Left alone on a Saturday after a cancelled trip; I find myself looking for diversions and fun stuff. Just ordered;

All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life of Legendary Surfer Miki (book) by David Rensin as DORA is the man. More about Miki.
Little Brother by Cory Doctrow (book) cause Cory rocks. More about LB.
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Love this lego sushi set.
We have a couple huge lego fans in the office. This one is for them.
Full photoset here

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Because Vandals Like Tetris, Too
I know a girl who won Tetris. Which is crazy.

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Linda karting
New purchase — Grand Theft Karto. So fun!

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High Res Super Mario 3
Nothing beats getting a new super hi-res TV; then playing an emulated 1998 video game as your first test of how fun it is !!

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Being idiots at the cottage (this is Jes’s turn - I admit I did it too).
The side house/garage roof had a good foot and a ½ of snow on it. How could we resist? The building is pretty old and we half joked about stepping right through the ceiling.

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The latest Super Mario, might be the greatest game ever made, if you believe the hype. The game is receiving average reviews anywhere from 9/10 to 10’s from most media outlets.
We picked it up, cause, who can resist a little italian plumber? We checked it out for about 2 hours last night an I [...]

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Interesting. Ubisoft has revealed that it makes 10x more money per $ spent on Nintendo game development than it does on PS3/XBOX. No wonder the Montréal headquartered company is ramping up it’s Wii/DS dev teams.
“He (Yves Guillemot, president of Ubisoft) also revealed that Ubisoft currently has 400-500 people dedicated to Wii development at the moment [...]

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This is very funny. Someone took the time (wow) to create a text only version of Pac Man, like Mac games from 1986.
The game starts off with this spooky prologue…

“Pac-Txt!
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You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the [...]

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For all us Wii/Nintendo nerds out there… The killer app for the Wii? You know it will never be as fun as you hope but…

“… Wii remote lightsaber dueling. Since the day that the Revolution was first announced, the dream of wielding the remote like a lightsaber has been a common thread connecting gamers across [...]

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Umm. this could take some time

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After causally asking about them in multiple stores downtown over the past 8 months (once a month) only to be told they were completely sold out making it one of the hardest items to buy in Montreal, last night I was at futureshop researching a new camera and checking out the latest DS games and [...]

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Rosemarie Fiore has taken some beautiful time lapse shots of a couple 80’s video games. Here’s hoping she does some more. She has another series that I like a lot based on “Exploding fireworks” in a controlled way over paper. And — who could not love her giant “Spirograph” project !!

“These photographs are long [...]

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If you liked 80’s video games, if you ever had a pad of graph paper, and if you ever drew a spaceship… well this is the game for you. I just tried it out on my G5 at work. Super smooth motion (very high frame rate) and easy controls. Even has a fun “emo-ish” soundtrack. [...]

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A fun quick read; Business Week asking Miyamoto and another Wi team member about the big ideas behind the Wii. I really do think they got it right. This is also worth checking out — a description of the technology behind the wiimote from CNN.

“Miyamoto: We started work on the Wii around the time the [...]

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