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Dec. 24th, 2009

Ocelot: the universal solvent

Daily Link Roundup: Not enough holiday wine.

Gaming

Wired GameLife:
-The 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade

Kotaku:
-White Knight Chronicles English trailer is one of the most pitiful things ever.
-Adorable Army of Two ad.

Film

io9:
-The Concept Art that Sold Sherlock Holmes to Warner Bros.

Literature

io9:
-Bringing the Worm Home Dune concept art

Comics

xkcd:
-I know so many Christmas babies who this is for.

Curios

io9:
-10 Remarkable Monsters Named in the Last Ten Years
-The Larger-than-Life Sex Lives of Giant Women [NSFW]
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Dec. 14th, 2009

Eh!! Oh no!

Daily Link Roundup: Okay, skip=580, not doing that again.

Media Studies

Henry Jenkins:
-Revenge of the Origami Unicorn: The Remaining Four Principles of Transmedia Storytelling

Augmented Reality

GameSetWatch:
-Creepy Augmented Reality Avatars

Gaming

IndieGames:
-Marketing Your Indie Game
-Interview: Zach Gage Caught in a Lose/Lose Situation
-Freeware Game Pick: Let's Go Find El Dorado It's based on Oregon Trail!

Gizmodo:
-Guitar Hero Played on Side of House in Christmas Lights Invents New Class of Neighborhood Competition

Kotaku:
-Performance and Mastery: Changing One's Motivation as a Gamer
-Heavy Rain Impressions: An Ambitious Sorrow
-Mass Effect 2: The Sentinel class, new trailer
-Why Literacy is Good for Gaming

Machinima

Kotaku:
-MythBusters as Told by Modern Warfare 2

Film

io9:
-Relive the Human-Machine War with Matrix Concept Art
-20 Greatest SF Movies of the Past Decade ...Wow, okay. This is the weirdest list I've seen in a hell of a long time. Latter decade bias? Check. Hyping movies that aren't even out yet? Check. Slither? Come on.

Television

io9:
-SGU Gets Another Season and Takes Responsibility for Sexism-Gate

Literature

io9:
-20 Best Science Fiction Books of the Decade

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Elevator mural casts you as Adam on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling

Gizmodo:
-Google Demonstrates Quantum Algorithm Promising Superfast Search
-These shoes are amazing and require no Gaga hate

io9:
-Theoretical All-Quark Stars Might Be Able to Warp Matter Unto Themselves

Boing Boing:
-Dark-skinned nativity scene angers conservatives in Verona
-How a Japanese scientist made the first artificial snowflake

Thank God, It's Not Bananas This Time

Boing Boing:
-Flying Spaghetti Monster holiday treats

What the Hell

Boing Boing:
-Fugitive hides from arrest warrant by working at the DHS

Oh Japan

Gizmodo:
-For a Post-Christmas Treat, Order a Looky-Likey Android [sic] from Japan

Boing Boing:
-Why it's time to lighten up about "weird" Japan ...if you say so.
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Nov. 18th, 2009

English the thief in the night

Daily Link Roundup: That's depressing.

Media Studies

Henry Jenkins:
-On the Pleasures of Not Belonging, or Notes on Interstitial Art (Part One)

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-Alt Space: New Horizons

GamePolitics:
-Lanning on Why Violent Games are Still a Talking Point

IndieGames:
-Freeware Game Pick: rComplex

Kotaku:
-Square Enix Promise to be More Timely with Future Western Releases
-Final Fantasy XIII Impressions: Looking for XII
-For the Discerning Art Collector/Halo Fan
-Halo: Reach to Premiere at Spike VG Awards
-Spike Video Game Awards Nominees Announced Flower is up for Best Indie!
-Team Fortress 2 Gets Updated A LOT
-Modern Warfare 2: What Were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld Trying to Tell You?

Television

io9:
-The Prisoner: All You Need is... Wha?

Literature

io9:
-One New York Times Bestseller Per Year Will Barely Keep You Above the Poverty Line

Curios

Gizmodo:
-This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe
-Microsoft's Bag-Based Computer Interface, for Poking
-"Unfriend" Declared Word of the Year ...What? The word is defriend. God.
-Scientists Make Breakthrough with First Programmable Quantum Processor
-It Takes 147,456 PowerPC Processors to Out-Think a Single Stupid Cat Brain
-Qualcomm eBook Display Ups the Ante with Full Color and Video

Boing Boing:
-Klingon as a First Language
-Papercraft mecha: Metabots
-Energy Literacy Part One: Energy is invisible
-Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year-old girl

io9:
-Scientists Say Jupiter's Moon Europa Might Be Teeming with Fish
-The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
-First Look at Harry Potter's Wizarding World Theme Park ...oh hell.

Oh Japan

Boing Boing:
-How-to make yourself look like Sailor Moon
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Nov. 14th, 2009

look up

Daily Link Roundup: The Higgs boson only has two weeks to undiscover itself.

Back in action at ?skip=360!

