links for 2008-10-31

We've come a long way from LOGO indeed (though this still has a turtle!): videos and a link to the project page of Microsoft's new teach-kids-games-programming setup, Boku. I wanna try!

Serially, though, whoever decided to get Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington his own tv show is king/queen of my week. This first episode could have been shaved down by a minute or so, but holy shit! It's Kristen Schaal. It's like some kind of psychic love-in straight inside my brain.

Another super interesting looking little iPhone art piece that I'll be fiddling with later.

GPS-map overlaid iPhone RPG gets released to the App Store — taking a closer look at this in a few hours.

The full 11 pager article gets put online.

Via Mr. Simon Parkin — this video's much better than the just-pinball one I saw the other day. Two live drummers interacting with flash graphics, and agreed with Parkin that the 0:22 to 0:40 song is excellent.

Pretty good/handy hobo codes for tricks and treaters. Special preview — the code for this house is: |||| (if I don't eat them all first).

New arts & farts & crafts show, you know, for kids. Not gonna lie — those owls are pretty slick.

Uhh, Namco? That's a big fat NO to this.