I recently discovered kohina which streams 8/16 bit music straight from consoles like the commodore 64 and atari 2600. Now if you are a geek like me this is some awesome news as this has become my background music when I am at work and I am gonna get my fm transmitter out and see if I can stream from my phone to my car stereo which would be hellakool!
Kohina is a free “just for fun” web stream, streaming the classic 8/16 bit computer, arcade, and console music of our misspent youth, as well as the latest scene music from the platforms that remain active.
The Vader Project brings Star Wars and art together by taking artists thoughts and ideas and putting them on the helmet of the dark lord of the sith Darth Vader.
From the images and tv spots I have seen it looks like an awesome exhibit. Hopefully some day I will get to catch it live.
If you have had a chance to check it out let us know what you think? have pics on flickr or somewhere? share the link. Below is a segment that was done on G4 showing the project it Japan.
I have always been a big fan of the Atari 2600 and had planned on setting it up in our newly finished basement for people to play around with when they came over while watching tv or whatever.
Today though I thought I wonder what it would be like on my 42 inch plasma with surround sound….well the answer is pretty sweet!!!
I got it hooked up and in no time I was playing pac-man, galaga, space invaders on the plasma with full surround sound which was giving me an audio orgasm…hehe
Here is a little video I took and threw up on 12seconds
Hey what can I saw I am a sucker for Star Wars related humor. I of course got a good laugh out of this one. Nien Numb and Lando are some original gangsta’s! hehe
This Thursday night I will be going to the movies to relive a movie that I consider one of the key factor’s in me becoming a geek. This is the 25th anniversary year of the movie “WarGames” a 1983 film staring Matthew Broderick playing a young hacker who thinks he is playing a war simulation with a computer but soon finds out it is a real military system putting us on the brink of WWIII.
Fathom and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios are proud to present WarGames back on the big screen after 25 years.Don’t miss this one-night-only event in select movie theatres nationwide on Thursday, July 24th at 7:30PM (local).
The event will include never-before-seen interviews with cast and crew on how the movie was ahead of its time and its relevance today.Additionally, only at this one night event, get a sneak peek at the making of the sequel – WarGames: The Dead Code.
What are some movies you credit with helping mold you into the geek you are today? Wanna know if the film is showing in your area this thursday check here on the Fathom Events page for the anniversary.
Note : If you are in the KC area and planning to attend let me know as I know a few people who will be there and would love to meet some of my fellow readers/geeks.
The other night I decided I should go ahead and purchase my ticket for the the Batman movie “Dark Knight” which will have a midnight showing next week which I will be attending at the AMC 30 here in Olathe,KS.
Thats when I thought you know what would be kool is find out if anyone else is gonna be there who might follow me on twitter, my blog, or the other handful of services I am on these days and do a little meetup…maybe there will be a bunch of people or maybe there will only be a few but in any case it would be great to meet everyone and what better time then at a geeky event like the premiere of “Dark Knight”.
So my question to everyone out there….will you be at the midnight showing (and of course at the Olathe 30) and would you be interested in a little meetup? Let me know.
Sitting at the KC Social Media Meetup today someone had mentioned trying to have an event that would be around the same time as say getting someone like Jonathan Coulton into town for a concert….which sounds totally awesome!!!
Don’t know who Jonathan Coulton is? Who better to describe him then himself The following is from his website :
My name is Jonathan Coulton and I’m a musician, a singer-songwriter and an internet superstar.
Here is Jonathan performing one of his songs “Codemonkey”
Now how do we get him to the Kansas City Area? That is where the site Eventful comes in. With Eventful you can demand someone to come perform or visit your area (at the time of my writing this demand for JoCo in KC was upto 82 people). So by everyone in KC demanding Jonathan to visit it shows there is a demand and the chances of seeing a great show increase.
The following is from his website :