Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

links for 2007-05-10

• MI6 Game Marketing Conference: Burger King’s Excellent Gaming Adventure - A+E Interactive: Your Bay Area hangout for gaming, music, movies, culture -
  (tags: burgerking microsoft xbox360 advergaming ilovebees)
• S60 3rd Edition devices have two browsers, dual-mode browser used as default browser
  Default S60 3rd Edition devices use the old XHTML/WAP browser instead of the spiffy new one. No fix, apart from S60 3rd Edition Service Pack 1. Suck.
  (tags: nokia series60 3rdedition browser bug support)
• VERONICA MARS Might Return With A Title Change?? — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  Veronica Mars might grow up and become a Veronica-fronted FBI show. Yum. Shoot me, I still haven’t finished season 2.
  (tags: veronicamars aicn cw fbi)
• DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog: THE LONG TAKE
  The Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema
  (tags: art cinema design film movie cinematography video direction)
• COPE: James Wallis levels with you » Reeling, Writhing and Fainting in Coils
  James is coming to Hide & Seek, too!
  (tags: hideandseek london pervasivegaming urbangaming gaming)
• News - Spore slips to 2008 // PC /// Eurogamer
  “A financial paper from EA has revealed that Spore has slipped out of fiscal 2008, meaning that we won’t see it until at least next April.” Well that throws this year’s BAFTA Videogames award sweepstakes out the window, then
  (tags: spore delay electronicarts ea gaming willwright)
• collision detection: NASA’s incredibly weird return-to-the-moon video
  NASA appear to have decided that the best way to get funding/publci support behind the next moon mission is to have the thing directed by Bruckheimer/Bay. Whatever: this shit is cool. I want in!
  (tags: nasa moon exploration space bsg firefly video bruckheimer bay)
• Crash Bang Wallop from Ben Hammersley
  “best unedited fight scene ever” - steadicam goodness
  (tags: video fightscene unedited take long tracking benhammersley)
• SWEEPS DAY 14!! The JERICHO Season Finale!! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  Jericho coverage on AICN. But, what other show other than 24 set off a nuke on US soil this season?
  (tags: jericho television aicn cbs)