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      <title>This is not a gaming blog</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/yhancik/posts/text/907458</link>
      <description><![CDATA[But still, hahahaha<br /><br /><br /><br />Obama & Palin as dowloadable characters in the game Mercenaries 2<br /><br /><font size="-2">(via.. guess what ? <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/10/31/mercenaries-2-gets-political/">RPS again</a>)</font>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:45:34 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Play</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The gameplay experiments at <a href="http://ludomancy.com">Ludomancy</a> are really cute And interesting.<br /><br />They're maybe not games as we usually mean it, but it's just another reason why you should try them ;)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ludomancy.com/games/StoryTeller.html"><img src="http://www.weblogimages.com/v.p?uid=yhancik&amp;pid=610487&amp;sid=gNU62rGRU8" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ludomancy.com/blog/2008/09/15/storyteller/">Storyteller</a> is like a pure form of "interactive fiction"<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.weblogimages.com/v.p?uid=yhancik&amp;pid=610488&amp;sid=mBQ23npvP4" border="0" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ludomancy.com/blog/2008/09/03/i-wish-i-were-the-moon/">I wish I were the Moon</a> is a bit different.. hard to explain.<br /><a href="http://www.ludomancy.com/blog/2008/09/03/i-wish-i-were-the-moon/">Read here</a>, and <a href="http://www.ludomancy.com/games/MoonWish.html">play here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><font size="-2">This is (of course) via <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/10/22/i-wish-i-were-the-moon/">RPS</a> again ;)</font>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:28:18 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Indie love</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two other interesting indie videogames videos via <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com">RPS</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://iandallas.com/games/swan/">Ian Dallas' The Unfinished Swan</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And the still mysterious <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/10/15/love-video/">Eskil Steenberg's Love</a><br /><br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:31:23 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>What I saw this weekend</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/yhancik/posts/text/883014</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<font size="+1"><b>Friday</b></font><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yhancik/tags/jeanlouismurat/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2955179429_f1176e72af.jpg?v=0" style="width: 500px; height: 375px; border: 0" alt="alt" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><font size="+1"><b>Saturday</b></font><br /><br /><br /><br />&&<br /><br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:32:02 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Minotaur China Shop &hearts;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ahh, more on <a href="http://yhancik.livejournal.com/641206.html">Minotaur China Shop</a>!<br /><br />A new video :<br /><br /><br />And some (fantastic) explanations :<br /><blockquote><i>"    In ancient times, there lived a dreadful beast descended from a divine bovine: the Minotaur. Though fearless and powerful, his strength was his undoing. While perusing a China Shop one day, the Minotaur accidentally bumped into a shelf and entered a state of Minotaur Rage, destroying the store. Due to racial injustices in ancient legal systems, his Minotaur Rage defense was dismissed and he was banished to the labyrinth.<br /><br />    After serving half his sentence, the Minotaur has been released on good behavior thanks to progressive movements sympathetic to his disorder. Armed with Minotaur Rage Insurance and a Business License, can the Minotaur control himself and realize his dream of selling Fine China?"</i></blockquote>Matthew Wegner adds, <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/10/01/minotaur-china-shop-smashing-new-footage/#comment-95915">in this RPS comment thread</a> :<blockquote><i>"In the game, you can earn money by either serving customers or by destroying china (so long as you're sufficiently enraged for your rage insurance policy coverage). The game lasts for 5 store days, with an opportunity to upgrade stats and buy new moves between days. The larger game structure is simply score optimization.<br /><br />If you rage too hard for too long, though, the insurance company will call in the authorities to take care of you. Customers will leave, too; most Moosotaurs, Pegasusotaurs, and Unicornotaurs are skittish around raging Minotaurs. It's a hard line of work to be in."</i></blockquote><br /><br />Brilliant :D I love it !]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:34:07 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.weblogimages.com/v.p?uid=yhancik&amp;pid=609313&amp;sid=uGR28gZiu6" border="0" /><br /><br />Je ne suis pas certain de savoir ce qu'il faut en d]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:34:07 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>In the early 00s</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.google.com/search2001.html">http://www.google.com/search2001.html</a><br /><br />For a month, you'll be able to search Google's index of January 2001.<br />A weird, almost alien world where <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=myspace">Myspace</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=iPod">iPod</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=Gmail">Gmail</a> are not what you think.<br /><br />A world without <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=lolcat">LOLCAT</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22ORLY+owl%22&amp;btnG=Search">ORLY owl</a>. Where <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22i+for+one%2C+welcome+our+*%22&amp;btnG=Search">"I for one, welcome our"</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22epic+fail%22&amp;btnG=Search">"Epic Fail"</a> were catchphrases.