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SonicBlue is Awesome

Posted Jun 10, 2002

While in Arizona this weekend, I managed to drop by SonicBlue's branch office in Scottsdale. I scored a refurbished Rio Riot jukebox (20 gigs!) out of the visit, and a few great photos of their office and internal paraphernalia.

Don't miss this poster spelling out their corporate motto: AWESOME. I guess it could be worse.

AWESOME:
Accountability
Winning teams
Enthusiasm
Serious fun
Outrageous products
Mavericks
Entrepreneurial spirit

Waxy Links

March 9, 2010

Wired Reread, blogging the best ads from '90s-era Wired — also, the complete SPIN archives are on Google Books

Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer — related: McSweeney's categories for the meta-awards (via)

Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg perform Lazy Sunday live — for the first time, backed by The Roots

Adam Savage's pursuit of the perfect Blade Runner gun replica — related: his quest for the perfect replica Maltese Falcon and dodo skeleton

The Panic Status Board — the instant feedback made work more game-like

March 8, 2010

Valve ports game library and Steam service to Mac — Portal 2 will be released for Mac simultaneously with PC, along with "all of our future games"

Maciej Ceglowski on the discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy — fascinating story of bad science and the unintended effects of new information

March 7, 2010

8-Bit NYC, Brett Camper's videogame map of New York — he's using Kickstarter to expand to 15 other cities worldwide

Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game — watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web instead

Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency — "Maybe I'll learn something."

PS22 Chorus sings Phoenix's Lisztomania — I love how expressive they are

Echo Nest and SCHED's guide to SXSW Music — very nicely done, uses Echo Nest's recommendation engine

GameInformer's Portal 2 exclusive cover story — scans, since it's not on GameInformer's site yet; Valve hired the TAG: The Power of Paint team right out of Digipen

March 5, 2010

Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft — he's collected 118 pets, some of which only drop 1 in 10,000 attempts

March 4, 2010

LiveJournal rewrites outbound links with affiliate codes — looks like the regex was a bit greedy

NYT on Chinese "human-flesh search engines" — very similar to the H+ article on the topic from last year

YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos — a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now

OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" — Rube Goldberg machine built by Synn Labs in Los Angeles

Roger Ebert starts subscription service — $4.99 for a year, goes up to $5.00 on April 1

March 2, 2010

Yelp's official response to the business extortion accusation — nicely lays out the case against the conspiracy theories

Valve updates Portal with mysterious achievement and ARG trailhead — radio transmissions convert into Morse code and images pointing to a telnet BBS with ASCII screenshots

Unit Testing Achievements — I'm still waiting for a ticket tracker with game mechanics (via)

The Skull of Regret — even Pictures for Sad Children's guest comics are great

March 1, 2010

NYT's auralization of crossing the Olympic finish line — hear the women's 1,000-meter speedskating gold medalist win by .02 of a second (via)

Activision shuts down 8-year King's Quest fan project — even though Vivendi, the former IP owners, granted them a non-commercial license (via)

Bioshock's lead level designer remakes Arcadia in Doom 2 — don't miss his companion article about Doom as Robotron

February 26, 2010

Pictures for Sad Children, "Play Play Play" — Level End (via)

Nieman Labs tallies original reporting vs. rewrites for the Google/China hacking story — 121 different versions of the story, but only 13 did any original reporting

February 25, 2010

Joel Johnson's extremely painful, personal story of sexual abuse — so horrible I hesitate linking to it, but I will, if only for Google justice

February 24, 2010

Casey Neistat's excellent short film about Chat Roulette — includes demographics, vernacular, and how men and women are treated differently

SonicBlue is Awesome

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