Daily Archives: Sunday, 11th February 2007

speed thrills

Posted on by October 6, 2012
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It seems like ↑just.be in meatspace somehow ran into Thomas ‘↑Panter‘ Pilger, who in 1997 “spread throughout the ↑COMPET-N tables like a plague. By August, he was the first to do the third ↑DOOM 2 episode (Map 21-30) on Nightmare skill and was primed for the ultimate DOOM 2 honor, DOOM 2 Schwarzenegger. Almost a year in the making, Thomas ‘Panter’ Pilger finally achieved the impossible by recording all 32 maps of DOOM 2 on Nightmare skill in one demo in 49:49.” ↑John Romero‘s reaction to Panter’s feat: “I grabbed the demos and I’ll run them as soon as I … Continue reading →

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spook country

Posted on by October 3, 2012
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  It seems that I was right, ↵when I suspected that ↑William Gibson succesfully had fused blogging with novel writing, and that in his blog we were reading bits and pieces of an upcoming novel of his. At the end of this year’s January he turned corrected proofs in to the publisher, the covers of the ↑US and ↑UK editions are ready, and “Spook Country” will soon hit the shelves. … Continue reading →

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beatboxing flute

Posted on by July 12, 2012
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As ↑anthronaut commented in his e-mail—by which he pointed me to the whole thing—this indeed is a multi-layered interweavement of computer games, popular music, and new media … At the ↑FanTent, which stands for “fanmade content”, there is a collection of YouTube videos depicting people playing, respectively ↑interpreting the Super Mario Brothers theme song on a whole array of usual and unusual music instruments. Meanwhile an analogous collection of ↑interpretations of the Zelda theme was added. … Continue reading →

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