June 2008
1 post
May 2008
3 posts
MUTO: A wall-painted animation by BLU →
April 2008
5 posts
February 2008
5 posts
January 2008
1 post
Hardest game ever? →
Video of a frustratingly hilarious Japanese Mario-style side-scroller. Game can be downloaded from the site too.
December 2007
4 posts
Portal: The Flash Version →
Intense, time-consuming, fun. Based on the hit PC game from a few years back.
November 2007
4 posts
New Scientist Space Blog: Top 10 Space Videos →
Link to demo of the next-gen Ghostbusters game. Me... →
October 2007
12 posts
TV Links shut down for linking... :-( →
… and apparently the 26-year-old owner got arrested. That site was pretty stellar, it’s truly a sad day for copyright infringers everywhere. The arrest & shut-down pose some interesting questions though, as the above link makes clear: “Is the message that it’s less criminal to host illegal content on YouTube than it is to to link to it from a site such as TV Links? Or...
the beta lounge →
i’ve been a fan of this site for a few years now… it features countless hours of expert audio arrangements and DJ mixes digitized live at the beta lounge studios in San Fran, Hamburg, and other locations across the globe. i think you have to sign up to access, but it’s free. a favourite right now (actually, for months now) is the 03.03.07 mix by Daniel Wetzel & Andreas...
Clickety-click for video of Pivo 2 in action →
Study: We get emotional over robots... →
And the 'Stupendously Wicked Awesome Robot Of The...
September 2007
13 posts
The Underground Menu at L'Enclume, or, Who wants... →
Multi-Touch Video →
Multi-Touch Interaction Experiments. I’m not sure if this is quite as cool as the music makes me think it is, but I deem it post-worthy.
Windows 386 will make you a star. →
Apparently Microsoft sent this tape to retailers, way back in the day, to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Of moderate amusement until the 7 minute mark or so when, as the Google Video caption so accurately puts it, “the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys”.
R.U.R.
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) is a science fiction play by Karel Capek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot.