2009 July | Bento Box

21Jul/090

Weezer in 8-Bit

iPhone is full of video game chiptunes as ring tones. Weezer covers in 8-Bit rock too.

Do you remember that dream you had, where the sound chips from the beloved games consoles of your youth all got together and formed a Weezer tribute band? Yeah? No? OK. That dream is about to come true whether you had it or not.

The songs on this compilation have mostly been created using original videogame hardware running home-brew software, and vary radically in style, from minimal 'one man and his Game Boy' compositions to 8-bit inspired full band performances. Pterodactyl Squad proudly presents the music of Weezer as you have never heard it before.

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21Jul/090

Before there was Daigo

There was Tomo Ohira. Fascinating thread on SRK about the greatest old school SFII player ever.

Tomo interview from EVO 2K9:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLCrtAxRSY

Tomo himself:

For lulz:

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20Jul/090

More EVO 2K9 vids

For those whose girlfriends don't appreciate Street Fighter; Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono on how to handle the relationship

"It's a sport! You sweat!"

and another sick EVO match

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5yJ3x26sng

and results and pics from EVO 2K9

Recorded stream of the finals

Found a good vid on those Sakura mix ups I saw in the Sabre match

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19Jul/090

I wish I went to Vegas to play and watch. Instead I stayed up till 3am watching the 5v5 matches on a choppy stream. My favorite match so far: Sabre vs Valle - the Sakura mind games are insane. I'll definitely be learning to use her next.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYH-140xR-4&fmt=35

Playlist of other great matches

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13Jul/090

System linked

Resident Evil 5 system linked on a projector for coop greatness on Saturday.

Sent from my iPhone

Posted via email from saltywet's posterous

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8Jul/090

Baloney Detection Kit

found from Boingboing's article about Richard Dawkins helping to fund an Atheist summer camp

Richard "God Delusion" Dawkins' foundation has helped fund an atheist/sceptic summer camp that teaches 8-17 year olds how to think critically about the world:

Alongside the more traditional activities of tug-of-war, swimming and canoeing, children at the five-day camp in Somerset will learn about rational scepticism, moral philosophy, ethics and evolution.

Camp-goers aged eight to 17 will also be taught how to disprove phenomena such as crop circles and telepathy. In the Invisible Unicorn Challenge, any child who can prove that unicorns do not exist will win a ?10 note - which features an image of Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory - signed by Dawkins, Britain's most prominent atheist.

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8Jul/090

Neil Tyson

After checking out this reddit link, I've become a fan of Neil Tyson. He speaks in a personable, easy-to-grasp way while delivering his ideas effectively.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on "Intelligent Design" at Beyond Belief

Neil deGrasse Tyson - "The Best Sermon Ever!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ai-VvboPnA

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Doctors

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7Jul/090

New Sonos CR200

As much as I love Sonos; they need to get lower their pricing now that more competitive products have hit the scene.

Their introduction of the new CR200 is a nice addition/update to their controller line up, but the $350 price is ridiculous considering an iPod touch with the Sonos app does pretty much the same thing. Although Cindy still prefers the bulky Sonos controller to the iPhone app for some reason, the app suits me just fine.

At least it looks pretty cool: