I learned about ChatRoulette yesterday from the Sunday New York Times, ’cause I’m square like that. And today, two things made me laugh: 1. Tyler Coates’ “Listicle Without Commentary: The Top 25 Things Strangers Have Said or Typed Upon Connecting with Me on ChatRoulette This Weekend” on the Awl. 2. “The Game” as invented by […]
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The Penny Arcade Reality TV Show: TOTALLY A Thing
In an effort to metaphorically scream, “Hollywood gave Chachi his own reality show, so why not us?!” Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik have become the latest pseudo-celebrities to convince a Hollywood suit that filming the minutiae of their daily lives is a guaranteed ratings blockbuster. Wired From left to not left: Mike Krahulik, Jerry Holkins […]
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Local Choose Your Own Adventure iPhone App
Last night I went to the premiere for an iPhone app/movie/game/thing called Bank Run – basically a Choose Your Own Adventure novel in movie form that you play on your iPhone. Here’s the trailer: Bank Run‘s developers, Portland ad agency SilkTricky, described it last night as an “enteractive” app (a buzzword for interactive entertainment) with […]
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Have a Nerdtastic Valentine’s Day
G.I. Joe Valentines from Comics Alliance… Han Solo Valentine from io9… Even MORE nerd-tarded V-day cards after the jump! Via. Via. Via. Via. Not a valentine in the strictest sense… but why not? Via.
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The Tester Makes Me Want To Die (But Not Before I Take Sony With Me)
(Note to any readers suffering from a frail constitution: You may want to skip this post. It contains one hundred and thirty four percent of your daily recommended allowance of iron, potassium and uncensored, almond-flavored hate. At times, it could be said that I revel in my vitriol — assuming “revel” is the word you […]
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Behold Geek: Remixed III.
Art by Mike Russell and Bill Mudron. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Any album that begins with a pissed-off Laura Roslin shouting at the listener gets a big thumbs up from me. Apparently aware of this rule, occasional Mercury freelancer Bobby “Fatboy” Roberts (of Cort and Fatboy fame) has finally released […]
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Will Someone Please Just Tell Me What an Airbender Is?
As with Dragonball, I somehow managed to avoid the whole nerdgasm around Avatar: The Last Airbender, back when it was a just a cartoon and before M. Night Shyamalan decided to make a movie out of it and before James Cameron, cackling with glee, swooped in and stole half of its title. But here’s the […]
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Does this Photo Prove or Disprove the Existence of God?
From the amazing website Hot Chicks with Stormtroopers: When I first saw this photo, I yelled, “See? There IS a god! And he/she/it is a god who looks down favorably on at least one nerd who scored a chick that was not only hot, but didn’t seem to mind at all that her boyfriend is […]
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“They Decide to Go Inside, Listening to Newt Closely/They Mostly Come at Night… Mostly.”
I’d recommend watching the whole thing right up until about 9:20, at which point you can turn it off and not miss anything important. Thanks, Topless Robot.
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Ye Olde iPad, Video Games, And Absolutely No Tampon Jokes
Apple Inc. “Incens’d with indignation Satan stood unterrified, and like a comet burn’d, that fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th’ arctic sky, and from his horrid hair shakes pestilence and war.” Yesterday, when Steve Jobs walked up on stage and opened his (Apple) pie hole to make the iPad a reality, you could […]
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Why the iPad Is Named the iPad.
Look. Just saying. I mean, that’s a way cooler thing for the tablet to be named after than these, right? Also, I wish they’d announce the goddamn price already. $499-$829. Everything else you want to know about the iPad here.
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Working Star Trek Phaser: Prepare to Ejaculate!
Hey Star Trek fans! Go grab a clean pair of underpants, because you’re about to need them. Here is an actual working Star Trek phaser in action. True, this model can only kill balloons, but I bet it could give some green ass alien a nasty cigarette burn! Oh, the havoc I could wreak with […]