Miss Anthropy

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Daily Link Roundup: holding the gravy today.

Gaming

Gamasutra:
-Opinion: Looking for Meaning in Games

GameSetWatch:
-1959: Rapture's Ballroom

GamePolitics:
-Capcom: "Absurd" to Blame Society's Ills on Games

Boing Boing:
-National Gaming Day at libraries a massive success

Kotaku:
-Microsoft Working on In-Game FAQs?
-New Final Fantasy XIII Trailer Does Not Skimp on the Cinematics
-DSi LL Unboxing
-Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" set to LittleBigPlanet
-Uncharted 2 releases "fat" skins and actually make the game seem interesting to me.
-Crackdown 2 Dev Wants Your Graffiti

Animation

Boing Boing:
-New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good

Film

io9:
-The Road Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse
-The Matrix's Bullet-Dodging Scene, Faithfully Recreated in LEGO

Literature

io9:
-Twilight's Bella is "The Sexual Aggressor"

Music

GameSetWatch:
-Sound Current: 'Concerto Tactics - The Music of Hiroki Kikuta and Hitoshi Sakimoto'

Curios

Gizmodo:
-This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
-Places Where the Internet Actually Happens (In Real Life)

Boing Boing:
-What's Your Christmas Card List Got to Do With the Development of the Human Brain?

io9:
-New Evidence Points to Fossilized Life on Mars

Fleshbot:
-RealTouch: Your Awesome Robot Rubout NSFW

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-Conscious "coma man"'s words seemingly delivered via discredited "facilitated communications" technique

Oh Japan

Boing Boing:
-Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom

Tags: animation, computers, daily link roundup, film, politics go!, reading, science!, the internet, videogames, what

Posted at 08:25 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Daily Link Roundup: I will show you fear in a handful of last year's electronics.

Educate to Innovate Campaign

Gizmodo:
-Obama's Plan to Help Next Generation Science Geeks
-I LOVE MY GEEKY PRESIDENT ♥

Gaming

Gamasutra:
-Analyst: Core Games Best Investment for Publishers as Wii 'Bubble' Deflates

GameSetWatch:
-Column: 'Diamond in the Rough': Sexualization in Prince of Persia

IndieGames:
-Links: Going Pro

Wired GameLife:
-Yes, Games Should Permit War Crimes

Experience Points:
-Layton's Linearity and Halo's Heuristics

Gizmodo:
-Zombie Outbreak Simulator: Sim City Plus Google Maps Plus the Undead

io9:
-BioShock Paintings Take Glorious Neon and Art Deco Underwater

Kotaku:
-Shigeru Miyamoto Couldn't Get a Job at Nintendo Today
-Tearing the DSi LL to Pieces
-Lufia II: Look How Time Changes Character Design
-Know Your Enemy (Especially His Weak Points)
-The DS and DSi Gift Guide
-Beat a Man Into a Urinal, Consider Buying Deodorant A look at in-game advertising.

Film

io9:
-Will This Clip Change the Way You Feel About Avatar? No.
-Twilight Heroin and Biting Fans: More WTF Twilight Stories

Television

io9:
-The Science of Science Fiction Gets Its Own Mythbusting Show
-Top 10 Most Ridiculous [Genre] Soap Operas of All Time

Gizmodo:
-Don't Miss Objectified on PBS Tonight

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Sarah Palin book signing
-Hacked climate scientists' emails in context
-Weird and lovely taxidermy from Jun Takahashi
-Weta's new cheaper, delightful, detailed plastic rayguns
-Presto, alakazam! "Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception" magically re-appears
-D20-studded soap It's a nice idea, but probably better if it were a D8 or D12. Everyone has a D20, but it turns into a regular bitch hunting around for a D12.
-Alligator in NYC sewers Yes, really.
-Anti-energy drinks

Gizmodo:
-What if the Declaration of Independence Was Created in Google Wave?
-Black Friday Anti-Deals: What Not to Buy

io9:
-Photographer Documents Melting Icecaps, Celebrates Our Cyborg Evolution

Making Light:
-Restoration Hardware et al. vs. the TSA

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-British cops arrest people just to add them to the DNA database, claims inquiry

Oh God the Sky is Falling

...I just had to.

