ffwd: Linklog

GSW: 'Stair Dismount's Live Action Tribute' (Fall down some stairs, in real life!)

Serious Games Source: 'Persuasive Games: Wii’s Revolution is in the Past' (On indie/serious games on the Wii.)

Gama: 'Gameplay Design Fundamentals: Gameplay Progression' (A good piece on inciting people to play through games.)

Flickr: 'Metal Gear Rollo, Nov. 2006' (Dachshund + camouflage = teh win.)

GSW: '@ Play: Hack Hacks' (Wow, canonical knowledge of the Nethack scene, here.)

Gamasutra: 'Analyze This: Handicapping the 2006 Holiday Gift-Buying Season' (Everybody wins?)

GSW: 'Why Are There No Prestige Games?' (I add my opinion to the cacophony.)

Documentary recommendation: 'The Nomi Song' (An affecting look at a bizarre pop star I was largely unaware of.)

GSW: 'Game Mag Weaseling: The Lost Art of the Newsletter' (Some classics scans of game company newsletters.)

Oldies.com: 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' pre-Python 2xDVD for $5.95 (They have At Last the 1948 Show for the same price - v.good, also lots of neat cheap books and free shipping if you get to $50. [Via Destrucity.])

GSW: 'Medal Of Honor, From Renderware To Unreal Engine' (The kind of thing I write up at weekends. Oh dear!)

Popcultscanfun: 'Comic Books: Marvel Video Game Special' (Back again with a little random video game/comic scanning.)

Japanese Apple Mac ads, cloning the U.S. ones (These are very enjoyable to watch!)

WFMU: Bill 'KLF' Drummond declares 'No Music Day' (As always, he's being suitably difficult.)

Pink Tentacle: Dekotora photo galleries (There are some video games about these, whose names escape me.)

Scratchskunk points to They Might Be Giants-soundtracked Dunkin' Donuts ads (Aw, warm and fuzzies.)

Leaky Cauldron: Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix movie sneak preview (From HBO On Demand, vague spoilers, looking forward to this.)

Gamasutra: 'Q&A: Nurve's LaMothe On The Hydra Console' (A weird new multiprocessor DIY console, innit?)

GSW: 'DMCA Exemption For Game Archiving Renewed' (Why it ain't an abandonware free-for-all. Also - linklog post #5000, yay!)

Book recommendation: Neal Asher's 'The Engineer Reconditioned' (Some wonderful hard-ish sci-fi stories, but with soul.)

NCSX: Nyoro-Nyoro Huggable Plush (If you're Japanese, hug a Moomin Hattifatteners!)

TheMobius radio show w/lotsa Vim!, 8BitPeoples (Hey, two of my favorite bleepy chiptune flavors, playing together!)

GSW Impressions: Every Extend Extra, Lumines II For PSP (My second kinda-review for GSW, on Q Entertainment's continuing PSP blitz.)

Gamasutra: 'Converging: An Interview With Henry Jenkins' (One of the few non-game industry folks who can talk sensibly on it.)

'Jamie and Adam Look Alike Contest' blog (Oh, those modern heroes!)

Playbeast: Monsterism Island Vol. 3 figures (Yep, still love Pete Fowler - also these Magic Numbers figures are boss.)

Weekly World News: 'Furry Admirer Seeks Bigfoot' (Wow, Fort90 fesses up!)

GSW: 'Roboto-chan!': Gundammit (Why Gundam games don't all suck, so there.)

Gama: 'Multiplayer Level Design In-Depth, Part 3: Technical Constraints and Accessibility' (Excellent practical conclusion to a series - on balancing in the Splinter Cell series.)

YouTube: Super Furry Animals - 'Hello Sunshine' music video (I've been on a big SFA kick recently - and the Pete Fowler video caps it all.)

GSW: 'Special Report: Wii Loves NY' (Wow, a ridiculously long and glowingly happy piece on the Wii launch in New York.)

Gamasutra: 'Meet The Machinimakers: Machinima With Issues Panel' (Part of a larger report, this panel is about 'using the medium for provocation and even social change'.)

