What’s even better than dorky video game nostalgia? Dorky video game nostalgia remixed to a techno beat.
I stumbled across The Precursors’ collection of remixed tunes from Star Control II, downloaded the lot, and have been enjoying the hell out of them ever since. Some songs are better than others, of course, but there [...]
Maybe it’s just the people I hang out with, but every time my friends and I get to discussing all the astounding stuff modern technology can do and how none of the sci-fi we read growing up predicted (for instance) carrying around several freakin’ days’ worth of music in something the size of a cigarette [...]
New Harlan T Bobo - if you can only find it…
To go along with GameTunnel’s top 100, here is a list of one blogger’s Top 25 Indie “Art” Games. Art or not, quite a few of them are just plain fun, and free to download and play.
GameTunnel.com used to be the best place to go to get the scoop on recently released independent games: every month, they would hold a roundup evaluation of stuff that was sent to them. A short while ago, however, they did their last Game Panel set of reviews.
Perhaps to compensate, they compiled a list of [...]
In honor of The Simpsons Movie (review forthcoming), try Simpsonizing yourself.
(If it says “Springfield is too crowded,” click refresh till it works. The program’s a little slow, but it’s neat!)
It’s a little late to be mentioning it, but my story, “New Skin for the Old Ceremony”, constituted the fiction half of issue #17 of Hub magazine. If you’ve ever wondered why those crazy ET’s keep visiting us when all we do is accuse them of mutilating our cattle and make films about how they [...]
July
Sigh.Dear News Media,
Please start reporting the news and stop reporting the not news.
Love,
Me
A photographer explores her relationship with… herself (and gender and sex roles, to boot). Great, mostly SFW images (some nudity).
April
EthicsI’m writing up some articles for the company newsletter, and I came up with a phrase that I really can’t use but like a lot regardless. Here it is:
Ethics are an important part of the business landscape in post-SOX America; there is an ever-increasing understanding that a company’s long-term viability and its corporate integrity [...]