Large Hadron Collider

Screw it, this thing trumps even my love of gaming.

io9:
-Large Hadron Collider Less than Two Weeks Away from First Experiments

Gaming

Gamasutra:
-IGDA Forum: Asking 'Why' Will Keep Games Out of the Ghetto, Says Hecker

GameSetWatch:
-Best of Indie Games: Close to the Black Heart

IndieGames:
-Interviews: Semi Sweet, Hello Games, Pixeljunk and More

Wired GameLife:
-Final Fantasy XIII Gets U.S. Release Date, New Theme Song

Kotaku:
-Metal Gear Rex Figure: Big, Shiny, Enormous I NEED THIS LIKE A NEED A CYBORG NINJA FIGURINE BEING CRUSHED BENEATH IT.
-The Story and Gameplay of Final Fantasy XIII Which is dated March 9th for PS3 in the US, by the way.
-Getting Final Fantasy XIII? On 360? Might Want to Get a Twitter Account
-EyePet Review: His Master's Voice
-New Mass Effect 2 clip
-Nintendo's Temporary Mario Museum, The Video Tour

Animation

Kotaku:
-Dante's Inferno: The Game: The Anime: The Trailer

io9:
-Is Clone Wars One Big Advertisement for the Dark Side?

Television

io9:
-Jesus Jim Caviezel: We Turned The Prisoner Into a Friendly GITMO
-On Supernatural, the Meta Outweighed the Mega

Music

Boing Boing:
-Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Visualizing Sound Waves (Now with Fire!)
-Bob "Happy Little Trees" Ross used to be an AF master sergeant.

Gizmodo:
-Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech is Dangerous
-At What Point Would Our Cyborg-selves Cease to Be Human?
-This is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
-Becoming a Sexual Cyborg NSFW
-Why U.S. Wireless Pricing Sucks
-How Cellphones are Changing Our Brains

io9:
-3 Ways to Meet (And Get Nasty With) Your Opposite-Sex Duplicate

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-TSA bans snowglobes.

A Memo Entitled 'Shit You Already Know'

io9:
-A Frozen Reservoir of Water Found on the Moon

Oh Japan

io9:
-Militant Cute and Sexy Politics in Japanese Moe Comics NSFW
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Nov. 12th, 2009

But I made you a cake!

Daily Link Roundup: The StarCraft Turing test.

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-GameSetBaiyon: 'Keita Takahashi's Interstellar Art'
-Video Games' Worst Voice Acting
Gamasutra:
-Blog: How to Project Decals
-Blog: Guide to Becoming an Independent Game Developer
-News: GameStop Planning In-Store Console DLC Download Service

The Brainy Gamer:
-Uncharted 2: On pace

Edge:
-The Most Boring Game of the Year

Insult Swordfighting:
-Your level best

Aartform Games:
-Recipes for Gameplay

Digital Kicks:
-Moral absolutes in Knights of the Old Republic

Kotaku:
-Welkin, Alicia to appear in Valkyria Chronicles 2
-Libraries Declare National Gaming Day
-AI Convention Features StarCraft Competition

Gizmodo:
-Mimic BioShock's Body-Mod Splicing with Your Own EVE Hypodermic Needles
-Use Your Own Digital Music Library to Generate Enemies for Symphony And will they slaughter all my pitiful Song Summoner party members?

Large Hadron Collider

Gizmodo:
-This Is Simply the Coolest Pop-Up Book We've Seen

Film

io9:
-How Important is Mute's Futuristic Setting?
-Six Hours of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey as Molly
-Documentary Evidence that 2012 Disaster Could Really Happen (Sort Of)
-Disaster Movie Moments that Pissed Us Off the Most

The Wrap:
-District 9 Grew Out of Halo Collapse, Short Film's Success

Literature

io9:
-Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood
-Are Our Novels Being Haunted by the Housing Bust?

GameSetWatch:
-Choose Your Own Adventure Books Deconstructed, Visualized

Curios

Kotaku:
-Turn Your DSi Camera into a Slightly Better Camera

Boing Boing:
-Apocalyptic art-photography from Stefano Bonazzi
-HOWTO kill wiretaps when making a phone call
-An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
-Is dreaming just a warm-up for being awake?
-Dress made with 24,000 LEDs oh, so beautiful!
-"Sixth Sense Technology" Will Be Open Source

Gizmodo:
-Stunning Milky Way's Heart Image Combines Three Space Telescope Views in One
-Your Next Body is Growing in a Lab Right Now
-Police Robot Negotiator Ends Standoff with Armed Man
-Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be?
-Intelligent Learning Retinal Implants to Adapt to Real Eyes

io9:
-Mastectomy Patients Could Soon Regrow Their Own Breasts
-Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout a Harbinger of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?

Dangerous Minds:
-Ayn Rand Assholes

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-MPAA shuts down entire town's [municipal] WiFi over a single download
-Mark Dery on 2012 bunkum
-2012 Debunking: The Short-Attention-Span Version

Causes

Boing Boing:
-The Edge Case: Indies Rally to Raise Copyfight Awareness
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Nov. 4th, 2009

Eh!! Oh no!

Daily Link Roundup: oh my god this is the longest list ever.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Game Tech Now Good Enough for Hans Zimmer
-Fable III's New Concept Art Needs More Chimney Sweeps
-Braid Finally Makes It to the PlayStation Network
-Dragon Age: Origins - PlayStation 3 Versus PC
-Any Objections to Phoenix Wright on the Wii?

