January 2012
4 posts
Watchwashingtonpoststyle:
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.
Why History Needs Software Piracy →
How copy protection and app stores could deny future generations their cultural legacy.
By Benj Edwards
December 2011
3 posts
“Exchange makes cultural change collective and cumulative. It becomes possible to...”
– Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, arguing the importance of exchanging ideas, collective intelligence, and as a result, the free and open Internet.
November 2011
3 posts
Mitch Miller - Baby Face
“I shot a man, and then I shot ten men, and then I got shot and my eyes felt like...”
– Graham Smith, Deputy Editor of PC Gamer, on Battlefield 3’s single player campaign
October 2011
5 posts
September 2011
8 posts
5 tags
My new porn site →
Of course, I expect that its colloquial name will be “Of The Genitals”.
What do you say on that horrible anniversary? →
(via dehydratedbabies)
WatchThis is GREAT.
1 tag
May 2011
1 post
“Oh no, don’t even, man don’t even… If you’re gonna say...”
– Jerry Holkins, on The Weekly Geek in 2006 (at 9:51). Jerry previously extolled the brilliance of Crystal Chronicles in 2004.
April 2011
1 post
I am a Columbine survivor named Brooks Brown. I... →
Until recently I thought that Reddit was tantamount to Digg, and accordingly I avoided it. Since realizing that I was mistaken, Reddit has become an invaluable, daily source of fascinating discussions. Today’s “Ask Me Anything” with Brooks Brown, former Columbine High School student and current web producer at LucasArts, is among those discussions.
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
The Brothers and Sisters (The Los Angeles Gospel...
Candor
“Another version of the story holds that Bankhead met Chico Marx at a party before her reputation had overturned the presumption that William B. Bankhead’s daughter would be disgusted by Marx’s typically crude (yet generally effective) approach. According to Dick Cavett, after Marx had been cautioned to be on his best behavior with Bankhead, the two first spoke at the punch...
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
“Piracy will win in the long run. It has to. The alternative is too scary.”
– Markus Persson, a.k.a. “Notch”, creator of Minecraft
November 2010
3 posts
“hanx so much for uhelp ican going to graduate to now”
– The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story
The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your... →
“The request came in by e-mail around 2 in the afternoon. It was from a previous customer, and she had urgent business. I quote her message here verbatim (if I had to put up with it, so should you): “You did me business ethics propsal for me I need propsal got approved pls can you will write me paper?”
I’ve gotten pretty good at interpreting this kind of correspondence....
3 tags
Mathematics with MC Moe Murdah
future-eater:
P: One of my students is having so much trouble with his compulsory remedial math courses that it is endangering his ability to attend Hip-Hop Academy.
A: Design a highly illustrative fun math workbook with accelarating difficulty full of real-life word problems associated with the life of a rapper, what he aspires to be. Every question is based on money.
R: This rough workbook,...
September 2010
3 posts
Stefan Ajax (AmIEvil) - Battle Rocks (Super Mario...
What do you say on that horrible anniversary?
9/11 is a fraction. September 11, 2001 is a date. Choose wisely.
GameStop Magazine Game Informer is putting out three lovely BioShock Infinite covers (done by Irrational’s Robb Waters) next month.
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August 2010
5 posts
4 tags
“I always wanted to say that it’s like Kung Fu Hustle meets Phantom of the...”
– Edgar Wright, on pitching Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
3 tags
BioShock Infinite
Here are some screen captures from the BioShock Infinite trailer, which Ken Levine and Irrational Games revealed to the public on Thursday.
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2 tags
“I remember there was this beautiful moment when everyone said “How can I help?...”
– Todd Solondz
July 2010
5 posts
1 tag
“One of the most surreal moments inside was the Super Bowl, all these convicts...”
– “So I just got out of prison…”
1 tag
“The most accurate depiction of prison life you’ll ever see is the 2nd...”
– “So I just got out of prison…”
4 tags
3 tags
“I feel that writing your own code for a hardware device that you’ve bought...”
– Neill Corlett, Found in Translation
2 tags
June 2010
2 posts
4 tags
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May 2010
2 posts
“In the more than 1,100 articles I have written for this newspaper since 1996, I...”
– Seth Schiesel