This Week In Miscellanea: “Thinking/Unthinking Machines”

THINKING MACHINES: Neill Blomkamp’s 2006 short film “Yellow.” All Halo aside, maybe this guy should direct the live-action version of GitS as well.
UNTHINKING MACHINES: George Bush wants to avoid being perceived as a “lame duck” at the end of his second term. His latest initiative is trying, only somewhat subtly, to start re-classifying birth control [...]

The Opposite Experience

Clicking and holding down on the left mouse button accelerates the speed of the worm. The objective of the game is to guide the worm to eat other micro-organisms and evolve. Eating cells increases length, however there are two special cells: one increases mouth size temporarily and the other evolves body segments. While many of [...]

Black Mesa

Would you like to play Half Life again? Would you like to play it re-created using the source engine? What if the whole thing was lovingly created by the mod community rather than Valve?
The Black Mesa team, who are responsible for the above trailer, are intent on doing just that. We already knew that the [...]

Choose Your Own Decapitation

Here they are. Every single fatality in the Mortal Kombat series. Witness seven minutes of unrelenting mutilation, torture and death. Stop thinking about it as a video game. Start imagining it as one of the many levels of Dante’s Hell. Marvel as the protagonists’ agonized screams eventually take on a plaintive, desperate quality, as though [...]

This Week In Miscellanea/Metal: “Cunning Stunts”

1. GTA 4 stunt jumping: Rusty compulsively hunts jumps. See Rusty jump. Jump, Rusty Jump!
2. Care to listen to some brand new Dragonforce? Stream “Heroes of Our Time” from the new record, Ultra Beatdown, due out August 25th!
3.  Are you like Tanith? Do you seek to release your inner goth? Poisonblack will release A Dead Heavy [...]

This Week In Miscellanea: “Lobsters”

1. Lobsters. Specifically, Charles Stross’ “Lobsters,” an excellent piece of short fiction epitomizing a few interesting trends in modern cyberpunk. A lot of traditional CP focuses on renegade heroes with little in the way of family; in their post-post-industrial world connections are typically forged rather than inherited, and no one talks about having kids. Stross’ story, [...]

This Week In Metal: Opeth, Raunchy, Estonian Idol vs. Lacuna Coil

Opeth have a new record out. This is big new for metal fans, prog junkies and hot topic wannabees across several continents. Trendy though wearing their shirts may be, the band does deliver the goods. There may be too much synth on “Watershed,” but the overall quality is very high.
For those searching for something a [...]

This Week In Miscellanea: “Taking The World By Storm”

FIRST: Homeless Nation
An initiative begun by documentary film maker Daniel Cross, HN seeks to enfranchise homeless Canadians by providing them with access to a virtual community and supporting them with online advocacy. Some of the site’s features are pretty chilling, but they do seem to work. 
SECOND: In The News
al-Qaeda is apparently on the run.
The Japanese [...]

Endtimes Techno-Boogie

The predominant message of the Roman Catholic Church is the message of peace. Furthermore, Catholic policy dictates that the pope dress in white. His helicopter, popemobile, and jet airplane are all white. If he had a horse, what color do you suppose it would be?
Disaster is all around us. Burma has sunk, retribution has found [...]

AK-47 Pineapple Train Wreck

Internet fairy tales?
Internet fairy tales.