IndieGames:
-Gratuitous Space Battles Released, Demo Available

Gamasutra:
-Interview: The Melancholy of Keita Takahashi
-News: EA's Riccitiello: Digital Biz 'Offsetting' Game Retail Challenges

GameSetWatch:
-Powers Combined: Mon & Bot
-Zoo Games Releasing Auditorium to XBLA, PSN, PSPgo
-Alt Party 2009 - Where the Demoscene Gets Weird(er)
-The Big Fat Kill: Katamari Damacy Yes, it's Katamari done in the style of Sin City. Uh, yes.

Eurogamer:
-Killerspiele

Ludus Novus:
-The Ending of Prince of Persia 2008

Digital Kicks:
-The Ballad of Hannarr and Mira or: the Wookie as Noble Savage.

Heroine Sheik:
-Beatles: Rock Band and the female gaze

Magical Wasteland:
-The Way to a Man's Heart Food in videogames

GamePolitics:
-Politician uses video game analogy for decent oh-snap

Wired GameLife:
-Penny Arcade Awards $10,000 Scholarship

New Media

io9:
-Dr. Horrible 2 Has Songs, A Title, and Nathon Fillion

Henry Jenkins:
-Strange Overtures: Vodephone, Tchaikovsky, Ernie Kovacs and the "Wowness" of New Media

Film

io9:
-The Fourth Kind is a Hoax

Television

io9:
-Is V Anti-Obama Propaganda? No, but I so called this reaction.

Boing Boing:
-Two guys who travel the US making free and awesome commercials for small businesses

Literature

Boing Boing:
-Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology

io9:
-Robots are Getting Their Own World War Z

Music

Kotaku:
-Final Fantasy XIII Soundtrack CD Dated for Japan

Curios

Cory Doctorow:
-Radical Presentism

Boing Boing:
-Mind control with sound and light
-Thieves who stole from child get a public shaming
-Videos of exploding capacitors

Gizmodo:
-Starship-Like Exhibition Space Will Float Around Asia in 2012
-"Matt Damon" Shows Women Where Men's Brains Are Once Again

Wired Danger Room:
-U.S. Needs Hit Squads, 'Manhunting Agency': Spec Ops Report
-75% of Potential Recruits [for U.S. military] Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve

io9:
-A Black Hole Engine That Could Power Spaceships

Nightmare Fuel

io9:
-Biotech Company Sued for Accidentally Growing Extra Bones in People's Bodies

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
-UCLA moves Japanese gangster to top of liver transplant list after his $1 million donation Oh my god I have just disowned every building on that campus except Melnitz Hall.
-Homophobia in Venezuela

Oh Japan

Kotaku:
-My Girlfriend is the President Erotic Game Trailer Features Amazing Voice Over

Gizmodo:
-Guess Which Country Makes These USB Breast Warmers?
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Nov. 3rd, 2009

convergence is king

Daily Link Roundup: Wes Anderson! Roger Rabbit! Tesla coil musicals!

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Dragon Age: Origins Review: Tripping the Blight Fantastic
-Study: Playing Games Hurts Income, By the Minute
-Pumpkin Chop Makes Top 10 Indie Game List
-World of Warcraft "Lacks Approval" to Operate in China

Gamasutra:
-Interview: Fantastic Contraption's Norway Meets 5th Cell's Slaczka
-Blog: The New Monuments of Man
-Blog: Ueda and a Boy and His Blob and a Girl and a Horse
-News: OneBigGame Announces Chime, Upcoming Matsuura, Perry, Cecil Projects
-Feature: 'Small Developers: Minimizing Risks in Large Productions - Part I'

IndieGames:
-Eurogamer Indie Game Arcade: Happening Game
-XBL Indie Game Pick: SYNSO 360
-Trailer: Flipper

Wired GameLife:
-Video: Inside Akihabara's Amazing Game Stores
-Gay Tony's Timely Jokes Justify Episodic Gaming

Grand Text Auto:
-Reimagineering

Film

io9:
-Anderson Looks [to Space] for New Movie
-That's SIR Christopher Wonka Dracula Saruman Dooku Lee to You
-New details on second Roger Rabbit movie Normally I'm "sky is falling!" about sequels but I honestly cannot wait for this.

Television

io9:
-V is Not Doomed, and You Should Still Watch

Kotaku:
-Sony's Mystery Science Theater-Like Interactive TV Patent Puts You in the Movies

Literature

io9:
-Our Geeky Hearts Are Bigger on the Inside than on the Outside

Boing Boing:
-A blog (and book) about nothing

Music

Kotaku:
-The Music of Final Fantasy Tactics Live in Tokyo

Gizmodo:
-Create Your Own Tesla Coil Musical with the ArcAttack Emulator

Curios

Boing Boing:
-History of the IMG tag
-The Perfect Turkey Doesn't Really Exist
-Bus-shelter made out of a bus
-China: real-life fashion police crack down on public pajama-wearers Man, wish we had these guys at my high school.

io9:
-Why Do Humans Kiss? To Share Our Germs

Gizmodo:
-The 8-Bit Low-Res Make-Up is High-Res Clever This is super cool!
-Giant Urban Cursor Tracks Its Movements in Google Maps ...As is this, holy god.
-Disposable Laptop Works Better as a Metaphor Than as an Actual Product
-Cheap, Printed Solar-Powered LEDs Could Change 1.5 Billion Lives

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse
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Oct. 27th, 2009

Ocelot: the universal solvent

Daily Link Roundup: Kojima's a pretty cool guy, eh, doesn't afraid of anything.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Nintendo Labels Large Screen DSi Article "Speculation"
-Kojima Productions looks very stylish in photographs, yes yes
-Even Kojima Productions Staffers Want to Make a New Z.O.E.
-BioWare Reveals Dragon Age's "Massively Single-Player" Details

Gamasutra:
-News: Xbox Live Gamerscore, Completion Stats Show Major Trends
-Blog: Further Notes on Marketing for Indie Games
-Blog: Reinventing Fantasy

GameSetWatch:
-Battle Klaxon: Life Found in The Void

Large Hadron Collider

Gizmodo:
-LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again

Animation

Kotaku:
-Grand Theft Auto gets its own anime

Film

io9:
-Worst thing about my recent laptop outage? I missed the news about Daybreakers

Literature

io9:
-Are the Novel's Days Numbered?

