October 2009
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Fourteen Types of Twilight Zone Endings →
These are so true, especially “It was Earth all along!” and “There’s a perfectly logical explanation for all this.”
I was going to predict that we were 3-5 years away from a new series but I forgot that UPN ruined it for us all back in 2002.
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IGN's Top 100 NES Games →
Pleasant surprises: Klax at 44 (!)’ Skate or Die 2, Micro Machines, and Cobra Triangle all making the list. Disappointments: no Paperboy, no Air Fortress, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game being all the way down at 98, all six Mega Man games making it (1-3, fine, but 4-6? Please. THEY WERE ALL THE SAME AFTER THAT.) and, of course, no Racket Attack.
Someday I’m going to do...
The Chess-Playing Energy Drink
Jerry posted a link to a New York Times article about a person dressed as an Amp energy drink can beating chess hustlers in Washington Square Park. He/she goes 16-2, including 8-2 during while play ten people simultaneously.
I guess you could call it a CAN ATTACK.
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Brighton Allston Historical Society →
The BAHS website has a ton of great pictures of the Allston-Brighton area, including some of Braves Field (the Boston Braves were located in Allston until they moved to Milwaukee in the fifties), old movies theaters, and Brighton Ave. store fronts. Love the ALLSTON sign on the building (I think that’s where the Sunset is now) in the photo below.
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Spacewar! →
Speaking of retro space shooters, here’s an article about Spacewar!, the very first video game designed at MIT in 1962. You can even play the game in your browser here.
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Watch
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. Forever. Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. This calls into question the...
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Vampire Weekend - Horchata
This is the first...
An e-mail from myself
jessicaheleneadler:
“Get ready to throw up in your mouth a little: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Senators”
VH1 should do a Behind the Music on these guys, about Lott’s “You know, this country would be a whole lot better if we still had segregation”-alluding comment, Craig’s wide stance in a Minnesota bathroom, Jeffords leaving the Republican party after the 2000...
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furnacefeeder:
Flight of the Conchords - Cheer...
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Marvel Presidents set →
I like the Tales to Astonish #88 excerpt where President Johnson insists on pardoning the Hulk. The prose setting up the dialogue in these panels, though par for the course in terms of mid-seventies Marvel, is insane.