I’ve spent a lot of time lately listening to mind-broadening podcasts. I can’t recommend highly enough checking out some of the ‘casts linked below if you like to make your brain-wiring more complex. The most recent podcast adventure has been Rob Reid’s the After On podcast. It started as a way to visit the real-science […]
Category Archives: Cool Stuff
2012: A Space Odyssey (almost for real)…
I love space. Not personal space (though I enjoy that, too, from time to time) but outer space, interstellar space, the sparkle-filled, infinite near-void that surrounds the little rock we call home. I’ve always been a fan of sci-fi that discussed space travel, nonfiction that detailedspace exploration, and day-dreaming about what’s out there that we […]
Cease-and-Desist Done Right
http://mashable.com/2012/07/22/jack-daniels-trademark-letter/ Jack Daniels Properties is my Hero of July for such a wonderful letter. If you read the Mashable link above, there’s a great story about JDP not only being polite to the nth degree, but explaining why they needed to send the cease-and-desist letter, and even then offering to help cover some costs […]
Double Fine? Double AWESOME!
Double Fine Productions, spearheaded by Tim Schaefer of Day of the Tentacles and Psychonauts fame, has launched a Kickstarter funding project to produce a modern, reenvisioned point-n-click adventure game called “Double Fine Adventure“. If you aren’t that old, are new to video games, or somehow just missed out on the trend, check out games […]
Zynga, I Loathe (and Love) Thee so…
Zynga, the company behind the atrocity that is Farmville, is a company that most gamers despise. Their claws latched into casual gamers around the world, the bilk people of hard-earned dollars with micropayments for silly things like orange pigs and green alien cows. Sadly, when looking for a Scrabble-like game on my iPhone a long, […]
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If you have an iPhone and need a case, I recommend one of these: http://www.redbubble.com/people/burbskate/works/8280100-steve-jobs-in-carbonite I almost got one last year, but the maker got a C&D from Apple. They are back on the market now, and if I hadn’t just spent a bunch on another sweet case, I’d go for this bad boy. If […]
Penny Arcade: On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness
So, for those of you who are fans of Penny Arcade, and also for those of you who are not, the first Penny Arcade video game has been released on Xbox Live Arcade, Windows, Mac and Linux (and demos are available for all, AFAIK). The game, called On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode I, […]