An Australian artist called Paul Robertson has created a black-and-white animation in the style of classic arcade beat-em-up games. It is called Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Streetfight 2006. It is as utterly brilliant as its title suggests it would be. The heroes are great. The enemies are great. The super attacks are downright amazing. It […]
Saw Silent Hill. Seems that critics didn’t like it. Seems that critics are wrong.
I’ll admit right up front: I have never played the Silent Hill games. Matter of fact, I haven’t played any survival horror games. Perhaps, fans of the franchise will find the movie to be the same sort of abomination that Doom was […]
Kotaku reports that a Korean brokerage firm wants to hire professional Starcraft players as day traders. The argument being:
The mastery of professional gamer’s hands and their familiarity with the Internet environment can be good qualities to become day traders. […] The hitch is that the professional gamers have no knowledge in finance or investment. We […]
As two British restaurant patrons recently, found out, some fish are hallucinogenic. The two men ate some Salema porgy, a fish found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic around European and North African coasts. One man suffered from 36 hours of visual and auditory hallucinations; the other went through hours of hallucinations and […]
Saw the following on the back door of a small van on the way home today.
First, the head of a Greek warrior in helmet.
Then, the words:
“The Spartan Man Sewer Raider Inc.”
“Plumbing, heating, and air conditioning”
“A woman owned and managed business”
Hilarious.
Saw V for Vendetta this weekend. Nice movie, but the graphic novel was better. Which is to be expected — film adaptations of great literature are almost always worse than the original. The movie is substantially different from the book; some of the changes the Wachowski brothers made included:
The historical background for the book was […]
The Recording Industry Ass. of America are not nice people. They lobby to make it illegal to record digital radio — or to make a device capable of doing so. They are suing thousands of “pirates”– except some of those they accuse of piracy are grandmothers who have never owned a computer. The accuracy of […]
BoingBoing had an interesting post about nontransitive dice.
Say you have four dice, A, B, C, and D, which are labeled as follows:
A = {1, 1, 1, 5, 5, 5}
B = {2, 2, 2, 2, 6, 6}
C = {3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3}
D = {0, 0, 4, 4, 4, 4}
Then, 2/3 of the time, B […]
Ben Griffin was a British paratrooper who served with distinction in Northern Ireland, Macedonia, and Afghanistan. In early 2004, he joined the SAS, Britain’s elite special services, and was deployed in Baghdad alongside America’s Delta Force. In March 2005, after 3 months in Iraq, he quit the British Army, citing disgust at the legality of […]
Chevrolet is releasing a new model of its Tahoe SUV, and as part of the publicity campaign, allowed all website visitors to put together a Chevy Tahoe ad by combining several clips of stock footage with custom text. Needless to say, the results weren’t quite what they were expecting. My favorite is this gem. I […]
The Guantanamo Bay facility and the rest of CIA’s secret jails are mostly outside of any normal Western judicial system. There are no juries, no judges, no lawyers, no witnesses, no appeals. There is only a (hardly impartial) military commission which may hear your case years after you are detained or kidnapped. Yet some people […]