Monthly Archives: October 2008
Free Music Over Here, Served the Oldskool Way
Today I combine 2 new (sort of) hi-tech web services to reproduce the most outdated tech ever.
Ingredients
ccMixter: a site that hosts mixes based on Creative Commons work. If you don’t know already, Creative Commons is a set of licenses (like copyright) that gives artists a bit more freedom. For instance they can choose to [...]
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The YouTube Flash Video (FLV) secret
I’m sorry for the hyperbole in the title, but it really is something YouTube is very hush-hush about. In spite of that, direct access to the Flash Video file of YouTube movies gives you a very powerful tool. You have total control over: when, how and where you play the video.
A recap of the ActionScript [...]
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Now You Can Have Real Fun and Exercise Your Brain at the Same Time
You know how Brain Training is supposed to be a fun way to improve your IQ. For me, after about 5 minutes, the novelty wore off, and so did the fun. If you’re like me, don’t despair! Many board games offer 1000 times the fun, and just as much brain training. And now they’re online.
AsoBrain [...]
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Strapline for Life: Leave the World a Better Place
This is an atypical post, it’s not on Tuesday nor Friday and it’s not directly media related. But as always, I want to give you lots of stuff think about and thinker with. As announced yesterday, today is Blog Action Day, the day we discus global issues. This year, it’s poverty.
Now I must confess, if [...]
Tomorrow is Blog Action Day
I’m not writing a Tuesday post this week, but I got one prepared for tomorrow. I will be joining Blog Action Day 08. While it’s not a subject of this blog, I am convinced that some global issues require global attention. See you tomorrow.
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If You Don’t Try Ancient Magic Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later
I’ve never played the first episode of this game, but this second installment was the first game I spend cash on, this year. That’s telling a lot.
BigFish games’ Azada: Ancient Magic is hard to describe. It’s definitely a puzzle game, but it’s not Tetris or Bejeweled. It wraps all of its puzzles in short stories, [...]
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Web 3.0? Probably Not, But Java Applets Enable a New Way of Visualization.
In spite of many efforts, the web has mostly been a two dimensional affair. Until now.
Meet 3DXplorer, a plugin-less way of showing 3 dimensional scenes (you know, games) to the user. Web designers used to be limited to showing you a few pictures of an object from different angles to give an impression of what [...]
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X-Mix The Way We Danced
All X-Mix videos available for your viewing pleasure! See below.
Ah, “the good old days,” when music still felt new and not “been there, done that.” One of many treasured memories is the early nineties, when we witnessed how the masses discovered electronic music, how they adopted it and changed it to their world view. Me, [...]
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Digital Archeology 101: The Age Before the Internet