August 31, 2006
Flickr: My photo sets (Slowly filling it out with show/holiday pics - just added TGS 2005 and E3 2001, for video game show geeks.)
Gamasutra: 'Schadenfreudian Slips: Copy Protection Racket' ('How to find appropriate copy protection for your game, from dongles through 'scratch 'n sniff' to startling modern Russian methods.')
GSW: 'Creepy' Sega Cat Pops Up on eBay (Like I say, 'so far in the Uncanny Valley, it may never get out again'.)
Laughing Squid: 'The Holy Trinity of the Dogminican Order' (How much are these doggies on the trailer? Cuute.)
Doglitter.com: 'Poop Confessions' (Wally the dachshund speaks just how we think our dachshund speaks. Haw.)
August 30, 2006
WFMU Podcasts directory (Particularly linked for Aircheck, an archive of 'some of the more unusual and unpredictable moments and personalities in radio'.)
Google Sightseeing picks up a Ming class submarine ('There are a lot of submarines sitting about on land, but it has taken a while for someone to find a travelling submarine.')
Linkbunnies points to 'Heil Honey I'm Home' sitcom on YouTube (British, 'regarded as the Most Tasteless Sitcom Ever.' Hadn't ever seen it.)
Twitch reveals Mike Judge's Idiocracy will get a limited release (It'd better expand a bit, or else.)
August 29, 2006
The Comics Reporter links to ICV2's Paul Levitz (DC Comics) interview (Interesting stuff, Megatokyo notably discussed, too.)
YouTube: Lily Allen - 'LDN' (Female Streets-esque, single was 'Smile', unimaginable to think of this style/demeanor charting in the States, no?)
Copywrite.org: USC (historically) cracking down on BitTorrent use (Of interest to me because author was trying to download a Legaltorrents-hosted file.)
Boing Boing: 'ISS astronaut snaps photo of volcano erupting on Earth' (V. surreal to get pics from that height/angle - seems different to normal satellite pics.)
PaidContent: 'Time Inc. Tosses OfficePirates Overboard' (Shows how difficult it is to get corporate-backed blogs moving.)
August 28, 2006
Pink Tentacle: 'Rooftop lawn-planting made simple' ('Modular grass tiles developed specifically for converting rooftops into fields of green' - by Toyota!)
RollingStone.com: Rolling Stone's cover story archive (Most aren't online in full - the excellent Led Zeppelin cover feature is, though.)
Evan Dorkin shows the cover to Dork #11 (So. Getting. This.)
John Battelle on 'A Failure To Fail' re: Web 2.0 ('In short, we don't have a company creation crisis. But we might have a company destruction crisis. Something is off in our ecosystem - there's simply not enough failure out there right now.' Correct.)
Music Thing: 'Vocoder's 'What Happens Now': Truth funnier than fiction' ('[When] the guy who looks like Borat starts rapping in the second half... I assumed it was a trail for a new BBC2 series.')
August 27, 2006
YouTube: 'Tokyo - Hectic' (Indeed it is, and with a Teriyaki Boyz soundtrack! Going there (and Osaka/Kyoto/Mt.Fuji) for an extended holiday pre and post-TGS next month, yay. Via Gibson.)
HDBeat: Series 3 TiVo in the wild (YUM. I hope we can get multi-tuner working somehow here with Comcast.)
Archive.org: 'Tice - Fertig' (This is why Archive.org 'rocks' - female German-language hiphop action.)
GSW: 'I Can Be Your Idol Master, Baby' (Link to a great IC article on the Japanese arcade pop svengali sim.)
Archive.org: 'Steal This Film' Part 1 (Direct download version of the filesharing film. Wait, is that ironic?)
August 26, 2006
GameCareerGuide.com - CMP Game Group's newest site (Hey, I forgot to mention this - our new video game education site launched this week, lots of good, pertinent information here.)
LJ: 'Regarding the Whole Foods cage-free eggs, is the hen able to see the egg taken away?' (Answer within!)
Gamasutra: 'IGE: Inside The MMO Trading Machine' (Rare interview with the MMO item/goldselling behemoths - over 400 employees!)
August 25, 2006
YouTube: Lil Jon's London Bridge remix (English kids will goggle - in fact, everyone will goggle. Via Maragos!)
1UP: Jane Pinckard joining CMP as conf manager (Predictably, NeoGAF is going crazy. Welcome on board, Jane!)
YouTube: Shooting Stars A-Team Sketch (Basically, all great - oo, swings and roundabouts, my favorite.)
August 24, 2006
PopCultScanFun: 'Trading Cards: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, #18' ('There's something about tiny unimpressed French dictators, I guess?')
Gamasutra: 'Addiction and the Structural Characteristics of Massively Multiplayer Online Games' (Neat research on what parts of MMOs are addictive.)
