Sullen kid with crazy hair

must be mine.

Galaktagon: chunky retro monochrome fun for iPhone

This one isn't going to set any sales records, but if you're in the
fortyish, techno-philic demographic, you might enjoy this shooter,
which is as chunky as GORF or a Channel F game, but has a funky synth
soundtrack. I like it.

One-stop shopping for logical fallacies.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

Why I'm amused by, but not interested in, simulations of fuzzy old television output

You can read all about the intent of this project here: http://www.bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator.shtml. Since today's kiddies are only seeing Atari VCS games via emulation, the idea is to transform our crisp, modern screens so that they more closely resemble the original experience,

From my perspective, while I think it's great to try to replicate the olden days, this isn't the way I'd want to play these games. I feel like we've finally crawled out of Plato's Cave -- the original fuzzy, noisy images on our parents' old Magnavox cathode-ray tube sets were all we had, but that old RF technology was blocking us from seeing the pixel art in its truest form. Ian Bogost has nostalgia for the old look, while I feel we've made progress.

Then again, I was one of those people that bought a (water-cooled, engine in front, air bag-equipped) VW New Beetle so I'm clearly not enough of an historian to be trusted in these matters.

Weird smudge cloud

Bit Tripping And The Art Of SD Card Maintenance » Murderblog 3D

More great stuff about this retro-future game.
http://www.zacharyreese.com/2009/04/bit-trip-beat/

Knowledge/Action: Ways to Charge the Kindle

Knowledge/Action: Ways to Charge the Kindle

Bit.trip beat

Anyone over 30 with a Wii and any affection for Atari VCS paddle games
needs to get this right now. It's like someone wrote Rez for the Atari
2600, and it's easily the best six bucks you can spend on any "art"
game this year for any platform.

Just One Club Card - Combine All Of Your Club Cards

http://www.justoneclubcard.com/

Disturbing Strokes

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-e3qGQ884

Boxer: The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac.

This is a great DOSbox wrapper for OSX. http://boxerapp.com/

Cat Piano is the mutt's nuts. The cat's ass, as it were.

Hey,
Check out Cat Piano for the iPhone/iPod touch.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=302091679

Microwaving Peeps: The Faraday Death Cage Match

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51WVaNdEvw

Fun things to do with Peeps (besides eating them)

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Fun things to do with Peeps (besides eating them)

Spring has sprung, the grass is green again, the trees are in bloom, the animals are stirring. And to me, that all means one important thing: Peeps are in season! I've had a rather unnatural attraction to Peeps every since I was a child. There's something about this strange, over-the-top-sweet, pillowy confection that makes it simultaneous attractive and repulsive. It's WAY too much of a good thing: too much sweet, too much cute, two much color (this year's colors are vivid to a degree that's downright hallucinatory). And then there's the strange "mouth feel" of gooey, pillow-soft innards and a crunchy crystalline sugar coating. Not to mention the rather disturbing idea of eating a rack of baby chicks, fused to each other at the hip, sold to you at Eastern time by a company called Just Born of Bethlehem, PA. It all adds up to a uniquely American pop-surrealist experience that I revel in each year. And from all of the crazy, educational, and absurd websites and videos I've seen online over the years, so don't a lot of people. Happy Spring, everybody!

Every spring since it emerged, I've done a posting to my favorite Peeps-related activity: Peep War! It's a free downloadable tabletop wargame where you get to eat the enemies you capture, a section at a time! Jelly beans counters are involved too. Yum. If you don't have Peeps and jelly beans to play with, you can use paper/cardboard counters. You are not advised to eat them.

The venerable website for evil mad science experimentation with Peeps is Peeps Research. They wrote the book on Peeps abuse... er I mean scientific study. They subject Peeps to extreme cold, heat, pressure, various solutions, and the health effects of smoking and drinking on Peeps. Hilarity (and a wee bit of actual learning) ensues.

Another Peeps research site is Bunny Survival Test. Here they perform experiments in laser light exp...

completely awesome time-travel cheatsheet

http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/qw-cheatsheet-print-zoom.jpg

The rich are not like you and me

But they're still important to the economy. The Economist has an
interesting set of features about them.

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13356686

The Anatomy Of A Sackboy [Sackboy]

 

 

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The Anatomy Of A Sackboy [Sackboy]

via Kotaku by Luke Plunkett on 4/2/09

What's inside a Sackboy? Fluff, cotton and love? No. Try bones, organs and other squishy, icky things.

Least, that's what's inside them according to these brilliant illustrations from NY artist and toy designer Jason Freeney, which in a continuation of his series of similar pics for Lego minifigs and Gummi Bears show terribly scientific cut-outs of a Sackboy's insides.

Squeamish? You may wish to do what we're doing about now, which is covering our eyes and trying to remember the days when we thought all they were made of was fluff, cotton and love.

[thanks Jeff!]

 

 

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