Whuffie is a concept from Cory Doctrow’s book Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom. The concept is that society has moved to a post money economy where wealth is measured in personal status. In that world Gary Gygax would have been as rich as Bill Gates. As I am sure you have already seen [...]

I liked the movie Gettysburg, despite problems like glue on beards and a semi-crazed Robert E. Lee it was a pretty good movie but it can’t hold a candle to the awesome Gettysburg movies linked below.

Robert Scoble pointed out a brilliant source for listening to some great samples of bands performing at this year’s South By South West Festival in Austin, Texas from March 12 - 18 of 2008. Someone has grabbed all the samples from the music pages and loaded them into a torrent file. I had to download [...]

I have two more good webcomics to recommend today. One I have been reading for quite awhile and I am not sure how I stumbled across it originally. It is called Minus and it has a wonderful quirky storytelling method that is both joyous and very, very creepy. Minus is a magical little girl and [...]

Just saw this on Boing Boing and thought I would post it up as it looks cool. I won’t be able to really look at it till later, but this is a small flash game based on the Bow Street Runners around 1750 in London’s disreputable Covent Gardens district. Apparently featuring adult language and situations [...]

Batman TV Show Theme performed by the Jam. This rocks.

via Arflovers

It has been awhile since I posted about a web comic but North World by Lars Brown has made my must be read regularly list recently and I thought I would point it out. North World has a very simple premise but one I haven’t seen done in web comics before, our modern world is [...]

This isn’t really science, but it is kind of neat. Virgil Griffith scraped Facebook data for which books people picked as favorites and what college they attended and created a graph of which books are most likely to be associated with higher or lower SAT scores. He calls it Books That Make You Dumb. [...]

So I got sent this by some of the Europeans at work. This is of course exactly what they think all Americans are like. I don’t mind, it make me look good.

OK, if we aren’t going to play Savagely Beat The Lion then we can all sit back and play the most insane video game ever. From the Kafkaesque opening scene to the madness of the race itself to God as a race announcer this game looks positively nuts.

If you want it you can get it [...]