January 7, 2010
Seen via JWZ, this list of supercuts.
My favorites are the Red Dwarf, every "smeg" reference and Every Famicon (NES) Game Title Screen. It’s completely fascinating how much you can glean from just this kind of cross-section: for example, Lister says "smeg" more than any other character; Holly says it only once, and Cat only a few times; the most common "smeg-" compounds are "smeg-head" and "smeg-for-brains"; "smeg" is said in despair/panic as well as ecstatic joy ("fan-smegging-tastic!").
January 7, 2010
Seen on pixelstyle:
The dorsal fin in particular is really amazing, very evocative of a Dimetrodon. Also, tits.
January 6, 2010
Via Suzanne: check out these awesome cupcakes.
Every year, we throw a big, game party to ring in the new year. This year (2010) is our house’s 100-year birthday, so we celebrated with cupcakes… … and the cupcakes were a game. Here they are in random order – see how many you can guess! Mouse over the question mark to reveal the answer.
The goal is to guess as many of the games depicted by cupcakes as you can. Some of these are amazingly evocative, either through amazingly photographic reproduction, or by hitting on strongly quintessential themes.
January 5, 2010
Seen on JWZ: a short story described as "The Rapture of the Nerds from the perspective of a non-nerd", The Gentle Seduction.
January 3, 2010
Seen on LWN, a review of Childsplay.
After I finished my recent articles on Teaching with Tux and Learning with Gcompris, I received a couple of suggestions from readers that I take a look at Childsplay. I spent some time looking at Childsplay and if you have small children, I think you should too. As soon as I started the program, it started to play it’s theme song and my 18 month old son came running, and he still comes running every time he hears that music. For most parents and educators, my review of this program could end right here, but I suspect that I should probably write a bit more.
