ffwd: Linklog

Serious Games Source: 'Developing Library Services in Second Life' (Real-life librarians recount virtual booklending.)

GSW: 'Gamerbytes Woofs Its Way Into Existence' (From my colleagues, a user-submitted game news site using Pligg - go post any old rubbish!)

BB: Survival Research Labs in San Jose August 11th (We got tickets already - a must if you like robots and fire - and who doesn't?)

419Eater: Nigerian 419 scammer makes wooden replica of Commodore 64 for 'Del Trotter' (Oh. Em Gee. This is the Trotter-related reference (not vital to know, but a bonus!), for those not schooled in UK television. Via Teh Waxx.)

Culturalliure: CC-licensed Catalan jazz music album (Including a Gilberto Gil track - is all his other CC-licensed stuff available online anywhere? Via CC.)

Amazon Web Services: 'Mechanical Turk for Metadata Collection' (3,100 quote attributions for $75? Crazed. Semi-via Waxy.)

Gamasutra: 'The Rebirth Of The U.S. Arcade?' ('Hopefully we're starting to see innovations back on the arcade side that bring a new and different environment and experience that people can't get at home.')

Fort90 reviews films from the NY Asian Film Fest (Fun! Includes 'OH! MY ZOMBIE MERMAID'!)

Consumerist: 'An Evening Phone Call with British Telecom' (The British are so courteous! Via bneely.)

Monotonik: Akira Kosemura - In A Distant Forest Somewhere EP [mtk167] (CC-licensed Japanese ambient on my net.label - stream&chill!)

GSW: 'Nerdcore Hiphop, Video Games, And You!' (Awesome game-related nerdcore rap alert - including one "about his brother-in-law dissolving his marriage due to his wife's deep involvement with Final Fantasy XI.")

GSW: 'COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Magzombie' (Kevin Gifford delves into uber-obscure U.S. game mag PSE - interesting!)

Archive.org: 'Various Artists - life in the desktop [bump008]' (Great CC-licensed netlabel techno from Japanese label Bumpfoot.)

MoTime: the Hitler Cats blog (Oh boy. Via Improbable.com.)

Captain Ahab wins Snakes On A Plane soundtrack competition! (Yay, I've dug the Ahab for a while, since the Irritant releases. [Via PopWatch.])

Google Earth Blog on volcano data (There's lots of volcanoes on Google Sightseeing, too!)

Poppy Z Brite praises Andersoon Cooper for being 'openly gay' (Later amended to 'open secret', but it's an easy mistake to make!)

Wikipedia: Inca Kola - Pepsi's downfall in Peru (Oh, Wikipedia, I love you! Via Malaclyps.)

Live-Radio.net - collection of worldwide live radio streams (Fun, eclectic - via Brad Sucks.)

GSW: 'GameSetCompetition: Win 'Metal Gear Saga Vol. 1' on DVD!' (Along with a bizarre story, thanks to Frank.)

Quick Stop Entertainment - Kevin Smith-backed new entertainment site (Has some v. neat pod/videocasts, but somewhat odd layout.)

Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Awesome Music Videos (With YouTube links, via everybody, still great.)

LegalTorrents: 'Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning' added (The CC-licensed Finnish spoof sci-fi movie gets an official mirror on LegalTorrents, yay legal P2P.)

Gama: 'Postmortem: Indigo Prophecy' ('Most games [have] a cut scene to advance the narration, then an action scene, then another cut scene for the narration. The structure of this narrative process is very close to that of porn movies.')

Gamasutra: '2007 Independent Games Festival Site Launched' (What I was crunching on today, as IGF Chairman - this year is gonna rock.)

AccordionGuy: Matt Stone's "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" Memo (Lots of bad words, here.)

PopMatters interviews Half Man Half Biscuit ('Perhaps halfway between the Smiths and the Fall, with none of the drama-queen arrogance of either, HMHB are very English, very angry, very literate, very funny and, above all else, very different.')

Broken Toys links to JMS' 'Star Trek: Reboot The Universe' proposal (Wow. Do it!)

TV Recommendation: BBC America's 'The Thick Of It' (If you haven't been, watch it - uncomfortably genius UK political machinations.)

Disquiet: 'Free as in Netlabel' (Good email comments, tho I disclaim responsibility for the Archive's sucky new upload interface!)

