Bit.Trip Beat...

... is awesome :-)

Pong meets Guitar Hero meets Border Down meets Rez...



Making of:

SheevaPlug...

I just found out about the SheevaPlug via Martin Michelmayr's blog.

I've been thinking about setting up a home server for a while, this would be the perfect device :-)

More info here and here.

The jelly devils in Mega Man 9...

...can kiss my ass.



I went back to playing Mega Man 9 this weekend, but could not get past this boss. After getting beaten several times, I wanted to go to the "shop" and buy some powerups... only to realize that you cannot save within the last three levels of the game.

base 2? - Oh, I get it!

I actually wrote code to help me get the joke on the lower right of today's xkcd comic :-)

#!/usr/bin/env/python
import sys
sentence = ""
for word in sys.argv[1:]:
    sentence += chr( int( word, 2 ) )
print sentence

Magical box!

According to this ad, there is a magical converter that lets you play Tekken 5 on a "Vii" :-)

The "Vii" is kind of interesting, because rather than all those NES clones it actually seems to be an original hardware platform of its own, with original games...

Problems with libdvdcss...

I recently had problems watching some new DVDs I got. Even though I had libdvdcss installed, they would not play properly/at all. Deleting $HOME/.dvdcss fixed the problem.

Can't wait for Sin & Punishment 2...

This looks so awesome: