This is not the sound of Zidane

[roadrunnertwice]

(Hat tip Chris Kohler and the Wired Game|Life blog.)

EDIT: Actually, let's just make this the video game humor dump post. From BoingBoing:

YOU'RE PLAYING POLE POSITION!

EDIT: Okay, just a normal dump post. What in the hell just happened to my MPLS weather widget?

BATMAAAAAN!

EDIT: Oh, and VoodooPad is turning out to be remarkably great. I'm using the slightly-crippled "lite" version right now(reckon I'll buy once I have a steady paycheck), and I still like it a lot. I'm satisfied now that its document format is "free enough*," and the effortless way it's letting me wrangle my notes is really impressive. I was having a hard time explaining it to people earlier, but I think I've got a better grasp on what it is now: It's a bare-bones word processor (feature-parity with TextEdit in RTF mode) with a racing clutch. Each "document" consists of an arbitrarily large collection of "pages" (RTF files), and any features beyond what TextEdit offers are generally there to let you leap between files with a thought.

I wouldn't use it for everything, but for the uses it fits with, it's a doozy. If you've got a Mac and you're trying to bring a complicated writing project into order, I highly recommend it.

EDIT: Fuckin' sweet, Jaye from Wonderfalls has a tangerine clamshell iBook! Man, I so wish they were still making those and they weren't all G3s that capped out at, what, like 300 Mhz. Those things had some fuckin' quirk to 'em.

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* For me, "free enough" means that, within the practices I'm using the software+format for, I can export-and-bail for greener pastures at any time without losing any data fidelity. VoodooPad actually has variable fidelity loss: the XML export is lossless, but you'll have to do some tricksy parsing to get it usable again; the text and RTF export will cost you your links and images; and the HTML export turns the whole thing into a functional web page, but is only available in the $30 registered version. Personally, I say the combination of text, RTF, and XML makes me feel more than safe enough; since it's nearly all text anyhow, all I'd probably have to do with the XML file would be compile a list of aliases and then write a script to do some basic search-and-replace on the resultant text files. BUT THAT WAS TOO MUCH INFORMATION, WASN'T IT.

Comments

[b-zedan.livejournal.com]

It kept confusing me, because over the radio I'd hear "Zedan," but it wasn't until the weekend, when I was watching BBC that I saw how it was spelled.

[roadrunnertwice]

Yikes, THAT'd be confusing.

[b-zedan.livejournal.com]

I never hear my last name said aloud, really, so I'd look around in confusion each time.

There has been an increase of search engine queries for "Zedan" that sent people my webpages' way though, so I'm not complaining.

[froborr.livejournal.com]

Pole Position was one of the great games of all time. It and the original arcade Spy Hunter.

I kept seeing references to "Zidane" in random places last week. Is the soccer thingy why? Huh.

[roadrunnertwice]

Yeah, he's a famous French football player. The final between France and Italy was his last game as a professional, and he got redcarded for that headbutt. And then his team lost in a PK shootout. Drama, man, you missed it.

[pantswarrior]

This post is FULL OF AWESOME.

The Pole Position video did something that almost nothing on the internet does (except occasionally #fret) - I LOLed. :D

"It left SKID-MARKS on my SOUL!"

[roadrunnertwice]

MAN, me too? At first I thought it was just going to be another "ROFL the 80s sure were unfashionable and low-tech" 'tube, but NO, it turns out that it's secretly the uncrowned king of all commercials.

[baceramus.livejournal.com]

Bonus points to whoever actually used FF9 boxes for that.

[roadrunnertwice]

Hella. But for me, the funniest thing is that the longer I stare at it, the more it starts to actually LOOK like one of the latter-day mo-capped FF battle systems.

Of course, that's probably because even when they're using the time before a throw-in to start a barroom brawl, international-level football players have some pretty severe grace.