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Move over Beatles Rock Band. Just announced – though sadly as yet unavailable – is that Curious Sense showing their own curious sense by developing a casual game featuring and inspired by the music of REO Speedwagon. Crikey. The full press release below.(...)Read the rest of REO Speedwagon… The Game. (781 words)Posted by Ki (Read More)
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The #1 joke made against the NintendoDS i XL is that it’s way too big, so it was very important that we do the joke with a unique twist. Thankfully, Jon Watts helped lend me a hand with this idea while Tim was preoccupied. For those who have never seen “Powers of Ten” – here’s the link, which I highly recommend viewing.Shar (Read More)
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Check out these awesome Piranhamoose-O’-Lantern pictures sent in by Wonderwoman Amber. (Based, of course, on that fearsome, brackish beast of the direst, darkest woods.) Amber, I will be very disappointed if this this thing did not eat at least five trick-or-treaters. Thanks for the pictures!
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You may have expressed your sympathies for the NPCs in your favorite MMO. They never get to leave their shops, and their families miss them. Perhaps they do not even have shops, eternally standing in the sun and the rain in the hopes that someone will come by with frayed rat tails to sell. The lucky ones get to wander al (Read More)
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No recipe with this one, but I do have a link to a list of WOPR's hypothetical doomsday scenarios. I'm intrigued by how many of those sound like obscure sexual acts. "Yeah, I gave her the Nicaraguan Thrust. She said she likes the Thai Variation better." "Just don't try the Turkish Decoy, man. Girls hate that."
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Today, according to CA’s parent blog, the Asylum Network, is National Cliche Day, and in order to celebrate, I’ve put together a gallery of my ten favorite comic book cliches!Putting this together was one of those experiences where I was almost overwhelmed with choices, as seventy years of super-hero comics have resulted (Read More)
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Haha, German publisher Eichborn has the most bizarre (and stunning) way of marketing by releasing 200 flies attached its name, logo (of course, a fly), and stand number at at the Frankfurt Book Fair. A lot of fun! Here for more humor with flies. (Read More)
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The Glass Bead Game's rules do not exist, and it cannot be played in any meaningful sense. It is a game described, incompletely, in Herman Hesse's landmark novel Magister Ludi (published in German as Das Glasperlenspiel, that is to say, The Glass Bead Game).Ardent science fiction fans like, say, me, will happily claim Magis (Read More)
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
Few Supreme Court justices have been more widely praised for the
quality of their writing than Progressive hero Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr., who sat on the Court from 1902 to 1932. Yet as
author and arts critic Terry Teachout recently pointed out, while
Holmes may be "the only American jurist whose opinions are b (Read More)