Tetris, the documentary

Via kottke:

The complete BBC documentary (Google Video) of the origins and rights negotiations of Tetris.

Original footage and in-depth interviews with all of the key players in the story.

Amazing!

More "gold" from Scoble

Two video interviews which couldn't be more distinct.

Ryan Block of Engadget invites Scoble to his San Francisco apartment for a review of his personal media devices as well as a bunch of stuff on loan to Engadget.

It's detailed, personal, and authentic. Bonus cameo by Ms. Belmont (Hi V!).

MS market-droid #234-RQ of tertiary subjunction 4a, um...I mean Matt Jubelirer (PM of Zune) walks Scoble through the Zune interface and most of the "Zune Experience".

It's detailed, robotic, and full of marketese.

It's a friggn' podcast interview Matt; talk to him! Have a conversation. Don't do verbal power point.

Apple, the large white elephant in the corner, is never mentioned by name. I realize that as an MS representative and market-droid #234-RQ of tertiary subjunction 4a you're programmed not to give free publicity to your competitor, but it just comes across as rediculous. You can watch market-droid-Matt visibly wince at the first mention of iTunes by name. Check out the brief audio highlight when he keeps his mike on after he wanders off-camera. Unfortunately, Scoble must abide by the letter of his NDA agreement and quickly cuts the audio.

The contrast between "new media" and "old media" is striking.

K-pop hiphop

Call me culturally retarded, but I was completely unaware of the female-K-pop-hiphop scene (girlfriend would slap me silly since this video is apparently quite old).

Apparently, it's all the rage with the youth (gen y/z) today having found a suitable host for memetic propogation with a rythm dance game called Pump It Up(recognize the song?) —think DDR w/ more options.

With the success of games such as Guitar Hero, just imagine the possibilities for a Wii dancepad controller.

Code Monkey

Via:The Instance podcast

A wonderful example (video) of the kind of emergent artistic content made possible via Creative Commons licenses, commodity computing, and a whole lot of creativity and persistence.

Even though I don't play WOW anymore, I continue to listen to their podcast--go figure.

Random. Hilarious. Brilliant.

Play along with Numberwang (YouTube video).

More great British comedy from That Mitchell and Webb Look.

"Let's rotate the board!" Priceless.