ffwd: Linklog

The Bird And The Bee - 'Polite Dance Song' (Directed by Eric Wareheim from Tim & Eric, suitably bizarro.)

Gelf Magazine: 'Christmas Ape Kills Michael Tunison' (Bloggers, alter egos, and the Washington Post clash.)

Quick Stop Entertainment: 'MASTERS OF SONG FU - The Battle Begins!!!!' (Quick Stop is stealth neatness, as per usual.)

Google Sightseeing: 'Street View Sabotage!' (Don't like Google Street View? Plastic bag over camera!)

GameSetWatch - where I'm doing most of the updating (You're all keeping up with this if you like video game culture, right?)

Twitch's regular cult film trailer Top 10 ('Up at the top it’s all Finland all the time with the one two punch of Sauna and Iron Sky perched comfortably at the top of things.' Some awesome stuff in here.)

MySpace: Dark Horse Presents - new Evan Dorkin strip (Poor ol' furries, eh?)

Shots Rings Out: 'SRO guide to VBS.tv' (I need to get more clued up on VBS.tv, it has some neat stuff on it - add it to Pitchfork TV, Adult Swim, Hulu as clickable online video sites.)

Cartoon Brew: 'Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua' (Nuff said!)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: 'The Robot in Japan, 1920-1938' (Amazing early Japanese robot dreams.)

Twitch: 'SFIFF51: GONZO—Q&A With Director Alex Gibney' (Looking forward to seeing this doc about the Doctor.)

ValleyWag: 'Turner shuts down comedy site SuperDeluxe.com, and "no one could deny they were crying their asses off"' (Shame, but shows the issues in monetizing online content.)

Reality Blurred: 'Fox Reality cancels Reality Remix, orders “cynical” Reality Binge' (More cynical is what 'all media' is inevitably getting to be punchy, sadly.)

AICN: Spaced coming to U.S. DVD (With, uhh, Quentin Tarantino and Diablo Cody on the commentary track? Nice.)

Blackdown: 'The flow dan' (Explaining the lyrics of genius grime MCs.)

AICN: 'Criterion is going BluRay!!!' (Later this Fall, some of its top titles - nice!)

the antvilleQuarterly! - .torrents of great music videos (Really nice idea, and (reasonably) legal too - via WaxyLinks.)

Takara Tomy: 'Wonderful Shot dog/cat camera' (Complete with dachshund model. )

The Independent: Will Self's columns (Oo, Ralph Steadman cartoons, gorgeous - via Rossignol.)

Pitchfork Media: 'The Month In: Grime / Dubstep' (Immensely fascinating scene.)

Music Thing: 'The Pod: Community Techno Unit' (Total hilarious early Boosh-related silliness about rave in the community.)

YouTube: Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental (Totally British colonial awesome - via RPS.)

AICN: New Hancock extended trailer (Oo, drunk superheroes.)

Kaiju Shakedown: 'A Death Note for distribution' ('So everyone's on the same page about theatrical distribution for Asian films being dead in America, right?')

BBC: 'Dancer Bez is declared bankrupt' (Aw, poor Bez! Via Linkbunnies.)

AICN: 'BLAKE'S 7 Fly Again!!' (Yeah, Dr. Who, you have a lot to answer for!)

Pitchfork: 'RZA's World: Ice Picks, Chess, and System of a Down' (The Wu-Tang-er is still going strong, yay - interesting updates.)

Daily Mail: 'Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV' (Very cute - via Shots Ring Out.)

Twitch: 'Frank Miller’s Adaptation of THE SPIRIT Gets A Trailer' (Albeit incredibly tease-y, but hey.)

Matt Wescott: 'Pimp My Chips' (The Radiohead cover is ace.)

Monotonik: Aleksi Eeben - The Four Tales [mtk201] (Latest on my net.label - jazz-electronic Finnish demo-scene oddness, yay.)

Outpost Gallifrey: 'Radiophonic Workshop - 50 years' (Zooooooooooom.)

Music Thing: '25 Ways To Kill A Piano' (There's something satisfying and horrible about this, simultaneously.)

Flickr: Have been in Los Cabos, Mexico (Kinda a 'not my speed' quiet holiday, but it was fun anyhow!)

Tokyo Mango: 'The Annual Stupid Robot Contest' (We need more stupid robots.)

Forbes: 'The Brothers Behind Ultaime Fighting' (I've been watching a lot of UFC recently - it's pretty addictive.)

Salon.com: Re-Viewed: TV on DVD, "Knowing Me, Knowing You ... With Alan Partridge" (Absolutely wonderful stuff.)

Pink Tentacle: 'IKEA decks out Kobe train' (Stylishness.)

Metafilter: 'Elephant Polo and other strange things' (Really weird, don't go too far down the spiral.)

Improv Everywhere: 'Best Game Ever' (Beautiful pranking.)

NYT: 'In Princeton, an Offline Haven for Music Shoppers Thrives' (There's a place in San Luis Obispo like this that I really liked.)

Nerve/IFC: 'The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches Of All Time' (Much linked, but well worth perusing.)