Boing Boing:
-Chickens terrified of dried sunflower head

Oh Japan

Gizmodo:
-Video Surfaces of Man Taking Anime Video Game Character to Be His Lawfully Wedded Wife

Tags: animation, daily link roundup, film, politics go!, reading, science!, television, videogames, what

Posted at 09:10 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Yay pretty.

My NaNo may have died this year, but it shall live on in my new phone skin.

It's how I'm compensating for the fact that my new phone is not orange this time. Yes, that still saddens me a little.

(And the real version should be smoothly resampled. I mean, it better be.)

Tags: a turnip shaped universe, downworld, nanowrimo, rambling

Daily Link Roundup: This is why we can't have nice things.

Gaming

Gamasutra:
-In-Depth: Pixeljunk's Baiyon and Katamari's Takahashi
-Sony: 'All PS3 Units Will be Firmware-Upgradeable to 3D'

GameSetWatch:
-The Week in Game Criticism: All You Need is Love
-Korean Students' Cut and Paste Game

Kotaku:
-Dev Alleges Some Deceive ESRB to Get Lower Ratings
-Here's What Phoenix Wright Looks Like on the Wii
-Fat Princess Delayed in Japan For apparent censorship issues? Oh Japan.
-More Images from Final Fantasy XIII
-The BioShock 2 Special Edition is Gorgeous, Groovy
-A wealth of new StarCraft II stuff
-So, the Haystacks of Assassin's Creed II - Are They Any Bigger?

Film

Kotaku:
-Turbo: The Struggle to Make a Better Video Game Movie

Literature

io9:
-Ray Bradbury's Advice to Struggling Writers: Struggle Harder!

Curios

Gizmodo:
-Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Now Has Its Own App Store "That's right folks—now there's an app store for pen and paper."
-The Paint-Less Coca-Cola Would Save Earth One Can at a Time
-Rumor: Firefox Coming to the Playstation 3
-Apple Exec Wants You to Puke All Over His Mind-Bending Backyard Deck
-The NSA Helped Microsoft Improve Windows 7 Security

Boing Boing:
-Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
-Videos: Great Depression Cooking with Clara
-Video: How Kimchi is Made ARGH I WANT SOME RIGHT NOW.

io9:
-Concept Art: Cosmonauts Silently Explore the Alien Planet Earth gorgeous
-The 30 Most Disturbing Twilight Products *rolls*

FAIL

GamePolitics:
-Anti-Violence Flash Game Lets Users Beat Women

Tags: computers, daily link roundup, film, politics go!, reading, science!, still not funny, videogames, writing

Daily Link Roundup: That's depressing.

Media Studies

Henry Jenkins:
-On the Pleasures of Not Belonging, or Notes on Interstitial Art (Part One)

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-Alt Space: New Horizons

GamePolitics:
-Lanning on Why Violent Games are Still a Talking Point

IndieGames:
-Freeware Game Pick: rComplex

Kotaku:
-Square Enix Promise to be More Timely with Future Western Releases
-Final Fantasy XIII Impressions: Looking for XII
-For the Discerning Art Collector/Halo Fan
-Halo: Reach to Premiere at Spike VG Awards
-Spike Video Game Awards Nominees Announced Flower is up for Best Indie!
-Team Fortress 2 Gets Updated A LOT
-Modern Warfare 2: What Were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld Trying to Tell You?

Television

io9:
-The Prisoner: All You Need is... Wha?

Literature

io9:
-One New York Times Bestseller Per Year Will Barely Keep You Above the Poverty Line

Curios

Gizmodo:
-This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe
-Microsoft's Bag-Based Computer Interface, for Poking
-"Unfriend" Declared Word of the Year ...What? The word is defriend. God.
-Scientists Make Breakthrough with First Programmable Quantum Processor
-It Takes 147,456 PowerPC Processors to Out-Think a Single Stupid Cat Brain
-Qualcomm eBook Display Ups the Ante with Full Color and Video

Boing Boing:
-Klingon as a First Language
-Papercraft mecha: Metabots
-Energy Literacy Part One: Energy is invisible
-Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year-old girl

io9:
-Scientists Say Jupiter's Moon Europa Might Be Teeming with Fish
-The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
-First Look at Harry Potter's Wizarding World Theme Park ...oh hell.

