Robotperson

The Guardian gives much-hyped new Star Wars game The Force Unleashed a lukewarm review. November’s Edge, which has arrived in the post today, is less circumspect and dispenses a 5:
Lucasarts and ILM are handling the cinematic side, George Lucas himself has added his touch to the script, and when you press start for the first […]

The difference between iCrossing, where I’m freelancing at the moment, and other new media agencies where I’ve worked, is that when someone finds something interesting on the internet they don’t say “that’s cool!”, they say “that’s going to get loads of links!”.
Search is in the blood here, and there’s a lot for me to learn.

For one week only, the chiptune documentary Reformat the Planet is available in its entirety at Pitchfork. Terrific, nostalgic stuff. More info here.

Time to respond to some link requests and spread the robotperson Google butter. Here are some sites by friends of mine that you might find interesting:

Stefan Hull, sometime journalist, gamer, gambler, and now Brighton Racecourse silverback has started blogging at theoccasional. Always quality.
Graphic design for print and digital: Raj Pancholi at R27 creativelab
Welcome Mobility: mail […]

Mouth has gone dry… Eleven the game: foosball for the 21st century design crowd
Annie
Sci-fi geeks photographed in their homes. The Klingons on the sofa are crying out for a caption. Something mundane like “when’s the pizza ready?”, or “have you seen my Bath’lith?”. I think I recognise the AT-AT driver.
ABC buttons. Some ideas are so […]

No explanations, just straight back into it:

Domenench, having achieved bottom spot in the group, proposes to his girlfriend on live TV. She remains tactfully silent. Bad luck Raymond
Shymalan’s new movie The Happening…
…is not merely bad. It is an astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether […]

What is it with me? Nothing for 6 weeks then I feel like the links are coming out of my ears.

Beautiful Catalina Estrada cd packaging kit. More pics on her Flickr stream. If only I had some mixtape cds to write, which nicely links to…
Muxtape: create and share your mp3 mixtapes.
The Gareth Emery podcast. Nothing […]

Brick Arms. Mini-fig compatible ordnance for those who think there just isn’t enough violence in Legoland
One for Babe: Kent Rogowski’s inside-out bears project. This poor guy looks like he’s on dialysis or something. Take a look at his jigsaws whilst you’re there:
Although puzzle pieces are unique and can only fit into one place within a […]

Random House bravely opts to crowdsource the cover design of a new book on Crowdsourcing. See also ‘Crowdsourcing’ tagged shots on Flickr. Nice.
Rejected Star Wars products concepts
BBC experiments with surround video. How long can you watch it for without throwing up?
Library staircase. Cooool.
How to listen to iTunes only podcasts without itunes
Lego MMO. This might finally […]

Domo arigato, Mr Roboto. The Economist on robots in Japan.
Kokoro, a Japanese manufacturer, showed off a robot for training dentists, which it developed with Nippon Dental University. As student dentists drill into its teeth, replete with sensors, the robot yelps “ouch!” when the work is not up to par. But the robot would really squeal […]