Music Thing: 'Blue Man Group's amazing range of musical toys' (These look awesome.)

Mono211.com: List of the fruits of my new comics stash hobby (Buying random indie comics on eBay fuels my info addiction - I also updated my library book list, my video game rentals, and our collective Netflix rentals. )

Boyakasha.co.uk: Borat The Movie trailer [.WMV] (Here's more info - movie of the year, already. [Via Twitch.])

Digilog: 'Lackluster - lax ep' [diginet002] (New net.label release from Esa, excellent!)

Kaiju Shakedown has the trailer for new HK Jackie Chan movie ROB-B-HOOD ('Three hapless crooks kidnapping a baby' - sure, goofy's more fun than Tucker!)

Warren Ellis working on TV pilot for AMC (Yes, that AMC - a 'sf/entertainment-industry ‘dramedy’', apparently)

Analyst Relations blog on English attitudes in American business (I do believe I run into some of these - via Malaclyps.)

Mono211.com: re-added a msgboard for Monotonik fans/artists (Please go post if you're a fan of - looks like YABB is nice, free, as not as hackable as phpBB.)

Clive Thompson article on Will Shortz, crosswords, Sudoku (I don't think I like Sudoku. Must I die?)

Fluxblog interview with Scott Pilgrim's Bryan Lee O'Malley (Everyone in the world is telling me to pick these graphic novels up. I will do so soon!)

Jeremy 'Toastyfrog' Parish on explaining games to his girlfriend ('It's just that I happened to be using a... combination of Skeleton Waiter and Persephone. Which means I was battling the forces of darkness by syphoning my enemies' life force with a demon maid's vacuum cleaner before finishing them off with a bowl of curry rice.')

eBay: Incredibly early Alan Moore-featuring fanzine, 'MYRMIDON' ('Windflies hovering over the deserted tenements of the city' - don't see this often.)

Gamasutra: 'Day in the Life: Fumiaki Shiraishi, Programmer, Square Enix' (V. interesting on the working day for a Japanese game developer.)

Chiptune.com - recent redesign using Ajax (Funky weird Amiga interface to grab classic chiptunes, heh.)

K0an.com recommends Showtime for Roger Corman's 'Chopping Mall' ('A lightning storm causes three mall security robots to malfunction and start killing teens locked in a mall late at night'. Nice - probably a Short Circuit cash-in?)

GameSetWatch: 'GameSetInterview: John Gillotte On DSQuake' (Mm, waiting for this homebrew-ness eagerly.)

Gamasutra: 'Gamasutra Podcast: Next Gen Console Development, Part 1' (Heavy hitters talk, uhh, digital trees!)

Digital World Tokyo: 'Tables turned at cross-dressing "French Maid" cafes for women' (Neeto.)

Evil Avatar Radio: Interview with me about Gamasutra, GameSetWatch, etc, etc (In which I ramble a lot.)

Flickr: My pics of the 2006 Webby Awards (Gamasutra won, hence my presence - but... puppet Gorillaz and Prince trashing his guitar! Nice!)

SuicideGirls interview with Alan Moore about Lost Girls (There's also one with Melinda Gebbie, too.)

Nervous & Anxious - official band site (Substance (ex-Monotonik) and Repe, demo-scene guys, doing the Prodigy 1st-album style breakbeat piano thing from Finland, yay - also see MySpace page.)

Christopher Whaley - 'Vespers' mix (Contains lots of Monotonik tracks, as does Narwhal - both great mixes with free music.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Exhibit puts poop on display' (“The beetle poop was cute,” said one visitor.)

The New Criterion on The Complete New Yorker DVD set (More magazine sets like this, please - though legality is still a little _weird_ re: freelancers - via Romanesko.)

The Believer: 'The Syncher, Not The Song' (An _excellent_ Douglas Wolk article on the rise of the Numa-Numa Dance!)

Dotmusic: 'Bowie sprinkles stardust on Extras' (Also, Daniel Radcliffe playing 'a yob'. Can't wait.)

Gridskipper: Jean Snow on the Bandai Museum in Tokyo (You can 'shoot a few rounds of some Gundam weaponry'? Hah.)

Vice Magazine's comic issue online (The 'Garbage Trove' article has some amazing art in it - via FLOG!.)

