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Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists

Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists 06/24/2005 06:25 PM
Cory Doctorow: Kickass Kung Fu is a video-game in which you use real martial-arts moves to control an on-screen kung-fu fighter in order to best both human and AI opponents.

The game takes place on a 5 meter cushioned playfield suitable for martial arts and acrobatics training. Using custom computer vision technology, you are taken inside an artificial reality where the normal laws of physics no longer apply. Your movements are exaggerated so that you can easily dodge your opponent's bullets by jumping five meters in the air and landing behind his back. Using the dual projected screens, one at each end of the playfield, you can also continue by counter-attacking your stupefied enemy from the behind.

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Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long....

Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long.... 05/07/2004 11:27 PM
Bobby Fuller< /a> was a Texas based rock and roll singer best known for the immortal rebel anthem &quot;I Fought The Law,&quot;. Considered by many to be the heir to Buddy Holly as the king of Texas Rock, he built on Holly's style with songs like the aforementioned &quot;...Law,&quot; &quot;Jenny Lee,&quot; &quot;Love's Made A Fool Of You,&quot; and the 2 1/2 minute masterpiece &quot;Let Her Dance.&quot; And then it ended, at age 22, in very weird circumstances. Over the years, interest in Fuller and his work has ebbed and flowed, and plenty of archival material surfaced, but the mystery of his death remains unsolved, although many have speculated. Ann odd end for a footnote character in rick history, but who was bound for more

Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution

Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution 04/04/2005 01:18 PM
Cory Doctorow: American health insurers are working with obesity researchers to encourage children to play Dance Dance Revolution on home consoles with dance-mats as a way of reversing childhood obesity and the concomitant health costs later in life.

Jones is one of 85 children in an at-home study trying the popular Dance Dance Revolution video game to boost their activity. The study is being done by West Virginia's public employees insurance group in hopes it will lead to better health and lower costs.

Jones lost about 10 pounds by changing his diet. Now, after two weeks playing the game, he has lost another 10.

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Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance

Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance 04/04/2005 01:54 PM
There have been discussions over the past few years about the problem of childhood obesity and how video games that force kids to be active may be at least part of the solution. While going outside and doing something is probably better, if they must be staring at a screen, they might as well be active about it. It appears that one insurance company has decided to test this out and is running a study by giving Dance, Dance Revolution to kids in an effort to make them lose some weight. While others have noted the aerobic nature of the game (and the game apparently has a calorie burning counter as an option), this appears to be the first insurance company promoting the game. Next thing you know, your car insurance rates will rise if you play Grand Theft Auto...

Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid

Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid 05/24/2004 06:59 PM
This CNN piece follows the tales of formerly supersized boy and girl geeks who shed *lots* of unwanted weight playing the wacky Japanese electronic game "Dance Dance Revolution." In DDR, players stomp around on a grid of brightly lit squares while hyperfast techno music blares at them from a video display unit. There's also a home version, which sells for under US$50.

As she cooled herself in front of a fan at a video arcade, two teenage boys danced on a machine nearby. Their sneakers pounded out a staccato rhythm at a pace so fast that "Lord of the Dance"'s Michael Flatley would be envious.

Not everyone sees dramatic results. Seventeen-year-old Justin Meeks says his body is more toned, but his weight hasn't changed. He's pleased to point out, though, that his dancing skills have helped him get girls. "Two. I'm guilty of that," Justin said with a grin as he watched friends play DDR.

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Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit

Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit 01/25/2004 04:09 AM
Yoz has posted a great account of his encounter with a touring clade of pan-European Dance Dance Revolution obsessives:

"We're a group of DDR players in Norway." Do they play other bemani games? "No, just DDR." He points to the guy he was playing with, now off the machine and chatting to his girlfriend. "He's from Sweden, he has a DDR group there too." The machine is now in the control of the third chap, a large-ish bloke with shoulder-length hair. "He has a group in France, but they play all kinds of music games." Do you guys play competitively? "Sometimes... like tomorrow. It's why we're all here - there's a big contest at the Namco arcade in Westminster. There'll be players from four different countries. It's pretty big."

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DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution

DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution 04/03/2005 07:50 PM
DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution Director Keith Schofield turns out a blazing video for British DJ Format and his top notch crew of pasty Canadian rappers, turning their song "3 Feet Deep" into a high adrenaline arcade hi-score smashing rampage.

Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)

Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com) 04/08/2005 05:05 AM
born

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"Oakland Tribune"

"Oakland Tribune" 04/21/2004 10:18 AM

NetSuite Scores Oakland Athletics Win
(NewsFactor)

NetSuite Scores Oakland Athletics Win
(NewsFactor) 08/09/2004 02:41 PM
NewsFactor - The Oakland Athletics baseball team has selected NetSuite to automate corporate sales, marketing and major account order-management operations -- a client win that will help the ASP vendor expand beyond its traditional client base, CEO Zach Nelson told CRM Daily.

Texas Pitcher Sparks Brawl at Oakland
(AP)

Texas Pitcher Sparks Brawl at Oakland
(AP) 09/14/2004 08:55 AM
AP - Texas reliever Frank Francisco threw a chair into the right field box seats, hitting two spectators in the head Monday night, as Oakland Athletics fans taunted the visitors after a two-out, top-of-the-ninth homer tied the game.

Dance, familiar. Dance...

Dance, familiar. Dance... 12/11/2003 02:34 PM

An interesting line about the selves manufactured by spies (that seems to me to have currency for all people who have cause to narrativise their lives in one way or another) from John Le Carré's rather blandly-titled (but also rather good) new novel Absolute Friends:

But who is Mundy Three, when Mundys One and Two have gone to bed? Who is this third person who is neither one of the other two, who lies awake while they sleep, and listens for the chimes of country bells he doesn't hear? He is the silent spectator. he is the one member of the audience who doesn't applaud the performances of his two familiars. He is made up of all the odd bits of his life that are left over after he has given the rest away.

Dance Voldo Dance

Dance Voldo Dance 07/18/2004 03:34 PM
Dance, Voldo, Dance (embedded quicktime .mov) Two people controlling two Voldos (the #1 freak from Soul Caliber). Quite possibly the most amazing synchronized video game dancing you'll ever see.

Dance Dance Resurrection

Dance Dance Resurrection 05/28/2004 04:51 PM
Jesus-themed variant of DDR (shut up, don't go pointing me to snopes -- of *course* it's a hoax).
Link; other recent BoingBoing posts on DDR 1, 2, 3. (millegrazie, mi piccolo snoodilio, also on track this site | 6 links

Dance dance revolution

Dance dance revolution 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
Holy cow!! They just had the guy from the Kollaboration 2000 talent contest perform in between talks. Fucking amazing.

makeoutcity.com: 2004/05/23: Fire, Fire,
House on Fire

makeoutcity.com: 2004/05/23: Fire, Fire,
House on Fire 05/24/2004 09:56 PM
Jay McCarthy's house burned down

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Oakland Tribune: Google Eyes Net
Operating System

Oakland Tribune: Google Eyes Net
Operating System 04/19/2004 07:17 PM
"The Gmail service, combined with Google's enormous cluster of computers that use Linux, a free operating system, to process hundreds of millions of search queries each day, has some technologists panting over what the ambitious company may do next..."

Oakland Tribune Online - Local &
Regional News

Oakland Tribune Online - Local &
Regional News 04/23/2004 02:39 AM
broke their contract (and the law) with Alameda county by using uncertified software .. Who let these charlatans at Diebold count our votes? .. the oakland tribune's piece .. Diebold knew of legal risks .. Read article

oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2095811,00.html
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Golden Gate Garrison Gallery :: Calkins
Wedding - Children's Fairyland Oakland,
CA - Aug. 1, 2004

Golden Gate Garrison Gallery :: Calkins
Wedding - Children's Fairyland Oakland,
CA - Aug. 1, 2004 08/21/2004 08:17 PM
wedding with stormtroopers .. A Star Wars wedding .. title says it all .. more

goldengategarrison.com/gallery/calkinswed
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Under fire: Internet service provider
M-Web has come under fire for including
abortion in a package of 'taboo'

Under fire: Internet service provider
M-Web has come under fire for including
abortion in a package of 'taboo' 09/14/2004 08:57 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Sep 14 2004 1:26PM GMT

"Fire Fighters President Says Use of
Fire Fighter Images in New Bush Ads
Smack of Political Opportunism"

"Fire Fighters President Says Use of
Fire Fighter Images in New Bush Ads
Smack of Political Opportunism" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Fire Chief Stops Fire at School
Inspection (AP)

Fire Chief Stops Fire at School
Inspection (AP) 01/01/2005 10:33 PM
AP - Just call it good timing.

