal .torrent site - just say yes!)
DarkBOT radio - 'episode 0A' features lots of Monotonik tracks (See tracklisting on site - direct MP3 link here.)
Twitchfilm: New Steve Coogan show, 'Saxondale', on BBC2 soon (More Coogan always a good thing. Also, Enfield and Whitehouse re-uniting? Would be neat.)
May 20, 2006
WFMU: Adventures In Amplitude Modulation, Pt.17 (Having MP3s of stations canned is lotsa fun.)
Minimate HQ interviews Evan Dorkin on his cancelled Minimates (These are still damn cool.)
Cryptomundo: 'Mt. Hood Bigfoot?' (I love stuff like this. It's clearly Cousin It.)
GSW: 'Pussycat Dolls Virtual Lounge Gets Horrific' (Scary virtual world refashioning!)
SeriousGamesSource: 'Dance Dance… Revolution in Fitness!' ('A summary of various research projects that study the health effects associated with the phenomenon of dance video games such as Konami's Dance Dance Revolution.')
May 19, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Reflections On Reflexive: Wik's Creators Speak' (An interview actually conducted by me, for a change, yay.)
TV Squad: BBC America showing Spaced (Yay, only my favorite comedy show ever! Yanks must watch! Via IB.)
May 18, 2006
YouTube: E3 Sony press conference in one minute (OK, now I get the giant crab references on NeoGAF! Hilarious.)
May 17, 2006
Bleepwatch - new net.label blog (Good release compilation site!)
May 15, 2006
New Monotonik release - Izmar - 'Secular EP' (New on my netlabel, sitar and keyboard and nu-chill gorgeousness from Holland.)
NYT: 'Scan This Book!' (Good Kevin Kelly piece on book digitization.)
GSW: 'COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': E3 Me to Death' (What E3 was like in 1995! Floor plans, too!)
Thaum: Interview with Monotonik net.label artist Izmar (Lots of stuff I didn't know, very neat.)
May 13, 2006
GSW: 'E3 Tidbits: Vol.3 In A Now Concluded Series' (My E3 alt.games of the show, see GSW for more blogging fun.)
May 10, 2006
Gamasutra wins Best Game-Related Website Webby Award for 2006 (WHA?!)
Gamasutra's live E3 coverage (What I am doing this week (sorry no updates!))
May 07, 2006
GSW: 'Game Mag Weaseling': In The Beginning... (Yay, Monsieur Gifford's column starts with a bang.)
Archive.org: 10-hour chill-out live set by Finnish band Sarana (Wow, enough ambient to stun a horse.)
Minimate HQ on a lost Evan Dorkin Minimate (Neat, Spy Ball and Surf Mummy!)
My new Yahoo! Music Engine playlist - 'Get Lo!' (Compiling a sampler of the excellent Lo Recordings - click to play if you have YME.)
May 06, 2006
WMFU: Audio Hoaxes and Urban Legends, Part 2: The Shuttleworth Family (MP3s) (Awesomely good Casio+tea+biscuits chat.)
YouTube: Geek-Week interviews 'Joss Whedon cosplay guy' ('I did Sailor Moon last year, and it didn't go nearly as well.' Via WH?.)
DVD Savant reviews classic Arkoff '50s monster movies on DVD (Hypnotized by the She-Creature!)
Gamasutra: Postmortem: Klei Entertainment’s Eets (A totally cool PC indie game gets a fascinating postmortem.)
Top Shelf links to great Alan Moore interview on Cinescape (Discussing the likely to be controversial Lost Girls - hardbound Alice in Wonderland/Dorothy of Oz/Wendy of Neverland slashfic, essentially.)
Damn Interesting: 'A Potentially Disastrous Design Error' (At least he fixed it!)
May 05, 2006
Eurogamer.tv: Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy trailer (Insanely awesome.)
Yahoo!/AP: 'Dame Edna Issues Tongue-In-Cheek Rebuttal' ('The papps... can invade my space whenever they like. I adore them, especially this little chap, because I've always had a weakness for ponytails.')
GSW: 'Exclusive: 'Halo: Spartan' For Gizmondo Details' (Been sitting on this one for a while - Halo for Gizmondo was in pre-production, seriously.)
Slashdot working on Discussion2 revised discussion/comment system (Subscribers can mess with it right now - neat.)
May 04, 2006
Animation Magazine interviews Edmund Mcmillen of 'Gish' fame (Gish and Loco Roco are pretty damn similar, but coincidentally so.)
Jack Black Hits 'Rewind' for Gondry (Black is 'a junkyard worker whose brain is magnetized, destroying every tape in his friend's video store and forcing the pair to remake the lost films.')
USA Today: 'Photographer: Dame Edna punched me' (No, Edna, not you too!)
May 03, 2006
TV re-recommendation: 'Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations' (Wonderfully watchable cultural and gastronomic anthropology.)
A semi-apology? (Cos of Gama, SGS, GSW, and GDMag, lots of weekday linklog updates are just links to stuff I edit/write at work, nowadays. Oh well!)
Paul Boutin on 'A YouTube Lip-Sync Primer' (It's the new kabuki theater. Or something.)
Gamasutra: 'Gamasutra Podcast: Gamer Demographics, Part 1' (The excellent Fat Pixels Radio moves across to Gama, yay.)
SGS: 'Serious Games And The Japanese Toilet' (Excellent Gonzalo Frasca article on serious game design.)
May 02, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Wii Reactions: Developers Comment' ('If only it were called the GameSphere, and had been designed as a totally impractical spherical console that would roll right off your entertainment center.')
GSW: 'Comic: The Multicart Project: Part Eight' (KC Munchkin? Dizzy? This is still genius. Also, suspect Pong reference!)
Archive.org: The Society blue book, Toronto - 1913 (The Archive is doing some awesome book scanning, I hope people are checking them out.)
May 01, 2006
DC Direct: Gorgeous Eric Powell-drawn Swamp Thing poster (And I just found out Swamp Thing, easily my favorite 'superhero', got cancelled again, grah. )
Fans.gorillaz.com: music video for 'El Manana' (...which is very depressing. Also a trailer for the live DVD, which looks great.)
Kirsty Hawkshaw's MySpace (New track 'Insight' with Mr.Sam is pretty neat - scroll down for video.)
Yahoo! Group: emusic-discussion-archived (Just cleaned up the Emusic mailing list I set up to complement the webpage, when they were doing 'all you can eat' MP3 downloads - not any more, but posterity, etc...)
Paul Boutin on 'A Grand Unified Theory of YouTube and MySpace' ('Photos, news, and other people's bookmarks just aren't as interesting as bootleg TV and checking out the hotties.' Oh dear, I'm sooo hanging in the former.)