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Creator Loyalty In A Down Economy

1 September 2010

Last week (which seems like a lifetime ago online), video game publisher THQ filled gamers with delicious anger, restricting multiplayer access for some wrestling video game or another to first-run buyers only via a single-use code.* The angry gamers’ argument seems to be: “We are your customers and you can’t treat us like this!” THQ’s [...]

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Handy Instructions

19 August 2010

So I’m looking at this terrible website for work, and it’s just a collection of spam links in list format. And they look something like this (all actual anchor text from the site) PLAN A FUNERAL GET A DIVORCE BUY A MATTRESS START YOUR OWN PERSONAL JEWELRY BUSINESS I feel like this is a new [...]

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Four Days With The Nook

12 August 2010

I splurged in commemoration of my birth and bought a nook from my local Barnes & Noble. I’ve had it for four days. As a gadget, it feels good in my hand, is responsive, has a nice minimalistic design and a good user interface and its e-ink screen is incredibly crisp and readable. Because his [...]

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What Hath I Wrought?

30 July 2010

Kanye Interrupts Helmet Xzibit Being Stalked By A Velociraptor Mountains Pizza (feat. Spots Perkins)

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Four Score And Seven Years A-Whoa.

14 June 2010

Keanu is Sad/Lonely/Hungry/Sculpted By Daniel Chester French. [Context.]

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News For Nerds

26 May 2010

Matt Wilson’s blunt and excellent post at The Bureau Chiefs (the group blog of the Fake AP Stylebook creators) goes after what passes for comics and video game journalism in its present state and points out in a numbered list just why it sucks so bad.  And yes, I’m pointing that out on a blog [...]

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Roger Ebert – Wrong About Gaming?

19 April 2010

In the loud and unfortunately nonsensical (in many cases) reaction to Roger Ebert’s proclamation that video games are not and will likely never be art, it is easy to miss that Ebert is not decrying the medium or proclaiming it to be without merit.  He’s simply saying that games aren’t art. And, speaking as a [...]

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I Started A Tumblr

30 March 2010

Because the cool kids are doing it. With a hat tip to the Bea Arthur, Mountains, Pizza meme, I present Francis Bacon Kevin Bacon Actual Bacon. Pray for me.

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Items of Interest

3 December 2009

1. You know how some people say “Airwolf” instead of “cool?” That’s a bit too 2005, so I’m updating it.  Now, cool things are “Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.” ex. “Have you seen Ninja Assassin? That movie is totes Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.” “Oh dude, I know.” 2. How good has Detective Comics been? [...]

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Gandhi Was A Founding Member of N.W.H.

2 October 2009

Today is Gandhi’s birthday (da da dada dah dah – it’s my birthday too!).* Google, being Google, decided to commemorate the event by replacing the ‘G’ in their logo with a profile sketch of Gandhi. The Internet at large, being a bunch of jerkfaces, celebrated Gandhi by doing this: *It isn’t my birthday, too.

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