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Holy hotdogs, Spanish surrealist illustrator
Joan Cornellà, just
what the heck is going on?
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at 3:36 PM on April 28, 2013
(14 comments)
Take the twitch out of platforming with
Bump, a delightful new little turn-based randomly-generated roguelikelike by clever game dev and creative fellow
Aaron Steed. Jump at or on or over things! Collect diamonds with head-bumping! Avoid and/or destroy spikes and bad guys! Try not to die! Die anyway! It's a good time.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:57 AM on March 17, 2013
(12 comments)
If Doom and Nethack lived in Estonia and had a baby, it'd be named
Teleglitch, a recently released pixelated action roguelike that will completely murder you if you're not
very careful about how you explore its procedurally-generated corridors, fighting off former coworkers, crafting spare parts into new stuff and hunting for ammo and food and clues as to what the hell went so terribly wrong at the Militech R&D facility on Medusa 1-C. The game has a 4-level
demo (Windows and Linux,
Mac too apparently) which will probably kick your ass plenty all by itself.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:47 PM on February 26, 2013
(56 comments)
The 80s horror film genre called, and then you got a beep and turn-based squad tactics video games were on the other line, and it was a pretty confusing phone call basically but in the end you got the message that someone wanted
Camp Keepalive back. Because it is awesome. And it runs on Windows
and OSX and you should download the demo right now.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:49 AM on February 23, 2013
(39 comments)
FYI: Chivalry is now a game about
knights in low gravity, screaming and screaming and screaming.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:05 AM on February 15, 2013
(22 comments)
Behold,
terrible drawings of British actors. (Note: the blog was originally called Terrible Drawings of John Finnemore, but
there weren't enough pictures of John Finnemore on the internet, and, so, yes.)
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:26 AM on February 8, 2013
(21 comments)
Things fit into other things perfectly on
thingsfittingperfectlyintothings.tumblr.com.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:14 AM on February 6, 2013
(42 comments)
Cut feather shadowboxes: feather art by Chris Maynard.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 3:28 PM on January 29, 2013
(12 comments)
Take a copy of Monopoly, cover it in lye for a few days, boil from off the bones whatever flesh remains, and give the clean white skeleton a tasteful, minimalist paintjob, and you end up with
ONOPO, an extreme reduction of the original boardgame by Metafilter's own Matthew Hollett, aka
oulipian.
Via mefi projects, hat tip to fastcodesign c/o Rock Paper Shotgun's always-lovely Sunday Papers feature.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:40 AM on January 20, 2013
(56 comments)
Shrinp.com is a site that does very little and does it well. Stick anything after the domain name (
shrinp.com/shrimp!
shrinp.com/puggle! shrinp.com/metafilter!) and you'll get a helpfully labeled image of maybe that thing, or maybe not so much that thing, who can tell? The internet, it's very mysterious. Built by our very own
31d1. Approximately as NSFW as you try to make it.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 3:24 PM on August 13, 2012
(264 comments)
Economies of Scale is a free, web-based multiplayer business/commerce simulation game under development by Scott Rubyton (aka Ratan Joyce). Players use starting capital to build production/wholesale/retail businesses from the ground up in a basic economic model, competing for market share while collaborating through business-to-business trading of goods and materials. It's more fun than getting an MBA! Also much less expensive.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:07 AM on April 3, 2012
(60 comments)
NEO Scavenger is a hex-based, turn-based scavenging/survival/mystery RPG. Dig through abandoned buildings! Punch a looter to death! Get eaten by a Dogman! Contract cholera! Die of cholera! Flash-based browser game, under active development; the current demo lets you explore the landscape and play with the game's mechanics at length.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 4:25 PM on March 19, 2012
(23 comments)
The Bible & Terminator 2:
Heteroglossic discourse and poetic authority.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 12:26 PM on February 28, 2012
(21 comments)
Maps! Maps are great. And
Cartophile is a pretty great blog about maps, courtesy our own
desjardins, via
mefi projects.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:35 PM on January 24, 2012
(20 comments)
Chris Sims is a former comic book store employee.
David Uzumeri is a computer scientist. Together, they
fight crime review the shit out of Batman film canon in an 18-part series they call
Cinematic Batmanology, covering all the major theatrical releases from
Tim Burton's franchise-reviving 1989 film (start there) up through Christopher Nolan's recent
The Dark Knight, with a couple of odd tangents along the way.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:26 AM on October 3, 2011
(34 comments)
One response to all the hubbub about DC Comics' unfolding "New 52" re-launch of the DC Universe comics: a pile of independent cartoonists creating cover art for the book launches/relaunches they'd like to see, at
DC Fifty-Two. Some of it is straight-faced, some of it is...less so.
