No Posts... Animal Crossing (and inertia)

Life has been very uneventful for me, Web speaking this past week. I have been playing much Animal Crossing Wild World.

Here are two things that go a little way to explaining the attraction of Animal crossing
on Terranova (referring to the GameCube version)
from the Guardian by Aleks Krotoski.

I love the real time aspect of it, and the sense of place (which is what those two links lead to wrtitings about) the morning, pink late afternoon sky, the seasons, the way trees take time to grow, the sending of letters. I might talk more about the reasons for its appeal when I am not so immersed in it.

Here's links to some useful Animal Crossing Wild World guides I've been using.


Both these are excellent places to find information on every aspect of Animal Crossing.

Animal Crossing Ahead This site covers the Original and the Wild World versions.
Animal Crossing DS Beginner's Tips and Tactics Guide by Freyashawk, this one is text only, but is so full of informtaion, it's overwhelming.

There's a lot of other AC sites out there, but these are the ones I keep returning to (many of the sites out there consist of almost identical information, reformatted).

Haven't taken a pic of my character yet tho.

My Occupation : Animal Crossing

I've been initiating myself into the world of Animal Crossing Wild World (wiki link or official page) over the past few days. I am coming to know its mysteries and to enjoy and be irritated by the "personalities" of the animal characters. Though I am annoyed I can't get the WiFi to work, it should work (with my iMac rebroadcasting my network connection via the Airport card) but for some reason Animal Crossing is one of the games it doesn't work on. Alas. So either I give up on that idea (wireless fun) or I get myself a wireless thingummy. Well anyway I'll post a pic in a while (of my character in my town). I've been mulling over buying this game for a few months, as I didn't even have a DS, so I bought a Nintendo DS soley in order to play this game, so far I'm not disappointed.

Dark Pigmented Mallard

Dark Pigmented Mallard
Originally uploaded by KCanard.

A New Duck makes a splash at my local pond. He had all the attention. The drakes envied his dark sleek feathers.

Some Podcasts I Have Sampled - Six

How to Succeed in Evil is a podcast I have been listening to recently. It is the fun tale of an evil advisor who is exasperated at the ineptitude of this clients - evil geniuses who are to big headed to realise their own shortcomings. It is also available in comic form here. One of the podcasts sees Edwin (the evil expert) dealing with zombie workers run amok, that episode features music by Jonathan Coulton.

I've listened to a few episodes of Typeradio which is supposed to be all about typography, but it's not so heavy on the typography. There are interviews with font creators (where the question "how many illegal fonts have you got?" is asked, among others) and such - have to do some more listening but it sounds (after hearing three 'casts) interesting.

Not categorically a podcast (ah, my mistake yes it is! Here is the RSS feed link) but there is audio from South By Southwest Interactive presentations and discussions (more files being added as they get around to it). There's one called Web Typography Sucks which I have heard about and have yet to listen to - It was just put up today.
Also there is audio and video from the Free Software and Open Source Symposium (talks on open sourceness, linux, wikis collaboration etc.).

Links for 13th March 2007

The Tumbleist is a list of some tumblelogs (brief, immediate, mixed media post blog (ooh - post-blog?)) around on the web. Snippets from a life is the main way they are being used. What is so exciting about the net is that things don't stay uniform for long.

I read tell of Duck stand up on bash.org.

Firefox 3.0 news - ComputerWorld says -
"Firefox 3.0 will also have a small, embedded database -- SQL Lite -- that will eventually be used for full-text indexing of the browser's "history." ".
Useful - but will it slow the browser down? Hope not, sound's interesting.

Shiira Browser - Fast and Pretty

Shiira Browser 2.0b2 for OS X
Originally uploaded by KCanard.

Shiira 1.2.2 (Panther or later) is the stable build, but 2.0b2 (in the pic) is - in my reckoning - faster still, but alas buggy still. Nevertheless I am using this at present. I had tried Shiira before, but wasn't as blown away by it - don't know if it was more a change in the app or a change in me that makes me feel WOW. I can't wait to see the stable release of 2.0.

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This is my first post from Flickr. I like this Flickr blog feature.

Links for 6th March 2007

Open Culture: The Podcast Portal has links to some good podcasts organised by topic (e.g. Arts+Culture, Technology) including good things like TWiT, Buzz Out Loud but also less well known shows are here.

Meomi is a lovely site full of pastel cute "critters" and such. They have some desktop images (link to one of my favourites) and icons, and a few game type things and they sell magnets and badges and cards, which are quite tempting.

Video from the past at Videojug
Video clips from the 30s onwards including things like Nixon in the USSR and model homes with built in fall out shelters and Farmer plays tune with hands from 1933 - (see, people were so much more sophisticated back then, how far we have fallen). There's lots of news items and the like.


Navigate the OS X Menu (File, Edit etc and the small apple) by Keyboard. - a Tip from Apple.