Download This!

Forums user kalocin started up a thread a little while ago asking people for songs that he would then cover using a synthesizer based on the classic nintendo entertainment system's psg audio system. So what we have for you now is 16 amazing NES-ified hit songs! Here's what's on the disc:

01 REM - Losing My Religion
02 Europe - Final Countdown
03 Radiohead - Karma Police
04 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
05 Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
06 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
07 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
08 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
09 Slayer - Angel of Death
10 David Pomeranz - Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now
11 Coldplay - Yellow
12 Rick James - Superfreak
13 Semisonic - Closing Time
14 (Silence)
15 Hidden NESmix Intro
16 Zero Wing (Opening Theme) (4x4 Remix)
17 Tetris (Music A) (Piano Practice)

Something Awful

You can download all the tracks from the link in a single RAR file. I've only listened to one track so far - Superfreak, and I'm jamming the hell out! If the other tracks are this good I'm going to really enjoy this album. Actually I just started Eye of the Tiger. This is awesome stuff.

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360 Pics - side by side with "vintage" Xbox

At E3 we had some spirited discussion about whether the 360 was really smaller than Xbox 1. I in particular contended that it's not hulking and black, and the curved lines make it look smaller than it actually is.


Gizmodo has pictures of their review (retail and debug) unit - including it right next to an Xbox. It's smaller, yes, but it's not 10% smaller. There's also a pic next to the Gamecube and slimline PS2 just to drive the point home. Sucker is still pretty damn big :-)

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Getting it done!

Time to stop goofing off. I was looking at timelines and I need to start hitting two chapters a week or I'm going to have some nasty crunch time early next year. I've been writing around 1200-1500 words a day lately, but I need to bump that up to 2000 or I'll have to start working some on the weekends. We'll have none of that in Casa de Sanders!

If I got two chapters a week in I'd finish up the first draft in mid-February, which should work fine with my deadlines. So starting tomorrow - 2000 words a day, and a chapter every other day (or so).

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Comment Nation

So I got around to looking at closing old comments today, and wasn't entirely thrilled with my discoveries. The plugin that did it automatically doesn't work on MT 3.2. The plugin that did it semi-automatically doesn't work right with my data backend.


Ultimately I found a plugin that lets me close comments from a higher level menu so I can do 20 items at a time. So I went through Pic_A_Day and the Sniping Post and closed comments on everything over a month old. I think that's all I did, but if you see anything strange holler out. Also, the month cutoff is completely arbitrary, so if you were dying to mouth off on an older post drop me a note and I'll open them up.

Basically, the new spam system was stopping the comments from showing up publicly, but I was still having to deal with them under the hood. There is one reader/commenter who tends to read in bursts and comment on older entries, but I think 30 days will be enough of a window for that. Like I said, if it starts being a problem I could go to 45 days, or 60.

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