ffwd: Linklog

Monotonik: Gaza F*gg*t - 'Welcome To Softbo' [mtk177] (Glitchy and insane CC-licensed MP3s on my net.label - check 'Rotten Fruit Messageboard Apology', if nothing else.)

GSW: 'Super Street Fighter II, Sirlin-ated' (Some very neat, arcane, official tutorial vids for Super Street Fighter II Turbo.)

YMU Playa: 'My YMU Playlist Mix: 'Southern Fried Charm?'' (Hey, my Yahoo! Music Unlimited playlist blog ain't dead, yet!)

Reality Blurred: 'The year in reality TV, 2006' (All this and Tim Gunn, too!)

WhyTheLuckyStuff: 'Fuzzy Auroras' (Remind me of Boards Of Canada, for some tragic reason.)

GSW: 'Buggy Saints Row - The Musical!' (Some grump in the comments, but I still like it!)

Gama: 'PlayStation 3 Gets Downloadable Tekken 5' (Only JP/HK for now, but this is digital download goodness I can get excited about.)

GSW: 'King Of Games' Magical Sound T-Shirt' (Damn, I wish these shirts were just a BIT cheaper.)

Gamasutra: 'Can Games Fly On Google Earth?' (Ahead of a rumored big upgrade for Google Earth, some Intel folks made a fully integrated game with it - source code included!)

GSW Feature: 'Gizmondo - Inside The Eye Of The Tiger' (A 10,000 word report on Gizmondo that I prolly should have released before the Ferrari crash, ohwell.)

WaPo: 'He Oughta Be in Pictures' (On Noah Kalina's dolorous celebrity shots, v.cute- via Waxy.)

Gamasutra: 'Sex, Violence, Tension and Comic Books - An Interview with Gerard Jones' (It may be the holidays, but Gamasutra, she does not sleep!)

Google translation of illustrated differences between Johnny Mnemonic's Western and Japanese versions (I've been fascinated in this for a while, finally tracked down good, if German documentation on it.)

UK DVD recommendation: 'Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer' (Often surprised about how they're not known in the States, compared to, say, Gervais.)

RobotSound: 'The Mysterious Heinrich Muller' (All about the very odd Gerald Donald - lots more at Drexciya Research Lab.)

Reality Blurred: 'The Top Reality Whores of 2006' (Some good picks, here.)

Google Video: Douglas Adams' 'Hyperland' documentary from 1990 (Rights issues, of course, but I never knew this documentary existed - via Crummy.)

Music Thing: 'Music geek fun with Google Patents Search' (Mmm, Kraftwerk synth patent alert!)

Kottke.org: 'The year in errors' (Pointing to some of Regret The Error's best.)

Eddie Campbell: 'Alan Moore's London. part 1' (There are some new entries with more great pics from From Hell's reference.)

Ironic Sans visits the Burt Reynolds Museum ('It's every bit as narcissistic and wonderful as it sounds.')

EW Popwatch on the Top 10 radio songs (Also links to lots more neat EOY Nielsen lists.)

DVD Savant: 'The Most Impressive DVDs of 2006' (Great, erudite picks as per always.)

Idiot Toys: 'The shit presents we're actually going to get...' ('What your sister gets instead...')

Anil Dash: 'How to kill a personality' (I run into the same problem, a lot, in my work.)

Antville's music video of the year winners (I think the nominations post is almost more fun - check out Deichkind's 'Most Fun Video' winner, or else.)

A Blog For You: 'Hively Tracker by Iris and Up Rough (AmigaOS 4.0)' (Amiga isn't dead, chiptunes ain't dead - yay.)

MediaWeek: 'AMC to Remake British Series The Prisoner' (Could be good? This is actually a U.S. sale for the already-known Granada TV remake.)

Gizmosis: 'Free (as in beer) Music and Video' (Some nice recommendations, including Legaltorrents and Archive.org stuff.)

GSW: 'GameSetPics: Game Company Xmas Cards' (There are more fun ones out there, but this is a good start!)

