Nick Richards — Nick Richards

Do you have a colour printer, some stout card and a pair of scissors? If so that’s all you need to create videogame based papercraft. The motivation for actually creating such a beast should become obvious upon visiting the following links. Outrun papercraft! Katamari Damancy papercraft! So, how about those crazy Japanese hey? All this of course is neither better or worse just different to the marvelous paper arcade, rightly prasised around the world for its powerful evocation of the chip shop aesthetic in a dolls house universe. »

You know what would be really cool? If these emails I keep recieving from EA about the games I play in FIFA 2005 on Xbox Live could have a date header so my mail client actually knew what to do with them. Yeah, that’d be great. In other words I played my first game of online football last night and was victorious 3-0. I am slightly suspicious that I was in fact playing against an AI bot programmed to let me win the first time to maintain interest/addiction. »

Robert: Australia is ” slightly smaller than the US contiguous 48 states”. This entry in loving comparison to SizeOfWales.co.uk. »

Like long rambling unedited transcripts of interviews? Like the propulsive force of dance-rock that is the LCD Soundsystem? The you’ll love this interview with James Murphy. (he of the LCD Soundsystem and The DFA) Their album is out RSN in the UK and US and I would encourage you all to go and buy it, there’ll be a bonus CD with all the singles which should be worth the price alone. »

A list of weblog and otherwise articles or pieces presented in a list that is supposed to evoke familiarity and possibly awe at my wide ranging interests. Here presented in a dissertation style format that should hopefully tell all whilst negating the reason to write them up fully since, well, I’m not that interested in most of them any more for one reason or another. I’ve intended to write over the past six months or so but never got around to, due to being too busy working with systems and problems I didn’t like. »

Happiness is closing your eyes »

I’m a rocker, I rock out. Well, technically not a rocker but certainly a runner. As Ben said, more eloquently than I could form words at this current moment, it was a legendary performance by all concerned and something everyone both could and should do, no matter the speed of performance. For the record I did the thing in Four hours, Twenty-three minutes and Seven seconds but that didn’t matter so much at the end, finishing was quite emotional. »

Gaming AI and the uncanny valley, with the example of Halo 2. »

Here’s a shoutout to my sister for whom all things creepily Japanese are like milk to a cup of tea. Emily, dude, check out the concept of OS-Tan, it’s sort of like fanfic as drawing for operating systems. Done by the Japanese. There are other bemused western descriptions but that wikipedia article is worryingly comprehensive, the sort of value add that only Wikipedia can provide. Anyway the bit I like the best is that the Linux one carries a spear, fair play you might say except that the spear has three flags attached. »

A really cool idea, I’m the N at the top. Not entirely sure how 560 feeds are scalable though, a couple of years experince has shown me that I can happily keep up with about 70-100 feeds at any one time, usually about 70 in an RSS agregator and another 10 or so via LiveJournal. »