Wii Pre-order, um, Madness?

This store in Towson, MD said they had 14 Wiis for pre-order. Yes, there’s one dude there (lower right corner). That must be his car because at 8AM on Oct 13, 2006, he was the only one in the shopping center. Did I mention it was 41 F out?

Originally uploaded by gregwalsh.

Contest to design a better Pratt St corridor

One downside to living in Baltimore is the lack of a shopping “district” for normal day-today things like clothes, electronics…just stuff. We always find ourselves driving to either White Marsh or some other suburb which kind of defeats living in a city. Hopefully, one of the new proposals that will enter the contest to redesign Pratt St will include a shopping area that is nice enough for a tourist area but not so upscale no one really shops there…it should be a functional part of the city.

My suggestions would be:

• Consider a Pratt St/Lombard St corridor
• Use a free or cheap (25c) circulating bus to ride up and down the corridor
• Bike stations for locals to commute into the area
• A scaled down Target
• Street kiosks with touristy things
• Two additional street performer/learning areas
• A 5-7 screen multiplex theater
• A monorail to Patterson Park

Ok…you don’t need that last one…but it would be cool.
A new avenue of thought - baltimoresun.com

Commodore 64 on Wii

This is going to be a great video game system. Why? Because I’ll be able to play:

• California Games (C64)
• Adventure Park /Cabbage Patch Kids in the USÂ (Coleco Vision)
• SuperMario RPG (SNES)

Plus all the new WII games and tons of NES games.

My wife will be happy because I’ll be able to put the NES, Genesis, SNES and GameCube away.

Gamasutra - Report: Commodore 64 Titles To Join Virtual Console?