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"In a text with only six favorable outcomes amid some thirty-eight possible conclusions, indeed the reader seems intensely vulnerable – even doomed perhaps – if he were to travel only a single path. The odds, quite simply, are against him."
Click here to investigate the unforgiving plot of
The Third Planet from Altair, by Edward Packard.
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Choose Your Own Adventure-style stories
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CYOA story.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 12:48 PM on January 2, 2005
(35 comments)
A guide for librarians wishing to integrate comic books into their regular holdings for young adults, and the case for it. Via Linkfilter.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 10:27 AM on May 26, 2004
(13 comments)
A futuristic robot polices the chaotic streets of a developing nation in this [creepy] spec commercial/corporate video." Quicktime is involved. Also, people who are scared of robots might not want to watch, because there is a robot in this video.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 11:40 PM on April 28, 2004
(31 comments)
"
Home of the Underdogs is a non-profit site dedicated to the preservation and promotion of underrated PC games (and a few non-PC games) of all ages:
good games that deserve a second chance after dismal sales or critical reviews that we feel are unwarranted."
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 4:32 PM on April 4, 2004
(27 comments)
Did he who made the lamb make
thee?
O. vulgaris, now appearing on a sea floor near you.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 9:50 PM on August 8, 2003
(12 comments)
The Art of James Bond
captures the aesthetic of a character Martin Amis called "lonely, melancholic, in some way ravaged... dark and brooding in expression, of a cold or cynical veneer, and above all enigmatic, in possession of a sinister secret." Of course,
the movies are a different story.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 2:04 PM on October 5, 2002
(11 comments)
Some sort of insanity must have possessed
this guy, making him think he could write a
prequel trilogy to Roger Zelazny's classic
Amber series (ahem, not
this one). Most
reviewers agree--and you can
read for yourself--that it's not very good. All this, and the fact that the
Sci-Fi Channel also has
sinister plans for the property means that there are only one or two nails left to be driven into the coffin of my childhood. Hooray!
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 12:48 PM on September 11, 2002
(15 comments)
David Gonterman is "the Ed Wood of internet cartooning", according to
some. He is a frustrated but relentless artist whose "passion far exceeds his aptitude", and who seems destined for mediocrity and
ridicule everywhere but in the panels of
his own comics, where he treads the earth like a living god -- a misogynistic, racist, and ultimately unintelligible god, yes, but man, he sure
can dance.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 10:26 PM on September 4, 2002
(10 comments)
Maria Bartiromo's
hair is a predictable market indicator. She can talk for
hours. Joey Ramone
wrote a
song about her [realaudio]. I hope she likes all those letters I sent her.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 12:53 PM on March 16, 2002
(12 comments)
Dr. Paul Linebarger
became a
spy for the U.S. Intelligence community because he was an expert in propaganda, psychological warfare, and the culture of China. In his
other secret life, however, he wrote some of the most
wildly inventive and
unusual science fiction ever, forming a history of mankind and its
Instrumentality that spanned fifteen thousand years. To protect his identity, he published under the name
Cordwainer Smith.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 7:25 PM on February 21, 2002
(15 comments)
Osama "The Stilt" Bin Laden
victim of "close encounter of the worst kind with a hellfire missile"? May be, maybe not. What's more interesting is the hopefulness with which they offer the possibility based only on his height.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 10:48 PM on February 6, 2002
(13 comments)
Let us now bandy about statistics.
NPR (et al.) has released a poll concerning beliefs about civil liberties in the wake of You Know What and the subsequent military response, as well as another (less in-depth) supplement on
Military Tribunals. Also, Talk of the Nation did an excellent
program (RealAudio) on the subject. Since we're going to continue discussing it anyway, we may as well be informed.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 5:36 PM on December 4, 2001
(12 comments)
Surrounded on all sides
by religious interolance, these two men prove that you can staunchly maintain your faith under an oppressive regime and still be an utter a-hole.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 9:40 PM on November 25, 2001
(11 comments)
A story that seems to be good news
no matter what side of the 'war' you're on. The dragnet around Bin Laden is reported to be closing quickly, and currently stands, says the Sunday Times, at about 30 squares mile. So, what happens next? (via Plastic.com)
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at 10:39 PM on November 18, 2001
(13 comments)
Fake or Foto?
Try to guess which are photographs, and which have been cleverly computer-generated. Sure it's a game, and it's interesting on that level, but I was wondering if anyone was seeing any patterns in the kind of objects they were able to recognize as one or the other. I know I did.
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at 12:37 PM on November 14, 2001
(33 comments)
Art Bell continues to sell crazy
in a world that's all stocked up. Here's a link to a page of photograph submitted for last night's show. Scroll down a few, and you'll see one with a very insensitive implication about the WTC attack. Apparently, comical cartoon devils were involved.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago
at 10:24 AM on September 13, 2001
(3 comments)
