December 2009
52 posts
“It was the day after Christmas, 1993, that I got a phone call from my mother to...”
– Ave atque vale : Pharyngula
Tribes buy back America — acres at a time - Race... →
“Google is the spider of the Web. It assures in it a metafunction: that of...”
– Mariborchan » Jacques-Alain Miller – Google
“Pac-Man is a game where you wander aimlessly through a maze of dark, featureless...”
– KevinCow shares a far-fetched but thought-provoking interpretation of Pac-Man as a survival horror game.
If I recall correctly, Namco Bandai is planning a special title for the yellow guy’s 30th anniversary in 2010, with Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator and former level designer Hirokazu Yasuhara...
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman - Did you... →
A timeline of how the disappearance of humans would affect the world.
Finally saw Where The Wild Things Are today. I thought it was perfect.
“The crowd is always potentially violent, and this is part of its strength. But...”
– In the Interest of a Useable Past, Part II | NO CAPTION NEEDED
When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like... →
“This is a classic scenario you’ve seen in non-scifi epics from Dances With Wolves to The Last Samurai, where a white guy manages to get himself accepted into a closed society of people of color and eventually becomes its most awesome member.”
Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or,... →
lancecore:
By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went on to dominate the rest of the decade. If Dickens proclaimed of the 1790s revolutionary era in France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the reactionary Bush era was just the worst of times. I declare it the decade of the American oligarchs. Just as...
Watch‘Tongue’ and ‘Bye Bye Love’ by Ryland Bouchard
[via: LA BLOGOTHEQUE]
“These photos are the very embodiment of public domain. They’re on view so...”
– Photos from unknown friends - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“The Institute said a robot would accompany the first primate to Mars to feed and...”
– Monkey to be sent to Mars - Telegraph
Selecting for kuru resistant cannibals →
A scientific study on how cannibalism affected gene selection related to protection from the brain disease kuru.
“Everywhere we looked, for a mile or so down canyon, there were images pecked or...”
– BLDGBLOG: On Bombs and Preservation
