Sun 27 Sep 2009
The Week in Links #20
ByVoxel art creator. Show and tell, if you make something special.
The Vending Times on why arcades may yet see a resurgence.
Starite-vending machine breaks Scribblenauts? Reads like a hardcasual headline, but it’s not.
If all the games consoles in the US formed their own city, that city would use as much power as San Diego.
Woody Allen wins breaking the fourth wall.
‘Son: we need to have a chat about the birds and the bees and HOW ROADKILL IS MADE‘
Not sure the 8-bit aesthetic adds much, but still, this video-based Choose Your Own Adventure is fun.
Naked, ice-age themed Trails HD in Flash. If that’s not a sell, I don’t know what is.
Kurt Vonnegut Reads Breakfast of Champions live in 1970.
“Rumsfeld had to be talked out of editing his own entry on Wikipedia” Confessions of a Bush speechwriter.
A fully-functioning Lego Cello.
How to introduce an Emmys award ceremony.
Biscuit keyboard stop-frame animation. We’ll get bored of these soon. But for now, OMNOMNOMNOMDANCE.
A smart, eloquent (anonymous) $30 million jackpot lottery winner answers questions on reddit. Interesting window.
Eyebrows. More important than eyes, basically.
‘The fear is of extremism, but in order to create a climate of fear…it whips up extremism of a different kind.’
Many mock Dan Brown’s prose but few attempt to redeem it. Brian Joseph Davis’ tracked edits are excellent and useful.
“If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of special offers.”
Elite was released 25 years ago. Gillen digs out a stand out track from the, um, Elite musical to celebrate.
Link of the Week
The Rock, Paper, Shotgun team walk us through how to throw a successful Windows 7 launch party:
(Sign up for a party pack here…)

September 27th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
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September 28th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
your “vending times” link goes to a google map for a taco bell in san diego.
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September 30th, 2009 at 9:55 am
In case you get hungry, um, on the way?
(Also: fixed
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