BIFF! The Justice League as a western! POW! The Geek vs. Hell's Nixons! BLAM! Classical art references!
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 8:15 AM on September 2, 2011
(28 comments)
Phil Noto illustrates the hell out of
comics,
TV,
pulp fiction,
music, and
being a six year old artist at his blog,
Your Nice New Outfit. Oh shit it's the
Master Blaster!
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 8:12 AM on August 19, 2011
(19 comments)
Jazz group
The Bad Plus play an appropriately discordant
Karma Police, a slow-burn
We Are The Champions, an tearfulfeariffic
Everybody Wants To Rule The World, and also sort of
smell like teen spirit.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 3:42 PM on August 2, 2011
(42 comments)
Right around 1879, the
fishwheel (
historical images,
McCord replica) came to the Columbia River. A clever application of mill-like thinking to traditional net fishing techniques, the fishwheel's river-powered automation of upstream harvesting revolutionized canning in Oregon and Washington, drawing both commercial attention and
critical concern [NYT 1881, PDF]. Two men, Thornton Williams and William Rankin McCord, each filed patents for fishwheel designs in 1881 (
#245251) and 1882 (
#257960) respectively; Williams brought an infringement suit against McCord which was
dismissed on the grounds that the invention was not new, being based directly on the publicly documented work of one Samuel Wilson in 1879. Fishwheels were fair game.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:34 PM on June 28, 2011
(15 comments)
Many hate her, but she is alive in every fandom. She fences with Methos and Duncan MacLeod; she saves the Enterprise, the Voyager, or the fabric of time and space; she fights with Jim Ellison in defense of Cascade; she battles evil in Sunnydale alongside Buffy Sommers. 150 Years of Mary Sue, by Pat Pflieger, exploring vanity fanfic back to the 19th century. Bonus blackhole of content:
TVTropes on Mary Sue.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:32 PM on June 5, 2011
(155 comments)
What's Catwoman's deal, anyway? dr_von_fangirl
has a fantastic, exhaustive answer, cobbling a coherent, newbie-friendly origin story together from a variety of comic sources.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:27 AM on June 3, 2011
(48 comments)
Do you like integer sequences? Do you like poking around in the
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences? Do you think, whoa, wait, okay, actually I like integer sequences but the OEIS is a goddam intractable maze of numbers? Do you think, man, what I wish is that someone would make an accessible blog that discusses some of the interesting entries in the OEIS for the casual fan of integer sequences? Well, that's an amazing coincidence; you should take a look at
The On-Line Blog of Integer Sequences, by our very own
Plutor.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:18 AM on May 5, 2011
(26 comments)
Muzzle Man: I have no idea how these horse men got these trays smacked into their muzzles, or why.
Tram.
Kitchen.
Tram II.
Flea Market.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 6:51 PM on February 18, 2011
(45 comments)
On Karma: Top-line Lessons on User Reputation Design is an excellent overview of reputation system design concepts from the
excellent-in-general blog of Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass, authors of the recently-released O'Reilly book
Building Web Reputation Systems.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:47 AM on March 23, 2010
(17 comments)
On
pinball's downfall;
draft Scrabble; strategies for
choosing a seat; visiting
our old friend,
swoopo.com; and
meatball theory: various and sundry economical, game theoretical, and miscellaneous morsels from the folks at
Cheap Talk.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 4:33 PM on November 18, 2009
(53 comments)
People with a keen strategic sense maintain a well-diversified hoard of coins and painstakingly build alliances with local shopkeepers or bank tellers, conspicuously proffering coins for one purchase or deposit in the hopes of being indulged when they're short of change at some point in the future. Argentina's coinage problem.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 12:32 PM on December 3, 2008
(19 comments)
Following the recent preciptious downturn in the US banking sector, a compromise draft bill is going to a vote in Congress today.
