Today is Trip Down Memory Lane Day..
Ever wondered how classic SCUMM adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Full Throttle, the Monkey Island series, Indiana Jones series and lots of others need(ed) to be finished properly and in the quickest possible way? Then you should probably check out this collection of video Recorded Vintage Adventure Speedruns.
(If you’re into this stuff, come check out the Vintage Commodore Computer Club on ur Facebooks)
I’m a sucker for simple, clever ideas. Waitless.org, a new online campaign for Sprint done by Goodby Silverstein, fits that description in every way - its got that instant gratification vibe to it.
The time calculator calculates how much time you spend on a certain thing in your life, and ’sprintcuts’ are tutorials on how to do stuff faster so you’ll waste less time doing them.
I really like this.
(via No Man’s Blog)
At first I thought this was going to be a boring old Windows 95 presentation.. but I was wrong. This is really stunning - the sort of technology that is going to be all over the shop in no time. They call it Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing and from a marketing perspective this might be a bit much for a name. Maybe just call it Seca, or something.
Venture capitalist Bill Stensrud is selling his Southern California waterfront mansion in San Diego for $76 million. It made me think of this entry I posted back in March.
We were in the Cote D’Azur where we had a great stay at our friends Sandrine and Regis’ place. A highlight surely was the genuine french diner that Sandrines’ mother made us - here we’re walking back to the house after having a look around the organic gardens.
The dog is called Slim and he didn’t really fancy me.
The picture is taken with a Blackberry 8300, which has a decent camera for a phone I think, here’s another one.
This evening we went out for drinks to celebrate the kickoff of a really exciting project we are working on. We all think this really is something quite different and we are lucky - blessed - to work with some amazing talent and a great client to get this off the ground and onto this thing we call The Interwebs.
This might all sound a bit vague I guess, but once the ‘soft launch‘ is on, you’ll read about it here..
I’m off for a short holiday now - Big Thanks to Asi Metric for supplying a ton of wicked new tunes & mixes to fill my iPod - nice one mate! : )
