Kulture

Pop kulture for geeks.

Good bye 2011, hello 2012!

It’s not the end of Kulture, just the end of 2011. You can expect more of the same awesomeness in 2012.

Is the iPhone making like it’s creator?

Some interesting data from YouGov’s BrandIndex (a company that measures a consumers sentiments towards brands) show that Samsung’s brand awarenesses rose rose while Apples iPhone brand awareness fell after Samsung released two ads (on or around Nov. 22 and Dec. 1) that take a dig at Apple fan boys and the iPhones woeful battery life. [...]

Skrym Dubstep arrow in the knee

Unless for some strange reason you haven’t been on the internet in the last few months then you have probably heard of the ‘arrow in the knee’ meme or seen some mutation of it. Even if you aren’t on the internet you probably know that Dubstep is also kind of a big thing, even if [...]

The world’s most important 6-sec drum loop

Chances are that your favorite genre of music wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the Amen Break, the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop. This documentary narrates the history of the “Amen Break”, a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969.

This one time at Band Camp…

I found some free music. Merry x-mass! I bring good will, x-mass cheer and free music! Band Camp is a platform that lets artists sell their music for as much or as little as they want including for free. Whatever genre of music your into Band Camp probably caters for it. So hit it up [...]

Raspberry Pi – $25 PC

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer based on a 700 MHz ARM11 CPU and uses Broadcom’s BCM2835 SoC and VideoCore IV GPU. There will be two models, Model B which has a 10/100 network interface (going for $35) and the cheaper Model A version (going for $25) with out Ethernet network connectivity.

C64anabalt

How do you turn a popular new game into an old classic? Port it to the Commodore 64 in cartridge format. It’s one thing to port an old game to a new system but to port a new game to an old system takes a little more effort specially when you only have 16KB to [...]

Next station is FAIL!

Apparently the next station is 10145001G 220C, oh no wait, sorry the next station is Serial Address = 00. Oh no, sorry, wrong again it’s failed they are memory and serial addresses… Actually I don’t know what the next station is your on your own. Good luck! This happened on my train trip the other [...]

Supaplex & backwards compatibility

Backwards compatibility is a wonderful thing, thanks to backwards compatibility I can enjoy Supaplex in the right aspect ratio. Supaplex will install (by install I mean unzip because that’s all you have to do to ‘install’ it) and play under DOSBox without any tweaking, it’s a rare example of something just working properly out of [...]

20 years later: Gopher

How Gopher nearly trumped the web. It was the second killer app, after email, for the internet and to the average person it is the internet. The World Wide Web (henceforth referred to as the web) and the internet is indistinguishable to most people, they are assumed to be the same thing, they are inseparable. [...]

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