- A history of Mario Sprites, from his Donkey Kong roots to his more ugly pixelated recent Mario vs. Donkey Kong game. Some good commentary, but just fun to see all the different versions of our favorite plumber.
- SpaceShipOne made it up and back safely. This is great to watch. Their next [...]
Archive > September 2004
Random Links – Again!
Copy Protection
I found an excellent article summing up software copy protection. It’s written by Brian Hook, who’s site has a number of well written articles that I may cover later. But onto copy protection.
Like most of us, I love digital technology. The possibilities that it presents for the future are amazing, and the [...]
The Hedge Knight
I picked up this handy graphic novel collection of the comic adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s – The Hedge Knight. It was a short story in an anthology called “Legends” and someone saw fit enought to dress it up a bit and put it to print.
The story is set in his A Song [...]
Robot’s in disguise
Wow. This is amazing. Ever want the complete history of the Transformers universe? Here you go! And not a general simplification, it’s long, very long. You’re going to need your scrolly wheel for this one for sure.
Yarrrg…
Apperently I missed Talk Like A Pirate Day! Damn. Guess I’ll have to wait till next year for the annual event.
Fantagraphics Books – Saves by Peanuts
I’ve never been a big fan of the Peanuts comic strip, though I was a fan of the older Peanuts movies (The Great Pumpkin, Christmas and so on). I remember hearing about how there was going to be a complete collection of the older strips being collected into a book form and thinking, “…eh”. [...]
Summer Darling
An old friend of mine is in a band. I’ve watched him from his days as a drummer who couldn’t keep time to being a stunning lyricist and songwriter. His band, Summer Darling has just released their new album.
On the website they have a couple of songs available for listen as [...]
Links again.
- Curmudgeon Gamer has posted the final article in their series covering the Midway Arcade Treasures Vol. 1. The author has gone and covered in depth each of the games in the collection, and presents relevent strategy.
- As if India’s software growth continuing wasn’t completely obvious.
- Apperently Intel think’s the the Interweb is dying [...]
Google’s GMAIL
I recently got an invite from someone to Google’s Gmail service. It might have been hard to miss some of the hype surrounding it, but basically think of Hotmail, but with 1 gigabyte of storage, and not controlled by the Bill Gates empire. It’s web based, and the theory is that you won’t [...]
The return of JAPAN
So a while back I used to have a website I called JAPAN (Just another page about Nintendo), and I helped a few people out by hosting their recently dumped NES games. Was great fun. TheRedEye and I even had a Christmas spectacular together. Eventually things happened, I lost my [...]
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson’s – Pattern Recognition
During a bit of random surfing I ran across Emilythink and read her review of Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.
I had the opportunity to see William Gibson when he was here last year promoting his latest book. He gave a quick reading out of it and signed a few autographs [...]
Lost Levels – Secret Ties
Lost Levels is back again with a new article. Frank Cifaldi delivers a look as the game Secret Ties.
Created in a time of many Ninja Gaiden clones, it plays and looks very similar, but ultimately it offers nothing really new. Still it’s a great look back in time and it’s another lost [...]