Everything Bad is Good for You
I’m almost finished moving to my new apartment. It’s not quite time to crack open a beer and relax, but almost. In the meantime, I’ve taken my pastimes out of their temporary hiatus and once again started playing games (the beautiful, memorable [Cruise for a Corpse](http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=252) via the wonders of [Dosbox](http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/)) and [...]
UK Resistance — Video Game Truth: FRAG DOLLS — EXCLUSIVE REVIEW
UK Resistance — Video Game Truth: FRAG DOLLS — EXCLUSIVE REVIEW“Wouldn’t, would, wouldn’t, would, would, would, might.”
WWW.TWOWIRESTHIN.COM - DVD Storage
WWW.TWOWIRESTHIN.COM - DVD Storage(Dialup Beware) Growth of a collection - 5 years of photos of some guy’s DVD collection. Wish I’d done this with mine.
Real-World Half Life 2
Some boffins have started playing with a bunch of consumer-level tools (well… 3DS Max is *sort* of consumer-level) to create photo-realistic images of Half Life 2 characters in real-world situations.
The result is something extremely creepy and amusing at the same time, and strangely reminscent of Charlie White’s Photography. There’s a tutorial for [...]
Rexona deoderant commercial: “Stunt City”
Rexona deoderant commercial: “Stunt City”Everyone is a stuntman in this city. Sometimes Dublin looks like this.
Lazyweb: Broadband options
My girlfriend and I have been apartment-hunting for the past couple of weeks. We saw a fantastic apartment yesterday up in Stoneybatter that ticked all of our boxes (and a few we didn’t even know we had, like a [Smeg fridge](http://www.smeguk.com/Inglese/FAB30R4.asp)). Possibly the only thing I didn’t like about the apartment was [...]
Creating Graphs in PHP - B. Adam (Howell)
Creating Graphs in PHP - B. Adam (Howell)Amazingly useful tutorial on drawing graphs with PHP
Meatballs
There is something intrinsically *fun* about playing with your food. Children understand this. And we tell them not to do it because.. well.. we were taught not to do it and, goddammit, if we can’t do it, we won’t let anyone else do it either. So there.
This is why I love meal-making with mince. Making mince mushy. Alliteration aside, when I’m preparing a meal out of paste that was once recognisable as meat, I’m instantly transported back to my youth: I’m 5 years old again, creating a mess with [mala](http://www.corkslang.com/mla.html). Except my meat creations taste marginally better than my mala ones.
Marc Ecko’s 1UP Blog
Marc Ecko’s 1UP BlogA while ago, I drafted a post titled “Marc Ecko is a Fucking Tool”. Now he’s got a blog, my post is slightly redundant
Movie release calendar
Warning!
This is still very much beta - use at your own risk
Today, I set about teaching myself the basics of web scraping, with the intention of putting it to some good use. Coincidence or providence, I read Kottke’s post about [creating an ical for summer movie releases](http://www.kottke.org/05/05/summer-movies-calendar), and immediately thought of a personal itch [...]
BBC Backstage
Tim O’Reilly suggests that at least part of the reason for Amazon and Google’s success comes from their open API. This allows people to access their information in ways that fit people’s individual needs (”rip, mix, burn”), giving them a massive advantage over monolithic proprietary apps. He gives the example of their [...]
YOTOPHOTO: The Free Stock Photo Search Engine
YOTOPHOTO: The Free Stock Photo Search EngineYotophoto is a neat way of searching a bunch of finding free stock photography from a bunch of sources
Retrospective: THX-1138
There are, perhaps, a handful of ‘hard’ science fiction movies in the world. By this, I mean movies whose primary goal is to challenge the viewer rather than to entertain. Movies like Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” and Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” ask more questions than they answer, and this is part of their appeal. Strange, then, that one of the finest examples of a ‘hard’ science fiction movie should come from the same man who defined the family-friendly summer sci-fi blockbuster extravaganza - George Lucas.
Manners for Men
Cleaning out some old books, I came across something I’d completely forgotten I’d bought. “*Manners for Men*” by *Mrs. Humphry*, published 1897.
From the chapter “In the Street”:
In meeting acquaintences a nod is sufficient for a male friend, unless his age or position is such as to render it advisable to raise the hat. [...]
Nathan Sawaya | The Art of the Brick? | Han Solo in Carbonite
Nathan Sawaya | The Art of the Brick? | Han Solo in Carbonite“Because, like most people, I like to take large sculptures of people frozen in carbonite with me whenever I travel.”
Pongmechanik
As part of the exhibition going on in the Digital Hub, there are a bunch of games set up in the old Medialab building - for example, Eyetoy hooked up to a large projector screen, World of Warcraft and Halo 2. But the star of the show, for me, was a mechanical version [...]
Talk Digital: Censorship in the Gaming Sector
The Digital Hub is once again throwing an elaborate, [extravagant exhibition](http://www.thedigitalhub.ie/learning/events.asp), and once again, they’re focusing on video games. Ordinarily, the Digital Hub’s exhibitions are of little interest to me. They remind me of the time during the the dot-com boom when the company I worked for threw large cocktail parties every [...]
EVIL DEAD REGENERATION
EVIL DEAD REGENERATIONOfficial site of the new Evil Dead videogame. This appeals to so many of my nerd instincts.
Domestic Instiki
Since we’ve got broadband again, I’m finally getting to play with all the nifty things I’d had ideas about, but no way of executing. The first of these is a local [Instiki](http://instiki.org/show/HomePage) server at home.
I use this all the time in work for note keeping and simple project management. At home, I’m [...]
Backpack is coming soon - it’ll be better, not beta
Backpack is coming soon - it’ll be better, not betaBackpack launches today at 15.00GMT
keep looking »