Notes
Links and commentary on stuff I find interesting.
March 2010
Steam Comes to Mac
Plus native versions of all their Source games, including the upcoming Portal 2. Buy once, play on any platform. This is the best Mac gaming news in a long, long time.
Ugly Furniture
Hey space lamp, wanna live inside my earth house?
Twitter: The Criterion Collection
We asked some of our friends to film their favorite tweets. We didn’t care how they did it. They could read it. They could act it. They could do it with puppets. Whatever they wanted. The only rules were it had to be a tweet written by someone else and it had to contain the entire tweet and nothing but the tweet.
This is the internet cool table at which I aspire to sit. NSFW.
How to make people angry
There are a bunch of these on YouTube, and a few more have been subtitled.
February 2010
Client Bingo
Oh Clients from Hell, you really know how to keep my designer aspirations in check.
Ledge Dog and Smile Dog
Please update your meme-iaries accordingly.
Nintendo Media Summit Roundup
Cave Story (WiiWare): March 22
Mario Galaxy 2: May 23
Sin & Punishment 2: June 7
Metroid Other M: June 27
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer
They didn’t really need to add anything to the gameplay, but that drill looks particularly fun.
Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling 2009
It’s like the Bravia superballs ad but with concussions.
To URL Shortener
So I guess the Kingdom of Tonga is using its top-level domain as a “nanoURL” service. My guess is that a lot of software won’t even detect URLs like this.
Japanese Glee Ad
I don’t watch Glee, but if it regularly featured famous sumo wrestlers singing, I might.
Also: They have FOX in Japan?
Also 2: Their slogan is “So fun, so FOX”?!?
Noby Noby Boy for iPhone
Even if you’re not a Keita Takahashi fan, you have to admit that these promo videos (there are twelve like this!) are delightful. Pick up NNB for just $1.99 on the app store.
Lightsaber chopsticks
I'm a little surprised that these took so long to exist. They don’t light up, but they do come in Luke, Vader, and Yoda.
The Case For An Older Woman
OkCupid’s blog never fails to impress. Here they use statistics to make me feel guilty about dating a girl 6 years my junior.
This is why phishing works
If this morning’s Facebook login debacle on ReadWriteWeb made you lose some faith in humanity, hold on to your fucking hat. Neven Mrgan points to similar cases, including screenshots of Facebook and MySpace on Flickr that are now full of comments from people trying to click on and log into the images.
Sussex Safer Roads Ad
A brilliant “wear your seatbelt” ad that doesn’t rely on gory crash footage or boring statistics, but simply raw emotion. Thanks to Laura for the link.
We Love XKCD
A nice little tribute.
Recursive webcasting
The original video title had “fail” in it, but if you ask me, this is pretty awesome.