Archive for the ‘The Web’ Category

A strange combination of The Lion King and Bedknobs and Bromsticks

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Seriously…look at the title screen. Now look at the characters. Now laugh. Now try to comprehend the narration…and laugh harder.

I hope this is not real…

Some GameSpot Defects -> The Follow-ups!

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

So just a few interesting things in this post-gamespot-defecting era…

Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis have a podcast now! The first experimental episode is pretty hilarious – check it out at Ryan Davis’ blog arrow pointing down, or find it on iTunes under the podcast name of Arrow Pointing Down.

Alex Navarro is apparently still writing reviews – this time for Gametap.

Listening to the Arrow Pointing Down podcast revealed (at least to me) that Greg Kasavin – another ex-gamespotter – is helping with the development of C&C: Red Alert III. Good for him!

I’m glad these guys are moving on, they are too important to the industry and the ‘net community in general to disappear.

Last.FM: Yet another internet trend I’m way behind on…

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

So I always seem to know about all the “trendy” web 2.0 stuff out there, but I never really use it – and when I do I realize what I’ve been missing out on.

Granted, there are some that don’t really hit the mark – like twitter. It is hyped a LOT and I still hear/read lots of people talking about it, but it really seems a little too simple for me. I don’t need to know what people are up to 24/7. It’s like a whole idea based around facebook status messages.

I’ve just discovered a great web 2.0 site, though, that I’ve read about for a long, long time. I never actually went to the site, though, until I heard they are offering lots of full tracks to listen to whenever you want – no more 30 second previews!

Granted, it’s not for every song on the site, but I’ve found a lot that are full tracks. But that isn’t the reason I’m even mentioning it – I just realized they have a great app (at least on OS X, not sure how good it is on windows and linux) that is basically like Pandora on steroids. For me, I really just never liked the Pandora interface.

So anyway, last.fm will also track your music stats, hook you up with “friends”, and basically anything else a social networking site does.

Basically, it just has a great interface, a great little app that goes along with the site – and it just works (cue apple fanboy flames!).

I digress – you can just go check it out for yourself!

Happy listening…