A Japanese bank is putting a slot
A Japanese bank is putting a slot machine in their ATMs; get three 7s and the fee is waived. All they need is the sound effects from Super Mario 2 and I’m so there!
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Video Games Live is presenting a series
Video Games Live is presenting a series of concerts featuring music from video games. Last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic played in front of around 10,000 people.
Apple announces the Harper’s Special Edition iPod
Apple announces the Harper’s Special Edition iPod. “Number of media legends who came together to create this exciting new Apple product: 2. Chance that literary-minded American consumers will find this new iPod impossible to resist: 1 in 1.”
Age Maps
Age Maps. “Two photographs of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together.” Very cool effect.
A list of mini golf holes based on movies
A list of mini golf holes based on movies. “Raiders of the Lost Ark: You must putt the ball precisely into the idol’s head, or a 15-foot-high, 1-ton golf ball comes rolling after you.”
Cassette tape DJ mixes music with his custom-built cassette decks
Cassette tape DJ mixes music with his custom-built cassette decks.
A visual history of sampling; who’s been
A visual history of sampling; who’s been sampled and who’s doing the sampling.
A DJ scratches out the Imperial March
A DJ scratches out the Imperial March from Star Wars on his decks.
65,000 photocopies of 300 different films made into a 14-minute short
65,000 photocopies of 300 different films made into a 14-minute short. Quite clever.
“The problem with mash-ups is that once
“The problem with mash-ups is that once you get past both ‘oh, that’s unexpected’ and ‘that must have been difficult’, what you’re left with is a dj with really fucking terrible taste in music”. IMO, few mash-ups have gone beyond the novelty stage.
Advancing scientific research means that chimeric animals
Advancing scientific research means that chimeric animals are on the way. “In the case of human cells’ invading the germ line, the chimeric animals might then carry human eggs and sperm, and in mating could therefore generate a fertilized human egg. Hardly anyone would desire to be conceived by a pair of mice.”
Audio from the Who Owns Culture? talk
Audio from the Who Owns Culture? talk by Lessig, Tweedy, and Johnson now online. Streaming audio or mp3.
Ask and ye shall receive: Google Maps
Ask and ye shall receive: Google Maps with the NYC subway stops on it. A little flaky in Safari, but works well in Firefox.
Nine Inch Nails is offering a GarageBand
Nine Inch Nails is offering a GarageBand file with the complete mix of a forthcoming song. Can’t use the remixes commerically, but still pretty cool.
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