Oh Japan

Boing Boing:
-How-to make yourself look like Sailor Moon

Tags: animation, daily link roundup, o academia, politics go!, reading, science!, television, videogames, whoa what, writing

Posted at 06:27 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Daily Link Roundup: A reason to go back to L.A.

Gaming

Gamasutra:
-Randy Smith: Do Games Need to Be Fun?
-Hecker: Indies Can't Do All the Heavy Lifting

GameSetWatch:
-Infinite Ammo Teaches You Unity3D
-Students Respond to 'Video Games are the Silver Bullet'

RedKingsDream:
-IKEA, and the logic of videogame design

PopMatters Moving Pixels:
-The Merits of Linear Narrative

Wired GameLife:
-Review: Assassin's Creed II is the Ultimate Killer App

GamePolitics:
-Quantic Dream Exec Talks Violence and Games
-America's Army Extremely Effective Recruitment Tool

Kotaku:
-New Kingdom Hearts PSP Fit for Japan
-Assassin's Creed II Review: A Season for Masterpieces
-The King of All Cosmos Rolls Up Some New Lady Friends
-Here's That Mario Mention in Assassin's Creed II

Literature

io9:
-What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?

Comics

io9:
-The 15 Dumbest Superhero Retcons of All Time

Curios

Gizmodo:
-Bombproof wallpaper
-[They] Want This Absurd Washboard Necktie
-Electrifying Landscape Photography Captures Our Electric World
-Tasers are Safer than Fists and Batons, Less Safe than Not Beating People Up

Boing Boing:
-Infographic: Projected pot tax revenues
-Sculptures inspired by quantum physics
-USB grenade flash drive

Events

io9:
-Tim Burton exhibit opening this month at the Museum of Modern Art; and here's the exhibition listing on MoMA's website

Tags: comics, daily link roundup, politics go!, reading, videogames

Daily Link Roundup: I like this concept for Monsters, Inc better.

Gaming

Gamasutra:
-Wada: Too Much Diversification Will Confuse Game Consumers
-EA Montreal's Schneider: Who Do We Make Games For?
-Assassin's Creed 2's Plourde on Why 'Fail Early, Fail Often' is the Wrong Approach

GameSetWatch:
-[Yuji Naka's] Prope Reveals Ivy the Kiwi? for Windows Mobile

GamePolitics:
-I'm very sure the Australian Attorney General had a way of expressing his ignorance of videogames without sounding like this much of a jerk.

IndieGames:
-Freeware Game Pick: Devil's Tuning Fork

Kotaku:
-Eidos Montreal Creating Square Enix's First "Global Game"
-In College, the Party Never Stops -- for LAN

Animation

io9:
-The Original Monsters, Inc. Pitch Dealt with More Adult Fears

Film

io9:
-Want to Know how the Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
-A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Own Disaster Movie

Kotaku:
-The Entire Live-Action Assassin's Creed II Movie

Television

io9:
-Post-Dollhouse, Whedon Returns to Buffy?
-6 Things the New Prisoner Changed for the Worse ...Honestly I'm enjoying this new series, although I do admit the most it's done is reminded me how much I enjoyed the first one.

Literature

io9:
-Geeking Out About Genres with Michael Chabon

Comics

io9:
-Alien Legion getting new miniseries, film adaptation

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Mandlebulb: 3D Mandelbrot
-Call of Duty: Secret Spielberg Level Unlocked
-Is There Really a Water Crisis?

io9:
-Concept Art: Times Square Still Shines, Even After the Flood

Tags: animation, daily link roundup, film, science!, television, videogames

Daily Link Roundup: Old Tinsel for Sale.

Gaming

New York Times:
-Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter?

IndieGames:
-Freeware Game Pick: Featherweight

Kotaku:
-Resident Evil Director [Paul W.S. Anderson] 'Circling' Castlevania, Metal Gear Movies

GamesRadar:
-The Top 7... Tasteful game heroines

Film

io9:
-MGM is Up for Sale, But Who's Buying?