Open Rights Group: 'John Buckman: Magnatune' (This is kinda working, but if this is the best 'success' in this area, it's a bit depressing actually. Look at casual games as a much better example of digital distribution, I would argue. [Via BoingBoing.])

AICN: 'CLONE WARS theatrical trailer hits the nets' (Looking distinctly interesting.)

Shots Ring Out: 'Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart' (New music video, notsobad.)

WFMU Blog: 'Doris Duke, just your local wacky rich babe' (Random fun stuff.)

Reality Blurred: 'TiVo predicts Syesha Mercado will be voted off, as fast-forwarding is “predictive” of results' (Unfortunately she was not (though she was bottom 3), but that's a fascinating predictor.)

Cartoon Brew: 'Little Nemo test film' (Wow, when Brad Bird comments in your blog, you know you have a good one.)

Grok Robots: 'Segway’s New RMP' (Oo, crazy multi-direction thing!)

MySpace: 'The Orb at work in the studio. BBC 6 Music' (Video: 'Dr. Alex Paterson from The Orb did his 6 Mix and invited us to the legendary Ealing Studios in London to give us a sneaky peak at his new project; HFB - High Frequency Bandwidth.')

Underwire: Who Spin-Off Sarah Jane Adventures Hits Sci Fi (Kid/teen focused Doctor Who add-on, should still be v.fun.)

b3ta: Completely horrific Batman/'80s pop clone (Ouch, my head.)

AICN: 'Disney And Pixar Announced Their Whole Slate Through 2012! Philip K. Dick?! NEWT?! A Pixar Fairy Tale And Much Much More!' (Wow, lots of interesting animated movies coming up.)

[op3n]029 - SIMON CARLESS - h0l @ Monotonik's Oddly Retro 'Age Of Netlabel IDM' Mix (A Creative Commons-licensed mixtape of some Monotonik, some other stuff I did - electronic headphone goodness.)

Monotonik: Chromatic Flights - Heavy Stars Will Fall [mtk200] (Yep, 200th MP3 release on my CC-licensed electronic music netlabel, with some shoegaze-y, cosmic Floridian idm, yay.)

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Spork: 'The Torchwood writing process: Part 1' (Oo, Torchwood!)

Pitchfork: 'Morrissey Wins Apology From Word Mag in Libel Suit' (Hm, he's a dangerous man.)

Shots Ring Out: 'Kanye West - Homecoming feat. Chris Martin' (Not bad.)

Reality Blurred: 'Elliott Yamin’s mother died Monday; TMZ mocks her death' ('I mocked TMZ yesterday for their alleged journalism, but clearly should have just pointed out what unrepentant assholes they are.')

Kaiju Shakedown: 'Bollywood sci fi?!?' ('A trailer...for a Bollywood movie...set in the future...with robots!')

Rummage Through The Crevices: 'Chinese MC Hammer' (Viral video gold, indeed.)

solipsistic NATION No. 84: Planet Boelex, Live (My net.label Monotonik's Planet Boelex gets a net.radio special, neat.)

Baby Loves Hiphop - official website. ('Hall of fame hip-hop producer Prince Paul teams up with some of rap music’s most celebrated mcs to create a prehistoric, preschool musical masterpiece.')

Cafepress: 'LONDO /G'Kar 2008 Vinyl Yard Sign' (Hee hee.)

GameSetWatch: 'Opinion: Ceci N'est Pas Une Gamer' ('I can’t stand gamers... No, that’s not quite true. I can’t stand the concept of gamers.')

IndieGames.com Game Of The Month: Data Realms' Cortex Command (We're featuring Games Of The Month on IndieGames.com now to help showcase great indie and fund the site, yay.)

MySpace page for High Frequency Bandwidth (New musical project from Alex Paterson (The Orb) and Dom Beken (Transit Kings), with sample music.)

Yahoo!/Reuters: 'Jerry Seinfeld unharmed after rolling car' (Completely awesome Seinfeld quote: 'I want to make sure [kids] all know that driving without braking is not something I recommend, unless you have professional clown training or a comedy background, as I do.')

Battelle Media: 'What's This Fascination with Ad Networks? (Or, the Online Media Business Will Be About Brands First, Technology Second)' (Dead on, I think. Engagement is key.)

Kottke: 'Our collective recent history, online' (I love archives of things.)

Yankovic.org: Weird Al playing San Mateo Fair in August (Yay, Bay Area Yankovic alert.)

YouTube: Dr. Who Series 4 trailer (Sigh, all kinds of wonderful - starting in the UK about now.)

Q&A: Battelle talks blog roll-ups, Google, and Federated Media's future (This is a TREMENDOUSLY important interview about the future of media.)

Blackdown: 'On the rock' (Great Mavado song - sounds a bit Akon-ish even.)

AICN: 'Another look behind the scenes of QUANTUM OF SOLACE!!!' (Oo, next Bond come soon plz.)

GameSetWatch: 'In-Depth: Inside Puzzle Quest - The Postmortem' (Behind the evilly addictive match 3 vs. RPG title.)

LA Times: 'Rick Astley, king of the 'Rickroll,' talks about his song's second coming' (Yay rickroll!)

'Sunshine Sometime | A Kitsune Noir Mixtape' (V. interesting-looking mix - via brandonnn.)