<br /><br />A time when <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22web+2.0%22&amp;start=0&amp;sa=N">"Visual Web 2.0 Browses the Web in 3-D"</a>, when you could dream about a Playstation 3 that <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22playstation+3%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=N&amp;btnG=Search">"hook up to email, online shopping and all the other broadband services Sony originally expected the PS2 would connect us to"</a>.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22year+2008%22&amp;start=0&amp;sa=N">Year 2008</a> was the <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22in+7+years+we+will%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=N&amp;btnG=Search">future</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22john+titor%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=N&amp;btnG=Search">John Titor was still around.</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:09:26 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>You could form a band called Dread Zeppelin</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[and cover Led Zep in a reggae style.<br /><br />But that would be too easy!<br /><br /><br /><br />If your singer is an Elvis impersonator, now it.. really.. does.. <br />uh.. <br /><br />you know...<br /><br />mh..<br /><br />... well, anyway, there you are!<br /><br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a>Good ol' Richard Cheese<br /><br /><br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:13:25 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>DM404</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/yhancik/posts/text/846845</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.depechemode.com">depechemode.com</a>'s 404 page<br /><br /><img src="http://www.weblogimages.com/v.p?uid=yhancik&amp;pid=608915&amp;sid=fwN67ijyT0" border="0" height="400" width="500" /><br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a>		<br /><br /><br />Et joyeux anniversaire monsieur JPKennyCoffe442]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:24:27 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Books are love</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2893522594_f9b3f23a83.jpg?v=0" style="width: 341px; height: 500px; border: 0" alt="alt" /> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2893522270_38ba8f1468.jpg?v=0" style="width: 331px; height: 500px; border: 0" alt="alt" /><br /><br /><font size="-2">Cover art by Wojtek Siudmak, <a href="http://www.tendreams.org/siudmak.htm">whose more recent work surely isn't as psychedelic</a>.</font>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:24:27 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>YouTube</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/yhancik/posts/text/844992</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Oh, <a href="http://xkcd.com/">xkcd</a> got it right again &lt;3<br /><br /><img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listen_to_yourself.png" style="width: 462px; height: 513px; border: 0" title="Man, I just wanted to know how babby was formed." /><br /><br />It's funny how The YouTube Comment has become in today's popular/net culture the paragon of internet stupidity.<br /><br /><br /><br />See <a href="http://stupidfilter.org">StupidFilter</a>, a projet of software that would filter stupid comments; it used (at least initially) YouTube comments to build <i>"a ranked corpus of stupid text"</i>.<br /><br /><br /><br />In the same idea, see the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7115">YouTube Comment Snob</a> Firefox extension that can hide YouTube comments according to a simple, customisable set of rules like :<ul style="font:0.8em"><li> More than # spelling mistakes. </li><br /><li>All capital letters </li><br /><li>No capital letters </li><br /><li>Doesn't start with a capital letter </li><br /><li>Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????) </li><br /><li>Excessive capitalization </li><br /><li>Profanity </li><br /></ul><br /><br /><br />Not to mention Metafilter vs YouTube comments : <a href="http://www.thatsaspicymeatball.com/comments/">http://www.thatsaspicymeatball.com/comments/</a><br /><br /><br /><br />~<br /><br /><br />On a totally related note, this month was the 15th anniversary of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September">Eternal September</a>.<br /><blockquote style="font:0.8em"><i>via wikipedia</i><br />"Eternal September is a Usenet slang expression, coined by Dave Fischer, for the period beginning September 1993. The expression encapsulates the belief that an endless influx of new users (newbies) since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behaviour on Usenet and the wider Internet."<br /><br />"Usenet originated among universities, so, every year in September, a large number of new university students acquired access to Usenet, and took some time to acclimate themselves to the network's standards of conduct and "netiquette". After a month or so, these new users would theoretically learn to comport themselves according to its conventions. September, thus, heralded the peak influx of disruptive newcomers to the network.<br /><br />In 1993, the online service America Online began offering Usenet access to its tens of thousands, and later millions, of users. To many "old-timers", these "AOLers" were far less prepared to learn netiquette than university freshmen. This was in part because AOL took few pains to educate its users about Usenet customs, or explain to them that these new-found forums were not simply another piece of AOL's service. But it was also a result of the much larger scale of growth. Whereas the regular September freshman influx would soon settle down, the sheer number of new users now threatened to overwhelm the existing Usenet culture's capacity to inculcate its social norms."</blockquote><br /><br />Story of most internet communities, isn't it?