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Friday Links IV

9 March 2007

Apologies for the lack of a post yesterday – I’m having a nice weekend in Brighton this week, which inevitably meant squeezing a five day week into a four day week. Anyway, on with the links:

Sony unveils cooperative platformer, LittleBigPlanet – This just looks like huge amounts of fun, and actually makes me want to get a PS3. There’s still nothing on the Xbox 360 that has really tempted me yet, so I think (given time and funds) the Wii and PS3 are what I’ll probably end up with.

PlayStation Home, the free virtual world of PlayStation 3 – This also looks interesting, especially considering it seems to be completely free for PS3 owners. The Sony showing at GDC this year was very strong – they now seem to be right back on track, after the mountains of negative press they’ve picked up recently.

Nintendo, on the other hand, didn’t announce anything at all at their keynote, although I still like the look of Super Paper Mario and Mario Galaxy still looks great:

4AD Journal – We’ve just launched a new blog for 4AD (home of the Pixies, The Breeders, Beirut, TV On the Radio and more…). I really like how the design (done by V23 and tweaked by me) has turned out, and it’s also the first time I’ve played around with SIFR to do custom fonts using Flash – it worked really well, and was nice and easy to set up.

Virb – Yet another social network/MySpace rip-off, but at least this one looks nice.

A New CAPTCHA Approach – I could totally link to every XKCD – don’t forget to check the alt tag (they’re often the best bit).

Wil Shipley at TED 2007 – Wil irritates me. He’s both too good at software development and writing for my liking. If you only read one of these links today, make it this one.