Gamasutra: 'The Designer's Notebook: PS3 versus Wii - The Designer's Perspective' (Ernest Adams being himself, as per usual.)

Antville: Luke Vibert's 'I Love Acid' music video (Beautifully retro, from the absolutely classic Vibert.)

Adult Swim: Trailer for new Tim & Eric Show (From the Tom Goes To The Mayor folks. Looks awesome.)

GS: 'Gamasutra's Quantum Leap Awards: Most Important Games, 2006' (Trying to round-up the titles that advanced the genre, not necessarily the straight-out best.)

GSW: 'Holmes, Cthulhu - Two Great Tastes Now Combined!' (Lots of people got excited about this, like I inevitably do, heh.)

Kikapu: 'Leonard J. Paul - The Corporation' ('Original soundtrack for the award-winning Canadian documentary film of the same name' - CC-licensed! Neat!)

GS: 'Gamasutra Picked As 'Top 100' Website By UK Guardian' (Neat allocade from the UK Guardian, who run some good websites themselves.)

Monotonik: Seathasky - 'Exist EP' [mtk176] (Latest on my CC-licensed netlabel - try track #3 with great Troupe guest vocals?)

Idiot Toys points out why the HD-DVD slogan is terrible ('Teaching a whole new generation of children how to not speak properly, as if we didn't have enough problems understanding what that pale youth-thing just mumbled to us through a spliff already.')

Evan Dorkin shows Tyrone, from his 'Tyrone's Inferno' Adult Swim pilot (Tyrone's got a few too many eyes! Also, he's working on more of the insane Adult Swim redubs of Crayon Shin-Chan, which is awesome.)

Gamasutra: '2007 IGF Mod Category Winners Announced' (Some great mods here, esp. the insane Spawn Of Deflebub.)

GSW: 'Da Da, Da Da - Katamari XBLA Rumor-y!' (But what will Katamari do without Takahashi?)

Jarkolicious: 'Krispy Kreme Opens First Store in Japan' (Yum yum. Though Japanese pastries are nicer!)

Pink Tentacle: 'Top 10 robots selected for Robot Award 2006' (All kinds of cool robots here.)

Twitch: 'Finally, 'Are You Dave Gorman?' Region-Free NTSC U.K DVD February 19th 2007' (Neat!)

Vinyl Abuse: 'My Little Cthulhu' (I'm a sucker for most Cthulhu toys, really.)

Dark Horse Entertainment with pic from 'My Name Is Bruce' ('B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for a character he plays in the movies and is forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon' - nice. Via PW.)

Publishers Weekly: 'Alan Moore in Arthur Magazine' (With a link to Moore's extended article on sex in PDF form.)

Digitize.textfiles.com: '1983 Winter/Holiday catalog for The Shelburne Company' (Via a fun Jason Scott ramble.)

GSW: 'Opinion: Why The Game Boy Should Never Be Counted Out' (I love the Game Boy Advance, pretty much.)

TV recommendation: Sci Fi's 'The Lost Room' miniseries (Absolutely riveting - 6 hours of noir-esque conspiracy-laden sci-fi.)

PopCultScanFun: 'Comic Books: Evan Dorkin, Schoolkids, House Of Marvel?' (A return for my 'scanning weird stuff' blog, with Dorkin menacing some nippers.)

GSW: 'Game Developer Blows Up Defcon, Sneak Jan Peek' (Still around, just go read GSW or Gama instead!)

Vegas food recommendation: Sushi Roku @ Caesar's Palace (Gorgeous view of the strip, and ridiculously good sushi - Vegas is worth visiting for the food alone, nowadays.)

GSW: 'GameSetPics: Pinball Hall Of Fame Vol.1: 'The Pinball Circus'' (When is an arcade machine like a pinball machine? This time.)

Vegas food recommendation: Burger Bar @ Mandalay Bay (From Chef Hubert Keller, the American kobe beefburger is gorgeous (couldn't afford the $60 Japanese kobe one!))

