syllogomaniaTumblr (3.0; @hikikomori)http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/<a href="http://www.toastyfrog.com/verbalspew/archives/entry_1384.php">Post game (show) wrap-up</a>: <p>I’m packing up to depart from Japan, with a single solitary tear in my eye that the trip was so short (i.e. I didn’t really have time to either hang out, do much for Retronauts, or hunt down…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181977http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181977Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:05:18 -0400<a href="http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/09/27/fumito_ueda_on_trico/">Fumito Ueda Talks Trico With Japanese Press</a>: <p>Transitioning to PS3, official logos, and sad endings.</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181979http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181979Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:05:18 -0400<a href="http://smt.blogs.com/mari_diary/2009/09/mameshiba.html">mame-shiba</a>: <div> <p><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="never" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QpRBkhipQOs&hl=en&fs=1&" width="425" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></p> <p>Bean-shaped with shiba dog-faced characters are called Mame-shiba. They were made by Dentsu as a cute new charaster. Their TV ads are funny, when you eat some bean, you accidentaly found…</p> </div>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181972http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181972Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:05:17 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QjxRl5tEuXA/dd-camp-circa-1982.html">D&D camp, circa 1982</a>: <p><img src="http://craphound.com/images/shippensburg82.jpg"/><br/> Here’s a lovely interview with an alumnus of the Shippensburg Adventure Game Camp, a residential D&D camp for 10-17 year olds held at Shippensburg College (now Shippensburg University) in…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181965http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181965Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:05:17 -0400<a href="http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~r/laughingsquid/~3/bh5FLEmK2Lc/">KQED, UC Berkeley J-School Prepares to Launch “Bay Area News Project”</a>: <p><em>guest post by <a href="http://tinynibbles.com/">Violet Blue</a></em></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/3250539603/" title="The New York Times by Laughing Squid, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/3250539603_c6cc1a67e5.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="The New York Times"/></a></p> <p><small><em>photo by <a href="http://scottbeale.org/">Scott Beale</a></em></small></p> <p>In a completely non-ironic and potentially exciting move, <a href="http://www.kqed.org/">KQED</a> and the <a href="http://journalism.berkeley.edu/">University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism</a>…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181959http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181959Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:05:16 -0400<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/Vw6ZOu5bnGU/dirpy-converts-youtube-videos-to-audio-for-later-listening">Dirpy Converts YouTube Videos to Audio for Later Listening [YouTube]</a>: <p><a rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2009/09/2009-09-25_220100.jpg"><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/17/2009/09/500x_2009-09-25_220100.jpg" width="500"/></a>Many YouTube videos are just as enjoyable as straight-up audio. If you’d like to grab a lecture or comedy routine for the road, Dirpy can help.</p> <p>Dirpy allows you to easily rip the audio from a…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181943http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181943Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:05:15 -0400<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/85412/Lets-Go-Pitt">Let's Go Pitt!</a>: <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNyV7UQJpyY">Some “highlights” from this weekend’s G20 protests in Pittsburg.</a></p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181946http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181946Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:05:15 -0400<a href="http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=e7ce6df001eb1f6eafa295ccb773d1d0">Location-game showdown: Gowalla vs Foursquare</a>: <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/internet/" rel="tag">Internet</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-services/" rel="tag">Web services</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/social-software/" rel="tag">Social Software</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/iphone/" rel="tag">iPhone</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-2-0/" rel="tag">web 2.0</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/mobile/" rel="tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web/" rel="tag">Web</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/android/" rel="tag">Android</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/microblogging/" rel="tag">Microblogging</a></p> <div style="text-align:center"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2009/09/showdown-gowalla-foursquare.jpg" alt=""/></div> <div>Whilst the iPhone wasn’t the first phone with GPS, the…</div>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181951http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/199181951Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:05:15 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Smarterware/~3/vBsayIClIqw/geolocation-software-features-freak-people-out">True Geolocation Publishing Freaks People Out</a>: <p><img src="http://smarterware.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/youarehere.png" alt="You are here" title="You are here" width="173" height="170" align="right"/>Robert Scoble argues that <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/23/antifeatures-big-mistake-that-location-app-developers-make/">requiring users to post their true location in geolocation apps is an “antifeature”</a> because it freaks people out. Users want control over where they say they are…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696466http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696466Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:14 -0400<a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/blade-runner-will-prove-invincible.html">Blade Runner will prove invincible</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by I Have Opinions <br/> Damn</blockquote> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner">Blade Runner</a>, a movie still regarded by many as the greatest science fiction film ever made, was based on the novel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F">Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep</a>. Its…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696462http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696462Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:14 -0400<a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/flooding_in_the_southeast.html">Flooding in the Southeast</a>: <p><div>Heavy rains, beginning on September 19th, dumped between 15 and 20 inches of rain over three days on parts of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The deluge overwhelmed natural and man made systems, and…</div></p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696453http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696453Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:14 -0400<a href="http://inspiredl.com/post/196516308">benjaminf: laureola: Eiffel tower under construction,...