This Week In Miscellanea: “Going Cyanobacterial”

1. How long has it been since the last “Miscellanea” post? Ages, but like a long dormant virus, Miscellanea keeps coming back. Want to know how? Play Phage Wars 2. Imagine you’re a biochemist, recently hired by the Betz Biosystems metanational. Your objective? The creation of the most lethal virus imaginable. While soothing and vaguely [...]

Notes: Professional Development

I work at a school. Managers there are treated to a yearly professional development seminar. This year we drew these guys. I’m not sure what we talked about. The discussion was nominally about stress management. In reality, it was an orgy of bad science, mysticism, punning, and the desire to defuse stress by burying your [...]

This Week In Miscellanea: “El Fin del Mundo”

1. There is going to be a full-length, stand-alone Portal 2. Rejoice! Rejoice even more if you’re excited by the idea of the game featuring a completely seperate, insanely difficult, new-character featuring co-op mode. 2. It’s the end of the world… of fashion. 3. Did you have the patience to watch that film? Would it [...]

Happy New Year, Motherf*ckers.

This Week In Miscellanea: “Face The World As It Is”

1. Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech was very interesting. Read it here. 2. Continuity is a student project. Go ahead and spend your entire afternoon imersing yourself in it’s simple, fantastically engaging game model and great music. 3. MEOW MEOW!

Move Over Xphone, It’s The Robogeisha

Looks like the xphone’s days are numbered. A previously little-known Japanese design and engineering company has created the Robogeisha– the first robotic home servant to be powered by an atomic battery. It’s really quite impressive. But I’ll let you check out their own promo video.

This Week In Miscellanea: “Headlines”

1. Headline number 1: “Terrifying Sniper Prank on Japanese TV“ 2. Headline Number 2: “Erotic Farm Girls Calendar Aims To Make Agriculture Alluring“ 3. Headline Number 3: “Lights Out, Camera, Action!“ 4. all kinds of interesting and sort of sexy updates.

This Week In Miscellanea: “Chaotic Neutral”

1. Remember this guy? He seems to be delivering on promises made during the recent US elections. This is probably going to lead to a lengthy legal battle, but the language they’ll be fighting over is encouraging; additional guidelines would prevent the operators from discriminating, or acting as gatekeepers, of Web content and services. Sounds good [...]

Unfair Review: Oblivion

Do not to let Rusty review fantasy games, he’s shit at it.

This Week In Miscellanea: “Dropping Off The Grid”

1. Rusty is going on vacation! What kind of vacation? The sunning by a lake and reading books kind, of course! You would be forgiven for thinking he was going on a different sort of vacation, however. Point 1 proposal: a feature film with “you are a pirate” as the theme song. The film stars [...]