Fire Messages And Fire The Enemy, On One
Screen

Fire Messages And Fire The Enemy, On One
Screen 04/13/2005 03:06 PM
Electric New Paper Apr 13 2005 6:27PM GMT

Cubitt Artists

Cubitt Artists 01/27/2004 10:24 AM
Cubitt Artists Created a Pink Tank .. §Š† „Š†© .. toque feminino .. [Display] .. tank .. pink

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What Artists Do When They're Bored

What Artists Do When They're Bored 01/22/2004 02:27 AM

An illustration of spam...: Can't...breathe....laughing...too...hard.

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Cuban artists

Cuban artists 01/07/2004 04:27 PM

One of our friends has a young Cuban lover and she goes to visit him there periodically.  This situation spurred some reflection:  "Why are there so many artists and musicians in Cuba?"The next thought "Well, why not?"In the U.S. when Johnny decides to ignore his family's advice and take up oil painting or guitar playing instead of investment banking it is a big crisis.Johnny is very likely giving up the opportunity to own real estate, send his kids to private school, and otherwise enjoy the great festival of materialism that is the United States.  In an economy with hardly any opportunity, however, why wouldn't a person choose to do art or music?

Art doesn't require a lot of capital investment.  You really just need a crayon and some paper (or scissors and paper if you were Matisse).  If human ability is equally distributed across the globe you'd therefore expect the best art to come from the poorest countries where people have no competing bourgeois job offers.  Yet paradoxically the art for which people are willing to pay the most money seems to come from advanced economies such as Germany, England, Japan, and the U.S.

For the comment section:  Why?

[I'll start by throwing out a personal opinion:  art can only touch you if the artist shares a similar social and economic environment, which is why Westerners mostly like the art that is produced in Western countries; art produced in poor countries is actually much better but we can't appreciate it because, despite heavy doses of ecotourism, we can't understand the milieu in which it was produced.]

Global Artists

Global Artists 09/07/2004 12:40 PM
Global Artists. If influential historical figures were reincarnated as artists, what works of art would they produce today? [Via Aeiou.]

State of the Artists

State of the Artists 04/22/2004 10:44 AM
My latest article for TheFeature.com is now online. It's about art that incorporates, and sometimes critiques, mobile technology:

"Research laboratories are the avant-garde art galleries of the 21st century. That shouldn't come as a surprise though. Art is a lens through which engineers can raise tough questions about the science fictions that they create, and we inhabit."

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MacJams artists hit the big time

MacJams artists hit the big time 03/29/2005 04:54 AM
MacJams.com, an online community for Mac music makers, has announced that two of its artist members have recently landed record contracts with two major international labels...

A number of artists clustered together

A number of artists clustered together 07/28/2004 08:11 PM
(pod) Art, Music, Photography. Visit the gallery, listen to the radio, enjoy.

Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers

Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers 05/02/2004 07:46 PM

Indie artists worry

Indie artists worry 03/25/2005 11:04 AM
USA Today Mar 25 2005 3:08PM GMT

Firefox Team Looking for Artists

Firefox Team Looking for Artists 06/27/2004 02:24 PM

Modern Chinese Artists

Modern Chinese Artists 07/28/2004 04:03 AM
Fant astical paintings from Chinese artist Fang He. I think I like Subway Underpass Bird best for its vague sense of creepiness, though Chinese Pavilion No. 1 appeals to my love of old time sci-fi illustrations. Check out similarly whimsical Zhang Gong's cute p hallic creatures (NSFW), or peruse the large collection of artists at Courtyard-Gallery. (Related Chinese art posts here and here.)

I Would Like You to Dance

I Would Like You to Dance 04/09/2004 04:07 PM

SmartyPants 1.5 is out.

Update: Version 1.5.1 is now out, with one small bug fix for Movable Type users.

The Dance Is On

The Dance Is On 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
This month's Google Dance has begun; you can track its march across the data centers in the righthand sidebar of dance.efactory.de....

Sun does SOA dance

Sun does SOA dance 07/02/2004 05:54 PM
Sun Microsystems is developing SOA (service-oriented architecture) technology called Project Kitty Hawk, Sun officials said at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco last week.

Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance? 08/27/2002 03:44 AM

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