March 2005
14 posts
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SIN CITY Comparisons →
Comparisons between frames from the comic and the movie. Not that their similarity should be a surprise, but it’s cool to see.
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History of the New York Egg Cream →
I guess these things died out of mainstream snack culture years ago because you can’t bottle them easily, but I’m sure you can still get them in some places.
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Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums →
Awesome: an artist went into four museums in New York City and hung up his own artwork.
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Monuments of Switzerland →
Photo album using a very strong projector to display images on the side of a nuclear silo. Use “weiter” to go to the next photo.
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Five Questions to Verify if an Entity is a Robot →
One of the best Turing Tests I’ve ever seen.
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Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls →
Interesting piece on how most girls will only play female characters, but guys will play either.
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GameSpy: Will Wright Presents Spore... and a New... →
Cool writeup of a demo of Spore, a new game from Sim City creator Will Wright that lets you play God. You start creating microbes that eventually evolve, at your bidding, into space-faring cultures that can teraform others worlds. Seems really cool.
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The Best Guilds Names You've Seen →
Long discussion thread on the World of Warcraft boards about amusing guild names.
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MAKE: Blog: Flickr upload from MMORPGs →
Interesting concept for a button inside video games that would let you automatically tag and upload screenshots to flickr. I can see guilds having fun with this when they go on big boss runs.
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super OS X menubar items →
Handy list of MacOS X menu bar widgets.
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Wonderland: Raph's Keynote →
Transcript of the keynote given by Raph Koster at the 2005 Game Developers Conference about why games are important and what they do for us socially.
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Green Day awakens boy from coma →
A boy who was in a coma for a few weeks woke up when his mom played his favorite album, American Idiot. The band promised to send him some free stuff.
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Sons of the Storm →
An artist who worked on World of Warcraft died while they were developing the game. If you go to a mountain in northern Barrens you can see an in-game memorial to him.
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Improv Everywhere Mission: McDonald's Bathroom... →
Some guys set up a bathroom attendant station in a McDonald’s, claiming it was a pilot program that Corporate was trying out. This one gets extra creepy points, too, for having a camera in a bathroom.