Archive for the 'Play' Category

Call the future

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

I don’t know if it works, but callthefuture.org sure looks like a fun toy.

Controlling LED Arrays

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

This looks like a fun project: Controlling LED Arrays on TCP/IP Networks. The fun part, though, is the tri-color LED matrix and controller board.

fd’s Flickr Toys

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Here are some really nifty gizmos for playing with flickr: fd’s Flickr Toys.

PSP “wrapper” for digg.com

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

This is kewl. It wraps the content from digg.com in an iframe in such a way that one can view it on the Sony PSP. Have a look at the results: http://racedude.buckdog.sourcecodemini.net/digg/index.html.

5 Best Freeware Games of 2005

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Well, it’s 2006 already, but this is a good list of the 5 Best Freeware Games of 2005. I’ve tried Mono, and it’s kewl.

slickr

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I can’t run it (I run Win2K), but this looks kewl: slickr a screensaver that uses content from flickr.

Face Recognition Demo?

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

If you were curious to see which celebrity myheritage.com thinks you most look like, you can try it out yourself here: Face recognition. [Found on fark.com]
I’m not so sure about it; I apparently resemble Lec Walesa (57%), Moritz Leuenberger (56%), someone named Bill Watterson that I’ve never heard of (55%), Jon Voight […]

Guitar Hero

Monday, December 26th, 2005

I’d only read about it until just a couple of days ago. But it’s true: Guitar Hero rocks. It’s a great game. It’s fun, it looks great, and while this might mess you up if you actually want to learn to play a real guitar later, it’s worth it.
I think I’ve got […]

Sketchfighter

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Screenshots of this in-development game at Ambrosia Software look awesome: Sketchfighter.

Cloud

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

One of the things I do on saturday mornings is to take a look at new and interesting game demos. I found this one, but I didn’t try it until today: Cloud. It’s simple and beautiful. Excellent.

New Me & My Katamari Screenshots

Monday, November 28th, 2005

I can’t hardly wait: a version of Katamari Damacy for the PSP: New Me & My Katamari Screenshots. Sometime next year. That’s soon, right?
Your Katamari is really huge!

’80’s games online

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Here’s a good collection of ’80’s games available online: www.1980-games.com. Unfortunately, I don’t see Crazy Climber in their collection. I love Crazy Climber.

PSP Updates

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

I’ve been trying to decide if I should update my Sony PSP from firmware rev 1.52 up to 2.0 so that I can use the web browser, and then downgrade so that I could still run homebrew. Unfortunately, I don’t want to turn it into a glossy black brick. One of the better […]

Dreamlines

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

About dreamlines: The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process […]

flickrfs

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Given I’m hooked on flickr, and a linux geek, it was inevitable that I would eventually discover flickrfs. Great idea.