Archive for March, 2007


SANYO Marine Matsuri

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March 22nd, 2007

Sanyo Marine Matsuri

Sometimes Japanese culture becomes somewhat of a curiosity to much of the rest of the world because of something intriguing and beatuiful, or something silly and bizarre.

This site would be an example of the latter.

SANYO’s Marine Matsuri Microsite

Even though I can understand a bit of Japanese, I can’t really be bothered to read the graphical text on this site. From what I can glean from the visuals, it’s a site with a few minigames which award you with different prizes. One prize is a set of desktop wallpapers of the scantily clad Marine Matsuri girls for example.

All in all the visuals are pretty well done and it’s pretty fun to play with. You should check it out!

A warning, their web server seems to be really slow to download from my location.

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Corby Simpson – Interactive Professional

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March 21st, 2007

CorbySimpson.com

Corby Simpson has been working in the industry for years. He judges the Canadian New Media Awards and develops interactive CDROM and other projects at a company called Whatever Solutions and Media Inc.

I’m jealous of his portfolio page for one reason. He has a slick idea with the flash movie header. I like how the user has to initiate the interaction rather than video playing when the site loads and making lots of noise.

Overall the site design is fairly clean, attractive and easy to use. See for yourself.

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Red Interactive’s Universe – Fun Portfolio

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March 21st, 2007

Check this out! Red Interactive, an agency out of California with offices elsewhere in Utah have released their new site – The Red Interactive Universe.

With this cool site you can walk around using a pre-selected avitar – which all look very ‘retro’. You can chat and punch at other people and most important of all, you can read about Red Interactive.

Red Interactive Universe

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IP Spotting – When Boredom Strikes

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March 20th, 2007

Your IP address as a bitmap

What is it? Well you can go to this site and see how cool your IP address is, of course.

Some of you might not know what an IP address is, so I’ll tell you. An IP address uniquely identifies one “host” on the Internet. It is like your postal address except each computer gets one. If you share your Internet connection throughout your whole house then your whole house will likely have the same IP address.

So what use is IP Spotting? IP Spotting is the premier source of useless information and a great way to simply waste time.

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Take Two is For Sale?

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March 20th, 2007

“Say it aint so!”

I am saddened to read the news at Gamespot this morning as Take Two Interactive has apparently decided to cut it’s losses and sell the company. Apparently the pressure from shareholders was just too much.

That’s sad…

I really, really would like to think they’re trying to manipulate their fan base into a revolt against extremist anti-gamer organizations. I really, really would like to believe that each of us would do everything in our power to see to it that Joeseph Leibermann and his cronies don’t get what they want.

I don’t know if that will happen, however. I believe all of the fight is gone from Take-Two’s company. Their bottom line is being affected too much and now they have to cut and run. What did they do? They tried to defend their first amendment rights. Sure they produced a product that may be considered vile by some. Those people should simply take responsibility – not take action against others who are doing no wrong.

It makes me sick…

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