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Saturday, May 10, 2003
Ruben Fleischer finished a new DJ Format video this week. I think I might like the breakdancing animals of of "We Know Something" better, but "A Hit Record" has so much style that the two videos are still dueling for pole position in my head. Watch them both and see what you think.
News that will excite at least three or four OD readers, from EA Big's press release announcing their E3 showings:
SSX 3 – Players will discover the open mountain and immerse themselves in the new open world environment that is SSX 3, the ultimate all-mountain experience. Featuring all-new events and courses, awe-inspiring tricks, and a cast of cool, customizable characters, SSX 3 lets players conquer miles of untamed powder and redefine the boundaries of where they go, what they do, and what they get. The larger-than-life mountain is a player’s playground, racetrack, and launch pad. Explore the mountain terrain to discover its secrets and conquer the beast. Take it for granted and it'll swallow you up. SSX 3 go anywhere gravity will take you. The title ships this fall on the PlayStation 2 console, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and GameBoy Advance.
Sorry to all those folks hitting this page with Google searches--sounds like you're still out of luck
Update: Note that the picture above is a Tricky screenshot; I don't think they've released any shots from SSX3 yet.
Friday, May 09, 2003
"The students came to Math and Science Day at King's Dominion, for fun, amusement park physics, and Fermi questions. Fermi, namesake of element 100, fermium, links Kings Dominion to Pakistan to the squash court in Chicago."
Okay: raise your hand if you had to parse at least part of that paragraph (the last from this piece) more than once.
Thursday, May 08, 2003
Airline Meals, "The World's First Website About Nothing But Airline Food" (via the blog of Neil Gaiman, who has had more than ample opportunity to sample airline food lately.)Believe it or not, another music-related link, via Metafilter: "The Daily Adventures of Mixerman", the online diary of a studio engineer.
UPDATE: If you have several more hours to kill, you could always read A Flight Risk, which may or may not be a hoax but is also great online reading (via WWDN).
Speaking of becoming a rock star, here's the secret to a Top 10 pop song as written by The Matrix (no, not that one) and reported by the NYT:
Instead of reserving its hooks and melodies for the chorus, the Matrix sticks them everywhere, so that nearly every sung and instrumental section of a song is catchy. In many of its songs the melodies increase in presence and intensity until the song reaches such a powerful crescendo that it just breaks open, and a short, ambient, more studio-effect-driven passage follows before the hooks start building again. At the same time, as is the trend in Top 40 radio right now, its songs tend to rest on a head-bobbing pop-funk groove that is topped, when possible, by a touch of crisp guitar.
There you go. Go be rock stars, all of you.
Gawker (via Choire) reports that these posters have been showing up all over Manhattan, commenting "You're not going to be famous" is probably the single most depressing thing you could say to most people under the age of 35 in Manhattan."
I take comfort in the knowledge that at least one part of the poster doesn't apply to me. (That's right; my new life as a rock star begins three weeks from Tuesday.)
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
"The tour consisted of room after room of gifts to Kim Il-sung from around the world, broken down by geographic area. Here gifts from Russia, there gifts from Africa, another room for the Americas, etc. ... The winners here were easily the armored train cars presented by the Soviet Union and China back in the glorious days of communist brotherhood."
Via Metafilter, "Journey Into Kimland", an incredible travelogue by an American living in South Korea going to visit North Korea.
Strange spam continues to come over the transom today: I just received an email offering to help with any "endowment issues" that carried the subject line "SARS Interest Mortality Rate = 5.9%". In case the (odd) conjunction of SARS and Viagra weren't enough, the spammer apparently felt they had to toss interest rates in there to really catch my eye. Less likely in intent but more likely in result is that it caught the eye of most people's spam filters.
Of course, the subject line could be the spammer's attempt to impress potential customers with a canny media culture critique. But I bet not.
From Scott, another Safety Sign Builder creation:
Wow. If every week were full of television as good as this week's Alias and West Wing, I'd be going to buy a Tivo tomorrow.
Via Gawker, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies. My favorite so far: "You need a lot of irony in your diet. It helps pregnant women.:
UPDATE: Here's a page with a downloadable version, via Boingboing.
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Title of spam I just received: I Need to Gossip to you About Your Septic Tank.
It's (almost) about time--the Indiana Jones movies are finally coming out on DVD in November. Ignore what Amazon says and just visit the Indy website and check out the trailer. (via AICN)
It looks doubtful that there will be any commentary, but so long as its reasonably priced I'll be happy just to have high-quality DVDs of the movies and treat the fourth disc as gravy. Of course, now I'll just be waiting to see The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on DVD.
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