December 2008
go play auditorium, it's clever and gorgeous →
November 2008
oh hell yes - google is hosting life magazine... →
omg bungie ruin game
wtf srsly? you’re supposed to change from a title like halo 3: odst to halo 3: recon, not the other way around. if you’re going to go to the trouble of changing the name mid-stream, the change should probably be to something simpler. it’s not like nintendo started with the wii and changed it to the nintendo revolution action fun haptic virtualizer.
odst doesn’t exactly...
“But, for Anna and me, it’s already too late. We’ve become so...”
– by steve weissman for truthout
“I suspect the American people would be troubled if I selected a Treasury...”
– obama in response to bulltrue about how bringing in washington insiders goes against his change mantra
this is very good
the angry black woman talks about how the 9/11 memorial stuff at ground zero inspired her new short story, ‘until forgiveness comes’, which is excellent work.
opacity - urban ruins →
“The items that you use incessantly, the items you employ every day, the normal,...”
– bruce sterling’s last viridian note
hiroshima - the lost photographs →
Katie - gee, bryce, it’s too bad you can’t come to northrend. It’s sooo much fun.
“It was the only point on which all the authorities agreed, and no matter where...”
– tentacles of rage - the republican propaganda mill, a brief history - by lewis h. lapham
quick, i need six hundred dollars
nokia e90 = 3.2mp camera, symbian os for expandability, internal 800 x 352 widescreen + external 240 x 320 screens, full qwerty keyboard, micro-sd up to 8gb, wifi, a web brower that can handle flash, and full access to all programs from the closed clamshell mode.
at less than an inch longer than my treo, this is the One Device i would need to carry with me, and have constant access to a...
‘To top it off, he kept repeating this mantra, a disservice to everyone in the room he kept pandering to (”who here wants to work in the games industry!?”):“make games for everybody!”
An ambiguous statement but he made it clear he meant “make [a game] that [any person] can and would want to play.”
The hubris of the games industry, where every other medium is succumbing to fracturalisation...
Carmine: what are these things, sir?
Fenix: what do I look like, a fucking botanist or something? It’s a fucking plant!
‘No, I mean the entire movie needs to be after that trailer. I don’t want to watch that trailer for two hours.’
luke reviews 25 minutes of the new star trek movie →
obama promises leadership on climate change
what’s with all this leadership, good decision making, and frank discussion with the american people? it’s like he doesn’t understand how to be a proper president. he already got elected, he doesn’t need to engage us directly again for like three years!
if he’s already ready to be president before day one, what kind of decisive action on complex and important...
the mexican drug war
not so much an effort to stop the production and sale of illegal drugs, as much as a bid by the mexican government to prevent the mexican cartels from taking over the country. (it’s on wikipedia too…)
let’s lay this out pretty simply. we americans use cocaine and other illegal drugs, but we can’t get them in america because they’re illegal. so we outsource that,...
bad news
via global geurrillas
‘The holes in the global security system are so big now, that you can drive a super-tanker through them.’ - on the hijacking of a saudi oil tanker off the coast of kenya, despite recent increases in security patrols to prevent precisely this kind of thing.
japan cuts retiree benefits, sees doubling of crime rate among the elderly, proposes new anti-crime bills...
vlogging the executive transition
so president-elect obama is using the change.gov youtube channel to upload weekly addresses to the american people. the point isn’t so much what he says as that he’s saying it at all, directed at the american public, akin to roosevelt’s fireside chats.
president bush preferred not to talk to us if he could avoid it. obama isn’t even in the white house yet and he’s...
bad idea theatre presents
highlander 2: the quickening: 2: the series.
a cyberpunk series set in the bizarre future world of the theatrical cut of highlander 2, with space travel and robots and all kinds of insane things with swords.
focusing on martin ‘marty’ macleod, connor’s half human, half zeistian immortal son by the girl from highlander one. main villian would be micheal ironside playing the...
what we should have been doing in iraq for the... →
“Does anybody but me remember that it wasn’t JUST BLACK PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR...”
– brownfemipower on the ‘black people passed prop 8’ bulltrue
“Halper notes that 70% of that 10% — 7% of all voters, in other words — went Yes...”
– the angry black woman, on the ‘black people passed prop 8’ bulltrue
“Yesterday, I finished my novel.
The manuscript needs a great deal of editing,...”
– susannah breslin
i harth darth →
the smashy adventures of the hulk →
extraordinary pictures of the sun →
“We are all a part of inflicting the pain that makes this accomplishment so huge,...”
– brownfemipower
alien ant farm - smooth criminal (michael jackson... →
Hey, the bush administration? You know that sense of malaise we’ve been feeling you’ve been promoting for the last eight years? You can have that shit back.
2008 - rise up, assholes, and get your lives back →
2006 - why vote against republicans? because fuck... →
I am now officially NOT moving to canada.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!
“Honestly if you have a shity day and your horoscope says you’re going to have a...”
– claire / a mon seul desir