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E3 2003

Posted May 13, 2003

Between the opening of Matrix Reloaded and the E3 Electronic Gaming Expo, it's a very good week to be a geek. I'll be attending a private screening of the Matrix on Thursday afternoon and E3 all day on Friday.

I'm not the live-blogging type, but I compiled a list of other webloggers who will be attending. (Those blogging the event daily are marked with an asterisk.) A list of other E3 news websites follows.

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May 13, 2003
5:38 PM

Palatin wrote:

I think thats pretty cool dude, Matrix one day, E3 the next, will you be posting shtuff about the cool things you see at E3 maybe??

May 13, 2003
11:46 PM

the mighty jimbo wrote:

i hate to admit it, but i have never played a single game on my computer. not even solitaire. i'm starting to feel like an outcast by, well, not being an outcast.

besides, who has time for games with all that porn?

May 17, 2003
12:13 PM

Josie Nutter wrote:

I posted my expo summary in my livejournal... :) E3 rocked my socks and then some. Got to hit the Atari private screening of the Matrix on Thursday, too. I'm already anticipating next year's-- 5/12-14.

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Brandon Boyer on Treasure World, DS game that turns wifi hotspots into collectible treasure — to play the game, you have to explore the real world

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Pinboard, Maciej Ceglowski's lightweight del.icio.us clone — on the roadmap: "Get acquired by Yahoo and slowly grow useless"

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Newspaper Club — building a customizable newspaper printing service in 60 days; they're using InDesign as the backend

Kevin Kelly's Death Clock in Futurama — this might seem morbid to some, but I find it inspiring

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Paul Lamere's Coolness Index — are female singers uncool?

Kickstarter's Big Day — 13 projects ended on July 1, raising an average 188% of their goals

Anil Dash on Malcolm Gladwell's criticism of Chris Anderson's Free — I read through Gladwell's New Yorker piece twice, and the arguments seem petty and off base

72-year-old retired boxer beats up knife-wielding knucklehead — the inane Facebook photos make this story even more delicious

July 1, 2009

Pez sues Burlingame Museum of Pez for copyright infringement — so disappointing

RIAA wins lawsuit against Usenet.com — judge rules Betamax case doesn't apply; every other Usenet provider is next

June 30, 2009

EveryBlock releases source code — it was a requirement of their funding from the Knight Foundation

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Ze Frank on black, white, and shades of green — I'm loving this series

China bans gold farming, real-world sale of virtual goods — Eurogamer estimates 1 million Chinese gold farmers with worldwide trade worth more than US$10 billion annually (via)

The Pirate Bay sold to publicly-traded Swedish gaming company — Brokep's statement is delusional; being acquired will almost certainly kill the site

Michael Rubin's "Droidmaker" book now available for free download! — authoritative 518-page history of Lucasfilm, the creation of Pixar, and much more (via)

June 29, 2009

Jason Rohrer interviewed about "selling out" to make iPhone and ad games — he recently switched from free, open-source games; also, EA claims Spielberg's LMNO isn't cancelled

Nedroid's Cosby Experiment — view all 190 Cosbys

How the NYT kept their reporter's Taliban kidnapping off Wikipedia for seven months — they collaborated with Jimmy Wales directly to freeze the entry; NPR asks if it was ethical (via)

David Fincher may direct Facebook film, adapted by Aaron Sorkin — possibly starring Michael Cera or Shia LaBeouf as Zuckerberg; this sounds familiar (via)

Quarrygirl's undercover investigation of non-vegan ingredients used at L.A.-area vegan restaurants — outstanding blog reporting, with industrial food testing from 17 different restaurants and research into suppliers

June 28, 2009

James Barnett's oil paintings of landscapes from video games — looking at the paintings, I felt like I'd actually visited those locations in real-life (via)

WSJ interviews Brenda Brathwaite about "Train," a board game about the Holocaust — not all games need to be fun (via)

June 27, 2009

How Rob Manuel accidentally started a Michael Jackson moonwalk flashmob — I'm in London right now, and I've seen several massive vigils and tributes on the streets (via)

Top teams join forces to win Netflix Prize — check the leaderboard for the first score to break the 10% improvement threshold (via)

E3 2003

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