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Posted by on Sep 17th, 2008 | 0 comments

Retro-Modern Videogame Remix II

Retro-Modern Videogame Remix II
We have already seen what people think some modern videogames might be like if produced on the original Gameboy but lets take yet another step further back in time to see what they would be like on the Atari 2600. There is some pretty good box art here even though they’ve taken some artistic license with the actual technical abilities of the Atari 2600 console. It’s a charming trend and maybe one which...
Posted by on Sep 16th, 2008 | 2 comments

Britain from Above

Britain from Above
The BBC and English television in general has a knack for providing us with some great documentaries. There is a new one worth checking out for all you information visualization fans called Britain from Above. It’s basically all about visualizing geographic information from an overhead (orbital style) view, revealing traffic patterns and other trends layered over Great...
Posted by on Sep 13th, 2008 | 0 comments

TIFF People’s Choice screening

This evening the TIFF will have a free screening of the People’s Choice winner of the festival. It goes down at nine o’clock tonight at the Elgin Theatre but the film in question has not been announced yet – they let us know this afternoon at an unspecified time. If you want a ticket, they are only available on a first-come first-served basis at seven o’clock tonight at the theatre. One...
Posted by on Sep 11th, 2008 | 2 comments

The Currency of Currency

Maxim (of all media outlets) has an entertaining piece listing seven currencies from video games which are worth more than the real world U.S. Dollar. This list is surely incomplete as an exhaustive one would probably be in the thousands of items. They even go so far as to outline their rational for comparing fantasy currencies to real world currencies. This is as much a commentary on the economies of video games as...
Posted by on Sep 10th, 2008 | 0 comments

DW-16

DW-16
David Wiggins Has built this monster DeWalt-16 which is some type of unholy lovechild between a DeWalt nail-gun and an M-16 Rifle. If he could make it shoot nails, we could drywall like a pro. As it is, it shoots bullets. the Magazine is even edited to mimic a DeWalt battery pack. Nice work...
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