Moment Sound - 'What's A Garo?' (Good new net.label release.)

Dubmood: 'The Knife - Silent Shout (Dubmood Remix)' (V.cute unofficial Game Boy remix - which reminds me, there's no good chiptune blog nowadays, darn it.)

Monotonik: Delayscape - 'VCOs or DCOs EP' [mtk199] (MP3 release #199 for my long-running net.label - CC-licensed Danish electronica, yay.)

Hulu.com - 'Andy Barker P.I.' (Extremely awesome show, free streaming, hurray.)

Pitchfork: 'Pitchfork to Launch Online Music TV Channel April 7' (This could be very cool indeed.)

Shots Ring Out: 'Del Tha Funky Homosapien - Workin It' (On Def Jux now, this is kinda low-profile and weird but rather neat.)

Muppet Newsflash: 'Henson to Bring Late-Night Sketch Show to TBS' (Could be... good?)

Stereogum: 'New Neon Neon (Feat. Cate Le Bon) Video - "I Lust U"' (The Gruff Rhys/Boom Bip collaboration continues to intrigue.)

Neil Gaiman shows Dave McKean's sketched covers for 'The Graveyard Book' (And here's the final - such radical transparency is completely awesome.)

Ironic Sans: 'The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists' (Citizen journalism at its finest.)

Kaiju Shakedown: First look at latest Miike film ('Could Kadokawa be the last great showman left? I mean, who else says they optioned a novel because it was good prison reading?')

Reality Blurred: 'Margaret Cho, 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell, and Brooke Hogan get VH1 reality shows' (Interested in Margaret Cho's, at least - the reality band plays on.)

The Beat: 'First look at the Watchmen' (Zack Snyder's film version looks... interesting.)

Blackdown: Dubstep on the cover of XLR8R (With a link to the full issue PDF - v.neat.)

Edgar Wright's MySpace blog (...wherein various members of Spaced's team (including Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson) vituperate on the U.S. version being done with zero input from them, but still referencing them prominently. Doh.)

Photoshop Disasters (When airbrushers attack - via Raj.)

ClapClap.org on the origins of 'Hallelujah' (Leonard Cohen's song keeps getting Idol-ized - via Waxy.)

Weta Collectibles: 'Doctor Who Helmets!' (Random. Hot. 'The initial series features six ¼ scaled helmets, from both the Classic and New Series of Doctor Who.' Via Gallifrey One.)

Den Of Geek (Dennis Publishing-created blog with a column by Ingrid 'Hammer Horror' Pitt. Meatspace mag companies are getting weird while scrambling online, folks.)

Vanity Fair: 'The 2008 Hollywood Portfolio' (Hitchcock Classics - contemporary movie stars in classic suspense poses.)

Grok Robots - new blog about... robots. (Makes sense! Via Crummy.)

Subterranean Blog: Gnarls Barkley's 'Run' video (Welcome to the double speed rocking.)

TV Shows On DVD: Next Futurama DVD movie coming in June (The first one was teh complete awesome, too. Yay.)

WFMU: 'Fake Beatles No. 4: Deception on 45' (Lots of '60s singles not actually by the Fab Four.)

IndieGames.com's Best Freeware Shoot 'em ups 2007 (The full set of 2007 best-of-indie features are up now, yay.)

Cartoon Brew on upcoming Adult Swim show Superjail (Continuing a fine tradition of stupidity and creativity.)

Comic Book Resources - CBR News: WonderCon: Dark Horse Announces New Webcomic Collections (Nice crossover - from Penny Arcade through Perry Bible Fellowship to Achewood.)

GSW: 'GDC: Baer, Alcorn Talk 'Brown Box' Beginnings, Industry Birth' (Vitally important to the history of video games, good to see it aired at GDC.)

GameSetWatch: 'COLUMN: 'The Aberrant Gamer - My Week With Pleo'' (Leigh playing with the new dinosaur robot pet.)

Monotonik: Jet Jaguar - 'Biddy Bids' [mtk198] (Latest on my Creative Commons-licensed netlabel - New Zealand-based dubby idm, very relaxing.)

Improbable Research on Thomas D'Arcy's stinky feet ('My feet stink. I have over the past 43 years conducted a series of experiments to establish that this is true.')

Quick Stop Entertainment: 'Toy Box: Toy Fair 2008' (Action figure geek out alert.)

The Beat: 'JMS at DC' (Oo, J. Michael Straczynski doing stuff for DC Comics, including perhaps some Babylon 5 goodness.)

YouTube: Kanye West's 'Flashing Lights' video (Co-directed by Spike Jonze, apparently. And brutal.)

Pink Tentacle: Edo Period Monster Paintings By Sawaki Suushi (These are creepsters.)

Stereogum: 'Jake Shimabukuro Makes His Ukulele Gently Weep For Conan' (Very neat.)

Blue Cat: 'Guardian Online Travel Section Radically Underestimates Readers' Hatred Of Skins, Nepotism, Skinny Jeans, Self.' (Ouch, privileged gap year students in trouble.)

Rich's ComixBlog: 'The 10 Doctors' (Totally awesome Who fancomic - via Blue Cat.)