GameSetWatch: 'Gamevil's Magazine Of Mobile Game Genius' (Totally neat South Korean gaming internal newsletter, kinda.)
Yahoo! Music has the premiere of Weird Al's 'Don't Download This Song' video (Nice, directed by Bill Plympton, too!)
LegalTorrents: Revolution Void - 'Thread Soul' album (Totally great CC-licensed jazz-electronic album - here's the .torrent file.)
August 23, 2006
Weird Al - 'Dont Download This Song' (Yes, 'click here to download this song'. Hurray!)
Yahoo Music Unlimited - buy 1 year, get 1 free if you have a Mastercard (Go do it, then check out YMU Playa, music zombies!)
Dr. Who Restoration Team on animating lost Dr. Who episodes (Here's the official site - GallifreyOne has Dr. Who news up the wazoo - via E-J.)
OrlyOwl.com: Orly Owl GIF combo (Plenty of 'hiiilarious' variants here - the domain has an insane amount.)
August 22, 2006
Ad Freak: 'David Brent shows Microsoft how it’s done' (Wow, Microsoft UK training vids using Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Thank you, MS!)
YMU Playa: 'MY YMU Playlist Mix: This Beat Is Technotronic' (New YMU mix that 'spans from some kind of minor breakdown I had when deciding what high quality mix I was going to do next for YMU Playa - and resolving to do a low quality one instead.')
Twitch points out some good Charlie Brooker videos on YouTube (It's the 'cut-up into pieces Pirate Bay' of video sites, but hey.)
Quick Stop Entertainment interviews Bill Lawrence from Scrubs (They also have a good Maurice LaMarche interview up.)
Music Thing: '10 greatest beat-making videos ever*' (Oh yes.)
August 21, 2006
Kaiju Shakedown on Ursula LeGuin's open letter to Studio Ghibli re: Earthsea (Interesting feedback on the new (son of) Miyazaki movie.)
Gelf: 'First The Tattoo, Then The Film' (Snakes on an etc, again.)
Comics Reporter: 'Missed It: DC Issues in PDF Form' (First issues of Vertigo classics in PDF.)
Reality Blurred: American Idol's Fantasia stars in Lifetime movie about... American Idol's Fantasia? (Argh, serpent eating tail.)
Panopticist: 'Lelouch's Rendezvous With Google Maps' (Someone should do this with all famous car-chases, even the non-contiguously shot ones.)
August 20, 2006
Silicon Beat: 'The Tesla Roader taken for a spin' (Zero emissions and Lotus-y - neat.)
Emusic 'Acoustica' offer - 100 free MP3s as part of a trial sign-up (I'm tempted, DRM-free MP3s are very pleasant, and I used to love Emusic, way back.)
YouTube: Heineken ad starring David Elsewhere (The same guy as did the Volkswagen 'Singing In The Rain' ad - lots more vids online, see Wikipedia entry for more. [Via Datassette.])
Kevin Kelly's 'Street Use' blog (Featuring 'the ways in which people modify and re-create technology' - via W.Gibson.)
GSW: 'Game Mag Weaseling: A Mere Blip on the Radar' (Kevin Gifford on Marvel's early '80s video game mag.)
PopCultScanFun: 'Comic Books: Star Trek #5' (More scan fun ad infinitum)
August 19, 2006
Dumb Distraction: Liveblogging 'Snakes On A Day' (Snakes On A Plane. For 24 hours. God help us.)
Gamasutra: 'An Update on Microsoft's Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera Technology' (Lots of cool stuff from Frank here - facemapping, gestural tech for X360 camera!)
Dapper - new data mining web-friendly app (Co-created by mon ami Jon Aizen, late of Archive.org - pretty clever.)
August 18, 2006
Pop Cult Scan Fun: 'Trading Cards: 'Truckin' - Spaced Out'' (Hopped up psychedelic van time!)
The Orb - 'Orbcast' podcast [.ZIP] (OMG gorgeous, has the amazing 'The Last Lighthouse Keeper' by The Transit Kings, who are Orb-related and my new favorite band - more info here. [Via Raj.])
Metroactive: 'Get Brak: Adult Swim's cultiest show gets its due' (Agreed, I will go watch 'Time Machine' now to celebrate.)
GSW: 'GameSetLinks: A Bad Day, In Ell Ayy' (In case you didn't spot, this is where a lot of my blogging power is going nowadays.)
August 17, 2006
Gamasutra: 'The Theory of Parallel Game Universes' (All kinds of ninja concepts.)
Evan Dorkin reveals he did rewrites to Adult Swim's version of Shin Chan (Starts airing in a few days - should be interesting, to say the least.)