GSW: 'Beyond Tetris - Polarium Advance' (Our new puzzle column looks at the underappreciated GBA incarnation of an intriguing puzzler.)

Monotonik: Sonmi451 - 'The Quiet EP' (New on my netlabel, a Belgian artist who 'artfully blends ambience and melody', CC-licensed as always.)

Gamasutra: 'Learning New Moves: AiLive's Wei Yen Teaches Wii New Tricks' (Programming the Wii-mote, the smart way.)

Daily WTF: 'Fisher Price Technology Integration' (Very Dilbert-esque - via LBunnies.)

Quick Stop Entertainment: 'Toy Box: Stuff To Do…' (Useful list of toy website links here!)

Gamasutra: 'FBI, NCSoft Close Down Unauthorized Lineage II Servers' (Mainly exciting for me cos I got to talk to the FBI.)

Grand Text Auto: 'Spot at Santa Cruz' (Fractal voting through Electric Sheep, explained.)

Twitch: 'British Comedy Awards 2006 Nominations...' (Good to see the multichannel world begetting great UK comedies.)

Reuters/Yahoo!: 'Blockbuster, Weinsteins in exclusive rental deal' (Kinda bad news for film buffs/Netflixers, no?)

Kircher Society: 'Salyut 6 Cyclogram' (As 'handmade by the Russian cosmonaut Georgi Grechko to track his 96-day stay aboard the Salyut 6 space station'.)

TPOLM.com: Next 'Lazy Sunday Video' is December 3rd (Smart video + music mashups by the Finnish demo-scene vets - check the archives.)

Gelf Magazine: 'An Obscene Hobby' (Interviewing 'the world's foremost expert in naughty sports cards'.)

ASCII: 'The Phone Stories: SECURITY' (A good Jason Scott yarn about phone conferences.)

RatherGood.com plush toys (OMG, the insane B3ta-related Flash site has its own toys now, including Spongmonkey.)

Ironic Sans interviews Louis Klein, audience member of nearly every episode of Saturday Night Live (Awesome stuff.)

YouTube: 'Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen' (More neat editing from the 'Hyperactive' guy - via B3ta.)

Mojave Weblog: 'Rotary Rocket's Last Journey' (Impressive space memorabilia alert.)

GCG: 'So You Want to Be a Games Journalist: Part Two' (Let's hope we don't get as controversial as the last one, eh?)

GSW: 'IF Comp Winners For 2006 Announced' (Good stuff, including Jason Bergman's 'Game Producer' text adventure.)

Gama: 'Question of the Week: Are Games Industry Professionals Buying PlayStation 3 or Wii?' (Some people made us take down their comments, of course.)

LJ Dachshund: Weiner dogs dressed up as Fall Out Boy (I got nuthin'.)

GameSetWatch: 'GSW Impressions: Gunpey For PSP, DS' (As close as I get to reviews - checking out the abstract puzzler from the Rez/Lumines creator.)

OgreCave: 'What do you get a Great Old One for its anniversary?' (Fear and obedience! On the Call Of Cthulhu anniversary celebrations.)

FanDumb: 'K-Fed equals Vogon poetry' (Is there some mysterious Fed-Ex conspiracy here?)

JibJab's music video take on Weird Al's 'Do I Creep You Out?' (Why, yes you do! Via Jon.)

MusicRelated.net: .MP3 sampler for ST's upcoming album, 'People I Barely Know' (Wow wow, absolutely _gorgeous_ idm-pop from a Monotonik releaser - here's more info.)

Whalefish.org: 'Equinox Flow' MP3 mix (Nice mix with a bunch of Monotonik artists from the MTK 10-year mix guy.)

GSW: 'XBLA-Only Xbox 360 Leaderboard? Good Idea!' (I like playing XBLA games, almost solely, heh.)

Serious Games Source: 'Playing with Fire: Trouble in Super Macho World?' (Gonzalo Frasca talks serious games, sexism, and Nintendo.)

