So I've discovered that I have something of an obsession with regional American foods that I've never tried. This country is huge, and has...
Winter fouls up your street With snow, ice, and sleet. It hits you like bricks When you hear "wintry mix". When spring comes at last, It flies by...
Summer of 1982 : Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (They had Blade Runner with a "TBA" date, but that appears to have fallen through.)
"They're different genres! You can't compare them! Howl howl howl hoooooowl!" is what I usually hear during discussions of these films. At...
My list of favorite series includes such television-advancing phenomena as The Wire, Mad Men, and Babylon 5, genre-gems like I, Claudius and Game...
First off: "Why not just use DOSBox or whatever?" Answer: "Not the point." There. Now that that's established, onward! The goal here was to...
I moved from my home state of Iowa to Kansas City, Missouri for work in late 2004. Over my time there, I gained valuable resume-bolstering...
I've been on a huge Coen kick lately, watching older films of theirs I hadn't seen before, and rewatching ones I hadn't seen in a long time....
Just watched it in nine parts on on YouTube. The ship on which most of the film takes place, the Cygnus, is ridiculously cool, and almost...
The British folks here ought to appreciate this one. Around '94 or so, my dad gave me one of these. No idea where the hell he got it, especially...
http://wemadethis.typepad.com/we_made_this/2008/04/sterling-design.html http://www.royalmint.com/reports/03NewCoinReverses.jpg The coins combine...
Want to troll forums without real consequence? Now you can: http://www.forumwarz.com/ A great interview with the creators:...
Now there's a teaching technique for you: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/my-favorite-lia.html "Now I know some of you have already heard...
Stumbled across this photo set of actual '80s arcade establishments, thought I'd share. A little alcove of joy: [img] Love the fake screens:...
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A bunch of kids designed their own laptop keyboards on paper, and added lots of buttons that weren't letters. Here's the gallery of their...
Fed up with the quirks of DOSBox, virtual machines, ports that aren't quite the same, and laptops that save space but whose sound hardware is...
I haven't seen much mention of this on gaming sites, but one of the most prolific game designers in recent years is signing up to create/port PC,...
http://www.netherworld.com/~mgabrys/clock/weak5.html It's a chronological string of excerpts from primary and secondary sources about the...
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809834165/video/3906309/ Trailer for Frank Darabont's new film The Mist. Darabont wrote and directed both The...
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