GSW: 'GDC Gallery: Game Developers Choice Awards 2008' (Also helped to organize this, the other half of the awards night at GDC.)

GSW: 'Portal Takes Game Of The Year At 2008 Choice Awards' (Congrats to the Portal team - Erik was endearingly terrified onstage.)

GSW: '2008 IGF Awards Topped By Crayon Physics Deluxe' (Awesome year, some great winners.)

GSW: 'GDC Gallery: The 2007 Independent Games Festival Awards' (On stage, with jacket, two surprising things.)

Gamasutra's GDC 2008 coverage page (Covering where I've been all week.)

SuperDeluxe.com: Tim & Eric Nite Live (All available on demand for streaming, too!)

Dethroner: 'Unbeatable Banzuke: G4’s Latest Weird Japanese Game Show' (From the Ninja Warrior folks, I think, and lots of fun :))

The Warner Bros Store Is Closed blog (Discussing the rather smart WB Stores, when they existed - via Cartoon Brew.)

TV Shows On DVD: Shout Factory releasing 21-show '50s Saturday morning TV show compilation (Properly licensed, those Shout Factory folks are awesome pop culturalists.)

The Beat: 'Hewlett’s PHOO ACTION on BBC3' (I feel like this will be very silly.)

Walls & Bridges at Alan Moore's recent Lost Girls signing in London (I want to look like that when I'm Moore's age - via Journalista.)

Lowculture on the end of Neighbors on BBC1 (Tragedy, I say.)

Kottke: B&H is selling a used Canon Super Telephoto 1200mm lens for $99,000 (Also: 'Carl Zeiss designed a 1700mm lens for a 6x6 medium format camera. It weighs 564 pounds!')

NAMM Oddities for 2008 (Oh, those music geeks!)

Music Thing: 'The many wonders of the Canford Audio catalogue' (These all-encompassing catalogs are wonderfully oldschool.)

Shots Ring Out: 'Owen Wilson is a funny, funny man' (Wilson's cameo in Spike Jonze's skateboarding film 'Yeah Right!', which I also found to be pretty hilarious when I saw it on DVD recently. Scary image when you first click thru, tho!)

Reality Blurred: 'Survivor Supercharged Sunflower Seeds debut in March' ('While that corny alliteration and odd choice of product makes this seem like a joke, it’s just part of an increased effort to pimp out the brand.')

Billionaire Boys' Club blog (Pharrell and Nigo's clothing label - far too expensive, and I'm not cool enough to wear it, but I like the style.)

Barstool Sports: New Jersey Freakshows (Pretty sure they're not all from New Jersey, but awesome nonetheless, visual subculturally speaking.)

Beyond The Beyond: 'Indigo Delta Kilo' (Bruce Sterling's blog on 'an unknown USA "Black World" military-entertainment outfit''s awesome logo. Via Warren Ellis.)

Yahoo! News photo of the year so far (for me) ('In this image released by NBC, Conan O'Brien, center, of 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' mock-punches Jon Stewart, left, from Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and Stephen Colbert of 'The Colbert Report' during an appearance on O'Brien's show, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008.')

YouTube: Harry Enfield's commercial reel (Both directing and starring, interestingly. I do like those Angus commercials, which even played in the State for a while.)

Happy Notes: 'akari coming soon page' (More web-based visualization Flash stuff, plz!)

BoingBoing: 'Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends on Google Video' (Surprised so many of these are available.)

Idiot Toys: 'Approximately 40-year-old EVEREADYs' (Battery geek heaven.)

Cartoon Brew: 'Rubik the Amazing Cube' (Lots more info about the animated series, lest we forget.)

EW PopWatch: 'Sarah Silverman + Matt Damon = Comedy Gold' (Indeed, good stuff, swearing ahoy.)

YouTube: 'Kid Acne 'Worst Luck'' (Thoughtful British hiphop for the win.)

WFMU: 'DJ/Rupture now has a podcast!' (Tres interesting ethnic-tinged noise stylings.)

YouTube: 'Alyssia feat Panjabi Hit Squad - Deewana' (Really interesting British-Indian dubstep/D&B, whatever you call it.)

NYMag: 'The Happy Hickster' ('Clay Aiken sounds like Tootsie, looks like Opie, and hates to go out after dark. How will he ever survive New York?')

Fast Company: 'Is the Tipping Point Toast?' ('Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Watts says they're wasting their money.')

Pitchfork: 'Neon Neon (Gruff Rhys + Boom Bip) Debut LP Revealed' (Check out the super-'80s mixtape, it's Debbie Gibson awesome.)

WFMU: 'The Sculpture and Animation of Joseph Seigenthaler' (Really scary post-Uncanny Valley animations.)

The Rap Up: 'Video: Erykah Badu - Honey' (Cute record sleeve concept.)

Pitchfork: 'Kid Sister Signs to Downtown Records' (Yep, the Kanye-guesting video is pretty awesome.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Pollen Robots' ('A pair of eyes glow 5 different colors — white, blue, green, red and purple — to indicate the level of Japanese cedar and cypress pollen in the air.')

Music Thing: 'What could a scratch DJ do with a home organ ribbon controller?' (Lots of scratching, apparently!)