August 16, 2006
Pop Cult Scan Fun - my new weblog! (Yep, yet another spinoff weblog, for my scans of ephemeral trading cards/comic snippets/arcade flyers - first post is a Tone Loc trading card, haw.)
YouTube: 'Burst City subtitle trailer' (Japanese early '80s 'cyberpunk classic from Sogo Ishii' - here's a review - via William Gibson, who is a fan.)
Goatopolis: 'jurassic 5 on tom green live' (Damn, I forgot about Green's Internet version of his much-missed MTV talk show - looks adorable.)
Prelinger Library blog: 'Current Reading: Missiles and Rockets' (The ephemera of today is history, tomorrow.)
August 15, 2006
YouTube: Don Johnson Big Band - 'One MC, One Delay' (When Finnish hiphop bands add me on MySpace, I link to their funky Beastie Boys-esque pop-hop here - that's the breaks!)
YMU Playa: 'My YMU Playlist Mix: Ambience Into The Ether' (Mixing up Eno, Budd, Biosphere, and Namlook for another YMU playlist, yay.)
Legaltorrents: Added 'Route 66' CC-licensed road movie documentary ('Route 66 is a 104-minute Creative Commons-licensed independent documentary which chronicles a road trip across America in a Cadillac by the German filmmakers' - now fully in English, neeto.)
Pink Tentacle: 'Device uses waves to “print” on water surface' (Totally awesome. And useful how?)
YouTube: New trailer for the 'Borat' movie (It looks more like the Ali G sketches than I expected, but hey. Still grinnin'.)
Apple.com: Trailer for Michel Gondry's 'The Science Of Sleep' (I appreciate a lot that his movies, while visually out-there, are about emotions.)
August 14, 2006
Occasional Superheroine: Lots of Alan Moore 'Lost Girls' links (I pre-ordered this on Amazon, thanks to a birthday gift card.)
Pulver.com: 'Jeff's Quick Guide to TV on the Net (TV/IP)' (Very useful! Via PVRBlog.)
Stones Throw Records podcast (They don't really have an archives webpage, but subscribe to the podcast, awwwwwesome funk hiphop mixdowns.)
Rifftrax.com - Mike Nelson's MST3K-ish downloadable MP3 commentaries for movies ($2 is tempting, but I want hardware that does it automagically for me - Xbox 360, sort it out, plz!)
Twitchfilm claims that Mike Judge's 'Idiocracy' has been pushed back/shelved? (Noooo! It had better not have been - sounds awesome.)
A Distant Soil on the fan from hell (LOTR-related, but applied to any biz - via Ellis.)
August 13, 2006
Music Thing on the 'Infinite Horizon' (Yes, an 'autonomous trance track generator' in hardware form. I love shiny boxes.)
Scott of Jarkolicious.com has a totally adorable new puppy (Not normally a puppy-cooer, but come on!)
Cobalt Pet on 'team buying' in China (The Chinese are happy to bargain, so consumers are flash mob stylin' likeminded buyers - interesting.)
GSW: 'COLUMN: Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 8/12/06' (Another awesome column from Fenky, who just completed his EGM mag collection, wow.)
Metroactive echoes my Rokko Sushi downtown San Jose restaurant recommendation (Newly opened, their dinner special bento box is AWESOME, also happy hour price Kirin - visit weekdays 5-7pm, best sushi we've had in a while.)
August 12, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Postmortem: Wideload Games' Stubbs the Zombie' (V. interesting Game Developer-reprinted postmortem discussing indie development from a Halo co-creator.)
Flickr: My pictures from the SRL gig in San Jose tonight (Here's lots of better pics of the 'Ghostly Scenes Of Infernal Desecration' show.)
August 11, 2006
GSW: 'COLUMN: 'A Life In Obscurity' - August D3 Publisher Monthly' (Yay, Jiji moved his trashy Japanese ultrabudget monthly column onto GSW for teh win.)
Gamasutra: 'Big Reality: A Chat with 'Big Game' Designer Frank Lantz' (The Pac Manhattan designer speaks out!)
August 10, 2006
GSW: 'Addison-Wesley Says: WoW Hacking, Rah Rah Rah?' (Breaking MMOs is an acceptable book subject now?)
Gamasutra: 'A Journalistic Bent: Word Science' ('The longer games take to play, or books to read, or films to watch, the smaller our range of comparable experiences becomes.')
August 09, 2006
GSW: 'Getting A Call From N64 Kid's Aunt' (Strange things happen to my co-worker Brandon, generally.)
GameSetWatch: 'Letters From the Metaverse: My Dark Life' (Why Second Life isn't, actually, as cool in practice as it is in theory?)
