Simon Barber enters a gloomy forest and fights pixellated monsters to bring back the stirring tale of Might and Magic!
Wayne Dixon takes us back to the heady days of 1992, when Linus Torvalds first released Linux into the world. People thought he was crazy!
Which turns out to be true.
Aug 162007
The Digital Ben McKenzie guides the viewer through the Wonderful World of Wikis from his secret Cave of Thought.
A few weeks ago, Simon Barber laid the clicky-linky smack down when it came to keyboardless navigation of Internet marvel, Wikipedia.
Viewer Bec wasn’t impressed. She laid down a challenge. And, like a Phoenix rising from… well, Parkville… he showed that he still has what it takes to navigate the vast sea of information that we call Teh Intarwebs.
A few weeks ago, Dan Walmsley visited his Alma Mater, University High School (a.k.a. “Uni High”. The name is an historical anomaly; Uni High is not some crazy-ass hybrid of University and High School).
Uni High is home to one of Australia’s first accelerated programs for gifted students. Dan Walmsley interviews the staff, teachers and students in an effort to find out the benefits and drawbacks of putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room.
Aug 092007
Following on a grand tradition of biting off more than we can chew, this week we animated the between-segment bits.
If you ever got up early on a Saturday and wrapped yourself in a blanket to watch cartoons while your grandma brought your weeties and milk, then this is for you.
Paul Verhoeven reviews Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from a space station in the 1950s.
In other news, Planet Nerd is now clearly smoking the bad crack.
Dan visits Firemint, a mobile games development shop here in Melbourne, Australia, to find out what it’s like to develop mobile games, and how you too can get involved in the fastest-growing sector of the games industry.
Jul 302007
Dan Walmsley visits San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center to check out the 4th annual RoboGames. See robots with flamethrowers, pincers, hammers and more fight to the death in a bulletproof cage.
We knew that once the truth was out, it was just a matter of time before heads would roll. We didn’t realise that action would happen so swiftly.
Less than 24 hours after Planet Nerd’s explosive exposé of a political conspiracy to ruin the ending of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Deputy Premier John Thwaites has resigned, taking the premier down with him.
Bracks’ resignation has consumed the bulk of the media attention (he blames “family reasons” on the decision), allowing Thwaites to quietly leave politics without any questions being asked. It is simply assumed that his political future lay with Bracks.
As viewers of Planet Nerd (and soon the world) well know, last Satuday John “Acting Minister for Magic” Thwaites and Lord Mayor John “Counting Is Hard” So conspired to ruin the ending of Harry Potter by reading the last page of the book aloud and amplified to a crowd of adoring fans.
So compounded the sin by repeating the last line of the book in an exclusive interview with Planet Nerd.
Stay tuned for exclusive video which provides damning evidence of this most heinous of crimes. In the meantime, you can watch the entire story unfold as part of Planet Nerd Episode 8.
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