Archive for March, 2008
Well the news of the Twilight Princess hack for loading code on the Wii has been around for a little while now but it required some geekiness and the purchase or building of a gamecube SD card adaptor.
It’s now been announced that the latest version of the Twilight Princess bootloader supports the internal SD slot [...]
March 14th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Media | No Comments
If you are fed up with the usual browser gaming fare, most of it powered by flash and a good deal of it not exactly high quality in the production department then InstantAction might just be for you.
InstantAction is GarageGames new browser based gaming platform which manages to run some really nice looking multiplayer 3D [...]
March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Media | No Comments
Pie by ~huxy on deviantART
March 11th, 2008 | Posted in Art, Media, Misc, Pies | No Comments
A couple of nice sites for the little ones I seemed to find within days of each other.
First up is Storynory, a free audio podcast providing a new story each week. There are both classic fairy tales and fiction plus newer original (I think) stories, all of which read by Natasha who has a really [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Audio, Fiction, Media, Video | No Comments
March 7th, 2008 | Posted in Media, Video | 3 Comments
The Incwell iPulp Fiction Library is a great little resource I stumbled across today. It has the brilliant premise of publishing “dime novel” style pulp fiction stories with the hope of turning younger people on to reading, which is an aim I can’t applaud enough.
A particular gem is the original short version of Orson Scott [...]
March 6th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Fiction, Media | 2 Comments
I heard about this last week and it really is a shame but Stage6 shut down on Feb 28th 2008.
This closure puts an end to a great source of high quality streaming videos and one of the best sites around for streaming videos to Xbox Media Center.
Here’s hoping an alternative turns up but considering the [...]
March 5th, 2008 | Posted in News | No Comments
Atheism by ~DailyAtheist on deviantART
March 4th, 2008 | Posted in Art, Media | No Comments
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of The Charlatans but it’s nice to see another “big” group giving their music away for free.
Head over to XFM who are providing the album as a zipped set of mp3 files or as separate mp3 downloads.
You’ve already feasted your ears on two phenomenal singles: title track ‘You Cross My [...]
March 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Media, Music | No Comments
As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of Neil Gaiman’s novels was being voted for by fans and that novel would be published for free online for one month.
Well the novel chosen, rather predictably was American Gods and you can find it here.
Unfortunately it’s in “Read only online here, using our annoying slow online [...]
March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Books, Fiction, Media | 1 Comment