Life has consisted of mainly Zelda, The Wire and work this year. No time to find any funny links.

So here’s a clip from The Wire I’ve just uploaded to YouTube. In a rare montage-to-music scene drug dealers Avon Barksdale, Stringer Bell and Stinkum enter the Lowrises to see D’Angelo and check that their product is being sold correctly. The Wire is all filmed on location using no sets whatsoever giving it a real air of authenticity.

The music supervisor of The Wire has his own blog at www.tenthousand.org and wrote a small article about the scene above. There’s some great music downloads and mix tapes at his site too so please go and check it out.

As for The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess on the Nintendo Wii I think I’m about half way through. The video below shows the last boss I finished off a day ago. It’s not me doing the spinning but it’s a good example of the current level of escapism going on at King Mansions. This may act as a small spoiler for those only a short way through the game, and I’m sure I had this baddie down in under 7 minutes:

And as for work well I’m sure I can show you a little of what I’ve been working on here: http://www.audemos.co.uk/redesign/

Ok, here’s some good links:

Ingenious way to kill bees.

The new Burn My Face Off Elmo on YouTube.

Yes, not much has been happening online over Christmas to report about. I’ve just been playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii) on my Wii and watching the first season of The Wire which is shaping up to be the best cop show of all time, even after watching just 5 episodes.

Ibiza Sonica - Nice (for a Flash site). Check out the 1 hour eclectic mix by Charles Webster by going to Downloads, then hovering over the record box.

Stumble Video - This is the closest thing to turning YouTube into a viable TV station. Just watch the videos it shows and rate them. Stumble will then start to learn your likes and dislikes. I hope this works on my Wii!

And if you really want to keep a video you see on YouTube then just visit the Video Downloader 2.0 site. This will store the video on your hard drive. You can then put it on your phone if you like.

Whats looking like being the biggest nerd debate of 2006/7, the Wii vs the PS3. Read about the designer’s perspective over at GamaSutra.

Here’s a 9 minute interview and clips of Daddy Freddy on Record Breakers and Blue Peter. I remember him vividly but I can’t find too many others out there who remember him.

Listen to The Guardian’s political cartoonist Steve Bell as he takes a tour around his home town, Brighton.

Now I have my Nintendo Wii running an internet browser I should be able to play lots of flash-based games using my Wiimote on my TV. This will be updates with new sites as soon as I find them:

albinoblacksheep.com - A list of 30 flash games

Katamari, Grow Cube & ZooKeeper and others.

Wiicade.com - Many Wii compatable Flash games