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Hottest 100 of All Time? Hmmmmmm..

So I’m trying to figure out the top 10 songs I’d vote for HOTTEST 100 OF ALL TIME. For TripleJ ofc.

It’s hard to be properly objective at all when it’s all about nostalgia and personal memories. And when blogging etc it also becomes about your public image and what you want others to think about you. (”I’m so interesting, check out my taste in X!”…. But in all seriousness, check out my awesome list. Yeah!)

Anyway so far it’s something along the lines of (in no order):

• The Boxer (or A Hazy Shade of Winter) – Simon and Garfunkel
• How Soon is Now? – The Smiths
• Common People – Pulp
• Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
• High and Dry (or Fake Plastic Trees) – Radiohead
• Imagine – John Lennon
• Voodoo People (strange outlier that won’t seem to fall off this list for some reason) – The Prodigy
• Our House – Madness
• Coffee and TV – Blur
• Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve

It’s interesting how one is compelled to include exactly 1 song from a band. If I can’t choose between High and Dry and Fake Plastic Trees is it likely one is in the top 10 and one is not? More likely they’re both nearby to each other and chances are I could have them both in my top 10, but that would seem wrong when real estate there is so scarce. It’s also interesting how bands I wish were in there and like more than bands that are just don’t have any mad stand out song that can stand it’s ground in so small a list. (Oasis, Flaming Lips…)

Scout Chop

All audio mined out of TF2. Good stuff.
Via Kotaku.

Short interactive game/poem by Daniel Benmergui

This is the same guy who did I Wish I were the Moon and I Fell in Love with the Majesty of Colours.

I enjoyed this new one and am sure others will too. Also follow the link after the game to see some interesting monetisation strategies this guys has.

Today I Die.

Omegle

Omegle is a site where you are put into a 1 to 1 instant messaging conversation with a stranger, anonymously.

My first conversation:

Connecting to server…
You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: morning
Stranger: r u a female
You: no
You: r u?
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Though not all conversations are that bad

Scenes from Movies in Unreal 3.0 and CryEngine 2

Game-artist.net ran a competition for artists to recreate a scene from a film using a game engine. Worth a look.

Serenity's Hanger

via Kotaku

Evil Twitter Darknet

So I had an idea while waxing with Simon and others at the letsmakegames gamejam event tonight and came up with an awesome idea.

An evil Twitter ‘darknet’.

Everyone makes a new clone user called evilusername, I would be evilbeetlefeet. Then you only follow other evil people. Ideally anyone who crosses the evil / non-evil boundary by following the wrong type of person would be shunned by both sides. Tsk tsk.

This network of evil people would then be separated from ‘regular’ users and have their own evil status updates and remarks about their evil doings and goings on. When you tweet your normal tweets you should also tweet an evil version.

For example:
beetlefeet: “Just had an awesome cherry pie!”
evilbeetlefeet: “Just had an awesome cherry pie, it reminded me of spilling innocents’ blood!”

You know it makes sense!

Gaming Cocktails

XBox magazine has an article on gaming cocktails they commissioned a bar to design.

Pictured: Boomer Bile
Via Kotaku

“Love” indie MMO type thing

Here’s an awesome gameplay video of “Love” as narrated by its (sole) developer.
Looks like a really interesting project.

http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/gameplay_video.html

PS: You should totally check out the tools video as well. Just watching it now and it’s awesome.

Amazing Pics from Saturn

It’s so fascinating to think about what you are actually looking at in these pictures, and how the picture made its way to your screen. It’s too easy to just glance and go ‘yep Saturn’ and not think about how incredible the images are.

Tiny moon imbedded in Saturns rings.

Cassini’s continued mission 

Some info regarding wiiware profit model for developers.

Basically games need to sell an initial cutoff amount before nintendo will start ponying up royalties. The numbers are quite low though and once you break the figure you apparently get back paid for the past sales. /shrug.

Article at Kotaku.