Television

io9:
-Dollhouse: The 5 Stages of Fan Grief
-It's Not Too Late to Escape from The Prisoner

Curios

io9:
-Is Joss Whedon's Post-Dollhouse Plan Already Underway?

Boing Boing:
-Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
-Stacking 117 objects on a Lego block, then knocking it over.

Gizmodo:
-Cochlear Implants, Psychic Powers, and Why Some People Reject the Bionic Life

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-Koalas may go extinct in 30 years

Kotaku:
-PS3: It Only Catches a Predator

Tags: computers, daily link roundup, fandom, film, television, videogames

Posted at 07:27 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Daily Link Roundup: The Higgs boson only has two weeks to undiscover itself.

Back in action at ?skip=360!

Large Hadron Collider

Screw it, this thing trumps even my love of gaming.

io9:
-Large Hadron Collider Less than Two Weeks Away from First Experiments

Gaming

Gamasutra:
-IGDA Forum: Asking 'Why' Will Keep Games Out of the Ghetto, Says Hecker

GameSetWatch:
-Best of Indie Games: Close to the Black Heart

IndieGames:
-Interviews: Semi Sweet, Hello Games, Pixeljunk and More

Wired GameLife:
-Final Fantasy XIII Gets U.S. Release Date, New Theme Song

Kotaku:
-Metal Gear Rex Figure: Big, Shiny, Enormous I NEED THIS LIKE A NEED A CYBORG NINJA FIGURINE BEING CRUSHED BENEATH IT.
-The Story and Gameplay of Final Fantasy XIII Which is dated March 9th for PS3 in the US, by the way.
-Getting Final Fantasy XIII? On 360? Might Want to Get a Twitter Account
-EyePet Review: His Master's Voice
-New Mass Effect 2 clip
-Nintendo's Temporary Mario Museum, The Video Tour

Animation

Kotaku:
-Dante's Inferno: The Game: The Anime: The Trailer

io9:
-Is Clone Wars One Big Advertisement for the Dark Side?

Television

io9:
-~~Jesus~~ Jim Caviezel: We Turned The Prisoner Into a Friendly GITMO
-On Supernatural, the Meta Outweighed the Mega

Music

Boing Boing:
-Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Visualizing Sound Waves (Now with Fire!)
-Bob "Happy Little Trees" Ross used to be an AF master sergeant.

Gizmodo:
-Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech is Dangerous
-At What Point Would Our Cyborg-selves Cease to Be Human?
-This is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
-Becoming a Sexual Cyborg NSFW
-Why U.S. Wireless Pricing Sucks
-How Cellphones are Changing Our Brains

io9:
-3 Ways to Meet (And Get Nasty With) Your Opposite-Sex Duplicate

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-TSA bans snowglobes.

A Memo Entitled 'Shit You Already Know'

io9:
-A Frozen Reservoir of Water Found on the Moon

Oh Japan

io9:
-Militant Cute and Sexy Politics in Japanese Moe Comics NSFW

Tags: animation, comics, daily link roundup, music, politics go!, reading, science!, television, videogames, whoa what

No roundup tonight!

mood: exhausted

Sorry, I got tied up with work and time slipped away from me. I'll cover everything I missed tomorrow.

Posted at 11:53 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Daily Link Roundup: The StarCraft Turing test.

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-GameSetBaiyon: 'Keita Takahashi's Interstellar Art'
-Video Games' Worst Voice Acting
Gamasutra:
-Blog: How to Project Decals
-Blog: Guide to Becoming an Independent Game Developer
-News: GameStop Planning In-Store Console DLC Download Service

The Brainy Gamer:
-Uncharted 2: On pace

Edge:
-The Most Boring Game of the Year

Insult Swordfighting:
-Your level best

Aartform Games:
-Recipes for Gameplay

Digital Kicks:
-Moral absolutes in Knights of the Old Republic

Kotaku:
-Welkin, Alicia to appear in Valkyria Chronicles 2
-Libraries Declare National Gaming Day
-AI Convention Features StarCraft Competition

Gizmodo:
-Mimic BioShock's Body-Mod Splicing with Your Own EVE Hypodermic Needles
-Use Your Own Digital Music Library to Generate Enemies for Symphony And will they slaughter all my pitiful Song Summoner party members?

