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June 27, 2007
Music Thing: 'eBay of the day: Awesome sword guitar with wings'
(So unnecessary.)
June 26, 2007
Quick Stop Entertainment: 'Interview: Bill Corbett'
(Yet more masterly MST3K interviewing.)
YouTube: Paul McCartney's 'Dance Tonight' music video
(Nothing like a little Gondry to pep things up.)
Improbable Research: 'Measured discovery about meetings'
('Of 1,037 full- or part-time workers polled, 27 percent ranked disorganized, rambling meetings as their top frustration.')
June 25, 2007
Google Sightseeing: 'The Eden Project'
(I'd like to live in someting looking a bit like this.)
The Beat: 'DC Invests in Japanese Manga Startup'
(Smart idea, going back to the source of manga craziness.)
EW Popwatch: 'A first look at Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie'
(I think it'll work. We'll see!)
June 24, 2007
ASCII: Jason Scott's productivity guide
(I like the Millennium Falcon attitude to project completion.)
GSW: 'GameSetQ: Your 'Oh My God' Moment In Games?'
(Some awesome replies.)
Flickr: Simon @ Gordonbiersch, San Jose, June 2007
(A rare sensible (if hella blurry) picture of my good self.)
GSW: 'Brooktown High And The Future Of Western Dating Games'
(Another longer, more thought-out GSW post.)
June 23, 2007
GameSetWatch: 'Who Are The Sex Pistols Of Gaming?'
(GSW revamp bears fruit.)
June 20, 2007
Mod Soul Brother adds Jugi/Complex
(I put up some more important .MODs from
Amiga/PC demo-scene history
, now CC-licensed with some added context.)
June 19, 2007
Monotonik: 'Idmonster - Preloved EP [mtk185]'
(Latest on my net.label - go check out
a Last.fm label mix
for a good taste of our material.)
June 18, 2007
YouTube: Awesome animated video for ST's 'Debut'
(From the
Music Related
album of a
previous Monotonik releaser
- gorgeous idmpop.)
Reality Blurred: Bravo is now becoming Bravo Media
(Uhoh, hope TWoP doesn't suck, afterwards.)
EW PopWatch: 'Evan Almighty's phone sex hang-up'
(Phone numbers in movies, uhoh.)
June 17, 2007
The Beat: 'When a fandom tribe dies'
(I think the Thunderbirds fans never really made it online, personally.)
DVD Savant reviews 'Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster'
('The big shock comes when screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa has the Earth monsters discuss their Ghidorah problem.')
Ascii: 'Vintage Festival East 4.0'
(Looks like a neat little retro get-together!)
Gamasutra: 'Serious Gaming For The Greater Good: The 2007 Games For Change Conference'
(People starting to care about games with social messages.)
Gamesetwatch: 'How Killing People With My Dad Improved Our Relationship'
(Father's Day is important to game developers, too.)
June 15, 2007
UK Guardian: 'Dancing In The Dark'
(Is
Brian Tregaskin
/The Tuss actually Aphex Twin? Don't care, but 'Teddy Oggie' (on Tregaskin's MySpace) is insanely awesome.)
June 12, 2007
Rummage Through The Crevices: 'Favourite Intermissions'
(Catchy bits between songs.)
Marc Andreesen: 'How to hire the best people you've ever worked with'
(Absolutely stellar advice - via Kottke.)
June 11, 2007
SF Weekly: 'Burnt Chefs'
(The kind of investigative reporting we should be doing more of.)
The Beat: 'Jack Chick sighting!'
(Reclusive Christian comic purveyor pictured?)
El Reg: 'No goat sex at the Olympics, rules BBC'
(Slow on the uptake here, but yay B3ta!)
Film recommendation: 'The Future We Will Create: Inside The World Of TED'
(Available on Netflix 'Watch Now' right now - a straightforward but inspiring look at TED 2006.)
June 10, 2007
YouTube: 'Japanese tv tetris game'
(Not really quite Tetris, but pretty cute all the same.)
GameSetWatch: 'Missile Mastar Comes Alive... In Soviet Russia!'
(Nice scoop, Wired.)
Monotonik forum: 'Obscure Monotonik-related MP3 list!'
(Will be adding to this today, some semi-forgotten electronic music relating to my net.label.)
June 06, 2007
Pink Tentacle: 'Video: Gate Vision'
('Using software to convert Shinkansen bullet train footage into a circular image.')
June 05, 2007
StarWars.com: Trailer for new CG series 'The Clone Wars'
(Via
Linkbunnies
, which has brief commentary.)
June 04, 2007
Battelle's Searchblog: 'Death of Journalism - Blame Google? No. Ask Google to Lead? Yes.'
(I don't know if Google will, but maybe they should. Agreed re: the Chron's out of touch-ness, though.)
PopWatch: 'First Look: Topps 'Hollywood Zombies' trading cards'
(I'm a sucker for pop culture ephemera like this.)
PVRBlog: YouTube Coming To Apple TV
(Totally a big deal, a user-friendly way of watching YouTube on TV is what I really want right now.)
Igor's latest naming choices for Nokia and Palm
(Yeah, the
Snark Hunting
guys have a weird job, there.)
June 03, 2007
Pink Tentacle: 'Extreme Japanese custom vans'
(There's a
PS2 game
based on this, of course.)
Turker Nation - community for those doing Amazon Mechanical Turk requests
(V.interesting - you can see
how much peple are making
and what companies are using it.)
GameSetWatch: 'COLUMN: The RePlay Files: Rampage's Original Stylings'
(Classic 1986 photos from the launch of Rampage - I used
Mechanical Turk
to transcribe the article, too - neet.)
Legaltorrents: Monotonik's MP3 releases for 2007 so far
(All the CC-licensed MP3 releases from
my net.label
in one handy torrent.)