Guardian Arts Blog: 'Why is Terry Gilliam cursed with bad luck?' ('The director put his latest film on hold after Heath Ledger's tragic death. Surely he must be the unluckiest film-maker ever.')

YouTube: 'Robot High School' ('Despite how it may appear, the video was shot in a single take with no significant computer-generated effects added, just some minor post-production cleanup.' Via someone I forgot, sorry.)

Blue Cat: 'Something that really annoys me about Paddington station.' (British humor writing++.)

BarnesAndNoble.com: 'Rolling Stone Cover to Cover -- The First 40 Years' (Reduced to $25 from $125, the full 40-year Rolling Stone digital archive, + a year's subscription and a coffeetable book - they also have the Playboy 1950s digital archive (w/1st issue reproduction!) at the same price.)

Monotonik: Muhr - 'A Lonely Gust Of Wind' [mtk197] (Latest on my net.label, understated Canadian ambience.)

Village Voice: Pazz&Jop 2007 music critics ratings (Very useful for scoping out music to stream on Rhapsody.)

Metafilter: 'Video Chronology of The History of British TV Comedy' (This is invaluable - via Jon.)

Martini Design's New Year's video (Spoofs Microsoft's attitude to Silverlight with some grinnability.)

James Kochalka: 'Fancy Froglin's Sexy Forest' sample (Adorably and NSFW/just wrong, really.)

Far Out Toys - official website. ('Come Experience the only MAID CAFE in San Jose!' Wow, odd.)

Rummage Through The Crevices: 'Pussy On The Mat: Michel Gondry Digs A Bit Of Ivor Cutler Out Of His Nose' (Michael Gondry's video picks - original link is down but linked videos work.)

Times Online: 'I Was Morrissey's Roadie' (Most entertaining - via Stereogum.)

TV Shows On DVD: Shout Factory taking over Mystery Science Theater DVD releases ('The multiyear deal gives Shout! Factory exclusive physical and electronic distribution rights to all "Mystery Science Theater 3000" branded properties.')

WFMU: 'Panda guts' ('After a long day at work, who doesn't want to come home to a mail-order box with a see-through panda?')

GameSetWatch: 'Indie Spotlight: Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden' ('Riffing off the old Charles Barkley console game and using the DIY-styled RPG Maker software to spoof the RPG genre, the game is so ironic, it hurts. But it also works!')

Chronicle Books: 'A Paper Crush' ('We are united in our affection for the perfect notebooks: our Moleskines.')

Pink Tentacle: 'Fantastic Japanscapes' ('The Japanese landscape makes a stunning subject for high dynamic range (HDR) photography.')

YouTube: 'Bill Gates' Last Days - CES 2008 (HQ/Sound Fixed)' (In case you missed. Awesome.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Portable subway strap shows you’re no groper' ('The primary purpose of this male-targeted commuter strap is not to provide support when the train lurches, but to show other passengers — particularly female passengers — that your hands are occupied, thus reducing your chances of being falsely accused of groping.')

Shots Ring Out: 'Top 79 Music Videos of 2007' (Yes, another list - this one's fairly saucy, though.)

Library Of Congress Blog: 'My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven' (The biggest problem with assets like this up to now is that they do not get well-circulated into public circles. This is a massive step in the right direction.)

The Beat: 'Lonely, bored octopus turns to Mr. Potato Head for companionship' (As a commenter notes: 'If someone stuffed *my* Mr. Potatohead with crab, I’d be very attached to it, too.')

Pitchfork: '"Aqua Teen" Co-Creator Talks Neko, Homme, T-Pain' ('T-Pain was an even easier catch, being a pretty hardcore "Aqua Teen" fan already. "Apparently he's got, like, bling-- is that word still in vogue, bling?-- he's got these two Mooninite medallions made out of diamonds and rubies and stuff. [It] was like, 'That costs more than an episode.'')

Music Thing: 'The Fucking Fucker: Metasonix's insane $5,000 guitar amp' (Interesting discussion in the comments on whether the naming is bad or good marketing.)

WFMU: 'The Mouse That Roared' ('A friend told me that she saw a short film a few years ago about a man in Austria who built his own unique house, and then declared it an independent nation.')

Muppet Newsflash: 'More Details on Henson's Unstable Fables' ('Three Pigs & A Baby' "...will showcase the vocal talents of Brad Garrett, Steve Zahn, and John Cryer as the three pigs along with Jesse McCartney as the young wolf cub brought into their family.")

Evan Dorkin: 'William Gaines On "To Tell The Truth" via Classic Television Showbiz' (Mad Magazine publisher is... cool!)

GameSetWatch: 'Aperture Science Rocks: The Top 12 'Still Alive' Cover Versions' (Some of these are a leeetle bit mindblowing.)

Partysan interviews the Addictive TV guys (I find their Moonshine-distributed Mixmasters/Transambient DVDs to be awesome things to work/chill along to.)

Rinse FM blog - podcasts galore (From the excellent online dubstep/grime streaming radio station.)

Philip Sherburne: Ranking, Relatively: 2007 Albums (More interesting techno/electronic choices.)

