lala

If you haven't watched any TikiBar TV, you should do so now, or the first opportunity you have to sit in front of a display device with a cocktail. Interestingly enough, CBC, in an attempt to create a ZeD of "the future", has hired lala (Lara Doucette) of Tiki Bar fame to host a user-generated-content-vote-tube-you-porn-com-slash-conan website and corresponding television show, of, you guessed it, user-generated shorts voted on online and aired on show.

I'm not convinced this will make great television, or a good website, but the hire of Ms. Doucette shows that the CBC is trying, and begins to prove that that all it really takes is talent, recording devices and an internet connection now.

qedi's tour of video on the Internet

Recently Radigan mentioned things he'd like to see on the Internet. I'd watch all three of those ideas. In response I'd figure I'd whip up some things I do watch on the Internet that's out there now. There's actually a fair amount of video content online, this is just the bit I know about, and am most of which, I'm subscribed to.

On the tech side of things, there's DL.TV (twice a week; Tuesdays and Thursdays, which I watch on a regular basis), and Crankygeeks (once a week: Wednesdays, which I watch from time to time). Both productions of Ziff-Davis, and both essentially just tech news. Crankygeeks can sometimes be funny, as it's full of curmudgeons, or merely inane.

For more tech news, there's Diggnation (Thursdays). Featuring Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose, they're pretty much the Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar of the internet era. It's a low budget show of the two of them sitting on their couch, drinking beer, and reading Digg news while they talk into their laptops. The show itself can be fairly funny, because the two of them are pretty funny together. However, the content, top stories posted to digg is just filler (mainly because I don't like what ends up getting to the top of the digg pile, it's usually just asinine). But, it's still probably the most popular video podcast.

Revision3 are the makers of Digg. They do a lot of video, actually. A lot of the same stuff. inDigital (which currently seems to be dead) more gadgetry (with Wil Wheaton!), is nothing spectacular, but decent gadget review show I watch from time to time when I feel the urge for gadget porn.

But I do really enjoy one Revision3 show: Ctrl-Alt-Chicken (irregular releases). It's a cooking show. Well, it's a funny show, that just happens to have cooking in it. The two hosts don't claim to have any sort of cooking knowledge, but they'll walk through a recipe in an fairly entertaining way. It may or may not actually work out to something edible.

I should also mention NerdTV. It's PBS's Robert X. Cringely doing in depth interviews with some of the most interesting people in computing. Though, sadly season one has ended, and season two has still yet to begin.

On the more comedic side of things, there is some really great stuff.

You all probably know of Homestar Runner. It could really be considered a forerunner of regularly released video content on the Internet. And, interestingly enough, it seemed to do whatever it wanted to do. It reached a large audience and sold a lot of merchandise without having to get any distribution deals. It was just put up to be viewed, and downloaded. Recently, they've started to offer downloadable video versions of their things to watch, all conveniently wrapped inside a RSS feed.

I'd also really recommend watching Ask A Ninja (releases every week or two). It's absolutely hilarious. An unnamed ninja answers one email per episode in an exaggerated manner. It's short, non-sequitur answers to daily ninja life. It has a distinct up close view with very short edits. "Every time we shoot one of these episodes, I've got 14, 15 ninjas that try and kill me while we're shooting! Thank goodness for Final Kill Pro. ... If I didn't edit that stuff out, it would just be a bunch of blinding extraordinary fight sequences, and nobody wants to see that."

I also watch Tiki Bar TV (more or less monthly). All about the perils of being in a Tiki-themed bar that's stuck in the 1950's. It is made of pure science and drinking. More hilarity.

And if you have more things that you watch online, but I didn't mention, comment them!

MLP: Tony vs Paul

A totally amazing video. Stop motion fighting. 4 minutes and 50 seconds of awesome. Tony vs Paul

spending time with Lego

Sarah bought some Lego for us to have fun with, and today and yesterday I sat down and did just that.

my Lego Mario

The wall that it's hanging on now was looking pretty bare. Now it's a little more lively.

best game ever.

GameFAQs have finished their massive poll. Does Final Fantasy 7 deserve Best. Game. Ever.? Nearly 100000 votes on that individual poll. It is one of my favourite games. Hmmm..

Just what is the best. game. ever?

GameFAQs is having a 2 month poll, Best. Game. Ever. Each day for 63 days, there'll be a different poll, almost just like the way their character popularity contest works. It's broken into 4 divisions; Division 8, Division 16, Division 32/64, and Division 128, that generally correspond to the 4 console generations. Each division has 16 games in each.
My predictions? It'll come down to Super Mario Bros 3 and Legend of Zelda (with SMB taking it, as it's the better game IMO) in 8 (Go Contra!). In 16 I really would like LoZ: Link to the Past to win, but think it'll get trounced by FF III (or VI depending on your location) which will go on to beat Chrono Trigger as well. Final Fantasy VII will take over in 32-64 going up against Goldeneye in the finals for that division, and Goldeneye will win. In 128 its hard to call. I'd hestiate to say Half-Life against Super Smash Melee. But whoever wins that won't matter anyway. (Super Smash). Because the end winner will be Super Mario Bros. 3.
Am I on crack? Make your own predictions for each Division and overall in a writeback. Since you can only see the full bracket if you register for the GameFAQs message board, it breaks down like this: Division 8
  • SMB 3 vs Metal Gear
  • Metroid vs Pac Man
  • Phantasy Star vs Contra
  • Final Fantasy vs Pitfall
  • Donkey Kong vs Duck Hunt
  • Legend of Zelda vs Adventure
  • Pong vs River City Ransom
  • Tetris vs Galaga
Division 16
  • Chrono Trigger vs Secret of Mana
  • Super Mario RPG vs Street Fighter II
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2 vs Shining Force
  • Super Mario World vs The Simpsons
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past vs Gunstar Heroes
  • Super Metroid vs Phantasy Star IV
  • Earthbound vs Doom
  • Final Fantasy III/VI vs Mortal Kombat
Division 32-64
  • Final Fantasy VII vs Suikoden II
  • Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal vs Xenogears
  • Final Fantasy Tactics vs Dance Dance Revolution
  • Metal Gear Solid vs Resident Evil
  • Perfect Dark vs Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
  • Goldeneye vs Panzer Dragoon Saga
  • Super Mario 64 vs NiGHTS into dreams...
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time vs Fallout 2
Division 128
  • Halo vs Starcraft
  • Soul Calibur vs Kingdom Hearts
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker vs Skies of Arcadia
  • Metroid Prime vs Half-Life
  • Final Fantasy Tactics Advance vs Fire Emblem
  • Final Fantasy X vs Shenmue
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City vs Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
  • Super Smash Bros. Melee vs Metal Gear Solid 2

everything everything everything everything....

This was something I did not know. Underworld (there are actually two versions of Underworld mk1 (88-89) and mk2 (1990-present)) are part of a collective called tomato. This collective was cofounded by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde of Underworld. Tomato does a lot of things. They hold workshops in Japan. One of their main goals is to break apart barriers in art, the music, visual art, writing, multimedia......
And now, this collective is creating a video game. Kind of. They call it a software toy. It doesn't seem like much of a game, per say. But it seems interesting. Will we see it in North America?
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