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Guitar vs. “Guitar Hero”

July 20, 2007

Click to see the comic on its original page.
Trust me, kids: learn to play a musical instrument reasonably well before college.
As for accordion playing, the “coolness graph” looks like this:

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Anime Video of “Code Monkey”

July 11, 2007

The machinima videos that people have made for Jonathan Coulton’s geek anthem Code Monkey haven’t impressed me; unlike the Red vs. Blue series of animations, the visuals feel poorly matched with the storyline.
Better by far is this video, which does an excellent job of repurposing clips from the Japanese animated TV series Black Heaven. If [...]

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johnnyOnline: “Love Two Point Oh”

June 4, 2007

Jonathan Coulton’s Code Monkey was the catchy nerd-friendly rock tune of last year. This year, the crown could very well be johnnyOnline’s Love Two Point Oh, which features lyrics like:

You’re prettier than fine CSS
You’re finer than http://del.icio.us/

as well as the “09 F9…” HD-DVD code as whispered backing vocals.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, here [...]

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July 17th: Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s

May 30, 2007

I was 12 when the 80’s began and 22 when they ended, so the music of that decade is pretty much seared into my consciousness. Hence my jumping for joy when I found out that a new Guitar Hero game featuring 80s rock is due on July 17th. Here are the tracks known to be [...]

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iPod Amnesty Bin at Zune Headquarters

May 25, 2007

Microsoft may not always crank out the best products, but I will have to hand it to them: they certainly can tell jokes. The best part of any Microsoft keynote is the spoof video — consider their parody of VW’s “Da Da Da” tv spot, their Matrix spoof and the “Bill Meets Napoleon Dynamite” clip. [...]

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