Hot: You know those old videos that were all the rage back in the day that were about playing classical music overtop of bright and colorful things that were supposed to make an army of super intelligent babies but actually did more to develop ADD than anything resembling intelligence? Well “Vermilion Pleasure Night” is sort [...]
Hot: April Fools’ Day, one of the most loathsome and wasteful days the calendar year has to offer, has come and gone. Most everyone seems to have survived, thankfully. DeviantArt, known for being a haven of artists producing works ranging from hackle-raising (no pun intended) furry fan art to really good photography, decided to celebrate [...]
Hot: All this talk of Mudkips (and having to troll around Google Labs for something work related) got me to thinking, just how popular is this whole “mudkips” thing, and what about rival Pokémon meme, Seaking? Well, the results are in! The winner for longest running search item? Seaking. Current most popular? Mudkips. Overall though, [...]
Hot: At Typorganism there’s a fascinating little tool that will take JPEGs sized 60×50 pixels and turn them into either letter or block style ASCII art in either color or black and white. There are five sample faces you can play with to get a feel for what the tool can do: 3 male faces, [...]
Hot: A good friend of mine just came back from this year’s PAX, and being the brilliant photographer that he is, captured a lot of really great images from the conference. There’s more to come, but this one really stuck out. This fine young con goer had this Peach costume custom made just for him. [...]
Hot: When I read this fascinating article from Soviet Poster A Day on a piece of Constructivist advertising from Soviet Russia in 1923, I’m somewhat ashamed to say that the first thing that came to mind was this: (Related: For a complete and total waste of your time that may also induce seizures among the [...]
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Hot: I really don’t care what anybody thinks of me for having this, because I think my avatar looks pretty damn dope these days!
Hot: Hard on the heels of my DESU-related discovery, my friend Keith sent me a veritable dragon’s hoard of gamer themed motivational posters! Tabletop game nerds rejoice, because there are a lot of in-joke posters in here for you. A lot of good MMO, RPG and general geek goodness abound in this collection. I think [...]
Hot: Remember a while back when I started Words to Know? The first links I provided were on things like the golem, and the homunculus. Well, thanks to Fulguritus, the first WTK of 2007 (volume #7, no less!) is going to feature some more curiousities of alchemical and religious histories. Since I consider this a [...]
