It’s 2005 and the PC demoscene is alive and well. Unlike ten years ago, however, you now need super powerful graphics cards to view them. The overall winner, Planet Risk, runs beautifully on almost anything though.
Scene.org is hosting downloads of the winners.
Estate Sales LA is selling off pieces of Tim Burton’s life in Azusa two weeks from now. Might be worth a visit.
You know how you have that one friend who’s pretty easy going about stuff, but you’re always afraid you’ll say the wrong thing around them and that they’ll just fly off the handle and go ape shit over something totally ridiculous?
PETA is that ‘friend’.
Hey Apple, I’m just gonna throw this out there, but if you could deliver a 60GB iPod for $200, I’d buy one.
Your recent price cuts have made me happy that things are at least headed in the right direction… Someday I will own an iPod, perhaps. But not today. $450 for 60GB is highway robbery and you know it.
I do appreciate you ditching firewire for USB 2.0, though. That was awesome.
Do a quick search at the US Trademark Office and you’ll find that a guy named David Foley is attempting to trademark both the name and official logo of MAME, the open-source Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
The first thing I thought when I read this was “Oh cool. The MAME team is going to protect their good name with the power of a trademark.” But then I realized that David Foley has nothing to do with MAME. In fact, he just sells UltraCade game cabinets that happen to be powered by MAME. That’s it.
This David Foley feller claims that it’s to prevent “illegal competition” with other companies selling arcade cabinets, because apparently UltraCade provides legally licensed ROMS and their competitors do not.
Wahatever dude.
The MAME community is up in arms over these shenanigans.
Note to self:
If you ever delete your GPRS account and WAP profile again, here’s the info to fix it:
GPRS
Name: Cingular MMS
APN: wap.cingular
User ID: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1
IP/DNS: leave blank
Authentication: Normal
Data Compression: Off
Header Compression: Off
QoS Precedence, Delay, Peak Rate, Mean Rate: Subscribed
Reliability: Class 3
WAP
Name: Cingular MMS
Connect Using: Cingular MMS
IP address: 66.209.11.61
Second Account: None
User ID: blank
Password: blank
Security: Off
Show Pictures: On
I just ordered and received these laceless Comfort Mocs from LL Bean in the Clay color. For $30 you can’t buy a more comfortable shoe. An excellent value! I’d totally recommend them if you’re thinking about some new footwear and don’t want to break the $50 mark.
Land’s End used to sell this exact same shoe for the exact same price, but it’s nowhere to be found in their online catalog. Looks like they lost their contract to their number one competitor!
If you’ve ever struggled to figure out the difference between Synthpop and Eurodance, IDM and Jazzstep, Drum N’ Bass and Neurofunk, Digitally Imported’s Guide to Electronic Music will put your mind at ease.
Audio samples of every electronic music genre are presented in an awkward, but usable, Flash interface.
It’s really something! Someone sat down and took the time to literally map out the roots of all electronic music.
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