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Frets on Fire

Frets on Fire is an open source Guitar Hero type game programed in python; runs great under linux. I very much enjoyed the rawking out on the ol’ QWERTY this evening. I’ve got a clicky IBM Model M keyboard around here somewhere. I need to find it and employ it for the rawking out as it has the extra sturdy construction and the clickable action for the powerful riffage, not to mention the curly telephone style chord.

Monday, March 19th, 2007 linux, open source, video games No Comments

Colour Shift: a creative mis-direction of urban light pollution

“…a post-Duchampian optical relief in technicolor, throbbing through a dozen spectra across the roofs and walls of New York City.”

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Friday, March 16th, 2007 art No Comments

Text Adventure Lovin’ for your DS

Huzzah! Now you can kick it old skool on the DS and be eaten by a grue. Papafuji brings some classic text adventure to Nintendo DS.

also see zork-on-the-go-treo-600

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Friday, March 16th, 2007 together at last, video games No Comments

The Making of The Dr. Who Theme

Awesome! Ring modulate that “funky 1 and funky 2″ on that very modern polyphonic synthesizer. I’ve always been a huge fan of the Dr. Who theme music; it would most definitely kick the Star Trek theme music’s ass in a fight.
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Friday, March 16th, 2007 music No Comments

Shepard Fairey Rawk Out

Shepard Git-Box

SuperTouch delivers this spread of custom Fenders designed by Shepard Fairey.

Fairey’s latest book Supply & Demand: The Art Of Shepard Fairey is reviewed over at Ektopia.

I purchased the previous book, Post No Bills, from Wooster Collective along with some prints which I really love. I framed them with mat boards made from beat up old cardboard and am really happy with the results.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 art, together at last No Comments

Distro of the Devil

Today while chmoding some files ‘666′ I ran a quick google search to see if there were any evil sys-admins out there who especially appreciated this particular permission. Ubuntu Satanic Edition is what I got. It seems to be a response to the Ubuntu Christian Edition and recommends you install into the christian distro for the extra added blasphemy (the Satanic Edition is a collection of wallpapers, login screens, and themes).

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 linux, open source, together at last No Comments

I Want Your Skull

I’ve had I Want Your Skull in my feeds for a while now. Just received a nice set of buttons from there.

As a bonus skull related item, here is a photo of the case that Margot made for me that currently houses my Casio Exilm EX-Z80.

Friday, March 9th, 2007 art, skull No Comments

Kraftwerk and Gameboys: Together at Last

8-Bit Operators reinterprets your favorite Kaftwerk tunes on gameboys and C-64s and that kind of cool stuff.

Not distributed via Creative Commons but the track previews gives one a good taste.

via Wunderbar Wunderland

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 music, together at last, video games No Comments

Author of Wikinomics, Dan Tapscott speaking in Calgary

The good folks at Cambrian House want to share Dan Tapscott’s recent talk with you. Seeing that I wasn’t able to make it to the talk, their video certainly comes appreciated.

Wikinomics is another good example of how this whole ‘2.0′ thing is garnering major mainstream attention (the first thing Tapscott mentions is the Time 2006 Person of the Year).

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 calgary, open source No Comments

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@zakpashak I know it's not a juicer, but our Vitamix has changed our eating habits quite a bit. We even mill grain in it.
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RT @cityofcalgary: August 14-21 ... http://ow.ly/2eKL0 #yyc Bow Orbs: I am not a number, I am a free man.
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- Off the coffee and drinking some nice Earl Grey. Is this like busting out a stogie after quiting cigarettes? At least I skipped yerba mate
- The kids and I are going to play folk fest: we have a blanket and festival chairs set up outside. Where's my guitar? #cfmf #yyc
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@bhetherington You don't need a ticket! Just dress in a wolf suit and say you're with the band. If you're denied, just parade around! Fun!
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In your face severe weather. #yycpkn was a lovely night. Thanks everybody for coming out and making it happen. Photos & video will follow.
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- @louderthan10 Putting together the final .ppt for PKN. We had an artist submit work for 'thank you' slides. Yours is appropriate/awesome.
- @yuppielove I was a victim of bus advertising and went to grab pad mee at thai express... line was too long though so I aborted mission.
- @yuppielove Let me know what you decide. I also need to stoke the stomach fires as it were.
- @TheStrayMuse what gives indeed.
- @yuppielove We should start a Taco Tuesday tradition. I too enjoy teh Time.
- @EricaMattson how awesome is that? I wanted to portmanteau appropriate/awesome today: approwesome.
- @yuppielove coffee and a piece of scavenged left over office birthday cake... that's what Olympic athletes eat, right?
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- Punch-uation: the jumper colon is punchy as hell, a paragraphical Red Bull. http://bit.ly/9ZVlVc
- @AvenueMagazine That southern rock is pretty loud... It's Sweet Home Alabama all the way up in Renfrew.
- @AvenueMagazine Silly me thinking it was my neighbor with all the broken down pick up trucks in his back yard.
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- Watched the first episode of the new season of #itcrowd. So funny, but never would an übernerd say, "... a 20 sided dice."
- Getting "Bad Ass" engraved onto a ne>#BADA55 is ok though. http://bit.ly/d4ifnq
- Are you an informed #Android user? Tell me if I should purchase this Motorola #Milestone / #droid Better options? http://bit.ly/cZ6L6h
- @lhiver at least they didn't ask you to make the screen into a mirror. http://bit.ly/bMeXzj
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- .@leftfordamian Thanks for sledding all of our islands (with the great / burny taste of Dr. Pepper) http://flic.kr/p/8hRztn #sledisland
- Dear Final Cut Pro, I appreciate that you are a tool used to manipulate time, but why must your estimated render time go up instead of down?
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I've been substituting a can of lager for Champagne in a French 75esque concoction. This very well may be my drink for the summer.
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#sledisland is full of magic.