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Photohunt Honeycomb: A fun after-hours Alpaca-spotting game for conference attendees in Canberra
Honeycomb the Alpaca by GeneShashin
Here’s something you won’t see in most cities. Honeycomb the Alpaca has been spotted over the years being walked around Canberra neighbourhoods on foot and being ferried around town in the back of a Mazda 121. He visits nursing homes and hospices. He’s “like portable happiness”.
If you’re organising an event in Canberra that’ll have people coming from interstate and overseas, why not add a fun challenge for attendees that’ll have them looking at the national capital from a different perspective; have a prize for pictures of Honeycomb on Flickr tagged with the conference name too. Score one point for a picture of Honeycomb out & about and two if they manage to get a picture with Honeycomb, or maybe have a first-past-the-post competition. Judges would have to be able to verify the image on the camera, iPhone, whatever and then verify the date/time stamp and geotags on the Flickr upload to make sure it’s a legit image.
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[More pictures of Honeycomb below the fold]
How’s the iSerenity?
The Kerrigans don’t have to head out to Bonnie Doon these days. They can have their own little calm-generators with them wherever they go, if they’ve got iPhones. Zen Bound and iBonsai provide less when so many want to overly-complicate your day with more.
Singstar Pop Edition for PS3
I haven’t yet seen it in local stores, but Sony’s latest blog post dated 23 April says it’s out now, so it should be appearing on shelves imminently. Here’s the track list:
Alphabeat – 10,000 Nights Of Thunder
Amy Winehouse – Rehab
Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer
Chris Brown – With You
Chris De Burgh – Lady In Red
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors
Gloria Estefan – Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown – No Air
Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat
Kate Nash – Mouthwash
Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
Klaxons – Gravity’s Rainbow
Little Jackie – The World Should Revolve Around Me
Madness – It Must Be Love
Nelly feat. Fergie – Party People
P!nk – So What!
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Robbie Williams – Angels
Robyn – Be Mine
Rockwell – Somebody’s Watching Me
Sam Sparro – Black And Gold
Solange – I Decided
Sugababes – Girls
The Feeling – Rose
The Killers – Human
The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
The Script – The Man Who Can’t Be Moved
Will Young – Changes
will.i.am feat Cheryl Cole – Heartbreaker
Yazoo – Don’t Go
It looks like a good mix of power rock ballads, regular ballads and pop that should work well in Pass the Mic games. Unlike the last two band-specific releases (Abba & Queen), there doesn’t appear to be a PS2 version of this edition in the works. Will the vocal masses deem it worthy of a hardware upgrade?
I see a little silhouetto of a game – SingStar Queen
I reckon Sony’s on to something with these band specific SingStars. Clearly trying to widen the singalong’s repertoir to get new folk in that might’ve dismissed it as a toy for the Hot 30 crowd, they’ve gone for bands older groups will know intimately. Following-up from the Abba collection comes the prolific glam rockers Queen. It’s in Aussie stores next week, according to a footnote on Games On Net’s Coming Attractions post.
Full Tracklist for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2
Another One Bites The Dust
Bicycle Race
Bohemian Rhapsody
Breakthru
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Don’t Stop Me Now
Fat Bottomed Girls
Hammer To Fall
I Want It All
Innuendo
One Vision
Play The Game
Somebody To Love
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Tie Your Mother Down
Under Pressure
We Are The Champions
We Will Rock You
Who Wants To Live Forever
You’re My Best FriendTracks exclusive to PLAYSTATION 3:
A Kind of Magic
I Want to Break Free
Killer Queen
Radio Ga Ga
The Show Must Go On
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Keeping a couple of tracks exclusive to PS3 just might convince some punters to drop some of Uncle Kev’s $900 on the console. Would the lure of nostalgia parties be strong enough? What do you reckon?
Personally, I’m more excited by the second installment of Guitar Hero on the DS – On Tour Decades – also out next week. Check out this track list:
• Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
• The All-American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret
• Blind Melon – No Rain
• Blondie – One Way Or Another
• Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name
• Boston – Rock and Roll Band
• The Darkness – I Believe In A Thing Called Love
• Edgar Winter Group – Free Ride
• Fall Out Boy – The Take Over, The Breaks Over
• Foo Fighters – The Pretender
• Free – All Right Now
• Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
• Joe Satriani – Satch Boogie
• Journey – Any Way You Want It
• Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
• Linkin Park – One Step Closer
• Los Lobos – La Bamba
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama (live)
• Paramore – Crushcrushcrush
• Queen – We Are The Champions
• R.E.M. – The One I Love
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can’t Stop
• Sammy Hagar – I Can’t Drive 55
• Seether – Remedy
• Smashing Pumpkins – Tarantula
• Stone Temple Pilots – Down
• Veruca Salt – Volcano Girls
• Weezer – Buddy Holly
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Sure, you get some funny looks playing GH on the DS, but it’s fun and the track lists are good, so tell the haters where to go.
