Monthly Archives: March 2007
19/03/07 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 [...]
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16/03/07 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.” via
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16/03/07 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 via
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- Posted under together at last, video games
16/03/07 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. via
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14/03/07 Shepard Fairey Rawk Out
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 [...]
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13/03/07 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 [...]
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09/03/07 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.
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07/03/07 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
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07/03/07 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 [...]
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