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Das Racist’s “Who’s That? Brooown!” 8bit Lovin

// September 2nd, 2010 // View Comments // Gaming, Music

The latest Music video from the self proclaimed “Ethnic Electronic Band,” Das Racist mixes tons of 8bit video game references from Frogger, Double Dragon, Tetris, and more. The video is essentially an 8 bit game itself taking you on a adventure with Himanshu and Victor to substitute for Justin Beiber and Jay-Z, who were bit by a meteor shower. Along they way they fight street thugs, yuppies, and do a dance-off. Crazy I know! Check out the video below:

Notable Screenshots from the video:

You can also play the game in the music video as well on Das Racist’s site.

Sources: [Pitchfork.com] [DasRacist.net]

Episode 9: iTV, Epic Win, phone calls in my gmail

// August 26th, 2010 // View Comments // Podcast

I welcome Justin Vactor from FusedFilm.com and RJ Hudecek from sparekarma.com for this episode. We talk about the  apple rumors of the $99 iTV and will it be the catalyst for the demise of cable. We debate the pros and cons to of the current apple tv. Two iphone apps are previewed: Epic Win, the task list RPG and MessageParty, basically chatroom + geolocation. We talk privacy and Facebook Places. I voice my love for Google’s addition of Google Voice calls through gmail.

You can find  Justin Vactor on his various podcasts:

You can find RJ Hudecek at on SpareKarma.com or check out his two iphone apps:

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The Yin-Yang Meal

// August 26th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog

Having a little fun with photoshop. Had Pizza and Salad for dinner last night and thought, “This is the perfect Yin-Yang Meal. Got your good and bad on the same plate.” I’ll be back with some real content soon. Recording a podcast tomorrow with Justin Vactor and RJ Hudecek.

Episode 8: Top 5 Twitter Followers and Fall TV 2010

// August 14th, 2010 // View Comments // Podcast, TV

In this episode we list the Top 5 people on twitter we all follow. We voice our opinions on our favorite summer TV shows. We also delve into the new TV shows coming out in the fall from the major networks. I’m joined by guest hosts: Clay Harrison, Marc Weintraub, and Lee Benoit.

Top 5 People We Follow on Twitter

Bryan

Clay

Marc

Lee
1 arstechnica pattonoswalt NikonRumors nickvegas
2 GeekTyrant 3rdand10 wizwow Me_ow
3 rainnwilson WhitneyCummings common_squirrel AdamCarolla
4 nerdist SarahKSilverman photojack videocopilot
5 AmazonMP3 rstevens bryansays SignalNoise

Read on to see the rundown of the Fall shows we discussed and listen to the podcast.
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Episode 7: Battle of the Check-ins

// July 29th, 2010 // View Comments // Podcast

In this episode we talk about the many location based social networks out there now. My guests are Herman Davis, who is a local twitter friend that is heavy into these location services. He was also interviewed in the local paper for using services like foursquare and gowalla.  We are also joined by Lee Benoit, who’s a regular to the show. We all chime in discussing the various pros and cons for each of the services. We discuss why Foursquare seems to be the leader of the bunch. We also discuss all of the others like gowalla, brightkite, whrrl, scvngr, check.in, and google latitude. We also gossip on who will come out the leader of the bunch and who might die off. Also discussed was whether or not google or facebook might create their own location based network.

Herman Davis can be found online at http://hdavis.buildlastingsuccess.com and Lee Benoit can be found at http://337studios.com

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July 2010 SETX Tweetup

// July 28th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog

Thanks everyone that showed up for the Southeast Texas tweetup. This had to be one of our biggest turnouts to date! We had the tweetup at Starvin Marvins Bar & Grill, a new restaurant/bar that opened up here in the last two months. I was fortunate enough to reserve their private room for free. It was nice being in a cool air-conditioned room instead of out on the patio in muggy Texas heat. We had a good mix of new and old faces. We had tweeters, facebookers and a couple that were neither. I counted 14 people in total. That’s a lot in lil Beaumont,TX. It was a far cry from our humble beginnings of 4-5 we had at the first tweetup. I think everyone had a good time. Some people socialized while others took the opportunity for some social networking.

I did make up some nametags this time around, where I had people write their twitter handles instead of their real names. This gave people the opportunity to match up a face to one’s twitter identity. Since we had a lot of people who used social media at the tweetup, I also broke the news about the Social Media Club of Beaumont that Justin McCullough and I have been working on the past few months. All in all a great event and I can’t wait to have the next one soon.

Thanks to @409now, @beaumartian, @beaumontbeth, @cookingoutloud, @curatorgirl, @irishplague, @jess_benton, @laurawxx @mccjustin @mickster09 @reneeintx , chad and steve.

UPDATE 07/30/10: Justin McCullough sent in this video he took from his Droid.