GSW: 'U.S. Game Magazines - How's The Circulation Curve?' (A little research from me on how U.S. game mags are doing.)

Google News search for 'Borat lawsuit' (Oh so many humiliated people! 951 stories!)

Gama: 'Podcast Transcript: The Behemoth's John Baez' (Some good stuff on being an indie game guerrilla type.)

Gamasutra: 'Would You Like Fries With That Game?' (Philip Oliver on the Xbox 360/Xbox Burger King promo games debuting this month!)

GameSetWatch: '@ Play: An View of the Field' (A gigantic overview of NetHack games, well done.)

The Escapist: 'Game Journalists on Game Journalism' (In which I insult US Weekly - sorry, US Weekly, I like reading your ricockulousness!)

Gamasutra: 'Principles of Virtual Sensation' (A good piece by Steve Swink on why games 'feel' how they feel.)

GSW: 'Game Mag Weaseling': 15 Years of Not Winning The Ultimate Gaming Rig (Gifford does some insane history on the 'best gaming rig' game mag competition ads.)

Emusic.com - 100 free songs trial link (Markpasc points out prices for new accounts are changing, so get in now if you wanna - they have a LOT more choice than they used to (though I miss the old ridiculous days a bit, too!))

YMU Playa: 'MY YMU Playlist Mix: Planet Mu's Elliptical Orbit' (Latest on my Yahoo! Music Unlimited playlist blog, lots of good jungle/grime/idm album cuts.)

Doug Zongker's vital 'Chicken Chicken Chicken' research paper [.PDF] (From the latest Improbable Research paper-mag, and well worth printing. Also see: Anatomy Of The Centaur [.PDF], from same issue.)

Cartoon Brew on Seinfeld's bizarre Bee Movie trailer (Live-action plug for a CG movie, with Eddie Izzard in tow - cool oddness!)

Warren Ellis: Alan Moore to appear in The Simpsons (Wow, bizarre confluence alert.)

Kircher Society points to the Google-scanned 'Kirby’s Wonderful and Scientific Museum' (' The six-volume early 19th-century encyclopedia of things wondrous, curious, and esoteric is... one of the Athanasius Kircher Society’s greatest inspirations.')

Improbable Research: 'Famous dead sparrow will fly again' (Being dead by cricket ball doesn't stop it.)

Bneely's LJ: 'a report on e-commerce!' (A cautionary tale for all!)

Connexion Bizarre alt.noise podcast (Vim! says it's "industrial/ebm/electro/etc, poppy stuff, hard and noisy stuff", so it must be good.)

GSW: 'MMOG Nation: The Legitimate MMOG' (Michael Zenke makes some great points on the future of MMOs.)

Gamasutra: 'We're Not Listening: An Open Letter to Academic Game Researchers' (Nice thought-provoking piece from a Microsoft game researcher.)

AP/Yahoo!: 'Humiliated frat boys sue 'Borat'' (Humiliated? Litigation can help!)

GameSetWatch: 'XNA Video Shows X360 Homebrew Goodness' (Extremely nice-looking demo stuff for the Xbox 360 homebrew tool.)

Gamasutra: 'Playing Catch Up: Traveller's Tales' Jon Burton' ('Sonic R was actually a Formula One game for the Sega Saturn' - hah!)

GSW: 'Game Collector's Melancholy - Rez' (Neat column on a stone cold classic game.)

Gamasutra: 'Multiplayer Level Design In-Depth, Part 2: The Rules of Map Design' (Good if you like Splinter Cell, good design insight anyhow.)

GSW: Beyond 3DO: 'Battle Of The Ex-Next-Gen, Round 1' (Yay for lunatic columns comparing kart racers on the 3DO/Jaguar.)

Flickr: 'Souvenirs' photos of famous landmarks (Super-neat idea - via The-In)

Gamasutra: 'A Tough Nut To Karrak: Sony's New PR Boss Talks PlayStation 3 Plans' (Nice interview from Brandon here.)

GameSetWatch: COLUMN: 'Beyond Tetris'—Soko-Ban (A nice new GSW column on video game puzzling.)