Curios

io9:
-Naked Mole Rats Have Anti-Cancer Superpowers
-Why Does Science Fiction Love Dream Sequences?

Gizmodo:
-Army Helmet-Mounted Radar Will Give Soldiers Eyes in the Back of Their Heads

Boing Boing:
-Collecting Solar Power, the Black Hole Way
-EFF launches Hall of Shame for copyright abusers
-US Chamber of Commerce suing the Yes Men

Nightmare Fuel

io9:
-The Morbid Anatomy of Infant Werewolves, Vampire Pharaohs,and Eldritch Horrors
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Oct. 19th, 2009

O Academia

Daily Link Roundup: Porisuman wa sugoi desu.

Gaming

IndieGames:
-Trailer: Eufloria

GamePolitics:
-Peter Moore: Disc-Based Media a Burning Platform
-Research Paper Offers Cues for Game Legislation Advocates

GameSetWatch:
-Socrates Enix: Final Fantasy and Philosophy

Film

Boing Boing:
-Murakami's short film, "Akihabara Majokko Princess" with Kirsten Dunst

io9:
-Avatar: James Cameron is the Tyrannical God of Pandora
-Spike Jonze short film: "We Were Once a Fairy Tale"

Television

io9:
-Is Stargate Universe sexist?

Curios

io9:
-Photos Reveal the Secret Superhero History of WWII
-Fiber Optic Cable in Your Skull Can Reprogram a Brain

Gizmodo:
-Apple Crushes Recession by Selling More Macs and iPhones Than Ever Before
-Electrolux Brings Us One Step Closer to a Fireplace in a Can

Nightmare Fuel

Boing Boing:
-Photos of remote birds killed by our trash

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media.

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn.

io9:
-We're Heading for a New Cold War, Argues Futurist

Oh Japan

Boing Boing:
-Wild Mook: Japanese '80s fanzine devoted to American cops ...yes.
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Sep. 28th, 2009

Eh!! Oh no!

Daily Link Roundup: GRAY FOX. And oh, eh, Philanthropy or something, whatever.

Tokyo Game Show

GameSetWatch:
-Cyborg Ninja Spotted at TGS

Gamasutra:
-TGS Attendance Falls in 2009

Wired GameLife:
-Stuff You Should Have Bought at Tokyo Game Show
-At Tokyo Game Show, Cosplay is Serious and Secretive

Kotaku:
-Booth Check: The Tokyo Game Show Kids' Hall
-Adventures in TGS Line-Waiting

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Where in These Tokyo Arcades is Brian Crecente?
-First Look at Studio Ghibli, Level-5 DS Game Screens
-Ni no Kuni Impressions: Presentation, Presentation, Presentation!
-Square Enix Japan to Cut 200 to 300 Jobs
-Shadow of the Colossus Creator Hints at Movie Involvement, Wants PS3 Ports
-The Epic Final Fantasy XIII TGS Trailer
-"Kojima-san Doesn't Have to Make Metal Gear Any More"
-The Changing Face of Games Journalism

Gamasutra:
-Feature: Persuasive Games: Little Black Sambo
-Feature: Dynamics of Narrative
-News: BioWare's Zeschuk: Mass Effect 2 A "Much, Much Better Game" Thanks to Feedback and yet no Garrus
-Interview: Paradox CEO Wester on Growing Despite Tough Economic Times

Wired GameLife:
-PopCap Collaboration with Square Enix Started as a Joke

IndieGames:
-Gratuitous Space Battles Beta
-Shadow Physics

GamePolitics:
-Australian AG's Divided on Adding Adult Rating

Gizmodo:
-PSPgo Review: PSP Goes Nowhere You Haven't Been

Film

Kotaku:
-Metal Gear Solid fan movie, Philanthropy, is finally done

io9:
-28 Days Later, Told in a Single Minute
-First Look at Rorschach as Freddy in New Nightmare on Elm St. Trailer

Literature

Boing Boing:
-Google Book Search and privacy for students

io9:
-Rosemary and Rue Review: Faeries with Guns Stalk a Dark San Francisco

Curios

io9:
-Ray Kurzweil: The Nature of Humanity is to Change
-Subliminal Messaging Works Best When the Message is Negative

Boing Boing:
-Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing
-The space-soteric graphic art of Michael Paukner

Gizmodo:
-Scintillating Bolometer Can Capture Dark Matter, Give Tingling Sensations

Nightmare Fuel

Gizmodo:
-Mechanical Tumor is the Grossest Computer Peripheral Ever

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon

Fail

GamePolitics:
-Boycotting the Boycotter: Stardock takes on UPS A few weeks ago, UPS announced that it was pulling its advertising from Fox News because it disagreed with the inflammatory views of talk show host Glenn Beck. For those that missed the flap, Beck called President Obama a racist "with a deep-seeded hatred for white people." At least 33 companies have said they do not want their ads appearing on Beck's show.

