VIDEO GAME - Flash Game, Burping Cat.

Kekker Cat.

Imagine a platformer like Mario but instead of Mario, your a deformed cat. And instead of jumping on top of the enemies to knock them out, you burp and or poop on them. If your burping is good and your pooping is pure, then the enemies will get sick and pass out, clearing your way to victory. Space bar burps. Shift key poops. Arrow keys for left, right, jumping and ducks.

VIDEO GAMES - The antique Vectrex

A Look Back, The Vectrex.

Techblog found this video of what Brian Jepson from make magazine said about the Vectrex. "This week is E3, so in the spirit of gaming, we’re going to do a bit of gaming coverage, of things not at E3, MAKE style, like this video from our very own Brian Jepson showing off the Vectrex, one of the most stunning systems in the history of gaming" I have one of these antique systems, so I can contest to the fact that it does take several attempts to insert a cartridge just right so it will play.

PHOTO - bad photos make good desktops

desktop wallpapers.

I like to take random photos. A lot of them. Enough so that the percentage of the pictures that come out somewhat decent are somewhat acceptable. Then I save them for no good reason, but to take up space on my hardrive. Recently I had the realization that these random shots might make for good desktop wallpapers. So if your in need, you might want to consider one of these. I had 385 to upload onto flickr, but it only accepted 36 of them before my bandwidth allowance was used up. I will load up the next batch 30 days from now.

WWW - make your blog a podcast... with robot voice!

feed2podcast.

Let's say you have a blog, like I do. Let's say you would like to get into podcasting, like I do. But then you realize you hate talking, like I do. Then you find a website that will have a robot read your blog postings and have them served up VIA podcasts for free as long as they get to plug their service at the end of each post because your too cheap to invest any money in your blog, like I am. Sign up, sit back and giggle as everything you type turns into machine accented audio files, like I do.

To see an example of how it works, click on the "<)) Listen Now" link over there on the right. You can also subscribe to bloatedtrout using iTunes by clicking one of the two links below it.

ROBOT - robots VIA Popular Electronics 1958

there are robots among us.

Modern Mechanix has 5 pages from an article about the furture of robots that ran back in 1958
THE AGE OF SCIENCE has made the word “robot” the focus of popular fears and hopes. The hope is that machines with minds, machines that can talk, think, and work like men, will give everyone a life of leisure. The fear is that robots will replace mankind, that they might run amuck and destroy their masters, that the robots will get us if we don’t watch out. What was conceived as a work-saving machine has become the popular bogeyman of the age of science...

OT - new dog

a: normal dog.
b: male dog.
c: female dog.
d: my dog.

GAME - mario world gunman series Flash game

mario world gunman series

Play this game in your browser using the flash plugin. Your object is to defend your castle using an arsenal of weapons against wave after wave of Bowser's evil minions. Collect coins to buy ammunition and weapons upgrades. Attach turrets to the castle walls for assistance.

MUSIC - Kong Country Music Reinterpreted, and Rearranged

DOWNLOAD - Kong In Concert

Free Music - 22 arrangements - Kong in Concert is a collaborative arrangement project born from the music of Donkey Kong Country and created for the purposes of reviving, reinterpreting, and rearranging its entire soundtrack with our combined talents, honoring those who originally composed it, and reawakening the nostalgia and love for a landmark videogame.

GAMES - Classic Arcade Sound Archives

Classic Arcade Sounds

We recorded video games from 1982 until 1988. Fortunately I managed to save all fourteen audio tapes of video game sounds and arcade ambience which were recorded from a variety of locations in the U.S. Most of the recordings are from Ithaca, NY, Albany, NY, Lancaster, PA, Ocean City, MD as well as Key West, FL....
Clips are in MP3 format. You need an MP3 player (such as WinAmp or MusicMatch Jukebox) or QuickTime to listen to them. Most files are less than 1mb.

WEB - throwaway your tv @ http://throwawayyourtv.com/

throw away your tv.com/

Lookit - Save your delicate plazma screen for those pirated DVDs. Unplug your crappy cable connection and tune in nightly to throwawayyourtv.com where every evening is a surprise clip from the outskirts of interest as a concerned Canadian documents the United States as it spins itself out of control. Whoop wooooooop!

GAMES - Bob Ross, Joy Of Painting legend, to make video game

Bob Ross - Joy of gaming

i know, old news, BUT, smooth talking Bob Ross, pwner of noobs, will be developing a video game, from the grave, based on his hit television show, "The Joy Of Painting". Bobby's news page states "The Bob Ross game will utilize the unique inputs that the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Revolution have that can truly immerse the players while they learn to paint like Bob Ross and can play the addictive and fun games that we have planned for the title. I believe that Bob Ross Inc's and AGFRAG Entertainment Group's similar beliefs in independence, creativity, and teaching others will benefit how the game is developed and how the players of all ages will be able to enjoy this game."
Wikipedia states "AGFRAG has not yet found a publisher for the games, although they are actively seeking one." I state, "ooooooh I hope they find one, that games gonna kick some ass!

