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If your OSX.1 upgrade is on the way then O'Reilly.net have an article on upgrading..
If your OSX.1 upgrade is on the way then O'Reilly.net have an article on upgrading..
When meme's attack. The collaborative web artwork idea seems to be taking over, and yet I still haven't seen any particularly successful results. Waferbaby puts a different slant on it by going for comics where each contributor only gets to see the previous panel. Of course every one trying to be a little whacky and surreal means the end results are streams of total non-sequiturs.
Explore the wonders of orbital trajectories while launching space penguins from a giant slingshot into the safety of their cockpits.
Alternatively, relax with a friendly game of cricket from the flashmeisters at bossmonster. But wait! is that movement I see under the grass?
Looks like Apple will launch the long awaited OsX .1 update tomorrow during Phil Schiller's keynote address to the Seybold Conference in San Fransisco. It is expected that X.1 will be in stores by the weekend.
Darunta Camp Complex North East Afghanistan, free self-build SCUD launcher with issue1.
We've all read horror-stories of tech-support misery before, but what is to be done when the enemy lies within!?!
"It is the water-drainage gun which is undertaken to the back". Keep trying the translation, it'll work eventually, honest..
Bruce Sterling on the end of our Belle Epoque. And the Afghan Invasion began 5 days ago, apparently.
The Mirror Project: photos people have taken of themselves reflected in mirrors. Strangely compelling. Also has the added bonus that a lot of the entries have links to the blog of the individual pictured.
The craze for photoshop collaboration continues, perhaps less successfully, with An Exquisite Corpse. Remember the paper and pencil game where one person draws a character's feet then folds the paper leaving just a few millimetres showing for the next person to carry on drawing from? Well, that's the idea here.
Nick Denton who runs the excellent blogorama.com has written a piece for the Guardian on how blogs are bringing a more mature and relevant voice to the web..
I'm not sure what to make of this one, Cloudchaser are reporting that there may be a new version of Gameboy Advance in the works. The new unit is said to feature a higher contrast, backlit, screen. Part of me hopes this is true and part of me doesn't..
UPDATE: PlanetGamecube has more details, it looks like it could be true..
Moby shares his thoughts from NYC, and explains why he's so terrified by the threat of Jihad.. And while we're on the subject, lets hope we've not nailed the tail on the wrong donkey..
Bored at work? Boss hanging around? Tinywindowsgames.com have the answer..
The net slowed to a snails pace today, why, well it could be this little fella. Code Red & SirCam step aside there's a new worm on the block, w32.nimda..
GuardianUnlimited features a piece on the WTC disaster today by Martin Amis.. And Robert De Niro feeds the rescuers on Manhattan..
US Big Brother contestants have not been told the full extent of the WTC disaster despite one of the participants cousins being missing presumed dead. The 3 remaining house guests are speculating that a few hundred may have died. CBS should hang their heads in shame..
Playstation 2's killer app, MGS2, has been delayed by Konami due to it featuring terrorist activity in New York and scenes featuring the World Trade Center. Konami say they are removing footage which feature the New York skyline and the twin towers of the WTC. Rumour has it though that the final battle of the game may have taken place inside the WTC, and featured a plane or helicopter crashing into the building. No firm details of how long the game will be delayed by are available yet..
Sonic Youth are bringing the UK based All Tomorrows Parties festivals to the US next month. The line up, hand picked by Sonic Youth, includes Boredoms, Cat Power, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Stereolab, Television, etc. You can view the full line up here. All Tomorrows Parties returns to the UK in April 2002 when it will be hosted by Shellac..
theRegister reports that Motorola are preparing G5 processors to ship to market. Hopefully this should mean G5 Macs around Easter time next year. Might be time to upgrade the old B/W G3..
Feeling safe here in Europe? You might want to read this..
It is expected that Squaresoft will announce their Gamecube development plans within the next few days. Details are hard to come by at the moment, but rumour has it that Nintendo may have paid Square several billion Yen to make Final Fantasy XI a Gamecube exclusive. First Capcom and now Square, is this the Japanese software industry begining to rally against the impending threat of Xbox..
News is slowly begining to seep out of Japan on the Gamecube launch,
-Steve Langhorn of Cloudchaser gives his initial impressions.. -IGNs Japanese reporters bring us initial impressions and movies of their Cube in action.. -GameWatch Japan have some good technical shots of the machine..
