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If the older show was about using death as the gateway to a more fulfilling life, then the new model is about taking that idea, reifying it, coating it with a romantic glaze, and serving it to the audience in a pie tin with a side order of Kristen Chenoweth’s boobs.
My Sticker Collection Tons of stickers from the 80s collecting boom. I had more than a few of these. (tags: stickers collection nostalgia)…
I mean, sure, it’s a completely obvious idea that was just waiting for someone to actually take the time to do it, but I prefer to think that I’m prescient and totally on the edge of future trends.
Arden: World of William Shakespeare Neverwinter mod set during the War of the Roses. (tags: shakespeare virtualworlds mmorpg) BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Billie Piper to return to Dr Who For 3 eps in Season 4. The TARDIS is going to get awfully crowded. (tags: doctorwho billiepiper casting)…
I know the Internet can’t sustain a zillion and one social sites, but I actually kind of get a kick out of trading beta invites.
GOTO8O » C-64 How To Links to resources for music-making with the C64. (tags: commodore64 sid music howto chiptunes) filefreakout.com Philadelphia-based chiptune collective, mostly NES-oriented. (tags: chiptunes, nes, music,) Nelsonic Pac Man I ate so much crappy cereal to get one of these Pac-Man watches (the button version) when I was a kid. It was totally worth it to be able to play Pac-Man in class w/o my teacher ever suspecting….
At this rate, they’re going to have to start giving out an Emmy award for best fake accent in a leading role.
Adobe - Coding with MXML and ActionScript (tags: flash flex tutorials)…
Just a few more days, and our national NaBloPoMo-induced nightmare will be over.
Something about MP3 just feels kind of… lacking.
Steven Poole: Trigger Happier Poole offering a PDF of his book Trigger Happy for free download. (tags: steven poole gamestudies triggerhappy book ebooks) ESPN - Angels sign free agent Hunter for $90M - MLB LAA pays $90M/5yrs, an offer the Twins could clearly never match. Bye Torii, I’ll miss your circus catches in CF and your flawless cheekbones. (I won’t miss your total inability to lay off the 1st pitch). (tags:…
As long as I’m in the mood to post half-assed audio rather than any real blog posts, I might as well put up some experiments I did a while ago with Nintendo’s not-really-a-game, Electroplankton.
Your (Lame) Slogan Here - Chronicle.com Branding colleges is tricky, and a lot of slogans are not so good. (tags: college education marketing branding slogans) Half-Life 2: Episode Two Stats Stats on players of HL2Ep2, including maps of where they tended to die. (tags: halflife statistics visualization privacy games)…
Some people cook. Some people decorate. Some people goof around and make crummy little songs.
Making Every Step Count - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog ‘Researchers at Stanford University found that people who used pedometers to monitor their daily activity walked about 2,000 more steps every day, or about one extra mile, compared to those who weren’t counting steps.’ (tags: health walking workingplay)…
What am I thankful for?
FreeRice ‘For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.’ (tags: unitednations worldfoodprogram food games words hunger) A heart-wrenching tale about Animal Crossing - Joystiq Sweet story about a girl, her mom, and Animal Crossing. (tags: family animalcrossing death) Feministe » The Trouble with Jade Jade Raymond was a producer on Assassin’s Creed. She is also very pretty. Some jackass takes…
Sometimes I wonder.
World of Datecraft | Home I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner. (tags: worldofwarcraft dating geek socialsoftware) Half-Real: A Dictionary of Video Game Theory (tags: gamestudies theory dictionary) Datamancer.net — Datamancer’s Steampunk Victorian Laptop A laptop modded to look like a gear-filled music box, complete w/ wind-up key. (tags: laptop mods steampunk computers) The Morning News - The Laptop Club Kids 7-9 making laptops out of paper: ‘Even with relatively little exposure…
If the show has spent most of this season spinning its wheels, then tonight’s episode, “Cautionary Tales,” is the part where it peels out and starts roaring down the track. (Contains spoilers.)
RPS Interview: Valve’s Erik Wolpaw (tags: interviews gamedesign writing erik wolpaw valve portal)…
Everything good that you’ve heard about “Portal” is true.
So of course my sinuses have chosen this moment to crawl up into my forehead and amuse themselves by making the room spin around me.
The Geek ABCs “G is for Grue, likely to eat you.” (tags: art geek alphabet abc) Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games Good formal description of tile-based puzzle games, but the “family tree” is totally busted. (tags: ludology puzzlegames genre) Three Hundred :: Three Hundred Mechanics 300 ideas for new games. (tags: gamedesign ludology)…
I’ve started keeping a scrapbooky-type thing over at Tumblr to hold the little embeddables that don’t fit elsewhere in my ever-expanding network of web utilities.
fans4writers.com - About Fans4Writers ‘As supporters of the people behind the scenes, who develop and write the stories that have meant so much to so many, we wanted to do something tangible to show them that we support the Writers Guild of America strike.’ (tags: wga writers strike fandom) Hollywood studio plans movie based on Japanese comic book series ‘Dragonball’ - Mainichi Daily News Stephen Chow producing, Justin Chatwin (who?) and…
Dead Like Me may be a little too smart for me. Or maybe the show is just unfocused and trying to do too much all at once.
