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September 30, 2007
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.)
September 23, 2007
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.)
September 17, 2007
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.)
September 16, 2007
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.)
September 15, 2007
Gamasutra: 'IGF Confirms New Judges For 10th Annual Competition'
(Some smart cookies - more judges being announced next week!)
September 12, 2007
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.)
September 11, 2007
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.)
September 10, 2007
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
.)
September 09, 2007
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!)
September 03, 2007
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.)
September 02, 2007
The Beat: 'THE BLACK DOSSIER is coming'
(More Alan Moore, please.)
September 01, 2007
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!)