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Gameboy: 20 years!
April 15th, 2009To celebrate the soon-to-come 20 year anniversary of Nintendo Gameboy, technologizer has posted 13 odd Gameboy related items. I can proudly say that I’ve seen all of them except slide 2, 12 and 13 before. As expected, Gijs’ Grey Brick is in there, as well as the Golden Gameboy and the Gameboy that survived the Gulf War. (However, despite the claims, I believe the latter was regutted and not found in a working condition)
However, of the oddities, this is one is my favourite.
“The PediSedate releases nitrous oxide while children play the Game Boy in order to sedate them for doctor/dentist visits.”
Yes, I’d like me some nitrous hrough this slightly (not) cyberpunk-esque device while tracking some LSDj! (Which is a music sequencer, not a drug, mind ya)
Shitwave+LSDj combo video
April 14th, 2009
Ok, so I managed to dig up my old webcam and shot a video of shitwave with sound. The video quality sucks, but at least there’s sound. (Press the HQ button for a small improvement)
The video starts out with Little Sound Dj. Then I restart the Gameboy and hold start. The Gameboy then boots shitwave.
Shitwave is my all awesome (And soon to be improved) drone generator. For everything you need to know (Info, ROM download, longer sound sample, HQ video without audio) check out this post: http://gameboygenius.8bitcollective.com/wordpress/2009/03/23/shitwave-a-prng-based-drone-generator-for-gameboy/.
Stupid quote of the day
April 11th, 2009Found this over at GameDaily.
A chip is an extremely tiny bit of data that can be looped to form a tone. Basic chips include sine waves, square waves, sawtooth waves, and triangle waves. Composing a piece in chip tunes results in a file that is remarkably small in file size, which was beneficial to early video games, because at that point there was no extra room for data.
No! The chip in chiptune refers to the actual sound chip in the computer. You know, the electronic circuit that brings the noise. There is such a thing as a “chip sample” though. If you replace “chip” with “chip sample” you get a somewhat correct, but still clearly misinformed piece of text. This is what happens when amateur journalists don’t bother getting to know the subject they’re writing about. I don’t have too much trust in that Chris either though…
Let’s go through this once and for all.
On the left side you have a sound chip. (In fact two of them) Early video game consoles did not have any hardware support for sample playback, but relied on synthesis for all its sound generation. These chips is where that happened.
On the right side you have a chip sample, in which is a loopable sound sample, (usually) sampled from a console with a sound chip!
Not so hard to understand, eh, GameDaily?
But hey, at least they’re linking to my Gameboy music how-to! (Which is how I found that page, through referrer logging)
Gameboy necklace and cock ring
April 6th, 2009
So, I bought a Gameboy necklace from CBT’s closet. And I got a cock ring for free. No, not that kind of cock ring, (Or should I say Cork Ring?) but a ring for your finger that looks like a cock. (Rooster) Unfortunately, the ring is so small that it only fits my pinky finger. (Insert obvious joke about where it would fit perfectly)
It’s even more funny that the company is called CBT’s Closet. 
Anyway, the necklace goes great with Greenboy (As seen on the upper left side of the blog)
flickr update 2009/03/28
March 28th, 2009
I cooked spaghetti and one string that I dropped on the table happened to look like half a moustache, so I thought why not take a picture of it… Dedicated to schm0um.
More in my photostream
Flickr Pro (Photos inside!)
March 24th, 2009So, I finally got a Flickr Pro account, thanks Palmer for the help. Since I’m no longer limited to a total of 200 photos and a monthly allowance of 100 MB of photo uploads, I’ll be posting more photos. One of the things that interest me is street/urban art other than graffiti. (Nothing wrong with graffiti, but other forms of street art like stickers, posters as well as other temporary unauthorized art installations, offer more variation and innovation than graffiti, usually)
Feel free to have a look at my Photostream and maybe even add me as a contact. 
A few random, recent photos:
Babies
Reindeer
If you’re at the front page, click “Read on” to the rest of the photos.
Read on…
Nanobots?
March 24th, 2009I found this piece of urban art on my way home today.
Does this means the nanobots are coming?
I’m of course referring to this awesome video.
Svinto - The Swedish brand of soap pads
March 22nd, 2009
Svinto is the Swedish brand of soap pads equivalent to eg Brillo in other countries. I found an old box of this stuff, and since I’m pretty sure the old boxes aren’t very well documented online, I thought why not. I’m guessing this one is from somewhere around the mid-90’s, but it could be as old as late 80’s.
Part of the reason for posting this is of course the Brillo Award I won from Gamma Goblin.
Cool article 2: Wired: Magnetism As A Sixth Sense
March 19th, 2009
The second cool article I’ll be recommending is from Wired, and is about using magnetism as a sixth sense by implanting a small magnet into a person’s finger. The magnet would then act as a simple sensor and enable the bearer to detect magnetic fields. While the method is very simple, it has some interesting implications. What if, for example, a baby would have one of these implants at birth. How would that child grow up to experience the world. To take it a step further, what if that child was synaesthetic or an autistic savant?
Article: A Sixth Sense for a Wired World
