YouTube - Super Mario Reloaded

YouTube - Super Mario Reloaded
Awesome mash-up of Mario and the “Burly Brawl” from Matrix Reloaded. Shot-for-shot, hand-animated. Did I say how awesome it was?

Silent Hill 2

Much as I love “survival horror” games, I have genuine trouble playing them. I like to think this is because I become so engrossed in the game and commit myself to it so completely that the scares are extremely effective on me. But others might say that it’s because I’m a complete [...]

Offical “Snakes on a Plane” logo!

From Entertainment Weekly

Weird to hear how it was inspired by fan artwork on the internet. It’s like the internet and this movie are caught in a feedback loop of awesomeness.
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GDC: Cam footage of God of War 2 - Playsyde

GDC: Cam footage of God of War 2 - Playsyde
God of War was, hands down, my favourite game of last year. Epic brutality. So glad to see they’re bringing it back for a sequel, and adding the bits they couldn’t get to in the original (like a battle with the cyclops)

Underneath Dublin? - Archiseek

Underneath Dublin? - Archiseek
Another fascinating thread on Archiseek about the tunnels hidden around Dublin city. Not exactly enough for serious Urban Exploration, but still pretty interesting.

Cycling in Irish Cities - Archiseek

Cycling in Irish Cities - Archiseek
Fascinating thread on Archiseek about cycling in Irish cities. As a cyclist in Dublin, I can safely say I have stared into the face of death on many occasions. Interesting to see what city planners think of all this.

Hey, scientists working on a life-saving cure for bird flu need to relax too, you know

And how do they relax? By putting tiny-tiny glasses on houseflies.

Now, back to work. Slackers.
(via makezine)

Listal: Catalogue your stuff!

My DVD collection has reached the point where I can no longer keep track of what I’ve got, what I’ve loaned to other people or what I haven’t yet watched. So for the past couple of weeks, I’ve been slowly loading my entire collection into Delicious Library. A very pretty application, with [...]

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Consolevania is back

I used to bitch and moan about how videogames have always been misrepresented on TV. And all it would take to make me happy was a bunch of likeable presenters to make a show entertaining even to people who don’t play videogames.
Hooray then, for Consolevania. An online video TV show so entertaining [...]

Channel 4’s “50 Greatest Actors”

Max Beesley talking about great actors? Channel 4 are getting desperate for pundits.
Favourite moment of the show was Brian Blessed saying… well, ’saying’ is relative, since this is Brian Blessed, I think ‘bellowing’ is closer to the truth. Yes, Brian Blessed bellowing how he used to run after John Gielgud to pinch [...]

Curse of Unix

Six years of working professionally as a systems administrator and last week I realised that I really don’t know much about the ‘theory’ behind the stuff I do. I couldn’t have told you what a ’sticky bit’ was, but I could tell you how to implement one. Making sense? Anyway, so [...]

LED Pac Man Bicycle Wheels

The world just got 35% more amazing. Uses persistence of vision to ‘draw’ images on your bike wheels. Not only does it look amazing, but it’s functional as well - people can’t exactly say they didn’t see you when you’ve got 60 LEDs showing Pac-man chasing a ghost on your wheels. [...]

Shadow of the Colossus

Remember the “Double Life” ad for the Playstation? A marvellous ad, full of the kind of lyrical braggadocio Sony brought to the word of videogames. In that one ad, I believe Sony did more for raising mainstream understanding of the appeal of videogames than all of Nintendo’s efforts throughout the previous [...]

R-Point

I’m convinced there’s a good war-themed horror out there somewhere. What started out as a general disappointment with Michael Mann’s The Keep has taken me through The Bunker (awful) and Deathwatch (starts out promising, quickly turns awful). From reading IMDB’s message boards, I thought Kong Su-Chang’s R-Point would answer my prayers.
It tells [...]

Shattered Glass


Good Night, and Good Luck

For me, Good Night, and Good Luck fell squarely into the same genre as Downfall: an important movie, but not necessarily a good movie. It ticks a lot of boxes and zipped along at a fair pace but never really engaged me any better than a documentary on the same subject could have. [...]

World of Warcraft reaches 6,000,000 players

World of Warcraft reaches 6,000,000 players
Online MMORPG has a larger population than Ireland. Holy crap.

YouTube - What if Microsoft designed the iPod packaging?

YouTube - What if Microsoft designed the iPod packaging?
Nerdy as it sounds, I still have the box from my iPod because I can’t bear to throw out something so beautiful