This is too cool. Cliff Bolling has been patiently digitising and uploading hundreds of old 78RPM records for all to enjoy – hiss, crackle and all.

Visit. Discover a legacy of music from before the Intertubes. At least, until the RIAA decides to shut him down.

This game is one of the more inventive “drawing” games out there. Simply put, you’re a spider trying to keep your web intact and your belly well-fed… with the intention of lunching on bat.

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Over at the OpenSim project, according to UgoTrade, they’re breaking above and beyond vanilla SL with support for mesh-based models — which every game and their prairie squid uses already.

Linden Lab’s initial decision to stick with mathematically generated prims is understandable — textures, especially sculptie textures, are slow enough to download. But if there was a way of securely storing resources client side to avoid copyright violations, this could be worked around. Imagine non-anthro avatars that weren’t reliant on clever scripting, animation overrides (which can in turn be overridden by parcel permissions), and rafts of prims.

Also, it appears if you have a fairly beefy GeForce in the engine room, you’ll get some sweet new graphical features, according to Massively. These include honest to Cthulhu shadows — no more light pollution from next door! A whole market explosion for the lighting industry! — and support for arbitrary numbers of point lights. There’s a gallery of what could potentially come here, and it looks gorgeous.

Me wants. Me wants bad.

Mizano the elephant seal (1995-2005).

WARNING! Heavy image abuse within!

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This is an interesting essay that moots the idea that all the “interactive” stuff that’s appeared is a whole new way to deal with what Clay calls a “cognitive surplus” — which, as far as I can tell, basically means all the extra thinking a guy can do when he doesn’t have to work sixteen hours every day to live…

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Last weekend I uploaded a selection of snaps, panoramas and such to my image gallery from my Easter break when I walked the Queen Charlotte Walkway.

Check ‘em out; these babies all have commentary as well.

To honour the addition of icanhascheezburger.com to my links page, one of my other favourite pics from there:

According to the comments, the hippo eyeing the photographer ominously is named Lou, and resides at Homosassa Springs, Florida.

I’m going to say, right here, that Greenbriar Wood is one of the places in Second Life you should see before you die.

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Read how the Mile High Comics Collection was found (via Boing Boing)

This really puts the teeth into the old saw, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” It runs to 17 installments, and is worth reading about one comic collector’s travails in the 70s.

From I Can Has Cheezburger:

Dunno what kind of amphibian it is, but man is that thing ugly.

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