Large Hadron Collider

Gizmodo:
-This Is Simply the Coolest Pop-Up Book We've Seen

Film

io9:
-How Important is Mute's Futuristic Setting?
-Six Hours of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey as Molly
-Documentary Evidence that 2012 Disaster Could Really Happen (Sort Of)
-Disaster Movie Moments that Pissed Us Off the Most

The Wrap:
-District 9 Grew Out of Halo Collapse, Short Film's Success

Literature

io9:
-Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood
-Are Our Novels Being Haunted by the Housing Bust?

GameSetWatch:
-Choose Your Own Adventure Books Deconstructed, Visualized

Curios

Kotaku:
-Turn Your DSi Camera into a Slightly Better Camera

Boing Boing:
-Apocalyptic art-photography from Stefano Bonazzi
-HOWTO kill wiretaps when making a phone call
-An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
-Is dreaming just a warm-up for being awake?
-Dress made with 24,000 LEDs oh, so beautiful!
-"Sixth Sense Technology" Will Be Open Source

Gizmodo:
-Stunning Milky Way's Heart Image Combines Three Space Telescope Views in One
-Your Next Body is Growing in a Lab Right Now
-Police Robot Negotiator Ends Standoff with Armed Man
-Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be?
-Intelligent Learning Retinal Implants to Adapt to Real Eyes

io9:
-Mastectomy Patients Could Soon Regrow Their Own Breasts
-Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout a Harbinger of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?

Dangerous Minds:
-Ayn Rand Assholes

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Boing Boing:
-MPAA shuts down entire town's [municipal] WiFi over a single download
-Mark Dery on 2012 bunkum
-2012 Debunking: The Short-Attention-Span Version

Causes

Boing Boing:
-The Edge Case: Indies Rally to Raise Copyfight Awareness

Tags: daily link roundup, film, politics go!, reading, science!, videogames, whoa what

Daily Link Roundup: Well of COURSE Pope Palpatine is down with aliens.

Gaming

Gamasutra:
-Opinion: The Lion's Gate - Majors and Indie Publishing
-Analysis: Meeting the Badman
-Q&A: Sands of Destruction Team Talks Battle System, Story Creation

GameSetWatch:
-Steampunk Privateering: Guns of Icarus

IndieGames:
-Freeware Game Pick: Shining Blood

Wired GameLife:
-Videogames Will Make Space Mountain Line Less Interminable

GamePolitics:
-Workout Study: Wii Sports > Wii Fit

Kotaku:
-Square Enix Adding "Final Touches" To Western FFXIII
-Meet Final Fantasy XIV's Gladiator and Pugilist
-Modern Warfare 2 on Fox & Friends
-Cute Alert: Team Fortress 2 Babies
-They Made the Wii Bowling Ball, and They're Not Done Yet
-Report: Xbox Live Bannings Upwards of 1 Million

Fandom

io9:
-Unauthorized Dr. Horrible Prequel Has Its Own Bad Horse Chorus

Film

Boing Boing:
-This cinema marquee is a little disturbing

Television

io9:
-Dollhouse has been cancelled.

Literature

Boing Boing:
-Pratchett's Unseen Academicals - a gift to Discworld lovers and an argument for the importance of sport

io9:
-Analysis: The Cold War in Science Fiction

Kotaku:
-Read the Bible on Your Xbox 360

Theater

io9:
-An All-Female World Turns Out to be a Pretty Funny Dystopia

Curios

Gizmodo:
-Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into a Display
-Amazing 400ft Tall Spherical "Cloud" Structure Proposed for London Skyline
-Me and My Exoskeleton: The Trick to Super Strength
-Gadget Singularity: Let's Ditch Our Buttons and Screens Forever
-Most Electronics, DVDs and Waterbottles Could Give You ED

io9:
-Secrets of Astrophotography's Biggest Rock Star
-Life Imitates V: The Vatican Welcomes Extraterrestrial Intelligences
-Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry
-The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant

Boing Boing:
-Sweet, inadvertent Sesame Street PSA for gay marriage
-Eye exercise may boost creativity

Big Think:
-Thinking Yourself to Orgasm

Oh Japan

Wired GameLife:
-Japan's New 'UFO Catcher' Prize: Fresh-Baked Cakes

Tags: daily link roundup, film, politics go!, reading, science!, television, videogames

Posted at 10:48 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Daily Link Roundup: Hearing an awful lot about Fox and not even the good one.

