What appears to be four high school band nerds in Madison, Wisconson have combined to form the Lucido Felice Quartet, performing video game music from the olden days.

Their downloads are gone until they can get some torrents hosted, but I’m told they’re pretty groovy.

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Combine hard-rock with a string quartet and you wind up with Apocalyptica, a not entirely unpleasant listening experience! All their samples are in RealAudio though, so make sure you install Real Alternative before taking the plunge.

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Sorta sad, but development has stopped (for now) on the ultimate MAME ROM merger/auditor, ClrMamePro.

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We’re hiring, dudes. It doesn’t happen often, so get your resumes in quickly if you want a piece of the sweet, sweet DreamHost pie.

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I was sick of Nextel’s lousy coverage and insane billing practices, so today I jumped ship for Cingular.

I chose to go with the totally radical SonyEricsson T637. I hate flip phones with a passion, so the T637 was right up my alley.

If you’ve got a T637, or are thinking about getting one, allow me to educate you on some points!

Customizing your phone with games, ringtones, and themes can be a costly endeavor! All those downloaded kilobytes can add up pretty quickly, so you should avoid doing that at all costs. You can link up your T637 to your PC through a direct serial connection, infrared, or bluetooth.

You’ll also want to use an essential piece of free software called Float’s Mobile Agent which’ll let you edit your phonebook, sync it with Outlook if you want, upload games and themes, download cameraphone shots, and other stuff.

The T637 supports games written in Java and in something called Mophun. Mophun is similar to Java, however it was created for the sole purpose of creating cell phone games optimized for whatever hardware they’re run on. So as you can imagine, Mophun games run a heck of a lot faster than Java games.

Finding games for the T637 is tricky at first, but it’s easy once you realize that it’s got the same capabilities (speed and screen resolution) as the T610, T630, Z600, and maybe even some other phones in the SonyEricsson lineup.

The definitive SonyEricsson game archive is over at http://soneric.ru/games, however in order to access the site you’ll need to hit it through a russian proxy server. Use the search tools to narrow your search if you’d like to exclude Java games.

If you can’t be bothered to do that, you can still find quite a few games at t610yz600.com.

And finally, there are tons of free themes out there, so I’ll just link to one site that’s got a few hundred – esato.com.

Now that you know how to do all this stuff for free, please don’t ever spend your hard-earned money on something as stupid and pointless as ringtones and games for your mobile phone. Cellular carriers prey on the uninformed to make their money – don’t get taken in by their saucy charms!

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Here’s how to strip the DRM from videos you’ve downloaded to your PC from your Tivo: TiVo To Go MPEG2 Decrypting

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Worst weatherman ever.

He’s a quivering sack of nerves! Not so much funny as it is horribly, horribly sad.

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If you’ve never been to Club 33 before and you happen to have $175 lying around, now’s your chance to sneak a peek.

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Today is an excellent day. We’ve moved into our new office, and Warner Brothers has released the trailer for Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. The stop motion looks so good that you could easily mistake it for being CGI!

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The LA Times has an interesting writeup on Shag‘s house in Lemon Heights. I’m not really into artsy fartsy artisty things, but Shag’s style is really unique and nobody else out there does what he does.

His taste in home decor leaves a bit to be desired, though…

“We had so many close calls where we’d see a house and think, ‘This is it!’ and then we’d see the crown moldings and oak woodwork and walk out feeling so depressed.”

WTF, man. I’d kill for some crown molding in my house. Most people would.

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We’re in the process of moving our office to a less crappy part of Southern California. Our servers have and always will be located in downtown Los Angeles, and up until a while ago all of our staff was located about 15 minutes away in Huntington Park.

Well that’s over with now. Now our admins (roughly half our staff) work downtown in the same building as our datacenter, and the rest of us are moving to a swankified new office in Brea.

Moving out of Huntington Park and into two different offices on opposite sides of LA county pretty much improves every single employee’s commute. My own drive time has been reduced to a mere 30 minutes and I couldn’t be happier.

The movers come bright and early tomorrow morning, so soon the B and C-rated local restaurants with no english menus will be a mere footnote in our company’s history.

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