</a>: <img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqhitf64jf1qzg82yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://benjaminf.tumblr.com/post/196450107/laureola-eiffel-tower-under-construction">benjaminf</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://laureola.tumblr.com/post/196230188/eiffel-tower-under-construction-paris-via">laureola</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><i>Eiffel tower under construction, Paris</i></p> <p>(via <a href="http://myheartmylove.tumblr.com/">myheartmylove</a>)</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696445http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696445Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:14 -0400<a href="http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=114264">Jackass of the Week: U.S. District Court Judge James Ware</a>: <p>This is absurd:</p> <ol> <li><p>Rocky Mountain Bank emailed confidential financial information to the wrong Gmail address.</p></li> <li><p>The bank attempts to force Google to release the name of the owner of the email…</p></li> </ol>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696425http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696425Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:13 -0400<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/85375/Chernobyl-Today-A-Creepy-Story-told-in-Pictures">Chernobyl Today: A Creepy Story told in Pictures</a>: <p><a href="http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today-a-creepy-story-told-in-pictures/">Chernobyl Today: A Creepy Story told in Pictures</a> <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/79740/So-heres-my-trip-to-Chernobyl-in-pictures">previously</a>)</small> <br/></p> <div> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Metafilter?a=bmxLlnkDxxA:RcgpO0DyufY:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Metafilter?i=bmxLlnkDxxA:RcgpO0DyufY:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/></a> </div>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696419http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696419Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:13 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/orcvuaG2gPA/confirmed_twitter_is_saving_all_your_tweets_after.php">Confirmed: Twitter is Saving All Your Tweets, After All</a>: <p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgTwitter.jpg"/>Forest fires in California, the plane landing on the Hudson river, the Mumbai hotel attacks - these historical events and many more have been recorded by everyday people on the ground, using…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696427http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696427Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:13 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~3/JfElduFNWPs/news_index.php">TGS: Sony Announces PlayStation Room For PSP</a>: <p><img src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/25409/psroom.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/>Among Sony’s Tokyo Game Show announcements this week was the revelation that it would be bringing an avatar-based social environment, PlayStation Room, to its PSP handheld. Just as with the…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696433http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696433Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:13 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TinyCartridge/~3/ej6_Lfm7VfU/196589513">Trailer for Ni no Kuni, the Studio Ghibli-animated DS game from...</a>: <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1_-biN0vOGA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" width="400" height="336" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="never" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br/><br/><p>Trailer for <i>Ni no Kuni</i>, the Studio Ghibli-animated DS game from Level-5. The revered studio’s contributions are the main attraction, so that makes up the bulk of this TGS video, but the…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696440http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696440Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:13 -0400<a href="http://kottke.org/09/09/the-hidden-structure-to-jackson-pollacks-paintings">The hidden structure to Jackson Pollock's paintings</a>: <p><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Decoding-Jackson-Pollock.html">Did Jackson Pollock hide his name</a> in one of his most well-known paintings?</p> <blockquote><p>Pollock’s possibly writing his name in Mural testifies to an overlooked feature of his works: they have a structure,…</p></blockquote>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696435http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696435Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:13 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/offworld/~3/ISJ7rM8Jubo/touch-me-im-slick-daniel-johns.html">Touch me I'm slick: Daniel Johnston rolls toward Laurie in Hi How Are You</a>: <p><span style="display:inline"><a href="http://www.offworld.com/oimages/hhayscreenshot_13.jpg"><img alt="hhayscreenshot_13.jpg" src="http://www.offworld.com/assets_c/2009/09/hhayscreenshot_13-thumb-620x413-26297.jpg" width="620" height="413" style="text-align:center;display:block;margin:0 auto 20px"/></a></span></p> <p>There’s a certain segment of the population that’ll will need no introduction to <a href="http://www.hihowareyou.com/">Daniel Johnston</a> — whether they came to him via the recently released <a href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/devilanddaniel/">Devil And… documentary</a>, or…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696415http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696415Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:12 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~3/0upv4V2iVyU/news_index.php">Sony: No UMD-To-Digital Conversion For PSP Upgraders</a>: <p><img src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/25407/pspgo.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/>The question of what PSP owners who want to upgrade to a PSPgo will do with their UMD discs has lingered in the months leading up to the new download-only handheld’s launch, but it’s now clear…</p>http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696413http://hikikomori.tumblr.com/post/197696413Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:12 -0400