Gaming

GamePolitics:
-Brace yourselves: Fox wants to do a "fair and balanced" piece on Modern Warfare 2 tomorrow.

Gamasutra:
-Analysis: Is Procrastination Publishers' New Marketing Strategy?
-Blog: Building an Analytical Physics Engine, Pt 1
-Blog: Games are Art: New York Times
-Blog: All the Tedium, None of the Heart: Enough with Boasting "RPG Elements"

GameSetWatch:
-Aquaria Two-Disc Soundtrack, Pajama Jam Coming

Boing Boing:
-Rushkoff on his new alternate reality game

Kotaku:
-New Saboteur Screens
-Kotick: Unemployment Likely to Affect Industry Sales

Film

io9:
-What If Moviemakers Swapped Franchises? Can it be a game of musical chairs, actually? And Bay gets dumped on his ass?

Television

io9:
-Dollhouse's Viral Marketing Brings the Apocalypse Ever Closer
-V's Mothership Already Landed in Milwaukee in 2001

Theater

io9:
-Alan Moore and The Gorillaz Team Up to Write a Magical Monkey Opera

Literature

Boing Boing:
-Science fiction from outside the English-speaking world

io9:
-Grossman: Failure of Imagination > Harry Potter

Comics

io9:
-Don't Bother Wonder Woman During Her Smoke Break

Curios

Boing Boing:
-How EFF saved Indymedia from an unconstitutional subpoena for all its visitors' IP addresses
-Animal with the longest penis (relative to its size!)
-Beautiful infographic: "The Ancient Hebrew Conception of the Universe"
-Real calculators modeled after desktop calculators

The Guardian:
-Hypothetical peek into the feverish mind of Rupert Murdoch

Gizmodo:
-Google to Murdoch: Whatever, Dude
-Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches
-Blockbuster forgets that cell phones can't fit standard SD cards
-New Spacecraft Uses Starlight to Propel Its Sails
-Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses?
-Tales of Human Upgrades: Jerry Jalava's USB Finger Wait, wait, I thought xkcd did a strip about this?
-The Sponge that Can Absorb 180 Times Its Own Weight (In Toxic Sludge)
-9h: The Luxury Capsule Hotel
-I Wear My Suncontacts at Night

Nightmare Fuel

Gizmodo:
-Cut&Up Surgically Implanted Bras Won't Affect Lingerie Sales Any Time Soon

Srs Bzns

Boing Boing:
-Death-ray enthusiast calls for official "Anti-Muslim 'Backlash'"

Gizmodo:
-Oh Shi*t: New Viruses Download Child Porn Onto Your Computer

Tags: comics, daily link roundup, film, politics go!, reading, science!, television, videogames

Posted at 08:05 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Daily Link Roundup: HI BRYNN HI!

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Here's What Final Fantasy XIII Chocobos Look Like
-Minesweeper Becoming an Adventure Game Hey, I've read Minesweeper erotic fanfiction, I totally buy this.
-What to Play While Boycotting Modern Warfare 2
-Lose/Lose: The Dangerous Video Game You Weren't Supposed to Play
-Head in the Clouds: Flying in Video Games
-EA: Confusion About Mature Content In Games Starts with "Over-40 Crowd"
-EA Cuts Loose Bottom Third of Its Game Lineup

Gamasutra:
-Valve's Writers and the Creative Process
-Interview: Tri-Ace on Resonance of Fate's Battles, Non-Girly Characters

GameSetWatch:
-It's Still Thinking: Hypertension's Bloody Dreamcast Trailer
-Interview: 'Localization Tactics Advance - Kajiya Productions on Translating Final Fantasy'

GamePolitics:
-Activision Reveals Veterans Call of Duty Endowment

IndieGames:
-Links: Making Games Accessible

Gizmodo:
-Hacked Roombas Used to Play Pac-Man, Finally!