TECH - AT&T Labs Text-To-Speech sample site

AT&T Labs Text-To-Speech (TTS)

Hey, it's the AT&T Labs Text-To-Speech Demo page (good for prankin') You type up a message, choose a talker, hit the "SPEAK" button and out comes cool robot voice.

TECH - Switch from Windows XP to Mac OSX with ease!

How To Use A Mac

32-year-old big-boobed blonde bimbo, Julie Geng is bent on teaching the ex-windoze user how to experience a mac... The first thing you should notice even before powering on your new Mac is the keyboard and mouse. There isn’t a Windows key anymore, and the Alt button now has the word “Option” on it. The Windows key has been replaced by what is commonly called the Apple or Command key, and for the large majority of hotkeys, will replace the Ctrl commands normally found on Windows.

You should also happily take note of three keys: F9, F10 and F11. These three keys make up Exposé, which is currently a Mac-unique feature that makes working on a computer infinitely easier. F9 miniaturizes all of your open windows and lets you view all of them. F10 miniaturizes your open windows in the program you’re running, and F11 pushes all windows out of the way to expose your desktop. See Expose section later."

TECH - run Macintosh on your Pocket PC

I remember the old days of wondering why my pictures disappeared from the computer every time I shut down the machine. It took a while for me to realize that I had to save them first. My first real computer experience was with the Mac Plus so I was pretty excited to learn that I could relive those experiences with a mac emulator for the Pocket PC. I couldn't find a complete walkthrough, but after a little while of surfing, this is what I found out...

Getting Mini vMac for Windows Mobile 2003 to run on a pocket PC goes like this:

Go to Mini vMac for Windows Mobile 2003 and download Mac Plus 2.6.1 (F) binary (32 KB)

Go to MacPlus Antique System and download vmac.rom, System 6.0.8 - Finder 6.1.8., MacPaint 1.4 and MacDraw 1.9.5

Uncompress those files and put them all into the same folder and then copy that folder onto the memory card of your PDA

From the PDA, navigate to the file minivmac.exe and launch it

Once it launches, you'll see an icon of a disk with a question mark, at that point, hit the center button of your directional thingie on your PDA and a virtual keyboard will appear

Tap the key called Ctl and then tap the letter O key

A Dialog box will appear which will prompt you to open a disk image, you'll need to open the system disk called Disk608

Once your booted up, use the same method to insert the MacPaint or MacDraw disk you downloaded and start pixelating

Here are the key commands that you can use once in the emulator:

'A' - About - version information
'O' - Open Disk Image
'Q' - Quit
'L' - Limit Speed toggle
'M' - Magnify toggle
'F' - Full Screen toggle
'K' - emulated 'control' Key toggle
'R' - Reset
'I' - Interrupt
'H' - Help - show this message

You should shut down the emulated machine before quitting to prevent corrupting the mounted disk image

Quick Warning, I haven't quite figured out how to close thekeyboard once I'm done typing. If anyone knows, please leave me a comment.

TECH - Retro Thing has their own iBoombox sidestep

Retro thing

This week Apple made one of their much ballyhooed announcements. I don't mind when they earn their hype stripes by actually doing something cool, but what gets my goat is when they act like they've invented some perfectly ordinary thing. This week they introduced the iPod HiFi, an amplified speaker system avaialble in the usual porcelain toilet finish.

I'm sure that it's a nice sounding three speaker system for the iPod, but it inspired me to look around my house to see if I could reproduce the same thing for a lot less money..

Digisette MP3 Player...

TECH - UPS meaty style stylus

UPS man was kind enough to let me keep this awesome stylus. The one I lost for my DELL x30 PDA was far inferior to this industrial strength model.

GAMES - SPORE: the evolution in gaming?

official spore website

VideoBomb found a clip of the mindblowing gameplay of Spore. Will Wright talking at the Game Developer's Conference about 'Spore', which looks like it could possibly be the best video game ever. It's about 30 minutes long and fascinating.

DESIGN - Lady Libery Jedi in Lego

nathan sawaya brick artist

Why?...to capture the essence of the New York based organization as well as their love for everything Star Wars that led to Lady Liberty weilding a lightsaber.

TECH - create your own iPod Boombox

create your own iPod Boombox

You like Apple's new boomBox, but it's pricey. How do you make an iPod BoomBox for a fraction of the cost. With powered computer speakers found at a garage sale, duct tape and felt pads. I got tired of tripping on my headphone wire while doing work in the house listening to my iPod. After hearing about the new speaker that apple has, I thought it's be nice to have one for the house. But $349.00 is a little too steep for my pocket. So I decided to make my own. I created this tutorial so that you can be rocking the house in 20 minutes.

TECH - Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library or House Of Gears

KMODDL

If you ever wanted to know the different kind of gears out there and how they interact, then start here. KMODDL is a collection of mechanical models and related resources for teaching the principles of kinematics--the geometry of pure motion. The core of KMODDL is the Reuleaux Collection of Mechanisms and Machines, an important collection of 19th-century machine elements held by Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. In other words, it's a museum that collects gears and has a ton of sample clips showing impossibly confusing moving mechanical things. Many of which are shown via sample movie clips