July 31, 2004
Video-fenky on obscure U.S. videogame magazines (As a commenter points out, the Newtype Gaming Mortal Kombat cover is priceless.)
'Mario Paint' music competition (Make songs using the SNES classic Mario Paint, win prizes! Also see 'The Electric Family - Mariopaint' album.)
Laxity/Kefrens' original Amiga 500 (As used to create classic Kefrens demos like Desert Dream - wow!)
Wikipedia: OS-tan ('Doctor Norton, an unspeakably nice and horny old doctor, personifies the Symantec Norton Antivirus software.')
July 30, 2004
Mr. Goodliving (Finnish mobile games company has neat retro titles, best company name evah.)
Archive.org: Interjamp Wizards Of OS3 Special (Features an extended audio interview with me in English, between the German bits, about Archive.org, Monotonik, etc.)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles drawn by Jack Kirby (Crazy insane craziness, courtesy Kempa)
London Underground to remove 'Salami' ads. (Salamanders aren't smelly, either, are they, Red Ken?)
Ice-cool Koreans with ice-constructed Xboxen ('slightly off-kilter pictures', courtesy the ever-dependable Video-Fenky.)
Al-Qaeda capture press timed for Democratic National Convention? ('it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July')
First pictures from Blue Sky's 'Robots' (Ahem, not Pixar, as I originally said - sorry. Still v.neat.)
July 29, 2004
Archive.org: EQ Monotonik Radio Show (Great German-radio mix of tracks from my netlabel Monotonik.)
G4techTV - 'Filter' - Trippiest Games (See me on TV, talking nerdily about Parappa The Rapper and Carmageddon, tonight only!)
Reality TV growth spurt continues (New show round-up includes Ewan McGregor, horses, 'sperm race', though not all at once.)
Simon 'American Idol' Cowell's opera boyband. (Apparently called 'il Divo' - the new Three N'Sync Tenors?)
Mesmerizing T-shirt folding video (Those crazy Japanese and their crazy laundry.)
All about the Andersons, baby. (Poor ol' Pamela Anderson makes random photographic appearance in completely unrelated story, due to last name - whoops.)
July 28, 2004
Archive.org: 'The Mysterious Mr. Wong' feature film (Neato, if racially archaiac Bela Lugosi movie, part of new PD feature film additions.)
HP Lovecraft illustrated by Lee Brown Coye (Surrealissimo illustration for 'The Colour Out Of Space' - c'mon, an early birthday present, anyone?!)
Bob Sapp Japanese pizza commercial (AVI) (Bob Sapp is big in Japan, and does the shuffle pretty good, too - thanks, Octopusdropkick.)
New mirror of 'Latest Livejournal Images' script. (Always fascinating, tragic, tragi-fascinating - also a forum to post best/worst pic links.)
Comic-Con: Star Wars autograph prices (Courtesy of Loonyblog - holy crapola, $85 for a Mark Hamill autograph?)
Slashdot: IT section's color scheme exposed (Apparently, it's 'THE BEIGE OF A DAMNED ELDER GOD'.)
July 27, 2004
Archive.org: Ambre & Mark Spybey - Sfumato (Free previously-on-CD album from ex-Zoviet*France industrialist and friend - neat!)
Oekaki Potato web-drawing software (Great pictures by Vimster and others, done in Java-based sketch forum software.)
Comic-Con details on 'Serenity' movie (Or secretive hints, rather - 'Have you met me?', says Whedon)
Archimedes Plutonium's movie version of the Antiques Roadshow (in 2201, clothes trees are very sought-after)
July 26, 2004
American McGee doesn't like videogame journalists (Apparently, 'they're mostly depressed, morose, and sleepy'. Poor guys.)
Creating robotic foreign accents via 'Text To Speech' (From the also talented, crazy Virt)
'Down With The Chairman' net.label radio show (Great net.label DJ sets, as played on Resonance FM.)