You are Lost to the Sea

Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman - E.V.A You’ve...

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:35:52 -0400

Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman - E.V.A

You’ve probably heard the riff from this many times over, but never knew the origins. Jean-Jacques Perrey has been heavily sampled for many years. For example, see The In Sound From Way Out!, with Gershon Kingsley. Heavily sampled and a lot of the songs from that LP were also used on Sesame Street, so it may sound very familiar.

Jean Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman - The Good Old Days

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:28:42 -0400

Jean Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman - The Good Old Days

House of the Dead - Overkill

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:15:17 -0400

House of the Dead - Overkill

Thunderforce 6 preview

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:25:59 -0400

Thunderforce 6 preview

Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” « counternotions [A really great article discussing the use of public concept designs — stupid things that they are]

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:23:52 -0400

Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” « counternotions [A really great article discussing the use of public concept designs — stupid things that they are]

Re-Cycle - Trailer

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:02:27 -0400

Re-Cycle - Trailer

Flight of the Conchords Ep 6 Bowie’s In Space Thumbs up...

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:07:10 -0400

Flight of the Conchords Ep 6 Bowie’s In Space

Thumbs up for the Space, Magic Fly parody stuck in there.

Dem Gyal Sitt’n

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:23:20 -0400

Dem Gyal Sitt’n

Haskell - Version control systems [GHC project switches to Git. Good choice!]

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:02:10 -0400

Haskell - Version control systems [GHC project switches to Git. Good choice!]

Beehive - Act helps health and safety of sex workers, report says [Smart, direct and logical. More policy like this in AUS plz]

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:02:58 -0400

Beehive - Act helps health and safety of sex workers, report says [Smart, direct and logical. More policy like this in AUS plz]

Banned: the absurdity of Australia's game rating regime - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) [A very good bit of commentary — I agree completely of course]

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:51:44 -0400

Banned: the absurdity of Australia's game rating regime - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) [A very good bit of commentary — I agree completely of course]

Saul Williams - Convict Colony

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:27:20 -0400

Saul Williams - Convict Colony

GameSetWatch - In-Depth: How Valve Makes Art To Enhance Gameplay [This stuff is fascinating — massive respect for Valve]

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:30:04 -0400

GameSetWatch - In-Depth: How Valve Makes Art To Enhance Gameplay [This stuff is fascinating — massive respect for Valve]: JC Leyendecker

Interface Builder Bug Report

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:57:51 -0400

“This is actually pretty lame, since it makes IB unusable. I’ve had this problem repeatedly and reported it from a few machines — I’d hoped that coming from different machines the information would be useful.

If I browse to the iphone datepicker in the library, Interface Builder locks up. The beachball spins and the app becomes unresponsive. Eventually I have to force quit it. I’ve been able to reproduce this consistently.

The fix/work-around for this is hilarious and I discovered it entirely by mistake. Setting my mac’s timezone to Cupertino makes the problem go away. My usual timezone is Adelaide, Australia, so obviously IB doesn’t like where I live. Damn, it’s an anti-anti-podean. “

She Said Destroy - Swallow My Tongue - Live Hovefestivalen...

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:08:12 -0400

She Said Destroy - Swallow My Tongue - Live Hovefestivalen 07

The harmonised guitars in this track get me all excited.

Hoptoad [This page gives me no good reason to sign up. Simplicity != no information]

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:52:19 -0400

Hoptoad [This page gives me no good reason to sign up. Simplicity != no information]

timeago: a jQuery plugin [Handy with cached pages, you have the client localise the time]

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:40:54 -0400

timeago: a jQuery plugin [Handy with cached pages, you have the client localise the time]: Yarp.com

TZU - Computer Love

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:04:46 -0400

TZU - Computer Love

Q&A (ABC1) R Rated video Games Let’s catalogue the...

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:35:02 -0400

Q&A (ABC1) R Rated video Games

Let’s catalogue the idiocies.

Firstly, there is no direct link between violence and games. This has never ever been established, despite repeated studies into game related violence. Anyone firmly asserting this aren’t establishing anything beyond their ignorance.

Pointing to the interactivity of games as a need for iron-fisted regulation is stuuuuuuupid. “We just don’t know”… yes sweetheart, we do. Games are not new, nor are they wholly unstudied. The general consensus is; no need for concern.

Fallout 3 does not simply involve taking drugs and killing people. These reductionist descriptions of games are dishonest, in that they focus on the most controversial aspects and fail to put them in context. Asking someone to then justify why they play is extremely unfair. The implication is that it’s such a distasteful habit — how can you explain the appeal of the games without appearing like a pervert or social mistfit?

NO! GTA 4 has fucking well, bloody not caused more car thefts. This is an outright lie.

Rape simulators? WTF? I’m sure such horrible things exist — hopefully science will help us invent the appropriate hell for arseholes that play those kinds of things — but they have nothing to do with mainstream gaming. Blethering on about it as if they’re common-place only — again — reinforces your ignorance.

The guy asking the question at the end is a champ — the hypocrisy is as clear as day. And Nick Xenophon… I take back everything nice I ever said about you, you censorious, ignorant twadge. You are a wowser.

Either you believe in censorship or you don’t. People who try to white-wash calls for censorship by starting with “I don’t believe in censorship but…”, really, really suck. It’s called Hypocrisy and it’s really annoying.

Finally, a general comment; the panel didn’t seem to appreciate the point that many, many people play games and most of them are adults. They’re still discussing games as if they’re only played by children. Hell, some seemed completely ignorant of the fact that we already have a rating system. It sucks, but we do have one.

None of these people play games, nor have they seen the games mentioned. They didn’t even know what a Wii was FFS.

They just don’t see it. They’re out of touch and frankly their views are irrelevant. Soon enough all the people who grew up playing games will take up politics and write for newspapers and host TV shows — and this hysteria will die in the arse. One day we’ll look back at it and see it for the pointless chattering it is. We only need to look at how films were scorned, then ultimately praised as an art-form.

Shakesville: I Write Letters

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:26:50 -0400

Shakesville: I Write Letters:

More internet/video-game dramas. Look it’s a game. Fat princesses are inherently funny. If this lady feels grumpy because she feels like it’s making fun of her… bluntly, suck it up. It’s no one else’s fault if she is over-weight.

“new generation of fat-hating, heteronormative assholes”

Ha, nice bit of academic-style rhetoric there. Given the context, the use of the term heteronormative makes little sense, since the game doesn’t delve into sexuality at all. M’thinks it’s become a general tag to be stuck onto any critisism — that any critisism of games has gone beyond actual, nuanced discussion and lapsed in rhetoric, i.e. all or most modern games are heteronormative.

I’m not saying there isn’t merit to it — games are generally politically and philosophically shallow — just that using the term as… some kind of epithet, deployed when ever you’re grumpy, makes you a stupid.