Sunday, January 25, 2009

And Onto Interwebs!

The 11th Annual Independent Games Festival - Finalists & Winners
Also check the Offworld Guide to Independent Gaming.
Want to watch all of the episodes of TV Classic The Prisoner online? OKAY!!!
While away the hours with a word association game.
I can't believe no one got me this postmodern tome for my birthday.
William Zantzinger died a few weeks ago. (Metafilter)
Crazy Little Globulous Game. Fun puzzle-ish game called Evacuation. Cool download game called "GravityBone." Another online Game: "I Wish I Were the Moon."
Headline of the Year. And yes, I know it's only January.
Fantasitc Surreal Painting.
Potential gift for Godfather fans.
Princess Bride Trivia from Neatorama. And a cool Princess Bride cover in ambigram.
Cats that are ninjas, volumes One and Two. Cat that is not a ninja but just as violent: Three.
Play around with your blind spot.
Self-imposed hallucinations.
Video of MAC vs. PC. Not really the best video in the history, but notable for the ridiculous special effects that amateurs can pull off these days.
Hey, some wacky videos: Neil PH doing it up hilarious style, the best use of testbars in art, and the insanity of the near-miss:









The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2008
. Love the vitriol! And I especially love the comment:

"'Yes We Can' is the 'Just Do It' of politics."

Tyrone Slothrop's Map to Love-making (or, more exactly, a GoogleMaps account of where all German V2 rockets landed)
Awesome game (though you do have to buy it...): Crayon Physics Deluxe
Muppet Movie Posters. Honest Movie Posters. Star Wars Art. Yeah!
McSweeney's: The Elements of Spam.

So, microsoft made a program called "Songsmith" that will write backdrop music to your vocals, whatever they may be. For better or wrose, this also works when you isolate vocals from other tracks. Hilarity ensues: David Lee Roth or Sting, and be sure to follow the other youtube links for further awesomeness.

Buddhist tree protests tree abuse.
Yet another particularly funny one in a long list of hilarious Dinosaur Comics.
Someone, please get Beck this keyboard.
PINKBERRY CONTROVERSIES: One and Two.
More Games: Card Toss, Maze.
Dogs In Outfits
Even More Far-Side re-enactments, this time in photoshop.
A Bid to Convince that Watching TV Makes You Smarter. Prompted (sorta) by this week's article re: Keeping Track of Lost.
Famous Art, Simpsonized
Rollingstone out on Highway 61
The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)
Cool Lunch Bag Art
A very sad story from the Sports Guy about the death of his dog Deuce.

Photography Section:
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Life During Wartime (Photo Set of the Gaza Strip)
Crazy pic of a gunman who was shot down after a robbery. Very 70s bad guy.
Human-Animal Art.
Aurora Borealis Pictures and Videos.
Star Wars Pictures that make no sense: One, Two, Three. Others of the non SW variety.
Very cool shadows of buildings on clouds in Austin.
Cool Long Exposure Digital Photos.
15 Photographs by 100 Photographers
Bird Art Photography
Nice photography / drawing sketch style.


The Obama-Section:
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Cool pic (at the top) of all the living presidents in the Oval Office
New Official Portrait.
All of the Onion headlines pertaining to bush from the last eight years.
The Onion on the Inauguration: One and Two.
Ninja / Jedi Barack.
The Mall via Satellite.
GIGANTIC 1473 Megapixel shot of the Inauguration.
Cool Obama T-Shirts: One, Two.

And the Leavers
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Phew, a ton of links this time out. We'll leave you with some quality:

The lyrics of "Enter Sandman," told in LOLCat.
Something that got me called a dork, AGAIN, last night: the impossible physics of Back to the Future.
And finally, WEIRDNESS.


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