Adaptive Path Turns Six
Adaptive Path, that rascally little South Park user experience studio at the center of all things web 2.0, celebrated it's sixth year in existence with a retro prom party. Last year, we had to find out what the meaning of Adaptive Path is. This year, we channel our inner VC and get the answers to questions that any potential sugar daddy might ask.
Episode links: Adaptive Path, Flickr photos, AP5: What is Adaptive Path?
The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
We were recently invited to check out Charles Ross' One-Man Star Wars Trilogy theatre show in San Francisco. In one hour, Charles single handedly runs through many of the best moments of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Dialogue, music, special effects and even a few references to the prequel, Charles manages a thoroughly convincing rendition of the trilogy. Irina has a few words with Charles after the opening night show in SF. Playing now until March 11th in San Francisco. Go see it! Use code DARTH and save $5.
Episode links: Charles Ross, San Francisco Show, Star Wars
girlz 0f destruction House in Sweden
We recently won a trip to Stockholm, Sweden to hang out with the girlz 0f destruction at the Home of Chrome girlz gaming house. For these girls, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament is their blood, low ping times is their mantra and weird Swedish food keeps them going through the night. Livia, Alana and Therese show us how it's done and give us the low down on the team and the house.
Episode links: girlz 0f destruction, Home of Chrome, Livia, Alana, Therese
Holy Blinky Devices of Terror!
At a recent Dorkbot, we happened upon three suspected terrorists in San Francisco harboring dangerous blinky LED cartoon characters. These are the same Aqua Teen Hunger Force "infernal machines" that caused Boston authorities to so thoroughly freak out recently. Watch Out! These Mooninites might look cute, but when attached to things like signs or street polls they take on an extremely explosive quality. Irina gets the scoop from the suspected terrorists.
Episode links: Michelle Clay (photo), Magic Safire (photo), Jonathan Lassoff, Mooninites (Ignignokt and Err), Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Boston Terror Scare, Dorkbot-SF
Wii Fight Night
We were tipped off to a super secret event at a super secret location in San Francisco. It involved Nintendo Wiis and it was bloody. None of the four rules of Wii Fight were broken as far as we know.
Episode links: Wii, Photos (Laughing Squid), Veronica B, Ryan B, Irina S, Kent N, Nick D, Jackson W, Ben B, Jonathan G, Kestrin P,Twitter, Dodgeball
In the Streets of Stockholm
We found ourselves in Stockholm, Sweden last week so we decided to hit the streets and see how the Scandinavian youth of today use the Internet. With megabits of pipe to play with, these kids fill us in on some of their turf.
Episode links: Stockholm, Hamsterpaj, hamster, pie, Demonoid, The Poodles, The Pirate Bay
Searching for Windows Vista
The hype was huge but what's the reality behind the Microsoft Vista launch? We're not sure either, but we do try to get to the bottom of it at our local software retailer.
Episode links: Windows Vista, Jonathan Lasoff, Best Buy
Nerdcore in Vegas - Part 2
Here's the second part of our nerdcore series from Vegas during CES 2007. In this one we've got some throw downs from YTCracker, Doc Popular, MC Plus+ and Monzy. Nerdcore has taken over Las Vegas, your town is next.
Episode links: YTCracker. Doc Popular, MC Plus+, Monzy, DivX Stage6
Nerdcore Brings It To Vegas
A major highlight of CES for the GETV crew was getting immersed in nerdcore life. Nerdcore hiphop is a global phenomenon that showed Las Vegas that it's for real and not to be trifled with. Two big shows of nerdtastic artistry went down that week. An epic night at the Beauty Bar and again two nights later at the DivX Stage6 stage at CES. In this first of two episodes, we highlight four of nerdcore's hardest.
Episode links: Nerdcore hip hop, Nursehella, ultraklystron, ZeaLouS1, MCeeP, DivX Stage6
Jackie Martling is The Joke Man
While wandering the floor of CES last week, we came across a lonely comedian reading the newspaper next to a stack of joke machine gadgets. Upon further investigation, we find out it's Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, the man who occupied the Jackie chair on the Howard Stern show for 15 years. Irina gets put through the Jackie wringer in style, nothing left untouched or to the imagination.
Episode links: Jackie Martling, Katie Fahrenbacher, CES 2007
