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Rob Sherman meditates on the connections between writing and games. "This difficulty lies in the very word “games”, this glyph that we all accept to stand for something greater, and its association, in our culture, with another word. Play." [more inside]
posted by Sparx at 7:07 PM PST - 13 comments

Rainbow Stalin (autoplay SLcommunistparty)
posted by slater at 6:58 PM PST - 8 comments

Funeral: An oral history of the remarkable behind-the-scenes effort to stage Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 funeral and keep peace in Atlanta while 110 other cities burned. Memories from people who were directly involved, from Carl Sanders, the former governor of Georgia, and Xernona Clayton, who organized events for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), to Bernice or Bunny King, the youngest King child, and June Dobbs Butts, a friend of King's since childhood who flew home to Atlanta from New York to attend the funeral. (From Atlanta magazine) [more inside]
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Bee and Puppycat (previously) began as a two-part cartoon short by Natasha Allegri, a former Adventure Time writer and artist. Now, after a successful Kickstarter campaign, Bee, a recently unemployed 20-something, and her interplanetary cat (erm... dog?), Puppycat, have graduated to a full nine-episode series on the web-only Cartoon Hangover network.

The first two episodes have just been released.
posted by Room 641-A at 4:33 PM PST - 34 comments

How To Make Mendl's Courtesan Au Chocolat [SLYT]
posted by Going To Maine at 4:27 PM PST - 19 comments

The Norden is a Finnish TV series, taking Americans and introducing them to their profession within the Nordic countries. First, James Conway, retired Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility in New York, visits four Nordic prisons and facilities. An excerpt, and the full episode with English subtitles. [more inside]
posted by Wordshore at 4:16 PM PST - 72 comments

NanoGenmo asks users to spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. Highlights so far include Seraphs, based on the Voynich Manuscript.
posted by eotvos at 3:36 PM PST - 23 comments

Over the Garden Wall is a five night “mystery event” animated miniseries that’s a charming, lovely, and occasionally creepy mix of late 19th century/early 20th century Americana, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Miyazaki, and Adventure Time. [more inside]
posted by yasaman at 2:22 PM PST - 15 comments

Here are some recent thoughts of mine: I am playing too much Destiny. Also, games might be an expression of the futility of the human condition. [more inside]
posted by Sebmojo at 1:20 PM PST - 11 comments

"Go say hi to other dudes if you need to so bad." Twitter reacts to claims that men who street harass women are "just saying hi." [more inside]
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War Ink launches on 11.11.14. They have released a video previewing what it is about. The Clark County Historical Museum had a similar exhibit with its own video.
posted by TheProudAardvark at 10:18 AM PST - 4 comments

Ranking a catalog the size of Miles Davis’ is an impossible task. There are so many lavish boxed sets, live releases, compilations issued during his hermit period, etc., that in order to make this article at all manageable, major cuts had to be made before it could even be begun. So here’s how this is going to work: I chose studio albums only. But to truly understand Davis’ catalog, there are a bunch of essential live releases, including Live-Evil, In Concert: Live At Philharmonic Hall, Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangaea, and The Bootleg Series Vol. 1: Live In Europe 1967. So consider the 30 albums below a starting point. There’s so much more.

For Stereogum, Phil Freeman ranks Miles Davis albums from worst to best.
posted by MartinWisse at 9:56 AM PST - 52 comments

11 Struggles Only People Named Erin Understand is a Buzzfeed listicle written by an Erin which has become extraordinary thanks to the Facebook comments section which is almost exclusively filled with other Erins of various spellings sharing their experiences. Like watching Too Many Cooks develop in real time.
posted by feelinglistless at 8:33 AM PST - 110 comments

The history of the Berlin Wall in 36 iconic images. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, Berlin is once again divided, this time by an 3.5 m (11 foot)-tall, 16 km (10 miles)-long "border or light" (Lichtgrenze) made of 8000 illuminated balloons, created by German light artist Christopher Bauder. [more inside]
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Barbara Hannigan performs György Ligeti's 'Le Grand Macabre' with the Gothenburg Symphony. [YouTube] [Wiki]
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Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change says Michael J. Glennon, author of ‘National Security and Double Government’.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:31 AM PST - 68 comments

The Guardian talks to foreigners who've made Afghanistan home.
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"The biggest marketing pushes were calling them a huggable investment and attracting people who just thought they were gorgeous little lawn ornaments." [more inside]
posted by Etrigan at 5:09 AM PST - 38 comments