In return, it looks like Stardock CEO Brad Wardell has taken the boycott a step further. According to the Angry Bear blog, Wardell has announced on his Facebook page that he is now boycotting UPS because they pulled their ads from Fox.

Yes, this is exactly what an adult's response should look like.
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Sep. 25th, 2009

Ocelot: the universal solvent

Daily Link Roundup: Koh Gee Mah.

Tokyo Game Show

Kotaku:
-Sony Not Concerned About Japan's PSP - PSPgo Price Gap
-Take a Trip Through the TGS Mega Merch Zone
-Booth Check: Namco Bandai
-Booth Check: Sony's PlayStation Space
-Order of Importance?

Gamasutra:
-Japanese Execs Analyze Reaching Western Market
-Epic's Mike Capps on Developing Epic-Style

Wired GameLife:
-Scenes from the Peripatetic Tokyo Game Show
-Hands-On with Tokyo Game Show's Hottest New Games

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Heavy Rain Screenshots: Clown
-Playing Space Invaders, Katamari Damacy on Natal
-Snuggle Up to Another Okamiden Trailer
-Assassin's Creed II: Discovery DS Confirmed
-Back to the Gallows with Assassin's Creed II
-Only Hideo goddamn Kojima could associate homoerotic cardboard box huddling with cloud computing and the future of gaming and be totally serious.
-Seven Japanese Developers Discuss Their Visions of Project Natal
-But of course the only one we really care about is Kojima. Again.

Wired GameLife:
-Hands On: Professor Layton 4's Polished Presentation
-Hands On: Ghibli Animation Makes Ni no Kuni Shine
-Hands On: Multiplayer Stealth Action in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
-Hands On: Heavy Rain Is No Quick-Time Event

Gamasutra:
-Blog: Trees in the Breeze
-Blog: Movie vs. Game Distribution
-In-Depth: The $2000 Video Game?
-Microsoft Confirms 2 GB Size Limit for XBLA Games

GameSetWatch:
-'Homer in Silicon': Challenge and Storytelling

IndieGames:
-Announcement: Super Meat Boy Coming to Steam in Q1 2010

GamePolitics:
-Marking the one-year anniversary of Jack Thompson's disbarment
-Intel Invests in On-Demand Gaming Firm

Gizmodo:
-Converting Old UMDs for the PSPGo is a No-Go

Film

io9:
-First Look at Pegg's Alien Epic Paul

Television

Boing Boing:
-Inside Antiques Roadshow

Literature

io9:
-Don't Ask The Wall Street Journal How to Wean Your Kids Off Reading Science Fiction
-In Praise of MacGuffins
-What if Philip K. Dick Was Worshiped as a Prophet Instead of L. Ron Hubbard?

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas

Boing Boing Gadgets:
-Headphones inspired by Thriller

io9:
-Scientists Discover Fossile of Feathered Dinosaur with Four Wings
-New Species of Sharks Discovered Sporting Forehead Genitalia
-Children Who Are Spanked Have Lower IQs Correlation is not causation. Say it with me now. Correlation is not causation. *ROLLS EYES*

Gizmodo:
-Launch Your Own Satellite Into orbit for Only $8000

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-Al Franken reads the Fourth Amendment to DoJ official at PATRIOT Act hearings

Making Light:
-Brooklyn pwns Westboro

What the Hell

Boing Boing:
-British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
-1.7 sextillion dollar suit filed against Bank of America
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Sep. 23rd, 2009

life's too serious to have rules

Daily Link Roundup: Blood sacrifices, Tron on Ice, and a most Holy Biblioteca

Tokyo Game Show

Kotaku:
-The Games of the Tokyo Game Show
-Microsoft Announce Natal Partners: Everyone Plus Kojima
-What's Inside Sony's Mystery Box?
-Resident Evil 5, LittleBigPlanet to Support PS3 Motion Controller

Wired GameLife:
-Sony Announces Nothing at Tokyo Game Show

Gamasutra:
-Japanese Publishers Discuss State of Post-Recession Game Biz

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Another Retailer Says Nothankyou to the PSPgo
-Here Are Your Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Characters
-See, it's not so bad that I sold my PS3 after all. I can get a better one.

GameSetWatch:
-Design Diversions: (Press Any Key to Skip This Article)
-Backup Your Files Before Playing Lose/Lose

Gamasutra:
-Analysis: On Lara Croft and 'Relatable' Heroes
-SIGGRAPH's Dunniway: Many Current Game Production Models 'Totally Broken'

Crispy Gamer:
-Ten Things About Halo That Are Just Terrible
-The 60-Buck Dilemma

Wired GameLife:
-Preview: Pulling The Last Guardian's Tail
-White Knight Chronicles Gets Chatty for U.S. Release