<br /><br />Take, for a recent example, what <a href="http://www.cylegage.com/lulz/">that research paper on the LULZ</a> says (or quotes, actually) about <i>the website that should remain unnamed</i> :<br /><blockquote style="font:0.8em">"The long running joke that has developed over the past 3 or so years is that everybody on the website, (well, on /b/ anyway) whislt ADULTS, and reasonably intelligent ones at that, engage in moronic activities verging on the utterly stupid. The joke being that everyone acts like the same retarded individual. WHILST KNOWING THAT THEY ARE NOT. The joke is in the delivery.... Eventually, so many 14 year olds end up browsing the site that the original adult userbase has been overshadowed by the masses of underage people who have now turned the joke inside out, and the site has now literally become a place for 14 year olds to be retarded."</blockquote><br /><br />*sigh*]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:27:42 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Vimeo</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/toys/vimeoland">http://www.vimeo.com/toys/vimeoland</a><br /><br />Damn, I've been thinking about <i>something like that</i> for a couple of years...<br />Well I guess that if someone made it, it wasn't a too bad idea ;)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:27:41 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>An unprecedented crisis indeed</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/yhancik/posts/text/844990</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=crisis&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0"><img src="http://www.weblogimages.com/v.p?uid=yhancik&amp;pid=608889&amp;sid=ckl42bfLP9" border="0" /></a><br /><br />... as expected.<br /><br />What I didn't expect was the almost cyclic nature of "crisis", especially between 2004 & 2006. What's going on there? <br />Crisis goes up, there's a a break around March, then it goes up again before going down toward June. Summer holidays seems to offer a relief from crisis, but it restarts around September and stays almost constant until xmas...<br /><font size="-2">(of course you shouldn't mix it up with <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=crysis&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0">crysis</a>)</font><br /><br />Anyway, related music :<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:27:40 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Spore</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/yhancik/posts/text/837421</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<br /><br />Terribly imperfect after all the wait, but still fun(ny) and surprisingly beautiful, actually.<br /><br /><br />And post your Spore name so I can add you ;)<br /><font size="-2">(even if you only played the Creature Creator Trial)</font>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:08:22 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Overcome your fears</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.weblogimages.com/v.p?uid=yhancik&amp;pid=608194&amp;sid=uAC48BILN6" border="0" />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:52:53 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>About the Pope</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<font size="+1"><i>"The Pope is 20 cm tall, not including his tiara, and crafted from highest-quality white mohair. He is fully jointed. His nose, mouth and claws are lovingly stitched by hand. <br /><br />(...)<br /><br />The cloak with its extremely elaborate gold-, green- and silver-coloured embroidery.<br /><br />(...)<br /><br />Under the high-quality satin cloak, he is wearing the original white robe. "</i></font><br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><a href="http://www.steiff.de/site/index.php?id=433&amp;L=4&amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=217&amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=55&amp;cHash=29499a2ca7">The Pope</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:10:31 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>The 21st century</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<br /><br /><a href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1868">yes !</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:21:51 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>I'm afraid we'll be deviating a bit from standard analysis procedures today, Gordon.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2008/09/crowbar-headcrab-and-half-life-strategy.html">crowbar!</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:10:06 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>This post might be about bad music, SO BEWARE!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<i>They</i> made a .. japanese eurodance (uh?) cover of Aneka's one hit "Japanese Boy".<br /><br />How charming 80s crap turns into spiritless 00s crap.<br />(but maybe that, in 2020, we'll find it as charming, who knows)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a>The original, for reference :<br /><br /><br /><br />It's sure that the Shanadoo girls look.. more authentically japanese than Aneka the Scottish.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a name="cutid2"></a><br />That reminds me of that zubtle 00s remix of <a href="http://yhancik.livejournal.com/631881.html">Club Tropicana</a> by Vynilshakerz<br /><br /><br /><br />The disappearance of the moustached cow-boy might denote a slight shift of... <i>interests</i> since Wham's original video. But I'll leave this to your own interpretation.<br /><br /><br />While we're at it, have you heard Ashley Tisdale covering Rick Astley ?<br /><br />Yeah, I couldn't believe it either...<br /><br /><br /><br />If you got to this point, I guess you can as well listen to some Rihanna. <br />I know someone in my friendlist will really appreciate it ;) But go ahead, there's a surprise!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGLMALvtjBc">Yeah...</a><br /><br /><br />For those last two, you have to wonder... did they just ingenuously reuse a piece of pop culture, or are they exploiting the rising power of the memesphere already ?<br /><br /><br /><br />And finally what some will regard as a coup de gr]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:22:30 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Des flims sur le cyclimse</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[C'est fabuleux, y'a un fou qui a list]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:12:40 -0700</pubDate>
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