August 08, 2006
Gamasutra: 'The Designer's Notebook: Where's Our Merchant Ivory?' ('Are video games' lack of cultural credibility partly due to the fact that "we don’t have any highbrow games"?')
Assembly 2006 demo-party results released! (Lotsa cool stuff, a Scene.org post links to full archives - go, Waxy, go!)
Monotonik: 'Aleksi Eeben - Spaceman Far Away From Home [mtk169]' (The seminal Finnish Amiga demo-scene musician and GB/VIC-20/C64 music tool coder releases a CC-licensed piece of high bleep weirdness on my net.label, yay.)
Archive.org: '[eml001] Synthecom 1989' (Wow, free 1989 compilation by Electronic Music Lab Singapore, fun early electronic stuff from Asia.)
August 07, 2006
Twitch: 'That 10 Minute Preview of Iannucci's 'Time Trumpet'.' (Wow, go check it, looks seriously good in a very twisted way - also on Twitch, news on BBC3's Autumn preview.)
Music Thing on the excellent Palm music composition prog Bhaji's Loops (Monotonik artist Transient uses it to great effect - also on Music Thing, some preposterous Aphex Twin claims.)
Gelflog: 'Joel Siegel Uses Rated-Aargh Language' (Apparently, he doesn't write his own column nowadays?)
Lucky Juju pinball hall in The Alameda (Oo, I need to go sometimes! Via bneely.)
Cold-Room.com: CRadio #5 (Play it through main page link, they like Monotonik's Akira Kosemura, cool!)
August 06, 2006
GSW: 'Anatomy Of A Rumor: EA, Wii, Digg, And You' ('So, is the era of Digg the age of the troll? I think we should be told.')
NME: 'Smiths star joins Modest Mouse' (That's Johnny Marr, not teh Morrissey :P Via Raj!)
Gelf on a plagiarizing marketing columnist (The Internet is awful, isn't it?)
DVD Savant reviews Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (4 DVDs - special editions keep getting more special.)
Blogspotting: 'Dumping on BW cover on Digg' (BW trying to be 'cool' aside - it's about actual monetization, not dumb theoretical valuations.)
August 05, 2006
Loudblog: weblog system for podcasting (Gonna maybe try this to get Monotonik podcast up on iTunes.)
Viator.si: 'Playful Bowl of Emotions - a mix by Nova Viator' (From Elektroblef veteran DJ Nova, nice chiptune mixage with some Monotonik content.)
Pikapika: 'in kitijoji' animated lightprojection GIFs (Very cool - via bneely.)
GameSetWatch: 'MMOG Nation: Shadow of the Drow' (Michael 'Slashdot Games' Zenke's new GSW column rocks it.)
August 04, 2006
Cartoon Brew: 'A Monster Of A Review' (Animators are apoplectic! Some more follow-up.)
Rollingstone.com: 'Behind the Scenes: Beck's Video Shoot' ('See the Brooklyn set where he filmed "Cell Phone's Dead" with director Michel Gondry' - via Antcast.)
YMU Playa: 'My YMU Playlist Mix: Say Hello To Big Dada' (Latest on my YMU playlist blog, compiling the neeto UK hiphop label.)
August 03, 2006
Caltrain.com: 'Caltrain Succeeds With High-Speed Internet Connectivity' (The rail line I take to work - it'll be tempting to start using it when it rolls out.)
Netlabel.org: 'Netaudio Charts 07.2006 by aaron/one.dot9.ca' (More Tim Koch @ Monotonik love, excellent.)
Slayground interviews A Lee Martinez (Looking forward to his second novel.)
Undomondo: 'Netlabel selections from the past months' (Including a couple of Monotonik releases, yay.)
August 02, 2006
CNN: 'Dog goes berserk, destroys Elvis' teddy bear' (I can totally imagine my dog doing this. Which is why he's not a guard dog at a teddy bear museum.)
GSW: 'Letters From The Metaverse: A Good Flight Spoilt' ('It must say something that the two sports I’m most aware of in Second Life are golf and sailing. I like to imagine it says, “All of the denizens of Second Life might be massive sexual deviants, but they’re also WASPy as hell.”')
Gamasutra: 'A Week in Shanghai' (My full Chinese write-ups, including a new one on Ubisoft Shanghai with some interesting comments about piracy.)
August 01, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Q&A: Mythic's Mark Jacobs' (One of the best Q&As we've run in a while, thx Brandon!)
Legaltorrents - added 'Odd Job Jack Episode 2' assets (The Canadian animated series is making all its anim assets available under CC, yay.)
Gelf Mag deconstructs 'positive' film blurbs (Wow, as always, totally depressing.)
GSW: 'Berkley's BUZZ: Wii to Receive Adult Oriented Software?' (It's easy to jump to conclusions! A new GSW columnist pops up.)