Trailer for an upcoming film called Revolver. Song is by The Glitch Mob off their album Drink the Sea.
This is just one of many awesome videos found on Devour, which is the most awesome video website I have ever visited. They curate the best videos from YouTube, Vimeo and their ilk for your viewing pleasure.
See also Words, Starburst Zombie and Bad Romance by Brett Domino.
You should bookmark Devour – now.
A few years back I upgraded to my Nintendo DS Lite and sold my silver Gameboy Advance SP. I wanted to keep my SP and it was a great piece of hardware, but alas I had to figure out a way to cover some of the cost of the new DS. Off to eBay it went and I kept all 50 of my old Advance games. (I was able to justify keeping them due to the DSes’ backwards compatibility – even if I never played them that much.)
Recently I found my old Gameboy Color (Check out that radical Kiwi color!) and started playing the new DS Pokemon games with my 7-year-old niece. By finding my old Color I could play that generation of games natively on the original(ish) hardware. I noticed that I could not do this for my Gameboy Advance titles. This got me thinking about my SP and how it was such a great little handheld.*
Jackie and I did some searching on craigslist and eBay and found a SP for cheap. Since then, I’ve been looking through all my old games and showing them to my daughter. I came across a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and noticed my old save game stated that over sixty-five hours where logged.
Wow! I don’t remember playing that much of this one game, but this had me thinking. Imagine if I added up all the saved play-time from each of the 50 games. What would I end up with?
This:
That’s right, I’ve clocked in over 318 hours into my Gameboy Advance. Other interesting stats:
I can’t believe I soaked so much time into this generation of handheld games. To make it even more mind-blowing here’s a few additional things to remember. This was just my handheld console. I also had my PS2 and Gamecube during this time as well. Additionally a large percentage of my GBA games don’t have time tracking. Big games like Zelda and the Mario titles don’t show you how long you’ve played. Imagine if I were to add those in. Lastly, this doesn’t track all the times I’ve saved before a challenging part of the game then died!
So in closing I’d have to say this is a great example of how this was such a great generation of games and I encourage you all to dust off those old consoles and give em’ another spin.
*And a great generation of games. Both Metroid titles, the 3 Castlevanias, Golden Sun Megaman Zero, I could go on.
Nearly a year ago I hired a bright young man by the name of Will Sutton. Over the course of the following months Will and I made this – the official Saint Louis University iPhone App. (Which you are most welcome to download at iphone.slu.edu)
Will initially started from scratch, learning Objective-C and his way around XCode. Even more impressive was the fact that he really never used a Mac much before.
Like a fish to water he quickly had a rough prototype up and running. It was serviceable, but very, shall we say, rickety.
Then we were alerted to the existence of a great open-source app framework created at West Virgina University by then student Jared Crawford.
Will set about updating the framework with SLU specific data sources. We had to meet with legal, create icons and vet our data sources for reliability. With Jared’s awesome framework we were able to quickly turn around a tight first release of what I’m sure will be a vital asset to any SLU student.
Meanwhile the IT department was preparing to launch a mobile portal for some of the very same services. Like some superhero wonder group we joined forces and released our apps simultaneously. Being web-based their app has a much larger reach, but our app allows us to perform some hardware specific feats.
Our next step is to squash a few 1.0 bugs, update the app for the new Retina display and start adding additional features like dining information and athletic reports.
You can read more about the apps from this nice press release.
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via TUAW:
The FBI agrees with Auernheimer’s assertion that this exploit is of national interest. So much so,CNET reports, that they raided Andrew Auernheimer’s home on a warrant (we assume “Escher” is a pseudonym). They found “illicit drugs,” and Auernheimer is now being held on felony charges.
I like hackers. They’re a needed group of nerds. But instead of going for the fame, contact the company and let them know in private. Don’t be a jerk and blab on about it. You’ll gain much more respect as a “freelance security research team”.