1 Mar

• Fluid dynamics in Flash: http://bit.ly/esDnmD
• In any other city I'd be convinced that half the passers by were GDC attendees just by their dress. But this is San Francisco.
• "I am a musician on tour. Your donations help me move on to the next town." Clever way to get both the "support" and the "go away" money!
• Magicka: Vietnam. Apparently a real thing? http://bit.ly/gDK1tD
• "Never fails. Every GDC, the guy who fired me comes up to say hi." I'm spared that indignation since Replay's focusing on enterprise now.
• "Charlie Sheen Quotes As New Yorker Cartoons" http://j.mp/grVeur
• Time-lapse video of an enormous, 90-minute solar eruption. http://bit.ly/esc3Kq

2 Mar

• Yep, this is exactly what playing Magicka is like: http://bit.ly/hw1BZM
• Mario Galaxy team working on Mario title for the 3DS. Hope they get around to a 64DS port, too; the design changes deserved an analog stick.
• Does Beyond Good and Evil have random content? I've played the intro like four times, and each time I'm like "I don't remember this at all."
• RT @Fara1 Gaming, rape culture, and how I stopped reading Penny Arcade (by my Phoenix colleague Maddy Myers)...http://ow.ly/46L0p
• Finally at the good part in BG&E: selling photos of a newly-discovered species to the humane society, then exterminating a roomful of them.
• "The Korg Monotron mini analog synthesizer was made to be hacked" http://bit.ly/dR3U9x

3 Mar

• http://j.mp/fKZ0eZ "I'm a person who is training to be an abortion provider. As you can imagine, it's really fucking weird to be one of me."
• http://bit.ly/dXovli "Sunspot 1164 has grown so large, it can now be seen without the aid of a solar telescope."
• Podcast excerpt: portrait of Gordon Freeman as a sociopath: http://bit.ly/gv1Np8 (From Idle Thumbs something something: http://j.mp/2BjAjn)

4 Mar

• GDC ponytail compilation: http://j.mp/hjQAIH -- that's me at 1:10 and 1:19.
• Helmet-cam of downhill bike race: http://bit.ly/gu42hx
• Podcast excerpt: Shawn Elliott on working at Safeway: http://bit.ly/hInQAi (From the now-defunct GFW Live.)
• Game developers unite in song to praise the legacy of Old Man Murray: http://j.mp/fKz08U
• "Spider infestation leads to recall of 65,000 Mazdas" http://j.mp/fxMZd9

5 Mar

• Naomi gave me a stick-shifting lesson today. Three hours of trying to start moving while facing uphill. (I did eventually touch the stick.)
• It'd almost certainly have been easier to get some momentum by starting in reverse, doing a u-turn, then driving to the next stop backwards.

6 Mar

• "On Tuesday I'll finally end my battle with cancer thanks to Oregon's Death with dignity act. Ask me anything." http://bit.ly/ePU1oU

7 Mar

• http://j.mp/bS2HD9 "Ken Brennan became obsessed: how had the 21-year-old blonde disappeared from her room, unseen by security cameras?"
• http://j.mp/fmu9WY Would you say this imagined customer reaction is a lie told by MIRRUS to potential venues, or by MIRRUS to themselves?
• Related: public benches that imprint advertising onto bare thighs. http://bit.ly/gWUL7e
• For your consideration: http://bit.ly/g4QJ0a (Your guess is as good as mine.)

8 Mar

• http://bit.ly/einxyv "By contrast, as it’s known that the rich kid has no need to work, he is appreciated for doing so."
• "Once it gets to that point, can you even call that activity a 'game' anymore? It's more like scratching a rash." http://bit.ly/98H68g
• Bill Harris and friends are chronicling their attempts to learn guitar via Rock Band 3: http://bit.ly/fAPXOK http://bit.ly/eDy7bt
• Starting to see "next-gen" engine trailers: http://j.mp/fF175L http://j.mp/e0vOvs -- The first inkling that the next gen may one day exist.
• "The overnight success of Angry Birds took eight years." http://bit.ly/dDY7Lv
• Guillermo del Toro's film adaptation of Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" canceled due to R rating: http://bit.ly/fg5CBa

9 Mar

• Super Mario Bros. with realistic foley work: http://bit.ly/gzoob0
• The positive-thinking mantra you keep repeating only works if it's plausible: http://bit.ly/dXu17L
• "BioWare Presents: The State of the Game Industry" http://bit.ly/hnTRMI
• The year 2000 as envisioned in 1910 by French artist Villemard: http://bit.ly/fF5ni9

10 Mar

• Robert Florence over at RPS makes the new Lovecraft-themed board game, "Mansions of Madness," sound pretty good: http://bit.ly/ijJx9c
• Why isn't the intelligence of the elephant more widely recognized? http://bit.ly/fQoPno
• ("Mainly due to the danger and difficulty of submitting the largest land animal to behavioural experiments.")
• "Dong Dong Never Die," a sublimely goofy 2D fighter made by a Chinese indie team: http://bit.ly/gErbbZ
• Hah, and it uses this cover of Mechanism 8 as background music: http://bit.ly/gzdss7
• "Gabe Newell revealed in an odds-defying statement today that 93% of Steam users were born on January 1st." http://bit.ly/h5z4U9

11 Mar

• Photos: earthquake in Japan: http://bit.ly/dW8cdD

13 Mar

• "Viewed through the lens of market forces, the surprise is that any company is still making antibiotics." http://bit.ly/giw62y
• I wonder if you couldn't get better treatment going to a meth lab with black market antivenom in stock. http://bit.ly/bB9lgM
• I'm really pleased that the drum circle is still going even when the rest of the Ashby flea market is completely rained out.

