lost another one

Very few people warrant use of the phrase “Rest In Peace”. I think that Kurt Vonnegut was one of them. He was 84, and was…

101 Free Games #7: SquareOff and Toribash

SquareOff may just be the best designed five-meg, head-to-head flash game ever.  You draw a square / rectangle, and it goes flying across towards your…

101 Free Games #6: Plus Or Minus and Cytoplasm

Cytoplasm is a scion of the amazing Experimental Gameplay Project at CMU (again with the CMU!). Although I love the project, this is not one…

keepon dancing

Marek Michalowski, one of the mad geniuses at CMU, has made a robot that dances, named Keepon.  This is both the cutest and most brilliant…

and dj stands for…

That’s Kool Herc up there, one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing.  I was looking at some wanky academic papers with titles like “Beatboxing As…

get on and ride

If you’ve ever had sex, you should watch SHORTBUS. It is by degrees touching, hysterical, hopeful, depressing, fantastic, real, mind-bogglingly explicit, and deliciously subtle. It…

101 Free Games #5: Frog Hunt & BallDroppings

Frog Hunt, to quote from the designers, “Might just be the worst game ever made.”  If nothing else, it’s interesting for 15 minutes or so. …

101 free games #4: toblo!

Toblo is the bastard love-child of Quake I CTF, the National Film Board Of Canada’s classic BLOCK CITY, and the music of the Postal Service. …

real men read bradbury

I accidentally went to the Times-Colonist Book Sale yesterday, and, uhhh, bought some books. Can’t beat $1 paperbacks. The Golden Apple Of The Sun, by…

instant city

In a creepy case of parallelism, I was given a link to the Instant City music construction device right after thinking of something similar (but…