Vanity Fair: 'Keys to the Kingdom' (Discussing the new Indiana Jones movie - via Linkbunnies.)

Chronicle Books Blog: Rosey Grier’s Needlepoint for Men (He makes it look good!)

Jackson Publick's LJ: Awesome Season 3 Venture Bros cast shot (All kinds of odd people turning up this time?)

Rossignol: Chris Cunningham feat. STARWARS (Wow, extremely cool. He should release more music videos/movies.)

TokyoMango: Ceramic Home Pizza Oven ('The finished product looks—and apparently tastes—almost like real Italian pizza fresh out of the brick oven. It's about $90.')

Akihabara Channel: 'Mega Tomato!!' (Large Japanese burger adverts vs. reality.)

Obtusity's Top 25 music videos of 2007 (Some different picks from Pitchfork, worth persuing - via PaperThinWalls.)

Filter Mag: Adam Horovitz's top European breakfast buffets of 2007 (Useful, in the, uhh, abstract.)

iLX: The Wire : 2007 Rewind 50 Records Of The Year (More useful electronic picks from last year - via DJ Martian.)

Textura.org: Top 10s and 20s of 2007 (Some good downtempo/alternative electronic picks, here - useful for listening on Rhapsody, etc, for what they have.)

Monotonik: Pliant - 'Musical Endeavor' [mtk196] ('Monotonik rounds out 2007 with a bit of a gem - a free digital release of the super-rare Pliant mini-CD 'Musical Endeavor', the quirky video-game inspired electronica blast originally released on New York-based label Systorm Technologies back in 2000.' Latest on my CC-licensed netlabel.)

Flickr: 'Walking With Dinosaurs - San Jose, 2007' (This was pretty awesome from an eye candy perspective - $20 million worth of animatronic dinos!)

GameSetWatch: 'Announce: IndieGames.com: The Weblog' (One of the best indie game blogs moves under our control - we promise to be nice to it.)

Urban Dictionary: 'Encyclopedia Dramatica' (Yikes, Wiki-based trolling is at a level I was unaware of.)

YouTube: 'Fast Ood Rockers - Song 4 Kylie' (Wow - The Time Lords vs. Goldfrapp with an awesome totallyunofficial video for the Kylie-starring Xmas special. Sold.)

Gamasutra: 'Special: The Game Industry's Xmas Cards Exposed' (All kinds of pre-Xmas scanning later, some game company Xmas cards.)

Quick Stop Entertainment interviews Stephen Fry on QI (Also David Mitchell, both v.good interviews.)

Regret The Error: 'Crunks 2007: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections' ('We spelt Morecambe, the town in Lancashire, wrong again on page 2, G2, yesterday. We often do.')

DVD Savant: 'The Most Impressive DVDs of 2007' ('I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of Pay Per View + downloading system came along and stole the entire market!')

Director File: Top 10 Music Videos Of 2007 (Some excellent picks, as per normal.)

Kaiju Shakedown: 'The other 13 billion: Third Window Films' (How a miniscule UK indie DVD label survives - interesting.)

DVD Savant: 'The Most Impressive DVDs of 2007' ('I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of Pay Per View + downloading system came along and stole the entire market!')

Doc Searls: 'O’Reilly has made the entire corpus of Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 available.' (Wonder if there's room for newsletters like these in other industries?)

Cinematic Titanic: Promo for 'The Oozing Skull' [.MOV] (Here's more info - DVD out now.)

Kai: '2007 Netlabel Music Best 50' (More lists!)

Fimoculous: Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading (Excellent list.)

Emusic: Transit Kings' 'Living In A Giant Candle Winking At God' album (Nice, somewhat Orb-friendly label Malicious Damage has been added to Emusic - Transit Kings include Dr. Alex, Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd bassist of late), and at one point Jimmy Cauty of the KLF. Please. Listen. Now.)

Mono211.com: Mono box sets (Put together by a bit of a hardcore Monotonik fan - best thing is that early .MODs are available in .MP3 form now!)

Pitchfork's Top 50 Music Videos Of 2007 (As usual, highly worth checking out.)

The Digital Bits: 'Blade Runner: The Final Cut' (So getting this. (Via Loonyboi))

Magazine Death Pool - the website (Slightly depressing!)

Yukihime examines UK Tango ads (I remember some of these well, good to see YouTube resurrecting them.)

GameSetWatch: 'Special Announcement: Introducing GameSetApparel T-Shirts' (Some cute limited-edition tees, themed 'Games That Never Were', for our blog. Link, buy, I dare you.)

Archive.org: 'Planet Boelex - Live At Virus Festival '07, Lithuania [mtk195]' ('We're delighted to welcome back multiple Monotonik releaser Planet Boelex, who's provided us with an awesome 60+ minute live set, featuring all self-composed Boelex material (much of it new!) recorded at the recent Virus Festival in Lithuania.')

Wired: 'Cinematic Titanic Steams Into Mystery Science Theater Waters' (Whoa - the original MST3K-ers blast back as a Rifftrax alternative. Sold!)

Trailer for The Wachowskis' 'Speed Racer' (Good lord insane day-glo madness.)

