Janey Thomson's Marathon Any longtime fan of 80s arcade game
Track & Field and fan of old gaming lore around
Desert Bus will no doubt fall in love with this new classic game written in the perfect style of early 80s Konami combined with brutally long punishment games. I gave up after a few minutes but damn did I want to keep going and see the finish.
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posted by mathowie
on Jul 17, 2009 -
56 comments
Lie to Me is a fairly new US drama series based on the work of
Paul Ekman (
previously) who studied facial movements and what they reveal about the emotional state of a person
(see Malcolm Gladwell's "The Naked Face", also previously, for more background). No doubt inspired by the show, Gisela, a sixth grader at Mesa Grande Elementary School, decided for her science project to see whether she could tell if a person was lying based on their facial expressions. Here is the result:
part 1,
part 2 (youtube videos).
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posted by Deathalicious
on May 7, 2009 -
56 comments
"Money" is a completely AWESOME music video of a track by
N.A.S.A. (
North America South America), a DJ collective featuring
Squeak E. Clean and
DJ Zegon plus many famous guest artists, including, on this track alone, David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip. (Other tracks by N.A.S.A. feature the likes of Tom Waits, M.I.A., Gift of Gab and Kool Keith.) The video features the artwork of
Shepard Fairey, who has
been discussed previously here. The video was directed by Paul Griswold and
Syd Garon (who also did
this great video for DJ Qbert and
this one for Dan the Automator, which features some nice Gilliamesque touches.)
posted by slappy_pinchbottom
on Jan 17, 2009 -
15 comments
In 300 B.C., years before the birth of black Jesus, Aristole postulated that all good things were made of "win." That was a pretty good guess, but he was drunk and probably also having an orgy. Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental "awesoments" that compose all good things.
The Periodic Table of Awesoments can be a very useful tool. It's designed to show the relationships between awesoments, and often one can even predict how awesoments interact simply by their positions on the table.
posted by crossoverman
on Dec 17, 2008 -
90 comments
Bitone are full of love. : Björk's song "All Is Full Of Love" is covered by Ugandan children and youths on an album by a organization called
Bitone (meaning "talent"). Their mission is to restore the lives and hopes of children between 8 and 18 years old in Uganda, whom have been traumatized by the death of their parents or loss of their home due to disease, war, or economic hardship. [
via]
posted by grapefruitmoon
on Sep 14, 2008 -
16 comments
Artist
Joseph Griffith, whose work draws from
fantasy and
mythology, has also turned his attention to one of America's most significant historical moments: "I painted
this for the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown when George Washington and the Continentals traunched the British. The county would not dignify it with a response, however, George Washington's Mount Vernon estate kindly wrote me an e-mail saying they would 'pass it along to the staff'."
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
on Aug 20, 2008 -
51 comments
The Greatest Sideshow Video Ever Made. "The Greatest Sideshow Video Ever Made was shot at the Moore theater in Seattle in 1992. The oddball cousin of Seattle's grunge music scene, the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow mixed vintage sideshow acts with novel stunts never before seen. Previously available only on VHS tape or DVD, this mind-blowing collection of feats of human daring is now available online in six parts for your viewing pleasure:
1 2 3 4 5 6 As an added bonus, watch as
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam participates." [via
mefi projects]
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posted by stet
on Jul 13, 2008 -
21 comments
The Hole in the Wall [via mefi projects] is our own
interrobang's surrealistic cat story now being serialized at
Top Shelf Comics as part of their new Webcomics section, and it's definitely something special - pen & ink & watercolor adventures of two cats exploring a mysterious and dangerous underground landscape. More comics like this will be posted there depending on the popularity of this one, so if you love art, great comics, or cats, you
will want to check it out. This was a part of interrobang's
Year in Comics project, so if you fall in love with the Hole in the Wall kittehs (you will!), go have look at his other stuff, as well.
posted by taz
on May 23, 2008 -
30 comments
How many times have you heard
this before. Who else can you imagine voicing that line except for the indomitable
Ruth Elizabeth Davis. A screen icon for more than
six decades,
Miss Davis (as she preferred to be called) was in a
league all by herself. The first
woman recipient of the American Film Institutes Life Time Achievement Award, she
minced no words and inspired the
next generation of actresses to come. (If you'd like, you can tune into
TCM and watch some of her most memorable performances that are being telecast this month, or if you're lucky enough to be in Britain, you can probably catch it at a
cinema near you.) Until then, here's the immortal
Bette Davis Eyes sung by Kim Carnes, which Bette Davis herself was a
fan of, and a
clip of the Academy Awards Radio Broadcast featuring Miss Davis for her role in Jezebel. In the end, she did do it the
hard way.
posted by hadjiboy
on Apr 5, 2008 -
16 comments
Many business owners have struggled with crime in their communities and the impact that can have on their business- but when the police have their hands full, sometimes your complaints just fall through the cracks. One Atlanta bar owner has taken matters into his own hands by
building a crime-fighting vigilante robot.
posted by baphomet
on Feb 26, 2008 -
70 comments
In an information age, telecommunications such as the Internet and the telephone bind people across space by eviscerating the constraints of distance. To reveal the relationships that New Yorkers have with the rest of the world,
New York Talk Exchange asks: How does the city of New York
connect to other cities?
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posted by pwally
on Feb 20, 2008 -
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