December 2010
15 posts
☞ Night of the Wandering Dead
Should the ever-looming and increasingly-popular zombie apocalypse ever come to pass, New Yorkers will be well prepared for it. We deal with zombies everyday. Lumbering, mindless masses surround us as we bob and weave, impending our movement at every turn. Instead of chanting “braaaaains” though, they chant “ya’ll know where the subway is?”
I am, of course, talking...
The Beauty of Pixar →
Nicely-edited montage of all the Pixar movies. Along with some random Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro cameos? I have no idea.
Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die. →
Patton Oswalt’s interesting Wired piece on geek culture. Ostensibly about how it’s much easier being a nerd today than it once was. I’m not sure I agree with it, and I wonder whether Patton himself agrees with it, but it is thought-provoking. And you also get this awesome quote:
The coming decades—the 21st-century’s ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s—have the potential to be one long,...
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☞ The Cheddar Popcorn Is The Best
It’s Christmas Eve and I’m not done Christmas shopping. This does not come as a surprise to me. Nor should it to you. All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
It’s fine, really. I’m almost done. I work better under deadlines anyway. “Fresher under pressure,” I believe is the applicable idiom here. And deadlines don’t get much...
Tron Legacy as Allegory →
Sad because you went to see Tron Legacy hoping for The Matrix and instead you got The Matrix Reloaded? Read this. You’ll feel better. (I don’t really believe it, but I’m telling myself that I do.)
Indie iPhone Holiday Sale →
Six excellent games, all for 99 cents each. Of which 33 of those cents go to Child’s Play. I picked up Canabalt and Drop7 myself, although I can vouch for Osmos. I have before.
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☞ Isn't The Evil Twin Supposed To Have The Beard?
Remember the first time you really bought a special effect in a movie? Like really believed it was real? Optimally you wouldn’t have even realized it was an effect. Like just assuming Tom Hanks is actually that good at ping pong, and the ball isn’t animated in a computer. Or that those d-bags in “The Social Network” are in fact two separate d-bags instead of one d-bag with...
The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess →
Nice timeline of how the great Gawker hack of 2010 went down. I think this has got some made for TV movie potential, folks. Noah Wyle as Nick Denton, anyone?
Word Lens demonstration →
Holy crap. Augmented reality text translation. Just watch the video. It’s only Spanish/English at the moment, but that’s just a formality. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of SUNY Albany canceling the rest of their foreign language courses.
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☞ It's Hard Out There For A Pomp.
I found a phone in my bed the other day. Like a phone phone. Not like I was missing my cell phone and I found it underneath the pillow or something. Like I found an actual corded telephone with a base and a handset and a little spirally cord and everything. We’re talking rotary here, folks. In my bed. It had been there for over a week when I found it.
I’d like to tell you this is an...
Q&A with TSA Chairman John Pistole →
It’s funny because it’s true. It’s also hugely frustrating because it’s true.
Sugar Slam's Super Live Toy Drive! →
It’s a Juggalo miracle! I’m sorry, I can’t help myself. There are too many quotable lines here. All of them horribly inappropriate.
☞ Tanya, Tania, Tanja.
I’m typically behind most fashion trends by a good five to ten years.
I’m like rural Maine in that regard.
Or Eastern Germany circa 1992.
When I was studying German in high school, there was always a chapter of the textbook dedicated to the reunification of Germany. Sometimes for a laugh, we’d turn to that chapter and have a good chuckle at the Eastern Germans who looked like...
Juggalos Gone Wired →
An excellent primer on everything Insane Clown Posse related. It’s Juggalo News, if you will.
Shop•Vac® - The Video →
One of my favorite Jonathan Coulton songs, visualized. Best detail: smiling Shop•Vac®.