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The Rock Band Network Music Store is live! rockband.com/news/rbn-music-store…

I can’t wait to try this. I love the Expressionist look of it, and the gameplay looks cool too. Peep the trailer here.

A vote for Windhammer is a vote for freedom: ok.cogaoke.com/contestant/windham…

Too bad the type on the bottom is an afterthought, but otherwise, I quite like this.

In the immortal words of Cedric Daniels, “This... is BULL SHIT!”

There is little doubt that different people are blessed with different amounts of cognitive gifts such as long-term memory and the visuospatial skills chess players are said to employ. One of the reasons chess is an "unparalleled laboratory" and a "unique nexus" is that it demands high performance from so many of the brain’s functions. Where so many of these investigations fail on a practical level is by not recognizing the importance of the process… See more →

I hope this isn’t true. :(

I tweeted that one of my all-time favorite albums was coming to Rock Band soon, and apparently the fans were watching. This is one of at least two forum discussions with dozens of posts that are scouring my web site and last.fm account for clues as to what the album might be. Kinda creepy but mostly funny.

Exactly.

Great!

The dictates include bans on suicide bombings against civilians, burning down schools, or cutting off ears, lips and tongues.

"I’m just trying to get the idea out before the inspiration is gone," he told The Times last year. "Everything I do is motivated by the fear of running out of time."

At this point, I mistake an Onion headline for a real headline almost every day.

Wow.

And the shuffle reacquaints me with another unjustly forgotten gem, Twilight Singers' "Teenage Wristband": youtube.com/watch?v=_OnebDvN0…

Can’t wait to hear the rest of this record. So good.

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I can’t decide which one to get.

Well, it’s not weirder news than the Spider-Man musical U2 is reportedly working on.

I might have hoped increased variety and decreased commercial potential might have made me more interested in the critical darlings of "indie rock" instead of less. I’d suggest it has something to do with my fondness for creative constraints, but many of my favorite artists have made a career out of eschewing genre conventions. Hmm.

At long last, The Superest book is available! If you want my advice, I think you should get it right now. amazon.com/Superest-Kevin-Cor…

I hope all you humps who like this stupid show are happy. Old City now has one fewer oasis.

Seriously, watch all seven parts.

Seriously, watch the whole thing.

I want this movie to be good, but even with Joan Jett as an executive producer, I have my doubts. The retarded trailer does not assuage them, especially with the obscenely hyperbolic statement at the end. Can anyone think of a music biopic that was actually good?

Today is awful.

Kind of makes me want to drop everything and stare at snowflakes for the rest of my life.

Get out of my head, Liz.

Really impressed with pictorymag.com, which essentially intersects fray.com and boston.com/bigpicture. Very promising.

My favorite thing about this is actually how they did the titles.

Fortifying my music library with the help of @amazonmp3's Black Friday Deals: amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_861…

I’m not usually into fan art/cosplay/whatever, but if you’re at all familiar with BioShock, this is really impressive. I just wish they didn’t use those stupid Photoshop filters on the photos. Also, don’t miss the details on how this costume was made.

With all due respect to Mr. Schachter, one of these things is not like the others.

The Boston Globe has declared Harmonix the third best place to work in Boston! boston.com/bostonworks/topwor…

This is great, but I do wish the knights were each represented with an N, as they are in proper chess notation. pushes up glasses

Ugh.

Experimenting with listening to birdsong while I work (birdsongradio.com), as recommended by Julian Treasure: blog.ted.com/2009/10/the_4_ways_s…

Host your own Windows 3.1 launch party! youtube.com/watch?v=OvcHNKUA6…

Scroll Magazine #2 is out now, with a short piece by me. Make like @mSutters and pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. bit.ly/2NiMoo

"Ask yourself this: do you think Wikipedia ever hired an SEO consultant in order to get its high rankings on Google?" bit.ly/2kPy7d

Getting addicted to these Pomplamoose VideoSongs: youtube.com/user/PomplamooseM…

Rock Band for iPhone coming this month! digs.by/VL3

Conceptually trite and kinda sickeningly precious, but the visual thinker in me still likes it.

Kind of like a very, very funny video Twitter feed: 5secondfilms.com

Um. Oh my god.

Watch the video. I wish we’d see games with this caliber of distinctively gorgeous art direction more often.

I’m not sure if I’ll pick this one up, but the first Lego Indy game was ridiculously fun.

As sad as I am for the flood victims, I appreciate the occasional staggering reminder that no matter what, nature wins. bit.ly/3gKRPo

This piece describes my distaste for Napoleon Dynamite perfectly.