So, today I got out of bed and looked over to my Wii, hoping it would be sporting a rich, glowing blue, indicating that I have a message waiting for me. No luck. But it sure reminded me of that time I made a portal for the Nintendo Wii browser called Wii Links. It’s got links to a ton of neat Wii sites.
I can’t believe that the Wii dropped support for MP3s in the Photo Channel. Not that I ever used the feature, but it was nice to know it was there. I love the way Excite Truck uses MP3s from your SD card as the soundtrack. Speaking of soundtracks… do you remember that time that I linked to a page I made of every single MP3 from the 2006 SXSW festival‘s website? It sure beat clicking through the site’s levels-deep structure for every single song.
I’m pretty sure SXSW features a comedian or two each year. Comedians are funny. John Hodgman‘s a funny guy, but I wouldn’t exactly call him a comedian. I guess he falls under the unfortunate label of “humorist”, which usually means you try really hard to be clever, and you get someone’s grandmother to laugh. This year, I “read” (I’m already getting sick of my own qualifier quotes) Hodgman’s audiobook The Areas of My Expertise. It was a free iTunes download. I didn’t recognize the name when I downloaded it, even though I was previously familiar with his work on the Daily Show and in those ads where that hacker from Die Hard 4 makes him look like an ass. The book: brilliant. But I feel the writing style infringed on something I wrote well before I read The Hodg’s book: a brief piece entitled: A History Lesson. I also liked that the audiobook introduced me to Jonathan Coulton, without which I would have lived my life forever deprived of the sweet joy that is Code Monkey [MP3].
Man, it sure was great to look back on all that old content and call it new content by adding contrived segues. It’s great to look back, but don’t call it retro. After all, is it retro if it’s not YOUR past?