-IGN blow $1500 on Gamecube, and chart its journey across Tokyo to the Shinjuku FedEx office?!?
Keep checking back for more updates..
On the eve of Gamecube's home release Capcom have announced that their Biohazard / Resident Evil series will be exclusive to Nintendo's console from now on. Having said that I'm not sure how exclusive an exclusive can be when the majority of the titles already exist on other consoles? This move should certainly garner some support from the die hard Biohazard heads in Japan, and add to Nintendo's argument that Gamecube is not just for kids..
On a similar subject pocket.IGN have just given Advance Wars for Gameboy Advance an impressive 9.9 out of 10 and an Editors Choice Award, looks like one to add to your collection..
If you want to help in someway with the tragedy in America then you can through the following links..
World Trade Center Survivors List.. Donate via Amazon.. Donate via Yahoo.. American Red Cross...
I really don't know what to say about todays events, I guess I'll have to leave it to others for the moment..
Following on from my previous post regarding Goonies 2 being in production, here's a shot of the cast as they look now. See if you can spot Chunk, he aint shufflin' truffle no more..
Milov.nl has gone on holiday. Using a combination of PHP and Javascript-DOM-scripting, he has created a page which grows in different directions in his absence, depending on the number of referrers that link to it. So milov this link's for you..
Not content with making sweet music, the Aphex Twin seems to have turned his hand to the visual arts.. visible only through spectrum analysis, a cheeky little D. James original is apparently hiding inside the sound of Track 2 from the Windowlicker single (girl version). Is this just face-in-the-moon type wishful thinking? Or does this strangely symmetrical image produced by analysis of a track from DrukQs point to further audio/visual experimentation?
Update: Ok, not convinced yet? I have no idea if this is genuine or faked.. but here's some clearer evidence for your appraisal.
Well, with the birth of X-Box looking less healthy by the minute we should have known the boys in Redmond would have a backup plan. Ladies and gentlemen prepare for plan B, the all-in home entertainment device known as HomeStation.
The tales people tell, Microsoft are going to have to be a bit more subtle than this if they're aiming to get the Xbox hype rolling..
Xbox get's a Japanese release date, 2002.02.22 - coincidentally, the date JSRF gets released Stateside. It remains to be seen how well the Japanese public will lap-up the new hardware. No doubt the current trend of pre-order package lunacy will not get off the ground this side of the pacific. Kabuki Warriors looks like it's primarily being crafted for the eastern audience, but the graphics look like they have some way to go to compete with the likes of FFX, ICO and MGS2.
WIRE01, the all-night rave event featuring Takkyu Ishino, Westbam etc, happens this Saturday at Yokohama Arena. Yours truly won't be going because of a Japanese test on Sunday (good forward planning there), but Sega and Sony will be there in full force. The event is going to be the first chance the public gets to play the much anticipated REZ. A big poster on the side of Shibuya station proclaims that the game will get released in November, and unlike the west, it will be Japan's first Sega PS2 game.
7 days to Gamecube. Only three launch titles, Luigi's Mansion, Wave Race and Super Monkey Ball, but at least you don't have to spend $500 on a pre-order. In fact, even pre-orders are proving difficult to guarantee for launch now. Stocks of Luigi's Mansion were all booked up over a week ago. First impressions to come next Friday.
Seth Godin argues that ever quickening technological advancement is decreasing the scale of our vision. Are we losing the abillity to dream..
Cheap-CDs.com look as if they're trying to apply the Google work ethic to the online CD store. Does anyone have any experience of shopping with them before I dive in?
Balmer steps into the world of Industrial/Metal/Cheese/Pop with his latest "best of" anthology..
The label the Beastie Boys founded in 1993 was closed down yesterday..
Boo.com the movie staring Cameron Diaz and Edward Norton, surely not..
I'm not quite sure if this is genius or just plain daft, my hunch is it's the latter..
You can pre-order an Xbox at CompUSA as long as you buy 2 first party titles, 1 third party title and 2 accessories, nearly $500 in total. How Bill & Steve expect to go up against the video games industry with the same restrictive practices they used in the desktop PC market is beyond me. I think they forgot they don't have a monopoly in this game. Does making people buy 5 first party products to the 1 third party game not totally alienate your developers too..
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