Animation

io9:
-Space Battles and Alien Lairs in Star Wars Concept Art

Film

io9:
-Video Shows Tron In Pop Culture Through the Years... Including Tron on Ice

Literature

Boing Boing:
-Church converted into magnificent bookstore

io9:
-Young Adult Science Fiction Is Getting More Pessimistic, Less Scientific

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Cities as battlesuits for surviving the future
-Vietnamese junkbot builder
-Burning Man opera with libretto by Erik Davis
-Squishy bowls
-HOWTO reproduce a key from a distant, angled photo
-Lamp that runs on human blood

io9:
-Pixar Animator Gives Characters a Lego Makeover
-Battlestation San Francisco
-Digital Portraits of Our Decaying Mecha Future

Gizmodo:
-Official: There's Water on the Moon
-DIY Ferrofluid is the Prettiest Mess You Could Make Today

Srs Bzns

Gizmodo:
-Exposing Government Security Holes (While Searching for UFOs) Costs Guy $700,000

Boing Boing:
-Interviews on broadband policy, freedom, neutrality, meshing

Boing Boing Gadgets:
-Would you be happy with metered internet in return for enforced net neutrality?

What the Hell

Boing Boing:
-Katie Couric's salary exceeds combined budgets of NPR's top news shows

Oh Japan

Wired GameLife:
-Exploring Akihabara, Tokyo's Nerd Mecca

Events

GameSetWatch:
-Konami, Sinister Pointe Build Silent Hill Haunted Attraction yes!
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Sep. 20th, 2009

PLEASE DO NOT INTERRUPT

Daily Link Roundup: Thistles, necklaces, and angry Buddhist monks.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Buddhist Monk: Games Satiate My Desire for Aggression

Crispy Gamer:
-Those Games Mean Nothing to Me: The New York Times' lead game writer abuses his pulpit at the expense of the medium.

Resolution Magazine:
-The Writers' Bloc: Narrative in Games

Augmented Reality

Gizmodo:
-Conflux Festival's Augmented Reality Games, Gizmos Descend on NYC

Film

io9:
-Nigeria Bans District 9, Demands Apology

Television

io9:
-Dr. Horrible's Emmy Announcement: Television is Dead, Long Live Musical Blogs!

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Library in necklace form
-Star Wars considered as an environmental feel-good movie

[info]abandonedplaces:
-Thistle Mill

Oh God the Sky is Falling

io9:
-Death to Future Metro Disaster Porn!

What the Hell

Kotaku:
-Pokemon Menstrual Pad, Yours for Eight Bucks
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Sep. 18th, 2009

Elitist Pigfucker

Daily Link Roundup: I need the monocle today.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-PSPgo Unboxing Gallery
-Trine? There Will Be More Trine

Boing Boing:
-Smokescreen privacy game uses fun missions to show kids how data on social services can be used against them

Gamasutra:
-GDC Austin: Swink, Wegner on Blurst's Rapid Prototyping Madness

GamePolitics:
-Newspaper Crying Wolf with Video Game Related Shooting Headline?
-Youth Care Foundation: Game Addiction a "Pandemic"
-NYC School Adds Games to Curriculum

Wired GameLife:
-Retronauts Video: Secrets of Japan's Best Game Stores

Crispy Gamer:
-Guiding Shepard in Mass Effect 2

Media Studies

Henry Jenkins:
-The Aesthetics of Transmedia: In Response to David Bordwell (Part 3)

Boing Boing Gadgets:
-Game theory vs. game reviews

Grand Text Auto:
-Reverse Engineering the Brain and the ELIZA Effect: Is Believability Ethical?

Augmented Reality

Gizmodo:
-This Guy's Cellphone Takes Augmented Reality to a Whole New Level

Animation

io9:
-New Astro Boy screens

Film

io9:
-Tron 2 Will Officially Be Big

Boing Boing:
-3D movies are doomed to gimmickhood

GameSetWatch:
-Column: 'Cinema Pixeldiso' - Gamer

Literature

io9:
-The New Noir Fantasy Shows Magical Cities In Decay

Boing Boing:
-βoyfriend: sweetly romantic singularity SF story podcast

Curios

Making Light:
-The Bully Pulpit

io9:
-Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered in Distant Solar System
-Robot Fighter Jet Killed Before It Could Go AWOL
-How Los Angeles Destroyed the City of Keeler

Boing Boing Gadgets:
-LED Apple shirt

Gizmodo:
-Don't You Dare Call the Inside of Grand Central Station's Clock Steampunk
-Space is not a big truck! It's a series of tubes!

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-RIAA's in-school propaganda asks kids to act as unpaid PR staff
-Open Rights Group forum on proposal to cut British households off from the net if one member is accused of illegal downloads

GamePolitics:
-France Passes Tough internet Piracy Law

What the Hell

Gizmodo:
-Cougar spotted on Microsoft campus
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Sep. 15th, 2009

post-apocalyptic balloons

Daily Link Roundup: Light, clouds, and subways.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-The Lessons Learned - Or Resisted - While Making Assassin's Creed II
-Borderlands Is An Exhilirating But Oddly Hollow Experience
-Consider, BioWare, the Non-Epic RPG
-More Info About FFXIII's Young Girl Serah

GameCareerGuide:
-The Lost Art of Conversation in Games
-Game Narrative Review: Fable II

Gamasutra:
-Xbox Live Indie Games See Boost from New Ratings System
-Blog: When Are Subscriptions Cheaper than Free?

