Ah the braniacs who use their powers to facilitate procrastination for all mankind…
Can’t You See I’m Busy! is a (hopefully growing) set of games that look like Excel and Word documents to any passerby at the office. Play Arkanoid inside a Word document, a cool Tetris/Bejeweled puzzler in graph form, and a spaceship game with line graphs. Hopefully the next…
Ah, the console wars, a debate as eternal as the dubbed vs subtitled anime one. I’ve always tried to stay out of it, as my reasoning for getting my Xbox 360 laid in my disability. With the recent price cut, and my subsequent purchase, of the PlayStation 3 however, I now have an opinion about this topic. For the 360…
The best 2.0′d comic strip since Garfield Minus Garfield. I love me some Bukowski, and I can’t think of a better mash-up for his talents.
This opens up a whole world of comic mash-ups I’d like to see. Cartoonists take note! (And please add some in the comments, folks…)
Big Nate by JD Salinger
Blondie by Raymond Carver
Family Circus by…
By Hawkes Klein
Oh Hello Internet.
If you live in NY and are a Democrat might I take this chance to remind you that today is a Runoff Primary? Record low turnout (which means no lines!) so you can just pop buy your polling place on your way home!
Need info?
Find your polling place HERE
Info about the election from Gothamist HERE
Thank you!
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By Hawkes Klein
I have a dilemma. Can anyone remember what the heck happens in “Where the Wild Things Are?” I keep talking to people and they’re like “OMG I can’t wait best book ever reminds me of my youth yay!” and I’m like “Great, could you maybe go over some of the major plot points with me?” and they can’t.
Trying to find…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. CONCERT Kristina
Rarely does hearing a musical for the first time etch itself so crisply and emotionally into my musical lexicon, especially when presented in a stripped down concert version. Thanks to the soaring orchestrations, unforgettable melodies and above all else, powerful voices, this 1997 Swedish musical by the team behind ABBA and more to the point, behind the awesome…
By Ji-Un Kwon
The Informant!, if nothing else, epitomizes what can most aptly be termed The Soderbergh Dilemma. There are few directors as adept at aesthetic as Steven Soderbergh, for whom I have the utmost respect. I root for his career, for reasons I cannot always explain (though A.O. Scott does, far more eloquently than I can at this particular moment, so totally…
Allow me to Infomercial you for a second.
Isn’t Gaming a Hassle? Turning on your television, picking up your controller, turning on your console, waiting for a game to load, turning it off when you’re done.
It’s a short-attention span world. We all want distractions, and the easier the better. That’s why there are web games. Little windows, running on Flash, Unity…
The words might be unintelligible, but I think you’ll get the gist pretty quickly. Yes, that’s exactly what you think it is.
This new TV ad is urging you to relieve yourself as you clean yourself- not quite Waterworld, but definitely a slightly radical step towards becoming more green. According to the group that sponsors the commercial, one less flush a…
By Chris Baily
Oh Governor Paterson… what a sad state of affairs.
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…