Trailer for Pixar's Ratatouille (Summer 2007 - and I need to go see Cars, don't I?)

CCHits - Digg-style rating of CC-licensed songs (Nice concept, powered by intriguing but not quite buzzed about Ning - via BradSucks.)

Times Online - Fatboy Slim greatest hits commentary podcast (Called 'Why Try Harder' - apparently: "The title is a statement not a question.")

GSW: 'Garage Sale Unearths Nintendo Motherload' (Now much-trafficked, a pretty amazing story for game collectors.)

Pop Candy interviews 'Tom Goes to the Mayor' creators (They've even interviewed the Gorillaz!)

Ambiguous' Quinn on having a magnet in your finger ('I can't sense ghosts, so either they aren't there or aren't magnetic')

Game|Life: Chris Kohler gets a package from Nintendo (Not quite what everyone else got, eh?)

GameSetWatch: 'GameSetCompetition: Win A VGPocket 50!' (Yet more GSW giveaways, this one bright and pink and scary.)

Gamasutra: 'Thank Heaven for Little Girls: Why Rule of Rose May Be 2006's Most Controversial Game' ('There are definitely erotic parts to it, and some things that might make people uncomfortable, but it’s not the focus.' Uncomfortable Japanese people alert.)

Evan Dorkin mentions 'the Game Designer career guide cover job' (Ahem, it's actually Game Developer, and yes, I'm a fanboy, but it looks great - will post pics when it streets.)

EW: Kathy Griffin interview re: Season 2 of 'The D-List' (Which should be watchable, actually, so there.)

Gamasutra: 'Report: UK Serious Games Conference Pranked By Anti-McDonalds Group?' (Wheeze of the week!)

Yahoo!/Hollywood Reporter: '"Pee-wee" set to play with Adult Swim' (Adult Swim rocks more, if that's possible.)

Legaltorrents: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts remix sample sets - David Byrne & Brian Eno [.FLAC] (Lossless versions of audio source files from two of the classic 'Bush Of Ghosts' tracks - "A Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody" - offered under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.5 license for remixing and uploading to the official site - neeet.)

Gamasutra: 'Book Excerpt: Better Game Characters By Design' (Some v.good stuff here on body language in video games.)

GSW: 'COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Your Field Guide to US Magazine Racks' (More canonical Gifford goodness.)

Archive.org: Xoc & Heavy Friends - Mizzle Radish Motet (From the SMW Super Mario album guy - featuring 'sounds recorded by various artists on The Shizz and Metroid Metal forums, all arranged by Xoc.')

Gelf Magazine: 'Hot-Dogging It' ('A scrum of cameramen, 30-inch wieners, and sexual innuendo at Brooklyn's second-most-famous hot-dog-eating contest.')

Yahoo!/AP: 'Green to host online weekly call-in show' (I still heart Tom Green, I can't help it.)

CNet News: 'Few games stand out at E3' (Old, but I missed this, it has my picks of E3 in it - or at least some of them.)

WFMU: 'The Beatles Gone Bollywood (video)' (Vigorous headshaking all round.)

GSW: 'GameSetCompetition: Death Jr. Swag, Monday Deadline!' (Last chance to win a Death Jr. mini-coffin! Do it!)

Phonescoop on new Korean Sprint TV phone coming to U.S. (Oo, swivel screen is cool - via MocoNews.)

UK Guardian: Charlie Brooker's 'The Guide' TV column archives ($infinite for anyone who has a copy of Brooker's Edge prank call!)

GSW: 'Bastards of 32-Bit - Imadoki no Vampire: Bloody Bride' (Wow, a Japanese vampire dating game? Never spotted this one.)

ffwd: 'Webby Madness, Magazine Mash-Ups' (Quick update to main blog, you guys know all this already.)

Oddica - cool T-shirts, $10 each if you get enough (Old, I'm sure.)

Ben '222b' Turner on discovering Babylon 5 (Some very smart comments - it's one of my favorite shows.)

GameSetWatch - now with increased posting frequency (I'm posting more often, but less detail, as an experiment.)

Gamasutra: 'Wedgies, Not Bullets: Leisure Suit Larry Creator Al Lowe on Comedic Design' (One of the best Gama interviews we've done in a while.)