BoingBoing: 'Pro-tech/anti-commie vid from the 1939 World's Fair' (Neat stuff from Rick Prelinger.)

solipsistic NATION No. 66: NetLabels (Electronic music podcast including interview w/me about Monotonik and some of our music.)

Camomille #100 netlabel release w/LOTS of Monotonik net.label artists (Awesome compilation!)

Fuse now showing Later With Jools Holland in the States (Not very emopunk, but very cool - nice to see someone picking it up so us adopted Yanks can watch it.)

Monotonik: Distruc - 'Junctions EP' [mtk194] (Latest on my CC-licensed netlabel - nice crunchy electronica.)

Flickr: Rollo's 2008 Calendar - highlights. (Limited edition distribution of... two. Boutique dachshund calendars FTW.)

YouTube: Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. (Try watching at about 2 minutes for the full effect - Via Linkbunnies.)

Big Eye Deer: 'The cartoon formerly posted on Pencils at Dawn' (A v.fun dig at Prince.)

Flickr: 'Napa, November 2007' (Nice relaxing time, the other weekend - the goats didn't faint, though.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Top 60 Japanese buzzwords of 2007' (Lots of them!)

Webcomics.com: 'What Are The Most Popular Comics?' (XKCD, Explosm, Penny-Arcade seem to be the top three - via The Beat.)

GameSetWatch - Karsden from Schadenfreude's guest posts (While I was out at Kotaku, the Accordion Hero co-creator took over - complete Teutonic genius.)

Kotaku: 'Farewell And Goodbye' (Oh yeah - I guested on Kotaku. It's done now!)

InQ-Mag: Monotonik net.label mix (Semi-'official' mix done by Christopher Whaley for us.)

Blackdown interviews idm/dubstepper Geiom (More fascinating artists from this blog.)

Eaaaast Bay eating tip: Hazel's in Antioch (Should you ever be out that way - try the Willy Burger!)

Emusic tip: Frontera's 'Frontera' (Completely awesome chillout from Pete Herbert and Phil Mison.)

GameSetWatch: 'The Top 5 Horrible Things That Might Happen To EA' (...according to them, not me. So there.)

Last.fm: Monotonik (my net.label) reaches 1 million plays (Further evidence that music can get listened to in massive amounts outside the mainstream.)

YouTube: Chromeo's 'Bonafide Lovin' video (Money For Nothing pastiches are always worth it.)

Archive.org: Ocbalt - As Is [mtk193, vocoder idm-pop] (Latest on my CC-licensed net.label, mining the idm niche for 10+ years now.)

Snark Hunting: 'Where did Alibaba, the brand name, come from?' (My names for stuff tend to be a bit abstract, like GameSetWatch.)

Quick Stop Entertainment: 'Interview: Monty Python’s Terry Jones' (They should show more Jones history stuff on U.S. TV.)

UK Guardian's Charlie Brooker: 'My favourite pastime is pounding the city streets in a musical bubble - it feels as if I'm in a movie' (I don't like walking with headphones on.)

Ironic Sans: 'Interview: Art Binninger, the Ed Wood of 1970s stop-motion animated Star Trek parodies' (Tremendously geeky.)

Cartoon Brew: 'Bill Watterson in College' (Interesting to see some pre-Calvin and Hobbes stuff.)

The Rut's cartoon on Spock's massage service (Actually, all these cartoons are excellent - via B3ta.)

GSW: 'GameSetInvestigation: The Guitar Hero Patent Mystery' (Man, this whole software/gameplay patent concept is pretty icky.)

Collision Detection: 'Extremophiles discovered living in toxic goo from abandoned mine' ('In 1995, a couple hundred geese landed on the water and instantly died.')

Why That's Delightful: 'Notes on The U.S. IT Crowd' (Graham Linehan on the U.S. I.T. Crowd.)

EW.com: 'Sneak Peek: 'Extraordinary Gentlemen' Graphic Novel' (VERY delayed, but very looking forward to this.)

Music Thing: 'Yamaha Tenori On review: Many good things, many bad' (Shame it's not more substantial-feeling, it appears.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Dreamy concept cars at Tokyo Motor Show 2007' (Curves in all the right places.)

Reality Blurred: American Idol tour fined $5,000 over child labor breaches... (...involving Sanjaya. Haw.)

Regret The Error: 'How to get a husband in trouble' (I'm not sure I would have asked for that correction, if I were him.)

BusinessWeek: 'Where should authors blog?' (The answer is somewhat obvious, but I think labels/imprints should have _some_ power too.)

DVD Savant reviews 'Fox Horror Classics' (Long tail rumbling on and on.)

Gamasutra: '2008 Independent Games Festival Reveals Main Competition Entries' (Record entry this year, and some amazing games - this is going to be a lot of fun.)

Jahtari Magazine: 'NETLABEL FESTIVAL 2007 - Going Nowhere' (Odd but interesting netlabel semi-hatred ramble.)

Archive.org: 'University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Films' ("The filmmaker of this collection, Mr. Watson Kintner (1890-1979), was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), where he was an early pioneer in the standardization of the vacuum tube.")

Kaiju Shakedown: 'The other 13 billion: Synapse' (Fascinating - the Viz interview is much less transparent.)