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog Y & G both looking to their big, mature e-mail services to form the core of their next social networking forays. (tags: yahoo google email socialsoftware) Baseball Pitches Illustrated | Lokesh Dhakar Handy diagrams to help you identify pitches. (tags: baseball pitching illustration visualization)…
All I want to do is watch Tim Gunn give catty people advice on how to make pretty clothes, is that too much to ask?
Gamasutra - Microsoft To Launch Downloadable Xbox Game Campaign MS celebrates XBL’s 5th anniversary with freebies, announces xbox titles for 1200pts: Halo, Psychonauts, Fable, and more. (tags: xboxlive microsoft xbox)…
Because of the randomness and all, you’ll probably never find them, but I went ahead and uploaded a few Miis anyway.
One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program | Laughing Squid Buy two OLPC units for $400: one for you, one for a child in a developing nation. (tags: development olpc laptop) ESPN - Devil Rays officially change name to just Rays - MLB Also change colors and logo in an effort to remind baseball fans that they do, in fact, exist. (tags: baseball branding tampa devil rays) Oxford…
Whether you do something right or wrong, just make sure you do it big.
I think they intentionally build airports to be energy-sapping, soul-deadening centers of frustration.
Another thing I don’t miss about Minnesota.
You can put just about anything out on the curb with a “FREE” sign on it, and it will be gone before you can say “scavenger.”
Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars: Distaster: Days of Ubisoft’s Many Problems II ‘Editorial, literally, would not let the project out of their sight for a minute. At the end of production, editorial pat itself on the back at the thought that a team finally listened to them.’ (tags: ubisoft gamedev gossip) electro^plankton: All Up In My Head programmable speech bubbles that you can hang over your head. (tags: things gadgets comics…
SFO isn’t a terribly exciting place to hang out, even by airport standards.
There isn’t a single offender that put me over the top, but I don’t think I can bear to listen to another podcast in which three or four people sit around and talk out of their asses about things that they don’t actually know anything about or cared to research at all before sitting down to record.
Golden Axe: Beast Rider now an Xbox 360 exclusive for 2008 - VideoGamesBlogger (tags: goldenaxe previews rumors my.work) Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork ‘I had just got back from a party where the concept of a Pac-Man + Zork hybrid came up as a joke. So, being 2am with a little alcohol in my system, I thought it’d be funny to code it up.’ (tags: pacman zork interactivefiction text retrogaming) A List…
It’s like Frequency and Vib Ribbon had a little iPod shaped baby, and that is awesome.
Screenwriters Picket as Strike Begins - New York Times WGA strikes over residuals on revenues from DVDs and new media; talk shows to be the first to be affected. (tags: strike labor writing wga television film) NPR: Music Home Uber-portal for public radio music. (tags: public radio npr music audio)…
It’s times like this, when light is scarce and I start to crave the fattiest, unhealthiest comfort food I can get my hands on, that I’m really glad I live just a few blocks from a Taco Bell.
Next thing you know, you’re no longer walking in Noe Valley, you’re climbing Noe Freaking Mountain and tumbling down the other side.
More Words - Search Dictionary - Word Games Crosswords and Anagrams Search for words by letter combination. Whatever could this be useful for? (tags: words anagrams reference spelling) pac-man? that’s pac-gentleman to you on [technabob] Steampunk Pac-man pseudo-clone. Totally awesome. (tags: pacman steampunk sculpture retro)…
I finally broke down and picked up a TV set. I may have to finally learn about the difference between S-Video and Component or whatever, and why HDMI cables seem to be so expensive.
Retro Game Videos YouTube for retro game geeks? (tags: retrogaming video nostalgia) Official Google Blog: OpenSocial makes the web better ‘a set of common APIs that make it easy to create and host social applications on the web…. members of the OpenSocial community include MySpace, Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, (tags: google socialsoftware networks api)…
It’s like we’re caught in some kind of relativity warp wormhole, where the retro threshold keeps inching closer to now, and we can’t stop living in the future.
Watch with Kristin - Best News Ever! Joss Whedon Spills Exclusive Deets on His New Series Whedon developing a show around Eliza Dushku for FOX, called Dollhouse. (tags: television fox joss whedon eliza dushku dollhouse) TwitterPoster Twitter visualization as popularity contest. (tags: twitter visualization social influence) Computer History Museum ‘The mission of the Computer History Museum is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age….
As soon as I saw the word “NaBloPoMo”, it was all over but the crying. And the posting of blog entries. But that’s going to take a while. Thirty days, by my reckoning.
Powell’s Books - PowellsBooks.BLOG - A Tribute to Fup. Store Cat. (tags: obituaries powells books fup cats portland) Spooky Halloween Game Pumpkin Gallery! - GayGamer.net (tags: jackolanterns pumpkins halloween decoration) The San Francisco Game Development Meetup Group (San Francisco, CA) - Meetup.com (tags: meetup gamedev sanfrancisco) San Francisco Postmortem (tags: meetup gamedev sanfrancisco) California Taco Trucks (tags: food tacos sanfrancisco trucks) Zipcar is expected to join with rival Flexcar - The…