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Björn Gustavsson gives 12 points to Sweden in Eurovision 2008
May 28th, 2008The Swedish announcer, our national pride. 
This guy is an up and coming comedian around here, and he was the one who reported the Swedish votes. I didn’t pay attention to the ESC at all; I havene yet to hear a single entry from the contest, from Sweden or abroad. But I found these clips on Youtube after being someone recommended them to me.
The first clip is form the grande finale in Belgrad, where he “happens” to give 12 points to Sweden, just to excuse himself by saying “No, you can’t on your own!”. I think this is a parody on the East European countries which almost just seem to vote for each other, practically leaving the competition to them.
Some Swedes said their ashamed about him, because they think people abroad will start to think that this is how all Swedes are, a bit insecure, speak bad English, make clumsy mistakes, maybe a bit too much Aquavit. To them I’d like to say: Grow up! Everybody realized it was a joke. I rather think it helps shatter them image of Sweden as a stiff, overly PC country.
In the second clip he acts drunk in the national semi-finals. The English subtitles were made by yours truly.
Michael Jackson and the music in Sonic The Hedgehog
May 11th, 2008A guy I talked to at Microdisko told me about how he was in love with the sound from YM2612 FM chip in the Genesis/Megadrive, although most game music composers at the time didn’t know how to fully utilize the chip’s full potential. He (as well as I) love the music of Sonic 2 and beyond.
And today I stumbled upon the awesome news that some of the tracks in Sonic 2 might have been composed by Michael Jackson. Yes, that Michael Jackson, the king of pop. Apparently he composed music for the games, but then it was removed when the pedophilia accusations started to pop up. This video show a compelling argument, supported by statements by former Sega employees, that the music in fact remained in the final games.
Unfortunately, they won’t let me embed it. :/
So here’s a link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4
Instead, I’ll put a video of Streets of Rage here, which my newfound friend told me about for the music. It’s nothing actually nothing short of rave music, and I love it.
Automatic Mario Music Video
May 9th, 2008
Automatic Mario - Kumikyoku “Nico Nico Douga” from Doctor Zhao on Vimeo.
In the beginning there was LunarMagic. On the first day, 2ch created Super Mario hacks. On the second day, they created Automatic Mario…
Seriously though, this is not the first Automatic Mario music video that I’ve watched, but by far the best one. Even though you have to use speial block like fast forward block and the jump block, it’s still brilliantly well timed. And what’s more, it’s filled with internet culture symbolism. Fuck you nichanneru for being so awesome. (Inb4 weabooism)
(Through Kotaku)
ADLib Tracker
March 4th, 2008More Youtube! This time it’s my Pentium 100 MHz laptop playing som AD lib tunes with ADLib Tracker ][. The tunes are Chipmunk, Comic Bakery and Super Mario Land Theme, from the collection of modules that comes with the program. Someday I'll try to sit down and track something myself. And some other day maybe I will tell the story of how I managed to use HDD in the laptop, where the CD used to be. Without the consent of the BIOS.
Two videos of Protein DScratch
March 2nd, 2008Here are two videos of me playing around with Protein DSratch, a sampler and scratch software for Nintendo DS. Click the link for downloads.
Anti-piracy youtube dump
February 22nd, 2008The original ad (With corrections)
Spoof from the IT crowd
Pro-piracy ad from the Green Parties of Europe
You think this post was annoying?
Chronoroll’d!
January 31st, 2008
Watch on youtube
It was recently revealed on the Interwebs that we have all been rickroll’d during all those years when playing Chrono Trigger. This is Robo’s Theme mixed with the all famous Never Gonna give You Up by Rick Astley (Aka “Rickroll”)
The mix is unfinished and was made by someone who remains Anonymous.
Related links:
Robo’s Theme
Rickroll
Original MP3
Video of my 512 byte Javascript demo
October 24th, 2007Here’s a video of my 512b javascript demo, Colorful Tentacle. It’s a web browser demo that I wrote in 512 bytes. It’s coded in Javascript, not Java. Here’s a video of it. To add to the mix, it’s not shown on a desktop browser, but on the Nintendo DS version of Opera.
Prod page on pouët: link me beautiful. Or you can click here to view it in your own browser right now.
Oh Nine, Eff Nine (And a long lost dutch commercial)
May 4th, 2007This is a lazy post with two youtube videos.
The first one is another take on the 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 business. (Google has 889000 results today as opposed to 290000 yesterday. I’ll have a daily watch to see it grows)
It’s a little ballad to honor the numbers. Let’s see how long it’ll stay on youtube before the MPAA orders a takedown of the video.
Original source: Rocketboom blog
On a related note, I found this delicious link in their bookmarks heap: ANT SCOTT (Glitch art)
And the other one is a commercial that a friend told me about ages ago. I couldn’t find it back then but now I did of a co-incidence.
It’s a dutch banned commercial where a family sits down in their car, turn on the radio and hear a song that says “I wanna fuck you in the ass”. The family, unaware of what the lyrics mean, just keeps on rocking to the song. The commercial, as you might’ve figured, for an English teaching company. (Sorry for not censoring the F word, but I want people who may be searching for it to be able to find it.)
