A collection of digital wonders and some other stuff.
I suppose this sort of fits with the backwards theme I’m often posting about around here. Jack Johnson has a music video which, I’m told, he had to learn to sing backwards for. Check this crazy composition out.
Now see the same video backwards… or is that forwards?
Here you’ll find a huge repository of classic video game maps. They’ve got everything from old console to modern PC games.
Adrian Crook, a video game producer and an acquaintance of mine was approached by MTV to share his opinion on video games and violence. Though he was asked to argue for the “Hogwash! Video games don’t cause violence!” side he has written a very balanced and level-headed contribution to the ongoing debate. MTV never did end up using him for their show, but you can read his response to MTV’s pre-screening questionnaire. It’s an interesting read for those interested in media studies; plus Adrian’s candid responses are hilarious.
I’ve seen the “Female X chromosome ‘cracked’” article being linked to around the blogosphere in the last couple days so I thought I’d check it out. What I found was very interesting.
“The discovery, by an international consortium of scientists, shows that females are far more variable than previously thought and, when it comes to genes, more complex than men.”
Nature reports two new studies; one on the complete sequencing of the X chromosome for humans, which sheds some light on how sex evolved and how women differ from men, and another on how women express many genes from X chromosomes previously thought dormant.
In an update to a previous post, Mordechai Vanunu has been officially charged with violating the terms of his release from jail last year.
Here are thirteen things in science that do not make sense but are (apparently) true. I’m still not convinced about a few of them, like cold fusion and holistics. It’s an interesting read nonetheless.
I got a response from Philip Pritchard, of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He sent along an attachment from the Globe and Mail which explains why the Stanley Cup won’t be awarded to any team this year even though the NHL isn’t having playoffs.
“In our personal and professional lives sometimes we receive emails that are upsetting…”
Comedy relief from Ze Frank.
Toyota, yes the car company, is launching a record label in conjunction with its Scion line of cars.
This story is of particular interest to me because a friend of mine, Nate Smith, helped build the Scion “What Moves You” site.
In a presentation to our New Media class he shared a little bit about Toyota’s new direction in targeting twenty-something’s with an advertising campaign that focuses on music and design instead of more traditional methods.