14 Mar

• "Japan earthquake: Footage of moment tsunami hit" http://bit.ly/ftU3iJ
• Exhaustive video review of the Squier Strat RB3 controller as a controller and as a guitar: http://bit.ly/fT3izi
• "Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake" http://j.mp/hlsjuT
• "This was largely the story up and down Honshu. Planes stayed in the sky. Buildings stayed standing. Civil order continued uninterrupted."
• More camcorder footage of tsunami flooding: http://bit.ly/hZZ2YE [direct MP4 link]

15 Mar

• Koliu Kolev plays a Serbian folk dance: http://bit.ly/eJfBRO

17 Mar

• Interactive infographic: scientific evidence for popular health supplements: http://bit.ly/dmmhdR
• There is totally a mouse loose in my room. Danu and Aoibheall are sleeping on the living room couch, as usual.
• Am I going crazy or is this URL a backdoor into old blog-style Kotaku? http://m.kotaku.com/?p=2

18 Mar

• Upon further research, actual secret old blog view of Kotaku: http://ca.kotaku.com/

19 Mar

• "Jamestown is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars." http://www.jamestowngame.com/

20 Mar

• Historically Hardcore: http://bit.ly/gSsloG
• Three download-only SNES games in the Legend of Zelda series: http://bit.ly/ia1ABe

21 Mar

• http://i.imgur.com/DEDFe.jpg
• RT @halsted Woke up to a lot of websites talking 'bout Jametown. My current fave is this one, for the photoshop 'reimagining': http://bit.ly/eXJGll

22 Mar

• "Half the combat logic [in Ultima Underworld] was devoted to the monster trying to look good onscreen." http://bit.ly/eqY1u2
• "How To Be Happy," part of "The Science of Winning at Life": http://bit.ly/f6tpfx
• Yearly reminder: tomorrow is asshole day. Expect people to be assholes all day. More than usual, I mean. 9:01 PM Mar 31st via web All the GDC25 classic postmortems (Doom, Populous, Another World, Pac-Man, Maniac Mansion...) up on GDC Vault, free: http://bit.ly/dMNncC

24 Mar

• Remember when you asked for a Gameboy for your birthday but got one of these? Relive the magic! http://bit.ly/hPQR0B
• Stephen Cakebread forms indie studio along with two other ex-Bizarre devs: http://bit.ly/gwjS3F
• Most relaxing Sonic the Hedgehog Let's-Play ever: http://bit.ly/MXxrn

25 Mar

• Joker and Lex: http://i52.tinypic.com/2n0pxlj.jpg
• "The audience doesn’t want to listen to a bunch of women talking about whatever it is women talk about." http://bit.ly/cJSs6X
• Doctors have no fucking idea: http://bit.ly/hrYjld
• David Wong on life in a post-scarcity world, and FARTS ("Forced Artificial Scarcity.") http://bit.ly/adTPML
• The Decline Effect: "Many results that are rigorously proved and accepted start shrinking in later studies." http://bit.ly/eeTON8
• "The next year, the size of the effect shrank another 30%. 'It was as if nature gave me this great result and then tried to take it back.'"
• Grand Theft Auto design docs, on Flickr: http://bit.ly/ghHLh0

26 Mar

• Overheard at Nova Steampunk con: "Lord Featherstone! Telegraph for Lord Featherstone! Anyone? Seriously, just put me out of my misery."
• Man, a steampunk con is the last place I expected to be complimented on a graphic tee. Did you notice the mechanical limbs on everyone else!
• Dalek constructed from a hula skirt and coconut halves.
• Unwoman was definitely the highlight act of the Airship Home Companion show. Highlight of every act, really; she guested in most of them.

27 Mar

• Truncated Peanuts: http://3eanuts.tumblr.com/ "With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all."
• Eleven more questions answered on Formspring, and I've run out again: http://j.mp/gEvihz
• New goombas.org post: Hair Care Stories. http://bit.ly/faQpoy

28 Mar

• Deviled Cadbury Creme Eggs: http://bit.ly/goUlnC
• Five minutes in, the flood waters keep rising: http://bit.ly/fBY0uW
• GIRP, the rock-climbing-themed followup to QWOP: http://bit.ly/estHvN

29 Mar

• First-person horror title "Nanashi no Game" not coming to North America because you don't shoot anyone: http://bit.ly/dV8BlS

30 Mar

• @relsqui The alphabet was the only part of ASL I ever bothered learning. That might explain why they didn't teach it to you, I guess.
• Jason Scott hired on at The Internet Archive: http://bit.ly/gEh7ZR

31 Mar

• "60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos" http://j.mp/huFkQD
• The Silicon Knights case against Epic is going before a jury. I just assumed they'd settled out-of-court four years ago. http://j.mp/fluLzK
• Gamestop to buy Stardock's Impulse: http://j.mp/gPOs1U Remember how Game Informer became basically the only successful game magazine? Hmm.
• Yearly reminder: tomorrow is asshole day. Expect people to be assholes all day. More than usual, I mean.
• The prepared speech William Safire wrote for Nixon in the event that the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded: http://bit.ly/hdJE8t

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