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Back on August 31st, I predicted that a little top-down shooter called GAM3 W1TH ZOMB1ES – or as I prefer to call it, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMB1ES IN IT!!!!11 – had the potential to be a total trendsetter… for it’s music. I had no idea that this crazy little shooter would drag in [...]
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This first card was challenging. Back on the 13th, when I first set down my intentions for this project, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do. I spent the next ten days reading things, assimilating concepts, arguing with myself, and cutting up magazines with the thought of doing [...]
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The premise behind this project is very simple:
Choose a Tarot card (only shuffling for the first draw).
Dissect the visuals on the card and write down their most basic symbolic elements (from opinion/personal preference).
Look up details of that Tarot card from tarot books, 777 and other cross-cultural references.
Create a visual and/or written interpretation of the card.
The [...]
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This is what happens when cultural icons collide, in many colorful, delightful ways.
Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition sketch has stood out from their amazingly memorable show (Monty Python’s Flying Circus! Go watch it on Netflix or something), and has blossomed into a lasting cultural reference, at least among the geeks.
Here we see that reference applied [...]
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So this year for the first time we lived in an actual neighborhood where trick or treating might actually be possible. (We didn’t really get that many kids though, so now we’ve got WAY too much candy around the house.)
It was decided to get a big ass pumpkin and do something cool with it.
This is [...]
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First up on this WTK is the opposite of wealth. That term is “illth” and was coined by John Ruskin as a way of giving simple voice to the concept of possessing damage, discontent, or general ill health (physically, economically, spiritually, etc). In Ruskin’s case, and in several applications, this is largely applicable to the [...]
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Skimming through my feeds this morning, I was shocked to see this one from John Brownlee (of Ectomo):
I’ll miss @MacTonnies. Despite being a UFO kook, he was one of the nicest guys ever, and we emailed several times. http://bit.ly/2cjqST
~ twitter.com/drcrypt
UFO Mystic has reported that Mac was found in his apartment, deceased from natural causes.
Who was [...]
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16-bit Intel 8088 chip
with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced [...]
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I confess to deleting a couple of new spam comments to catch this moment. :]