Flickr: 'Las Vegas, December 2006: Xmas tree outside Caesar's Palace' (Bneely says 'the shape is a little too perfect.' Foo on you! :P)

Book recommendation: John Twelve Hawks' 'The Traveler' (An anti-technology novel pitched somewhere between Dan Brown and Carlos Casteneda - some will say too cheesy, but I really enjoyed.)

Vosges Chocolate - 'Zion Collection' (If you're in Vegas, go to The Forum Shops and seek the Vosges store out for ultra-gourmet chocolate - I had the Zion (made with Red Stripe beer!) and a so-called 'Absinthe' flavor made with anise, and they were insane. Stores also in NY, Chicago?)

Flickr: 'Las Vegas, December 2006: Awesome Beatles corridor @ Mirage' (Am having a mini-getaway in LV. More trippy pics soon!)

GSW: 'GameSetWatch - The Future Of The Future' (Same idea for ffwd - I will be updating it when I feel like it, not when I feel compelled to - which might be a biiit less often, heh.)

Kaiju Shakedown: 'JACKIE "PSYCHIC" CHAN' (Chan's web diary, currently being dictated from the set of Rush Hour 3, is really readable!)

Quick Stop Entertainment reviews he Nightmares of Lovecraft figures (These seem a bit literal, therefore boring, for me.)

Twitch: 'Full Trailer for 'Hot Fuzz' Is Finally Here...' (I hope this gets a wide release in the States - as if!)

Google Sightseeing: 'Firefox Crop Circle' (Try explaining this one to aliens.)

UbuWeb Film index ('UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video holdings to on-demand streaming formats a la YouTube' - via WFMU and Boyer.)

WFMU Beware Of The Blog on rock 'n roll's 'Thor' ('I want to talk a bit about the real Thor. That's Jon-Mikl Thor, former bodybuilding champion, Las Vegas attraction, and most importantly...actor and screenwriter.')

The Beat's analysis of DC Comics sales for October (Scroll down for Virgin Comics sales, too - interesting! Also - Marvel stats.)

Vinyl Abuse: 'Mad Villain x Kidrobot' (Oo, the Stone's Throw music superhero gets his own action figure.)

Chris Weston: 'Treen With Envy' (Tres amusant for Brits: 'Forget Will Eisner's The Spirit... THIS is the property I wanna see FM adapt' - via Ellis.)

UK Guardian's travel site is redesigned to run largely off tags (A really interesting idea - and a search-engine friendly one, too - via Simon Waldman.)

The Beat discusses DC's new Minx graphic novels for teenage girls (There's an ICV interview, too - the comimanga singularity is here.)

eBay: 'VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 1966 Acetate LP ANDY WARHOL' (Only $51,000 with 5 days to go! Via Dorkin.)

GSW: 'Mega64 Disses Spike, Rolls Out Ico' (More delightful prank game ads/comedy added, I just noticed.)

IGF Student Entry: 'Rooms' (Random tip - no, I don't know if it's gonna be a finalist or not - a cunning, odd Korean Flash puzzle game, playable online.)

GSW: '1UP, GamesRadar, GameDaily, GamePro - The Smackdown?' (An analysis of which game websites are on top, trafficwise.)

8BitPeoples: 8BP050 compilation preview (Totally awesome chiptune megacompilation.)

GSW: 'Decline Of Sierra... Avenged?' (A little history lesson for classic adventure types.)

Gamasutra: 'Question of the Week: Does Size Matter?' (On game length and value for money!)

GSW: 'MMOG Nation: The Future of Ryzom' (How Ryzom got its groove off.)

GSW: 'Rooster Teeth Make Upset Footballer Feel Better!' (The power of machinima and the Internet, allied together!)

Gama: 'Pocket Geometry: Bizarre Creations On Geometry Wars Mobile' (Not a very easy conversion, unfortunately.)

GSW: 'GameProFamily Piles On The Fictional Kids' (Apparently, IDG just moved next door to our office. Time to hide!)