Literature

Boing Boing:
-Enemy of Chaos: hilarious modern choose-your-own-adventure novel

Curios

Gizmodo:
-Brick Lights Show Concrete's Soft Side
-Giant Light Canons [sic] Can Decorate Entire Mountains from One Kilometer Away
-Obama Administration Gets Their Own Cloud Computing App Store

Boing Boing:
-Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore
-1917 Beekman Street Subway collapse

Fleshbot (NSFW):
-The Future of Sex: Will We Still Be Doing It in a Posthuman World?

io9:
-Megalopolisomancy, or Why All Cities Are Haunted

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-BBC wants to put DRM on the TV Brits are forced to pay for

What the Hell

Gizmodo:
-Student Kills Intruder with Samurai Sword After Playstation, Laptops Stolen

Oh Japan

...ish

Kotaku:
-Let's Learn About American Otaku

Fail

Today's Fail goes to Kotaku's wonderful genderfail. Way to go.

NieR's Hermaphrodite Character: "Like female characters? Male characters? How about both? You know, a two-for-one."

Brian Ashcraft also refer to the character as "it" in the latter part of the article. Good show, Brian. I'm not denying the portrayal is pretty problematic in itself, but this coverage just digs it all deeper.
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Sep. 11th, 2009

post-apocalyptic balloons

Daily Link Roundup: A spaceship lands near my house, and Billy Mitchell sheds a single tear.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Sony: PS3 Sales Up 300%
-Valkyria Chronicles 2 Clips Go Into Battle
-Scenes From The Edge of Twilight
-Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man Record Broken
-The Problem With Reality
-Office Yeti Sounds Like The Best Office Yeti Puzzle Sim Ever
-Persona PSP Halfway Delayed
-Papercraft Link is Enormous, Lifelike
-MadWorld Finally Coming to Japan

Wired GameLife:
-Daft Punk Contribute Music, masks to DJ Hero

GamePolitics:
-Despite Publishers' Complaints, They Benefit from Used Game Sales

Gamasutra:
-LucasArts Announces PC/XBLA Puzzler Lucidity, Promises New Properties

Animation

io9:
-Disney Teams Up with Guillermo Del Toro for Animated Horror

Film

Kotaku:
-Movie Frankenreview: Gamer

io9:
-Stop Shaking My Movies Like A Polaroid Picture

Graphic Design

Boing Boing:
-Hack 2 Work: Core77's survival guide for designers

Literature

io9:
-How Do You Get Science Fiction to Have "Book Club Lit"?
-Night Shade Books' Jeremy Lassen on the Future of Book-Buying

Nick Montfort:
-Interactive Fiction Suggestions, Fall 2009

Comics

Nick Montfort:
-Comics Are Great When Your Life Sucks

Curios

IndieGames:
-Sniff: Public Interactive Dog Installation

Srs Bzns

Gizmodo:
-The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack from Space

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-New book on conspiracies and Shermer's skeptical take on the topic

Nightmare Fuel

For when it's 3 AM and you can't sleep and you've decided you just don't want to.

io9:
-Tongue-Eating Parasites Attack Fish Near Normandy

Events

Boing Boing:
-Randall Munroe (xkcd) reading to benefit EFF, San Francisco, Sept 21
-Space Shuttle lands near Trope's house again

Oh Japan

Kotaku:
-Foreign Otaku Results Hit Japanese Newsstands
-Moe Nazi Vehicle Girls Getting PSP Sequel

Gizmodo:
-RC Ramen Noodle Cart is Just... So... Stupid
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Aug. 30th, 2009

OBEY

Daily Link Roundup: Henry Jenkins is in here somewhere.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-LostWinds sequel confirmed for winter release on WiiWare

Gamasutra:
-Making Shadow Complex: Donald Mustard Speaks

IndieGames:
-Preview: Cosmop

Gizmodo:
-The PS3 Slim Might Be a Bit Slow

Film

io9:
-Trailer for Mamoru Oshii's Assault Girls, plus a few others

Television

io9:
-Six Theorists Explain What TV Is Doing to Your Mind

Reading

Making Light:
-Oh No Lev Grossman No

Curios

Gizmodo:
-Ask a Pro: How to Shoot (and Not Get Shot) in a War Zone

What the Hell

A new section devoted to things that would rightly fall under "Oh Japan" if they were Japanese. Yes, that caliber of weird/wrong.

Gizmodo:
-Pole dancer doll for kids
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Aug. 24th, 2009

goofball

Daily Link Roundup: Three kinds of lightning and seven crimes cheaper than pirating music

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Persona 3 Portable trailer has Akihiko curled up on the floor
-Valkyria Chronicles 2 Gets Very Short TV Commercial
-Singularity Finds Inspiration in 80s Childhoods
-John Carmack and the Hideo Kojima Sunset
-Heavy Rain Eyes On: Meet Scott Shelby, Private Eye
-Final Fantasy XIII's Paradigm Shift, Gestalt Mode and More
-Final Fantasy Versus XIII Dev Time "Comparatively Faster" Than FFXIII well... yeah. Duh?
-Sony Losing Money on PS3 Slim
-Gamescom: Video Gamers Get Their Woodstock

Gamasutra:
-Germany's Gamescom Attracts 245,000, Say Organizers
-Playfish's De Halleux: Social Game Users Are Never 'Low Quality,' Just the Experience

GamePolitics:
-Surveying the Use of Video Games as Propaganda

Wired GameLife:
-Point/Counterpoint: The Shadow Complex Controversy

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Notes on an attention economy
-Video of "upside-down" lightning
-Venezuela's "continuous" lightning storm
-Why we walk in circles without directional cues

