August 9, 2017
“The game they said would never be finished...”
After two decades of delay, 'Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar' is available for play. [Motherboard] “The next time you miss a deadline, take comfort in the fact that you're almost certainly doing better than Cleveland Mark Blakemore. His RPG Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar [Trailer][Steam] was first supposed to hit shelves in 1997, but for two decades Blakemore missed deadline after deadline. To put that in perspective, George R.R. Martin first published A Game of Thrones in 1996. But the wait is over. Grimoire is here. So much time has passed that Grimoire now looks like a relic—something not unlike 1992's Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant. (In fact, Grimoire started life as a cancelled Wizardry sequel.) The good news for Blakemore is that this means it's free to cash in on nostalgia, and it wastes no time doing so.” [more inside]
the breath of life
Christopher Nolan on the organ used in the soundtrack for Interstellar - "Pulling out all the stops, I now know what that expression means for real." [more inside]
Petrodollar & quango
A Hero's Legacy + The Backstory Regarding Trump Campaign Corruption
Beginning just after the 17 minute mark,a remarkable and succinct interview with Bill Browder, author of the book Red Notice, about the murder of his friend and colleague Sergei Magnitsky. If you've been looking to understand this whole "Russia thing" and why meetings about Russian adoptions and why abolishing the Magnitsky Act is so damn important to Putin, invest 30 minutes in this interview. It's the backstory missing from most coverage.
How Rebecca Solnit Became the Voice of the Resistance
Punctuation FTW!
At its leading edge, punctuation is volcanically active, giving shape to concepts that move far faster than words. Anyone communicating today has seen #topics and #themes and #categories identified this way, using a symbol that was intuitively understood and replicated even before it was first called a hashtag in 2007. via daringfireball
The Beauty and Tragedy of Altering Library Books
DIY book alteration, genderbending, Johnny Law, and unfortunate consequences. Not the first interesting story you have read about queer English couples.
"Purrieu," "ptlee-bl," and other vital feline vocabulary words
"Cases have been given of… cats and dogs living together, in the same kennel, of which there have been innumerable instances."
In 1895, Marvin R. Clark self-published a 150-page pamphlet, Pussy and Her Language, about how (and why) to talk to your cat. Atlas Obscura's Cara Giaimo helpfully highlights each chapter of the dense text.
How do you say "You rock!" in Yurok
August 8 is International Indigenous Peoples Day. To celebrate, UC Berkeley highlighted a project to preserve rare audio of 78 indigenous California languages that uses optics technology to copy content from decaying wax cylinders in a non-invasive way. [more inside]
"Cancelling now is really unprofessional."
The Privates
They're a unknown rock band struggling to get noticed, but there's just one problem - the uncontrolled bolts of electricity and radiation that their music produces that keep on blowing out amps and starting fires. On the night of their first real show, they have to decide whether or not risking life and limb is worth their 1 AM stage slot. [more inside]
What Eats? - A Food Web Website
Welcome to What Eats? This is a website specifically for kids seeking information about the relationships between predators and their prey. I discovered this site because I wanted to find out what eats Jellyfish. And then I wanted to know what eats Sharks. But they don't know what eats honey badgers yet.
What the fuck did Guy Fieri ever do to anyone?
Comedian Shane Torres wants to know "I know you think Guy Fieri is just a day-old Hot Pocket filled with Smash Mouth lyrics, but what if he’s actually good?" (SLVulture with embedded SoundCloud) [more inside]
The Busy Life of Bob the Flamingo
Photographer Jasper Doest: I don’t really like to take images where nature is being made fun of...It’s really funny to see a flamingo in a car, of course, but there’s a deeper meaning in those images.”
Gentrification Is Deliberate, Planned, And Political
"What happened? The explanation is simple enough: Freret was designated a “cultural district” by the state in 2012, allowing new businesses—but not existing ones—to operate tax-free. A slew of restaurants opened in quick succession, turning Freret Street into a “dining hot spot” for young, white, subsidized crowds while long-running businesses like the local barber shop were left to fend for themselves. “It’s not sharing the table,” as longtime New Orleanian Ruth Idakula told Moskowitz. “It’s coming here and shoving our shit off the table and then demanding we eat your shit.”" - How To Stop Gentrification - Colin Kinniburgh
"It's about movement, creation and destruction."
For 20 years now, Swords' house in Camberwell, south London, has had a copy of Hokusai's Great Wave (or Under the Wave off Kanagawa, to give it its actual title) painted across its back. Just as in Hokusai's original - which master cutters carved into multiple blocks of wood, so it could be printed again and again - the wave is cresting, dozens of foam fingers stretching out from it. But on the house it looks as if it's about to break into the alley below, and drench anyone passing by, rather than drench the sailors Hokusai painted in three wooden boats.
XXX HOT CRISPY NUGS XXX THICCIE POTATES EXPOSED XXX
Meet the latest doggos on the meme scene: Fat Ass Woofers! (Don't hate, everyone loves a thiccie.) Learn the diff between nugs and potates (u can turn into a potate by eatin nugs, but some are jus born into the nug life) and love and respect these beautiful creatures. [mlfb] [more inside]
Was he asking for fairness or was he asking me to choose sides?
When Michael Deng, a college freshman, joined an Asian-American fraternity, he was looking for a sense of belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead. [SLNYT] ““Asian-American’’ is a mostly meaningless term. Nobody grows up speaking Asian-American, nobody sits down to Asian-American food with their Asian-American parents and nobody goes on pilgrimages back to their motherland of Asian-America. Michael Deng and his fraternity brothers were from Chinese families and grew up in Queens, and they have nothing in common with me — someone who was born in Korea and grew up in Boston and North Carolina. We share stereotypes, mostly — tiger moms, music lessons and the unexamined march toward success, however it’s defined. My Korean upbringing, I’ve found, has more in common with that of the children of Jewish and West African immigrants than that of the Chinese and Japanese in the United States — with whom I share only the anxiety that if one of us is put up against the wall, the other will most likely be standing next to him.’’
How Ice Cream Helped America at War
For greed all nature is too little.
Indonesia Again Silences 1965 Massacre Victims.
Last year An international panel of judges concluded that Indonesia's mass killings of 1965 were crimes against humanity, and that the United States, United Kingdom and Australia were all complicit in the crimes.
As John Pilger pointed out; in 1967 The Indonesian economy was carved up, sector by sector. [more inside]
Last year An international panel of judges concluded that Indonesia's mass killings of 1965 were crimes against humanity, and that the United States, United Kingdom and Australia were all complicit in the crimes.
As John Pilger pointed out; in 1967 The Indonesian economy was carved up, sector by sector. [more inside]
And God said, “Let there be light,” and it was lit AF.
And God Created Millennial Earth
1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. #CreationGoals #EarthIsBae
2. Now the earth was formless and basic, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was lowkey hovering over the waters.
But you don't get to take their words for it
'Reading Rainbow taught a generation of kids that they could (a) go twice as high as a butterfly, (b) go anywhere, and (c) be anything. Unfortunately, if you chose to be “LeVar Burton using his classic Reading Rainbow catchphrase,” the place you will go might be court. According to The Hollywood Reporter, WNED-TV Buffalo, New York, is suing the children’s show host in part over his continued use of the tagline “But you don’t have to take my word for it” on his podcast LeVar Burton Reads.' [more inside]
Hold me closer
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