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Super Bloody Monkey Ball


Here's another massively fraught moment from Super Monkey Ball on my iPod Touch thing from the other day. 

It looks absolutely lovely on the touch screen, but by God it's bleedin' hard. In this case the accelerometer in the iPhone/iPod Touch is well suited to the game, although oversensitive. Playing it in the car on Saturday (um, I wasn't driving) was 10x harder still. ("Stop going round corners! Stop driving over bumps!")

I can see this being a recurring problem with iPhone OS games, being worse with more joysticky/pad-based arcade games. Namco implemented a couple of different control styles, with their version of Pac-man - I can see there'll be some add-on controllers soon.

Filed under  //   application   game   ipodtouch  
Posted July 14, 2008
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CBS refugee camp: Robots For Robots

From the ashes of the rather wonderful Cybernetic Broadcasting System springs Robots For Robots, a forum for all you plastic pals to get together and talk binary to each other.
 
Already a couple of radio streams have sprung up, including one from MenschMaschine,  Alex D Steak's peer-casted Robot 1972, and X-Bobo's Pitchounet, doing a live mix of a bunch of Basic Channel/Rhythm and Sound dub-techno right now.
 
Which leads me to wonder, could I-F's move actually set everyone free; rather than relying on the CBS being there, this seems to have galvanised people into action.
 
Much as the various streams springing up is good to see, I'd still love to see Ferenc return. The robots need a shared experience to gather round, how about a weekly podcast instead?

 

Filed under  //   cbs   forum  
Posted July 9, 2008
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Adrian Utley of Portishead and the mysterious Tibetan singing bowls

 
Gear geeks will love it (ooh the Trident desk, ahhh all that lovely outboard) but it's worth sticking with anyway to get an earful of some Tibetan singing bowls which sound really, really eerie. (via Analog Suicide)

Filed under  //   interview   portishead   video  
Posted July 9, 2008
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CBS RIP: 2002 - 2008

Can't quite believe it. Thanks to Ferenc and all the DJs for the years of music.
 
Update: Robots For Robots: forum for refugees from the CBS...

 

Filed under  //   cbs   radio  
Posted July 7, 2008
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Wimbledon gents final thrilla, etc

Every year two weeks of my time are completely squashed by Wimbledon. It's not the same like it used to be, when I was a student and could turn on the telly at noon every day to get my fix - instead now I'm at work sitting in front of a computer, with the Wimbledon live scoreboard not-craftily mostily hidden behind a Word window, with my work colleagues struggling to sound interested as I excitedly relay the news of some seed getting beaten in an early round. 

Bit different this morning as we gathered round to discuss the non-more exciting men's final, "ooh, did you see it?". 

After the dull slam-bash "it's another ace..." years of Sampras finals, I'm convinced we're in a new golden age for gents tennis. The court is slower, so the players are relying less on massive serving, which means we get more of those long, tactical baseline rallies. Here's Jason Goodall's info-graphic techy bit from early in the first set to back me up, showing the difference between two serves hit at the same speed.


Both Federer and Nadal weren't at their absolute best throughout - understandable given the two rain breaks, but there were so many flashes of brilliance from both. The BBC's new improved(ish) iPlayer has the final for the rest of week.

Just thank God the US Open is confined to Sky, otherwise I'd never get anything done.

Filed under  //   federer   nadal   sport   tennis   wimbledon  
Posted July 7, 2008
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Spooky Specsavers advert

Love the waitress slowly chewing gum looking incredulously at the coffeepot, the fly crawling over the insect-a-cutor, the two eerie kids playing in the fountain... and the gag at the end.

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Posted July 4, 2008
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The red and the blue: crazy Italian animation



Genius claymation by Francesco Misseri - there's not much about him on the internet, apart from this blog post compilation...

Filed under  //   animation   video   youtube  
Posted July 3, 2008
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Today Programme starts using Twitter...

 
I'm intrigued to see how Twitter is spreading... given that I have difficulty explaining the value of it to anyone else, or even to myself. (via Joanna Geary)

 

Filed under  //   bbc   radio4   twitter  
Posted July 3, 2008
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Bert and Ernie go brutal at 7 inch



I always love the 7 Inch Cinema events in Birmingham: we popped over on Saturday to their fifth birthday day thing at the Rainbow.

I dug out the few things I could for this post over at paper-jam, shame I couldn't find Professor Balthazar's "Knitting Pretty", which is wonderful, and Jim Henson's freaky "Time Piece", but I'll get 'em eventually...

Anyway, here's some Muppet madness.

Filed under  //   7inchcinema   muppets   video   youtube  
Posted July 2, 2008
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James Bond book covers

 
Good lord. The artist is Robert McGinnis, and there's a fair bit more of his work on Flickr. (via thedeplorableword)

 

Filed under  //   books   design   jamesbond  
Posted July 2, 2008
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