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New Disney Rides-to-Movies
Posted Jul 10, 2003
March 11, 2010
Danc on the release of Ribbon Hero
— turning Microsoft Office into a game, with competition against your friends
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March 10, 2010
"Play" by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman
— avatars as Russian nested dolls
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Chatroulette Map
— I think I'd rather not know, thanks
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Steamshovel Harry
— not sure how I missed this one last year, metagaming with music by Brad Sucks
El Fin Del Mundo by Alberto González Vázquez
— there's so much I love about this, I can't quantify it all
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March 9, 2010
Wired Reread, blogging the best ads from '90s-era Wired
— also, the complete SPIN archives are on Google Books
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
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
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Activision shuts down 8-year King's Quest fan project
— even though Vivendi, the former IP owners, granted them a non-commercial license
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11:21 AM
:) LOL
11:31 AM
NICE.
can't wait for gift shop, the movie.
cause, really, that's what it's all about anyway.
1:57 PM
Phwee! I'm blowing the whistle on one count of BoingBoing pandering.
2:12 PM
Funny. Very damned funny.
I wonder if the plot of "Monorail" will be anything like the late 70's thriller "Rollercoaster."
2:38 PM
Nice. Made me laugh.
5:23 PM
[this is good]
I'm blowing the whistle on one count of Anil pandering.
8:33 PM
"Autotopia" is totally going to rock...
1:08 AM
Next thing you know they'll do a Swiss Family Robinson film! Crazy! Seriously, Epcot fans out there will likely join me in anticipating the arrival of Kraft Foods Presents: The Land: The Movie.
12:38 AM
No "Overpriced Concession Stand" or "The Man in the Droopy Dwarf Mask"?
3:09 PM
...isn't there already a Swiss Family Robinson film? It was made in 1960 and starred, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk. Nice try though, "Christian."
11:23 AM
I find the idea of an Autopia movie strangely intriguing...
--m4
11:24 AM
oops, and I didn't even see that "Captain EO" poster the first time around...
...the inner geek in me screamed out "Who drew thaT? Howard Chaykin or Brian Stelfreeze?"
--m4