The 11th hour

A contract extension that has been in preparation for 6 months, for which the deadline was the 31st of December 2009 has now finally been finalised on December 31st 2009 at 23:44 o'clock CET.

Unbelievable. Some company executives should be slapped left and right around the clock.

On the positive side (at least I hope that it'll be positive), this means 2 more years of work en los Estados Unidos.

Happy new year!

Wallpaper Sites

Five best wallpaper sites, courtesy of Lifehacker.

Star Wars Weather

Ten alternatives to Mininova

http://lifehacker.com/5415321/ten-alternatives-to-mininova

Modern Warfare 2 Comic / Cosplay

I found this MW2 Cosplay photo-set on fourzerotwo's blog. (He works at Infinity Ward) Here's an article about the recreation of Ghost of MW2.
He also has some information about an upcoming MW2 comic that will, apparently, be a 6-part-series. Part 1 came out on November 11th and this looks like a collection of all 6 parts, coming out in July 2010. Also found this.

Street Tests

street tests from Najork on Vimeo.

Flash "Game"

www.cesmes.fi

Work and live in Japan

Found this nice article on Kotaku about working/living in Japan, more specifically in the gaming industry.

Travis Louie

Travis Louie: art show in Seattle and new book

Dubstep

Everything you need to know about Dubstep

Photo-crashing squirrel

4chan fucked Twitter

(via Boingboing)



Article about 4chan.org

GTA (and other) fanart

Came across Patrick Brown's gallery on DeviantArt, awesome stuff:

Parkour photos

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/14/photos-of-parkour.html

Wallpapers

Some nice wallpaper-related posts found on Lifehacker:

The Minimalist OS X Desktop

Best Places to Find Multi-Monitor Wallpaper

70 Wallpapers to Dress Up Your Dual Monitors

DisplayFusion 3.0 Manages Everything Across Multi-Monitor Setups

MultiScape Spans a Single Image Across Multiple Desktops with Ease

The Room of Shapes Desktop

Loginox Changes the OS X Login Background Image

The LiteStep at Night Desktop

The Backflip from the Balcony Desktop

Street Fighter

I recently bought a Madcatz SF4 TE fightstick. (Haven't opened the package yet, though, as we're having visitors staying at our place for a few days.) The package of the stick is already a piece of art itself. The stick is supposed to be pretty much the best one can get (Sanwa Denshi stick and buttons), so I'm eager to try it with SF4 and HDR.

I've been reading a lot on the Shoryuken forums lately, it's a great place for all kinds of Street Fighter related information.

Here's an info page I found about switching from playing with a pad to a stick.

This coming week-end, the yearly Evo tournament will take place in Las Vegas. Here's a nice article about it, telling a bit about its history.

Also, here's a play-in-your-browser-version of Street Fighter 2 CE.

Update: Daigo won the SF4 tournament, as many expected. Pics & article, more.

Update 2: Nice panorama picture of the Evo-room, Flickr photostream of Evo Championship Series and Vids, Kicks and Pix from the Capcom Unity Blog.

The making of Monkey Island

Great "making of story" by Ron Gilbert about The Secret of Monkey Island.

Change OSX Leopard Dock appearance

I find the 3D Dock in Leopard annoying, one can't see well which programs are running because the white spot fades in with the clear background. With this command the 3D Dock can be switched back to 2D:

Open the "Terminal" Application and type this:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

ToDo List: Games

Folgende Spiele liegen zuhause und warten darauf, gespielt zu werden:

Fallout 3 (eingeschweißt)
God of War 2 (hab's mir in den USA nochmal geholt, PAL Version hatte ich mal angefangen und einige Stunden gespielt, jedoch nicht zu Ende)
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (angefangen, aber nicht besonders weit)
God of War: Chains of Olympus (angefangen, aber nicht besonders weit)
Mirror's Edge (etwa zur Hälfte durch, schätz ich mal)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma (nur kurz angespielt)
Shadow of the Collossus (eingeschweißt)
Final Fantasy XII (ca. 10 Stunden gespielt)

1993 - A visit to id software

A Visit to id Software from john romero on Vimeo.

Safe-crackers' "Penetration party"

Personal Account of Safe-Cracking "Penetration Party"

The Conficker worm and April 1st

Article on Gizmodo about how the Conficker worm changed on April 1st.

Mac RAM

I knew that RAM was cheap, but not *that* cheap. 4 GB (2x2) for 50 $.

macsales.com
macmemory.com
crucial.com

MacBook Pro RAM FAQ: here and here

Antwerp Diamond Heist

Wired published this article in their current issue ("The untold story of the world's biggest diamond heist"). The story sounds like a real-life Ocean's eleven. Leonardo Notarbartolo was released from prison last week.
Here's the website of the article's author, Joshua Davis.

Cat Shit One

via boingboing.net

Limbo

limbogame.org

This seems to be the website for a game in its concept-phase. The website hasn't changed for a long time (a year or two since I came across it), so I don't know if this project is still being pursued or has been canned.

The game's visual style reminded me of Flashback, Another World and Heart of Darkness. The Wikipedia pages for these games were quite an interesting read.

Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 5 is out for the PS3 and 360. It's a great game, I've almost finished it. The co-op feature is absolutely fantastic, it's been a long time since I've had so much fun playing with a buddy (who's on the other side of the planet).

House turned into skateboarding park

Ramp House for skateboarding

Recent movies

Taken - Great!

Doomsday - Booh!

The Net 2.0 - Double-Booh!

Wave photography and "Shoot the recession"

Clark Little's wave photography

Shoot the recession (flickr group)

Tilt-Shift music video

Fire (Jimmy Edgar Remix) from Erik West on Vimeo.

Wikipedia Article about tilt-shift miniature faking

Siftables

Recent movies

Slumdog Millionaire

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Street Kings