"The streets of 2030's New York remain the only venues not under the thumb of the monolithic corporations. Manhattan’s three major hacker gangs have developed black-market technology that enables them to jack into the phone network though the payphone nodes, and redirect the payment deposited into that phone into their own coffers." The premise of a new cyberpunk novel? Nope. A new
street game you can
play with your friends.
posted by maniactown
on Sep 24, 2006 -
16 comments
Lists of the best places in the United States assume their expert can choose the absolute best place to live, or to work, or to raise a family—for everyone. Wouldn't a better way to
find great places to live in America be based on
your unique priorities and preferences?
posted by CodeBaloo
on Aug 15, 2006 -
42 comments
Fuzetsu Fire bullets by manuevering your pixel as close as possible to the shots fired by the enemy in the center. Requires Java Runtime Environment.
(Since there's no sound, here's a sharity blog whose music would provide an excellent soundtrack:
Curved Air.)
Game via
Jay and
Good Experience.
posted by klangklangston
on Aug 6, 2006 -
12 comments
Graphic novels without words are the silent movies of the printed page. Now, the inestimable and erudite
vacapinta first directed us to the father of the genre, one
Frans Masereel. Up to recently, the most notable of Masereel's successors was
Lynd Ward, whose most famous work was
God's Man, subtitled
A Novel in Woodcuts. Here are some more
plates from
God's Man for sale. Yet more plates can be found, along with a bad midi, at the Texas based
Woodcuts - Lynn Ward: Gods' Man. And here are some
illustrations from Georgetwon University's Lauinger Library September 2001 exhibit
Lvnd Ward as Illustrator. Here, also, is
Graphic Witness: visual arts & social commentary - Lynd Ward. And here is his
Madman's Drum in its entirety. But now we have a contemporary working in the same vein--
Eric Drooker.
More inside
posted by y2karl
on Aug 4, 2006 -
22 comments
laundryroom swapmeet "I live in an apartment building. We have a laundry room. The laundry room has a table. People put things on the table, and other people take those things away later. It's a laundry room swapmeet. I take pictures of the things and write about them. Hilarity more-or-less ensues." Awesome.
[via mefi projects]
posted by mathowie
on Aug 3, 2006 -
28 comments
Work Friendly is the greatest website ever for people trying to get away with web browsing at work. You enter a URL, it launches a new window styled to resemble a Word Document window. It even includes a "Boss" key to convert the page to regular text. Check out
MeFi in it.
[via waxy]
posted by mathowie
on Aug 2, 2006 -
39 comments
Never wanna work/Always wanna play/Pleasure, pleasure every day. What happens when the jobs go away and
don't return? Should we take the surpluses generated and
pay people not to work? What happens to the assumption of scarcity when
nanotechology allows us to generate potentially anything we want from
grass clippings? Maybe Marx had it wrong all along. Maybe, instead of fetishizing work and the authoritarian mindset that it generates, we should have been reading Paul Lafargue
instead.
Just as a thought experiment, what would you do if your job category disappeared? How would you spend your time? Would you invest more time and energy in friendships and other relationships? Hobbies? If you were your employer, what technologies would you use to get rid of your position and save money?
posted by jason's_planet
on Jun 25, 2006 -
43 comments
So, how many subjects are there in a
split brain? I know that at least one more mefi user
is interested. To get some background information, play
this little game from nobelprize.org. Personally, I think
they (even though the
layout is strange - for an edu site) have it right: [more inside]
posted by vertriebskonzept
on Jun 1, 2006 -
7 comments
Guess the movie is a quiz where you have to guess the correct film from a single frame jpg. Part II
here.
Warning: site is crazy slow loading, may somehow be hosted on Geocities.
posted by jonson
on Feb 23, 2006 -
25 comments
Triglav. It's fun, it's gorgeous, it's PC and Internet Explorer only.
It's also unstable as all hell, so play career mode unless you don't mind restarting your whole game frustratingly often.
DHTML gaming at its finest.
(from the always excellent
jayisgames, which is having a fantastic week).
Triglav was
previously mentioned but was as of then unfinished. If you're already hip to it, play
meteor busters instead.
posted by klangklangston
on Jan 28, 2006 -
16 comments
Play RISK using Google Maps. From the FAQ:
For some reason I decided a bit after the API for Google Maps came out that it would be awesome to be able to play Risk on it... I've always been a gamer and thought this was the perfect step.
posted by KevinSkomsvold
on Nov 8, 2005 -
37 comments
Having sweated over the origins of the universe and split the atom, academics have finally tackled the question that has perplexed mankind since the dawn of time:
what are the best chat-up lines? A
study from psychologists at the University of Edinburgh tested 205 people for reactions to 40 vignettes of a woman approached by a man using "verbal signals of genetic quality" in different
categories, and found the best rated approaches to be those revealing character qualities, wealth and culture, although the puzzling winning line proved a flop in real life tests. Unsurprisingly, a direct request for sex received a low score. Previous findings by the Japanese proved
equally dubious. But there's still hope, as the code seems to have been cracked
in Dublin, where since last year "there is definitely more pulling". The secret? A smoking ban, a lot of crowded pubs, and
"smirting", an unexpected side effect of the health measure.
posted by funambulist
on Nov 6, 2005 -
103 comments
What do you get when you mix a fiendishly difficult and addictive puzzle game with the feel of a hack & slash RPG set in a cartoonish, slightly tongue-in-cheek fantasy world? That would be
Deadly Rooms of Death (DROD for short). The game is freakin' huge, with 25 levels filled with unique rooms, and it also happens to be free.
posted by speicus
on Sep 22, 2005 -
7 comments