Jason Scott interviewed me for his arcade documentary! (Though I'm not sure I said too much sensible, ohwell.)

Google Sightseeing points out Fergie's incorrect bridge (Oh yeah, she was in front of Tower, not London!)

Twitch notes new UK films Sixty Six, Starter For Ten (Both films look pretty interesting.)

Warren Ellis remembers the late Nigel Kneale (Quatermass is some of the important sci-fi ever.)

SF weekly article on yaoi manga (With current subject matter, '...it begins to seem like yaoi is inviting lawsuits'. Via Journalista.)

DVD Savant guest review: 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End' (Bizarre semi-Python-esque Viv Stanshall movie - out now on DVD in UK.)

Gelf Magazine 'Five Months With Enron' (Despite it not being a full-time thing, I find Gelf consistently great.)

Lafalafu: RMS/ESR kinda slashfic (Kinda NSFW, kinda ACK, thanks so much, O'Brien)

Business Week: Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet (Good piece - we're using Casting Words for podcast transcripts now, actually.)

B3ta interviews London ambulance driver/blogger Tom Reynolds (And his new book is available under a CC license, too, yay.)

The Presets - 'Girl And The Sea' music video (Sweet, touching wolf/mermaid animated vid - via Res DVD.)

Comic recommendation: Grant Morrison's 'Sebastian O' (Odd mini-TPB about a flamboyant Wilde-type assassin in Victorian London - part of my recent stash additions.)

Reality Blurred: 'VH1 will air six new reality series' (Including 'ego trip’s White Rapper Show', hosted by Michael “MC Serch” Berrin and Prince Paul - YES!)

GSW: Cinema Pixeldiso' – Post Halloween Horror Special (part 2 of 2) - How To Make A Monster (More crazy Hawkins reviewing crazy video game-featuring movies, yay.)

Gama: 'The Gamasutra Quantum Leap Awards: Storytelling' (A few surprises in the Top 5.)

GSW: 'Video Games, Secret Slumber Parties, Our Kids' (A scathing expose of the DDR-'inspired' TV show.)

GSW: 'Confessions Of A Clone Maker - The Aftermath!' (Some interesting controversy about game cloning.)

Game Developer's November 2006 issue is out (Highlights include a postmortem of Prey's 'deathwalk' concept, and an awesome article on luck & games by Richard 'Magic: The Gathering' Garfield.)

GSW: 'Three Speech - Blog Control, The Sony Way?' (Large corporations like Sony using bloglike 'semi-official' sites make Simon mad!)

TV recommendation: 'Cracker: A New Terror' (Here's the IMDB page, it's showing on BBC America - a deeply political (Iraq-related) return for the unconventional cop drama.)

Gamasutra: 'Being Peter Molyneux' (He's pretty darn honest in this interview I conducted with him at GDC London.)

LJ Dachshunds: Today Show pet costume links (The dachshunds dressed up as race cars are OMG awesome. Oh dear.)

GSW: 'EXCLUSIVE: LimeLife Press Kit Unwrapped, Contains Things' (Frank accurately documents what we do at work, most days.)

The Chicago Reader: 'Making eLemonade' (Good article on Thrill Jockey's forthcoming indie download service.)

Wordpress: 'What's New At The Internet Archive' (A blog from the Archive collections admin folks! V. cool.)

Ian C Rogers: 'Music Is The Best, October, 2006' (Notable for use of YME SongBlogger, which I didn't know about.)

GameSetWatch: 'Top 10 Silliest Computer Mag Covers in History' (Kevin Gifford digs in his insane computer mag archive and comes up geek-trumps.)

YMU Playa: 'My YMU Playlist Mix: Arch Celebrity Weirdness Alert' (More YMU fun for me, from Laurel & Hardy through Paris Hilton.)

Mixotic: 'Oliver Günsel - Die langen Schatten meiner Ängste' ('Oliver Günsel is on the trail of Richie Hawtin and cut 50 netaudio tracks into small snippets and loops.' Neat.)