Archive for August, 2006

RC’s Wednesday Links

RC's Rants

Color Designating Caller ID, Ignore People Even Easier! » Goz, this would help you ignore phone calls even more effeciently
Original Star Trek Getting CGI Makeover » I’d watch this.
BFG Replica: The ‘B’ Ain’t For Bacon » Hurt Me Plenty
Review: Mac Pro beats Dell on price » Suck it Dell!

Goz's Corner

Over at EatPES - HOME OF THE TWISTED FILMS OF PES you can watch Centipede as viewed with food, Pacman as a pizza, and Space Invaders with bugs.

Celebrate 10 years of Homestarrunner!

Goz's Corner

For the tenth anniversary of Homestar Runner, go visit The Homestar Runner Enters the Longest Page Title on the Website Contest! and see a remake of the children’s book that started it all.
If you don’t know who Homestar Runner is, read the Wikipedia entry on Homestar Runner.

Goz’s Monday Links

Goz's Corner

Miyamoto talks Wiimakes (Nintendo Dream interview) - NeoGAF » Cheap remakes of N64/GC games enhanced for the Wii?
Sony shares slide on rating cut » Is Sony becoming Sega?
PodTube 1.0 - VersionTracker: »

Burnout 5 for the Nintendo Wii?

Goz's Corner

A screenshot from a German site alludes to Burnout 5 being availble for the Wii.
A feature that would be cool in Burnout 5 would be the availablity to get out of the car ala GTA. That way, when someone runs into you, you can get out of the car and try to beat him up. [...]

A-Ha takes on Quake

Goz's Corner

Ever wanted to play Quake viewed as A Ha’s Take on Me video? Now you can.

GBA Emulator gpSP 0.5 released

Goz's Corner

QJ.net is reporting the the gpSP 0.5 Gameboy Advance emulator for the PSP provides full speed and high quality sound:
Exophase’s designing gpSP with a premium on emulation speed and optimization. And even in this early stage he’s hit the holy grail! Users simply cannot believe that their favorite GBA games will run at full speed, [...]

RC’s Wednesday Links

RC's Rants

Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Thursday, August 17, 2006 » Towards the bottom of the page, apparently the new Fantastic Four movie will be called Rise of the Silver Surfer. I think I just filled the cup.

William Shatner vs. John Lithgow

Goz's Corner

The Twighlight Zone episode with William Shatner still scares the crap out of me… This is a cool splitscreen of the William Shatner version and the John Lithgow version. The amazing thing is that William Shatner took the more subdued, nuanced route.

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Nightmare at 60,000feet
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Gaming addiction

Goz's Corner

An interesting article at gameshogun.ws tackles the views of parents and gaming addiction:
“Better Games than drugs. Who would disagree with this reasoning esecially when cited by teenagers hooked on computer games? This is the reason why computer game afionados should not be restricted in pursuing their hobby, said Gladys, a self-confessed computer game addict”
I’ve heard [...]