The Shining's Overlook Hotel rendered in the Duke Nukem 3D engine
— I’d love to see this redone with HL2’s Source engine #43Things' Popular Goals by City
— the #1 goal in Los Angeles is “work on my abs” via robotcoop.com #Video: Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer on Conan o' Brien
— from November 2002; also, here’s the entire Inside the Actor’s Studio episode with the Simpsons cast #Google e-mails webmasters of sites blocked by robots.txt?
— funny, nobody ever created the Forbidden Search Engine #How I Saved the World from Armageddon
— amazing two-year art project targets a random gamer; more info by the artists toward the bottom of the gallery page via snarkout.org #Video: Lejo DJ
via b3ta #EA blanks the word "Sega" from House of Pain's "Jump Around"
— removed from the NBA Street V3 soundtrack via Simon Carless #Sony sends a cease-and-desist to Beatallica
— I’m hosting their torrents, and I won’t take them down even if Sony tells me to; they’re perfectly legal cover songs #Hasbro releases light-up basketball hoop "with Firewire technology"
— I love that they claim a trademark on Firewire #Parent's guide to computer slang by Microsoft
— darn those “online videogame bullies”! via MetaFilter #Video: Thundercats
— fan-made short film, complete with CGI effects and leather pants via screenhead.com #Sleater-Kinney begs people to stop pirating their new unreleased album
— the release date is three months away?! your biggest fans are pirating it because there’s no legal alternative via Darren Barefoot #MPAA cracking down on fan fiction sites
— for using movie-style ratings to grade mature content in fanfic #They Might Be Giants releases second kids' album, Here Come the ABC's
— buy direct online from the band, or watch the videos #Interview with Mark Jen, the fired Google blogger
— Mark confirms Google has no blogging policy via Philipp Lenssen #MSNFound, MSN Search's new viral web game
— no matter how good the game may be, it still forces you to use MSN via Simon Carless #NY Daily News on the "Numa Numa" lip-synching teen
— the video is sent to me by e-mail and IM several times a day #Buffington updates his asbestos blog experiment
— he doesn’t mention any numbers, but it was very profitable #Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer
The new trailer for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is available on Amazon, but it’s low quality and streaming Flash. For me, it’s buffering constantly and basically unwatchable.
I found this much higher-quality Quicktime trailer, that seems to be a copy of the internal workprint with time signatures and “Do Not Duplicate” warning. Oh, well!
hhgttg_high.mov (7.8MB, Quicktime)
My bandwidth was already hammered this month, so you can thank Greg Knauss for hosting the video.
February 18, 2004: Here’s a much better copy of the official trailer, available for download.