Archive for May, 2005

postVideo Game Controller Family Tree - Gaming, Links - 31st May

Sock Master’s Video Game Controller Family Tree

postBBC Backstage - Links, Technology - 27th May

The BBC recently launched their backstage project that aims to provide lots of the BBC’s data to developers to play around with and develop innovative applications. They currently have lots of RSS/XML feeds for all kinds of data like: news, weather, travel, sport etc. I’ve knocked up a prototype using Google maps and plotting the current UK travel data onto it.

postUh-Oh - Links - 27th May

Threadless have another $10 sale on. Get out the credit card…

postDmoz - Meta - 26th May

I submitted the site for inclusion in dmoz months ago. I’ve done this one or two times before and usually nothing happens; no inclusion, no email nothing. But this time I actually got in! Along with the 8 gatrillion other people in the “Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/Personal/” category of course. Behold.

postMulticolour Nintendo Revolution - Gaming, Links, Technology - 21st May

Now this is a sexy looking console. Give me this over the Xbox 360 and PS3 any day.

via: www.engadget.com
postThis Is Beyond Wrong - Links - 21st May
 
via: boingboing.net
postHomebrew Grand Theft Auto for the 8-bit Nintendo - Gaming, Links - 21st May

This guy is making a port of Grand Theft Auto for the NES, yes the NES. He is one dedicated guy, considering he had to make: an assembler, graphics editor, map editor and a host of other tools all from scratch just to make this game!

via: boingboing.net
postChicagoCrime.org and Google Maps - Links, Technology - 20th May

Another super-cool use of Google maps here. Chicago Crime plots all the crime data made available from the Chicago Police Department. Check out all crimes reported in the 3 a.m. hour on May 5, 2005 in Chicago. You can even map out all the prostitution busts. Excellent combination of the two technologies. Needless to say I’m working on something very similar at the moment for Google Sightseeing.

postColor trends - Design, Links - 20th May

The top 10 “new” hot colors according to the Pantone Color Institute.

hot colours
postMmm, upgrades - Meta - 18th May

I just updated the site to Wordpress 1.5.1 and being the numpty that I am lost all my images and themes. Stupid ‘replace’ and ‘merge’ buttons in FTP client….

Anyway, I dug through the backups and manged to extract all the bits I lost. All should be good now. If you spy any problems leave me a comment here.