Boing Boing:
-Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?

Media Studies

Grand Text Auto:
-Procedural Literacy is the New Black

Film

io9:
-Did Avatar Really Cost $500 Million?

Boing Boing:
-The Matrix as a Charlie Chaplin short

Literature

io9:
-Kim Stanley Robinson: Dystopian Fiction is for Slackers ...Aldous Huxley would like a word, sir.

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Sleep: more important than you think Yeah, me
-How the ambient sound at Walt Disney World works
-9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style
-The real-life "Men Who Stare at Goats" were even weirder

io9:
-Another of my former classmates! This one has some alien concept art for y'all.
-Earthquakes Never End, Say Scientists
-A First Look at the World's Largest Stingray
-Artificial Penis Takes a Bunny Hop Forward
-The Nazi UFO-Fighting Soviet Megaplane That Never Was

Gizmodo:
-How Much Power Does It Take to Simulate the Human Brain?
-Audeo Captures Electrical Signals from the Brain to Create Sound

Srs Bzns

Kotaku:
-Akihabara Killer Says He Deserves Death

Gizmodo:
-The True, Heartbreaking Faces of the Nuclear Era

Oh God the Sky is Falling

io9:
-The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping to Ruin the Future

Tags: animation, daily link roundup, film, o academia, politics go!, reading, science!, videogames

Posted at 07:58 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Daily Link Roundup: I have no mouth and I must act.

Gaming

The Guardian:
-Gamers will inherit the virtual earth

Kotaku:
-German Mag Claims Ubisoft Demanded Positive Review on Assassin's Creed II

Film

io9:
-Fourth Kind Insider: Yes, It was Totally Fake
-Moon director Duncan Jones named director for Source Code which does not nearly sound Harlan Ellisonesque enough for my purposes

Television

io9:
-Is Thursday the New Friday?

Literature

Boing Boing:
-ebook license "agreements" are a ripoff

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
-Car-thief steals car to drive to car-theft arraignment Is it "Recursion Sunday" or something?

io9:
-Are Nanoparticles Unsafe?
-US Armed Forces Listened for Messages from Mars

Tags: daily link roundup, film, science!, television, videogames

Posted at 05:53 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Daily Link Roundup: Cats who stare at professors.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-The Meta-Narrative That Pulls Back the Curtain for All Games
-BioWare Releases Dragon Age Campaign, Cutscene Toolset Cool!

IndieGames:
-Trailer: Bezier

GameSetWatch:
-Analysis: Turn-Based Versus Real-Time

Gizmodo:
-8-Bit Wedding Invitation Acknowledges the Marital Bickering to Come

Television

io9:
-The White House on V: What Aliens?

Literature

Cory Doctorow:
-Teen sex belongs in teen lit

Comics

io9:
-5 Comics You're Not Reading (But Should Be)

Theater

io9:
-Spider-Man Musical Pulls Itself Together, Slowly

Curios

Boing Boing:
-DMCA takedown shirt
-Cats with fraudulent diplomas I once knew a couple guys who enrolled a duck in the local community college. Honestly I find that slightly more clever.
-Nature Reclaims a Post-Apocalyptic Disney World And it's not Epic Mickey

Gizmodo:
-MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads and More

Tags: comics, daily link roundup, o academia, politics go!, reading, science!, television, videogames

Miss Anthropy

Dream for me, I'm mourning.

November 2009

Links

Tags

Page Summary

Syndicate

Nov. 25th, 2009

Nov. 24th, 2009

Nov. 23rd, 2009

Nov. 22nd, 2009

Nov. 21st, 2009

Nov. 20th, 2009

Nov. 19th, 2009

Nov. 18th, 2009

Nov. 17th, 2009

Nov. 16th, 2009

Nov. 15th, 2009

Nov. 14th, 2009

Nov. 13th, 2009

Nov. 12th, 2009

Nov. 11th, 2009

Nov. 10th, 2009

Nov. 9th, 2009

Nov. 8th, 2009

Nov. 7th, 2009