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Links and commentary on stuff I find interesting.

March 2010

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.

Hey space lamp, wanna live inside my earth house?

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.

There are a bunch of these on YouTube, and a few more have been subtitled.

February 2010

An interesting interview with Jim Reekes, creator of the Macintosh startup sound, and Sosumi. The English interview starts at about 0:38.

Oh Clients from Hell, you really know how to keep my designer aspirations in check.

Please update your meme-iaries accordingly.

Cave Story (WiiWare): March 22

Mario Galaxy 2: May 23

Sin & Punishment 2: June 7

Metroid Other M: June 27

They didn’t really need to add anything to the gameplay, but that drill looks particularly fun.

Classy.

It’s like the Bravia superballs ad but with concussions.

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.

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”?!?

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.

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.

OkCupid’s blog never fails to impress. Here they use statistics to make me feel guilty about dating a girl 6 years my junior.

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.

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.

A nice little tribute.

The original video title had “fail” in it, but if you ask me, this is pretty awesome.