http://www.chrominance.net Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:47:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Muxtape is neat! http://www.chrominance.net/2008/03/i-made-a-mixtape-just-for-you/ Sins of a Solar Empire contradicts a lot of conventional wisdom. It's a game for the PC, which obviously no one uses for games any more except World of Warcraft. It's a real-time strategy game that mixes in a lot of elements of 4X games like Civilization and is fairly ... http://www.chrominance.net/2008/02/a-bizarre-video-game-equation-no-copy-protection-complex-strategy-game-top-seller/ I watched the return episodes of some of the late night talk shows—Letterman with writers, Conan, Leno, Stewart and Colbert without—and I've got questions. Leno, of course, has been excoriated for saying he wrote his opening monologue, which explains why the show seemed to display about the same level of ... http://www.chrominance.net/2008/01/scabby-or-really-scabby-the-return-of-late-night-talk-shows/ Boxing Day is here again, but lately it seems like the Christmas after Christmas hasn't been quite as exciting for the shopaholic as in the past: According to a Visa Canada survey, more than five million Canadians planned to hit the shops on Boxing Day. After electronics, the most sought ... http://www.chrominance.net/2007/12/boxing-day-aint-what-it-used-to-be/ This and this are my two favourite things for today. Seriously, her heart is bursting with cute animated robot empathy. BURSTING. http://www.chrominance.net/2007/12/cute-overload-robot-edition/ The Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board has commissioned a set of ads about accidents in the workplace. And by all accounts they are fucking horrifying:One TV spot features an exploding gas canister that blows a construction worker off the side of a building. Another shows a young chef slipping ... http://www.chrominance.net/2007/11/while-her-skin-peels-off-in-bloody-ribbons/ So the new Zunes are out, and as competitors to the iPod lineup they look quite good. The in-player interface, often cited as a huge selling point for iPods, seems to work well on the Zune, and looks gosh darned pretty to boot. The price points are exactly the same, ... http://www.chrominance.net/2007/11/wanted-one-portable-mp3-player-hold-the-software/ AVS Forum is a very popular site devoted to all things related to home theatre. You can research HDTV panels, look up TV tuner cards that pick up QAM, and stare in awe at pages upon pages of people detailing their lavish home theatre setups. It's both a wealth of ... http://www.chrominance.net/2007/11/timeouts-for-all-of-you-and-no-supper-before-bedtime/ We turned up in Bristol and started unloading only to find the venue locked. We went around the front and found the whole place shut down and a notice announcing the rest of their tour was cancelled due to ‘band illness’. No one had bothered to tell us anything. The ... http://www.chrominance.net/2007/11/stranded-in-london/ I got Guitar Hero 3 last week for the Wii, marking the first game I've bought for the poor white box since Trauma Center, which has mostly laid unlamented and unplayed on my coffee table ever since the incredibly impossible early level. You know the one. The one with the ... http://www.chrominance.net/2007/11/playing-fake-guitar-is-hard/