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Muscle March: Weirdest Videogame of 2009

May 18, 2009

I think we’ve got an early contender for the title of “Weirdest Videogame of 2009”: Muscle March for the Nintendo Wii. As if the game weren’t weird enough, the trailer below ramps up the weirdness by presenting it in that oh-so-Japanese style with epilepsy-inducing jump-cuts and a hyper-enthusiastic Japanese TV announcer:

[Found via Waxy.org.]

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The Story Behind “Keyboard Cat”

May 15, 2009

Another internet meme made the big time today – today’s edition of CNN’s “American Morning” ended with anchor Kiran Chetry announcing that they would be “played out” by “Keyboard Cat”. In case you haven’t yet seen them, Keyboard Cat videos all follow the same formula:

They all have the name “Play Him/Her Out, Keyboard Cat”
They [...]

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“It’s Alive!”: Sheridan College’s 2009 Interactive Multimedia Open House

April 22, 2009

This afternoon, I’m going to be at what I consider to be one of Accordion City’s best toy stores: Function 13 (156 Augusta Avenue), a place in Kensington Market that is part tech store, part art shop and part gallery.
I’ll be there for It’s Alive!, an open house featuring the work of Sheridan [...]

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Woot!’s $140 XBox 360

April 19, 2009

Woot! has a pretty sweet deal on refurbed XBox 360s: $140 for a refurbished model with 20GB hard drive and HDMI output. The package comes with all the stuff shown above. If you want it, get it now, because this deal isn’t likely to last very long!

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“XZIBIT” Explains Virtualization

April 13, 2009

Don’t get the joke? Know Your Meme does a fine job explaining the XZIBIT “Yo Dawg” meme in this article as well in the video shown below.

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My Interview at MeshU

April 13, 2009

No tech workshop is complete without a little goofing around on an accordion, and I certainly didn’t want the MeshU day of workshops (which preceded the Mesh Conference) to be incomplete. I did a quick interview with Anita Kuno in which I performed a classic computer programmer song parody and promoted The Empire, which you [...]

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Apple I Art Photos for Sale

April 6, 2009

20X200 is selling this lovely photo by Mark Richards featuring an “exploded” view of the original Apple I computer, the predecessor of my first computer, the Apple //e. These are limited edition prints; as of this writing, there are:

76 8” by 10” (about 20cm by 25cm) photos remaining, selling for US$20 each
463 11” by [...]

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“If You’re Not Indie, F**K YOU!”

April 4, 2009

Here’s a great video inspired by Andy Samberg’s People Getting Punched Out Just Before Eating short film from Saturday Night Live made to promote the Independent Games Festival at the Game Developers Conference 2009:

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“Lunacy” at the FIRST Robotics Competition

April 2, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

Robots competing at the finals of the FIRST Robotics Greater Toronto Regional Competition
The FIRST Robotics Greater Toronto Regional Competition took place last Friday and Saturday, and I had the opportunity to catch the finals on Saturday afternoon. The organizers invited me as representative of Microsoft Canada and were [...]

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An Ad for Dharma Initiative Computers

March 25, 2009

This ad won’t make any sense if you’re not a follower of the TV series Lost. However, if you are, you’ll find it amusing…
Click the ad to see the original on its Flickr page.

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New Nerd Merit Badge: Homonyms

March 21, 2009

The folks behind the patches that clearly mark your nerdy prowess – Nerd Merit Badges – have released their latest merit badge, Homonyms (pictured on the right).
In case your grade school English classes are a distant memory, the most common use of the term homonym is for words that are pronounced the same [...]

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You, Silverlight and Internet Explorer 8: A Hot Threesome of Browsing Fun

March 20, 2009

What the Internet is For
Before I begin, here’s a quick reminder of what the Internet is for…

and it seems to be true all over the world. Don’t take my word for it; here’s the Israeli production of Avenue Q saying the same thing, but in Hebrew:

Now that you’ve been told what the internet is for [...]

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Help LinuxCaffe Sort Through Their Tech Stuff!

March 20, 2009

Tim Hildred of LinuxCaffe writes:
We have in our storage space a veritable heap of donated pre-loved electronics, some of which we hope to recycle and repurpose, some of which is probably junk. What we need as a small team of people who, in exchange for coffee and snacks, will help us sort it out.  [...]

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The Battlestar Galactica “Frakmap”

March 19, 2009

One of the best sci-fi series on television, the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, comes to an end this Friday night at 9 p.m. on Space here in Canada and the Sci-Fi channel in the States. With only one episode left, it would seem an appropriate time to point you to the Battlestar Galactica Frakmap, a little [...]

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Why He Became Darth Vader

March 18, 2009

Photo courtesy of Matt Gunn.

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