Gelf Magazine: 'A Card Above All Others' (Obsessive collecting is neat.)

DVD Savant reviews 'The Films of Kenneth Anger Vol. 2' (Most literate reviews around.)

Nerds With Kids: 'Dorkin & Dyer Talk About Godzilla and Super Martian Robot Girls' (My heroes!)

You Thought We Wouldn't Notice: 'New Sony Bravia Ad Rips off Illustrator Duo Kozyndan' (Ouch.)

Blackdown interviews UK rapper Trim (A fascinating interview, even if you don't know the music.)

Monotonik: Dead Eros - Cycle EP [mtk192] (Latest on my CC-licensed net.label, "slightly spooky, overlapping electronics" from Ann Arbor, MI.)

GameSetWatch - still the reason I don't blog here so much (Sorry guys, dayjob plus three posts on a day on GSW leaves ffwd a little denuded. Will keep trying!)

Adelaide: The Annette Woollett Online Center (Dedicated to an obscure actress who made a single Dr. Who appearance. Internet is scary.)

GameSetWatch: '2008 Independent Games Festival - Get Your Entries In Now!' (Just in case you're going to enter! There's a new 'About' page for the event I'm Chairman of, too.)

Blue Cat: 'Eddie Izzard/Lego' (More comedy routines illustrated with Lego, plz.)

B3ta: 'Amy Winehouse... Its how she gets about - FACT!*' (B3ta is the best and evillest.)

Monotonik @ Archive.org: 'Bird Lantern - DuD [mtk191]' (Avalanches-esque Australian hiphop funk loops for free on my CC-licensed netlabel, hurray.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Shuetsu Sato tape signs at Nippori station' (Nice use of duct tape.)

TorrentFreak: 'The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public' (Wow, this is seriously amazing stuff - via Waxy.)

Gamasutra: 'Inside GameStop Expo, The Trade Show You Never Knew' (Bigger than this year's E3 show floor, and just for GameStop employees!)

GSW: 'Independent Games Summit: Russell Carroll Talks Indie Marketing' (An excellent lecture of getting your indie game noticed.)

Gamasutra: 'IGF Confirms New Judges For 10th Annual Competition' (Some smart cookies - more judges being announced next week!)

Kaiju Shakedown: 'The other 13 billion: Tartan' (Interesting to see mechanics of DVD distribution.)

Simon Waldman: 'Web 2.0 - a threat or opportunity for newspapers' (Absolutely excellent speech.)

The Beat: 'Ellison/Groth: The love is still strong' (Wow, cats and dogs, living together.)

Music Thing: 'Live from the Tenori On launch in London' (Toshio Iwai for the win!)

Scratchskunk picks some more Netflix 'Watch Instantly' TV shows/docs (The service is great for multitasking if you have a big monitor.)

PingMag: 'The Science Of Nail Art' (I don't generally paint my nails, of course. Via Heraclitean Fire.)

Blogspotting: 'Newspapers in 2020: Death of editors?' (I think so too, and it's largely a good thing (or at least, the decline of over-extreme editing) - more choice, less anal retentiveness.)

This Is London: 'How Ricky Gervais' friend got his own back on Sir Elton - very, very slowly' (Wacky Stephen Merchant - via Blue Cat.)

Gamasutra: 'Austin GDC 2007 Live Coverage' (My company's MMO-focused Austin conf went really well - here's our coverage.)

GSW: 'GameSetReport: Inside The UT Game Archive Fundraiser' (Shame I couldn't make it, thanks to J. for the report and the pics from gamegeektown.)

'Prelinger on Prelinger' event in San Francisco, Oct 3rd (Here's more info, go and support an awesome ephemeral library!)

Muxu - 'Show Us Your Weak Side' [mtk190, acoustelectronics] (Latest on my net.label, super-mellow Malaysian electronics from a duo.)

Gamasutra: 'From God To Cock: Mike Wilson On GameCock's Publishing Party' (Wilson: It's "...kind of a response to a need we saw in the industry for kind of a Miramax-type studio.")

GameSetWatch: '2007 Independent Games Summit: Jon Blow On Indie Prototyping' (A really inspiring lecture from the IGS, which I ran at GDC earlier this year.)

The Beat: 'THE BLACK DOSSIER is coming' (More Alan Moore, please.)

Internet Archive blog: 'Archival Space' (Yay, NASA has finally partnered with the Internet Archive - I believe I suggested this originally many years ago - though take no credit past that point!)

Archive.org: Center for Home Movies collection (More absolutely awesome ephemeral films - thank you, Archive.org!)

GameSetWatch: 'Opinion: Burial, Hyperdub, And Crackle In Games' (Not really sure what I was going on about here, but it was fun.)

Blue Cat notes 'Comics Britannia' documentary (On BBC4 later this year - bet there's some Moore in there!)

Flickr: Hanging out in San Diego with the folks (It's nice to relax, eh?)

Archive.org: Malty Media - 'Bracken Bed EP' [mtk189, Orb-esque dub whimsy] (Latest CC-licensed release on my net.label, NZ idm veterans Aquaboogie vs. Jet Jaguar, yay.)