The text of the bill [110-page pdf]; The Wall Street Journal's
summary of the bill; an open-for-comments
public analysis of the bill at publicmarkup.org. Some
questions answered and
unhappy acceptance from economist and NYT columnist Paul Krugman; a
strenuous rejection from Nouriel Roubini; via same, an
IMF study of 42 banking crises from 1970 through 2007;
further criticism from Nomi Prins for Mother Jones.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:00 AM on September 29, 2008
(654 comments)
Word Spectrum;
SearchClock;
Digg Rings;
Bible Cross-references: the gorgeous analytical
vizualizations of Chris Harrison.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:54 PM on September 18, 2008
(17 comments)
The Comic Bardo Thodol, or:
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Tibetan Book of the Dead but were afraid to not read in a streamlined comic context. [via
mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 6:34 AM on July 23, 2008
(23 comments)
Technology of Cooperation (.gif map), from Howard Rheingold's
Cooperation Commons project. Rheingold on
Amish technology practices.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:19 PM on January 21, 2008
(6 comments)
Nomic, as
introduced by inventor
Peter Suber (
homepage): a game of self-modification—every move is an attempt to alter the rules governing how the game is played.
Further from wikipedia.
[A great deal more within.]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 8:57 PM on August 27, 2007
(59 comments)
Comically Large Things is a blog about things that are so dang big you could fit everything at
Smallist [previously] in any given entry. For example:
nose! [via Projects and our own jbickers]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 12:21 PM on August 10, 2007
(26 comments)
Where's an egg? Psuedo-Russian noir wumpus action. Confused? Consider bidding on the
only copy of the instructions in existence. Need a break? Check out some other
fine titles from completely made up game company
Videlectrix.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 9:37 PM on July 17, 2007
(41 comments)
SquiggleBooth : a charming collaborative videoblog, from our own
Ajit AP. [via
Projects]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 8:16 AM on May 25, 2007
(7 comments)
You have spacial skills. Apply them in
Building Houses 2, on mathsnet.net. Or freestyle in
Building Houses 1. Or at
night!
Oh and also there's like a hundred more puzzles over there too. Some java required.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:51 AM on April 12, 2007
(66 comments)
Joyce Images—postcards of
Ulysses. [A little
backstory.]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 6:12 PM on April 2, 2007
(26 comments)
Better living through Smallistry at
Smallist.
Gadgets,
spaces,
beverages,
fetishes:
ultra-niche blogging at its finest. [via
mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:51 PM on March 24, 2007
(19 comments)
baby elephant walk
baby
elephant walk
baby elephant
walk
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:25 AM on October 8, 2006
(12 comments)
Snakes on Film — at last, a definitive resource for moving-picture snake identification and serpentine fact-checking! Care of our very own
mcwetboy!
[via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 4:37 PM on September 27, 2006
(9 comments)
Garfield, Deconstructed! An engaging, adoring daily analysis of Garfield—behold such a lens through which even Jim Davis' legacy starts to seem redeemable.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:49 AM on July 12, 2006
(61 comments)
You desire new music? How fortuitous! Look what your
fellow mefites have been up to:
-
The 23rd Century, addictive psychedelic pop from
tcobretti
(via
Projects)
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Both Ends of a Gun, a shotgun-produced country album by
Miko
(via
Projects)
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Congratulations to the Young Men of Nelson, creepy tortured music-toy electronica by
nylon
(via
Projects)
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MAXX KLAXON, ass-bumping orwello-euro electropop by
Artifice_Eternity
(via
Projects)
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Inter[mediate], an electronic EP by
phylum sinter
(via
Projects)
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Vector Trio, atmospheric jazzers, and just one client of
turtlegirl's Scully Sound production outfit
(via
Projects)
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Fractures EP, some lush electronic stuff by
nthdegx
(via
Projects)
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The Earl Stoner Band, countrified tunes by
xowie
(via
Projects)
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Red On Strike, XX-fronted punk rock by
InfidelZombie
(via
Projects)
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The Scarring Party, foot-stomping old-timey tunes by
drezdn
(via
Projects)
-
Soplerflo Archives, sundry musical noises by
soplerflo
(via...wait for it...waaaaaait for iiiiit...
Projects!)
Viva la
Projects!
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 9:46 AM on April 15, 2006
(97 comments)
Local car dealership commercials that don't suck? Okay, so, yes, every major metro region has its own crop of idiosyncratic and usually-low-budget car dealership commercials -- god bless Kramer the Magical Donkey -- but Portland, OR has this wonderful sort of Cinderella story guy named Scott Thomason. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 6:46 PM on April 10, 2002
(14 comments)
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