Boing Boing Gadgets:
-Designer IV Bags

Gizmodo:
-Surprise! The Pirate Bay's Buyers Are Extremely Shady
-Duracell Energy Drink Is Probably Delicious with Vodka

The New York Times:
-Fake photographs before Photoshop

Srs Bzns

Kotaku:
-Kid Napped in PSP Deal Gone Bad

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-Court orders to ID anon blogger who called model "skank"/"ho", blogger threatens Google with $15 mil suit

Gizmodo:
-Second Degree Murder and Six Other Crimes Cheaper than Pirating Music

io9:
-All ten top-secret Rorschach test blots posted to Wikipedia
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Aug. 4th, 2009

convergence is king

Kuwabara kuwabara.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Guy Mods Consoles, Could Do 10 Years in Prison
-16 Attempts at Scribblenauts
-McSweeney's Outs Samus Aran, Fanfics Gay Marriage Rant
-Don't Appeal Against Square Enix in Court, You'll Pay Big Time

GamePolitics:
-Game Violence Critic Urges Schools to Impose 10-Day Ban on Video Games, TV
-Video Games Among Factors Blamed for Low Vitamin D in Children

Gamasutra:
-Adaptive Audio: A Tough Sell
-A Matter of Time
-Some Thoughts on Indie Games

GameSetWatch:
-Remixed Paintings from Uber Games
-Video Game Myths, Keita Takahashi in Latest Amusement Issue
-Analysis: Is There Money To Be Made in Indie Games?

IndieGames:
-Jonathan Blow's Next Game: The Witness
-IGF Note from the Organizers, August 2009: Winner Highlights, IGS @ GDC Austin, Judge Additions

Boing Boing Offworld:
-Ada Lovelace comes to LittleBigPlanet
-Gorgeously abstract picture-postcards from WipEout HD

Gizmodo:
-A roundup of some of the "PS3 Slim" rumors so far

Grand Text Auto:
-"Agency Reconsidered" full article

Wired GameLife:
-Iwata: Wii Sales Decline Due to Lack of 'Big Titles'

Film

Gizmodo:
-Time's Richard Corliss Thinks Netflix Stinks, But Maybe He Is Wrong

Boing Boing Gadgets:
-Video: Homage to iChat, Marfa Lights Shot w/RED One

Animation

io9:
-Gilliam animator working on 1884: Yesterday's Tomorrow

Television

io9:
-Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Rome in a Day Project: 3D reconstruction from Flickr-found photos
-Paul Krassner: "Who's to say what's obscene?"
-MAKE video about visible sound and vibration
-A Young Person's Guide to the Pathological Sublime
-It's not easy being a tamale street vendor in Los Angeles

Boing Boing Gadgets:
-It's the End of the Non-Augmented World As We Know it...
-Gallery of wearable computing

io9:
-Scientists Teach Spine Nerves to Regenerate
-Regrow Lost Teeth! (With an Optional Fluorescent Glow)
-How Do We Get New Science Fiction Stories? Have New Nightmares

Srs Bzns

Making Light:
-New 'Right-Wing Harassment Strategy' set to derail town hall meetings

io9:
-Gorilla HIV Leaps to Humans

GamePolitics:
-16-Year-Old Beaten to Death in Chinese Camp for Internet Addicts

Gizmodo:
-Inventor Creates Mountain Dew-Fueled Engine, Gets Framed by Corrupt Utah Officials

Boing Boing:
-Pranknet's Skype "phone assaults" detailed, head bully in charge lives with his mommy

Oh God the Sky is Falling

io9:
-4 Ways the United States Could End in the Next 100 Years
-The Third World War Will Be Fought Over Information

Causes

Boing Boing:
-Video from EFF panel/audience discussion on using technology in repressive regimes

Oh Japan

Kotaku:
-Rapelay developer renames rape game category to seem more innocent

Boing Boing Gadgets:
-Geisha: The Japanese company that turned a virtual French maid into a hit product


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Jul. 17th, 2009

OBEY

Could you be this old and have your life just begin?

Feeds are broken, so I'm late again. Apologies.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Atlus teases new title
-Masaya Matsuura (PaRappa) says East and West should not be "too separate"
-More details on FFXIII's stock shota character
-Kojima bends time and space, self-fellates
-See Portal run on the iPhone
-Mini-Ninjas

GameSetWatch:
-Denis Dyack: Gameplay is Not Everything
-Six new, free games from Artsy Incubator
-Alt Space: Losing Control

IFC:
-The Sandbox: Flower's Video Game Poetry

Game Culture:
-Killing Fields Producer Working Toward the 'Overdue Political Legitimacy of the Games Industry'

CrispyGamer:
-Like Watching Paint Dry: Why Most Games Are Really Boring After the Opening Hour

GamePolitics:
-Screw Attack Posts Mark Methenitis-Jack Thompson Debate

IndieGames:
-2009's PAX 10 Finalists Announced

Boing Boing Offworld:
-Games Crafter: One Site to Design, Manufacture and Sell Your Tabletop Game

Curios

Gizmodo:
-Augmented Reality Business Card

Wired:
-New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans

io9:
-There is a giant biogoo about to eat Alaska and I'm not even kidding
-Camera Fabric
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