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If you’ve linked to us in a blog post, or given us permanent residences on your blogroll, let us know. Each week we’ll put up a post with all the blogs/sites linking to us for that week.
Category: Linkage
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What will they think of next?
I figure this might as well become a series, that way I don’t have to come up with a new topic every time I want to share some cool link with you guys! Yay for laziness!
Anyway, I thought this was a good idea and if any of you are TV watchers, it might be handy. It’s called CAT (Calendar for TV). It’s a calendar that you can customize to only show your favorite shows, it gives you a quick synopsis about the show, you can adjust for your timezone, and even set it up for your own specific printer-friendly layout. I do most of my TV watching on DVD (except for Prison Break and after the little bit of “Back to You” that I caught last night, I might have to add that to the list) but this might be nice if you’re trying to track a bunch of shows.
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History in the making
Alright, if you haven’t heard of them yet, you will… soon. The band is Mute Math. They have a video of their first released single called “Typical”. In said music video, the band plays in reverse. Lots of videos have been done in reverse, but few, if any, have been an actual performance backwards. The bandmates learned to play, and lip-synch, all of their parts from end to beginning, that way when the recording was played in reverse it actually looked like they were singing and playing regularly, but all of their movements were backwards. Follow me?
Well, last night Mute Math made history by being the first band to every play the song backwards on live TV. They recreated their music video in front of a live audience, and they did it all in one take. They didn’t stop the cameras and redo a part they screwed up, they did the whole song in reverse. It was actually pretty cool.
By the way, if you have a chance to see Mute Math in your local area, I definitely suggest it. They put on a very original, high energy show, which was probably the best I’ve ever seen. Share your thoughs in the comments.
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Penny Arcade creaters make fun of people, rake in cash.
Or so says the month old article I read in Wired. How much? If we had to guess, we’d say over a million a year.
Mike and Jerry (or Gabe and Tycho as you might better know them) have their own clothing line, their own video game (to be released sometime in 2008), and their own own game con. Prompting their ascent to the lofty position of video game potentates.
Krahulik and Holkins make a comfortable living from the strip, what with 55 million monthly pageviews driving online advertising and merchandising. They have a full-time staff of 10. They oversee a charity that has given $2.2 million worth of toys and games to children’s hospitals since 2003. And in late August, their annual convention — the Penny Arcade Expo — will attract 30,000 visitors, making it the largest game conference in the US.
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Think you’re already sick of Halo 3 hype?
With it’s own flavor of mountain dew, dedicated check-out lines in Wal-mart, and a million dollar diorama depicting a fake battle, you might be tired of Halo 3 hype by now. Or maybe we all should be thankful it hasn’t gone any further. From Reuters:
Items that did not make the cut were a “Halo”-themed lottery ticket, lingerie modeled after a female hologram character and toy guns based the game’s weapons. Instead, fans can expect high-quality action figures from McFarlane Toys, a tabletop game from WizKids Inc and replica weapons for mature buyers.
Interesting to note that the article does not rule out Master Chief boxers. Finish the fight. Believe.