- Gears of War, Played On the Big Screen
So. Jealous.
Tags: video, games, gearsofwar, theater, bigscreen, projector - Jakob Nielsen’s Top 10 Usability Bloopers in the Movies
"In the film Jurassic Park, a 12-year-old girl has to use the park’s security system to keep everyone from being eaten by dinosaurs. She walks up to the control terminal and utters the immortal words, "This is a Unix system. I know this." And proceeds to
Tags: jakobnielsen, usability, ui, computers, accessability, movies, realism - Rodriguez Producing Madman
After producing Sin City 2 and Grindhouse, he’s going to make a Madman movie using greenscreen and heavy input from Mike Allred. Aw yeah.
Tags: movies, robertrodriguez, madman, sincity, greenscreen - Toyfair Mario Parody
"You can-a only go Right. It’s God’s will."
Tags: video, games, comics, toyfair, marvel, superheroes, parody, mario, hulk, spiderman - History of Religion
See 5000 years of religion in 90 seconds. (via Ryan Irelan.)
Tags: history, religion, flash, video, maps, visualization - Lawmaker won’t apologize for ‘Islamophobic’ letter
You know what? Fuck this guy.
Tags: politics, bigotry, racism, religion, islam, bible, quran - Video: Halo 3 Brutes
Wow - It’s really interesting to see Bungie basically saying "We dropped the ball with Halo 2."
Tags: video, games, microsoft, xbox, 360, halo, brutes - The Former LA Zoo
The site of the former LA Zoo is now a park that you can tour, even going into the animal enclosures.
Tags: losangeles, zoo, photography, abandoned, la - The Hazards of Time-Shifted Entertainment
"No, no, don’t answer it!" I yelled. "It’s your parents! They’re calling from the future!"
Tags: timeshift, time, tivo, television - The year in errors
"Mr Wakefield is not and never has been a member of the Communist Party. The error is regretted."
Tags: errors, corrections, news, humor, mistakes - Where the nukes are: 20 miles from downtown Seattle
"Nearly one-quarter of America’s 9,962 nuclear weapons are now assigned to the Bangor submarine base, 20 miles northwest of downtown Seattle."
Tags: seattle, nukes, nuclear, weapons, bangor, submarine, naval, base, navy - Color Theory- Art Lozzi explains some technique
Great article on color theory by a Hanna Barbera artist.
Tags: design, illustration, cartoons, hannabarbera, artlozzi, color, theory - What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies)
"last I checked my terminal app doesn’t require OpenGL. I’m working here, bitches - I’m not playing quake."
Tags: movies, code, programming, terminal, quake, realism - Fallout Bible
Chris Avellone wrote a series of articles called "The Fallout Bible" dedicated to trivia and reader questions about one of the finest series of RPGs ever made.
Tags: video, games, fallout, bible, chrisavellone - Bill Gates for President
"Forget about whatever Bill Gates did in the past that made you curl up with your free copy of Linux and cry. In his first week in office he’d probably link Microsoft Virtual Earth to the government’s spy satellites so you can look for Osama yourself.
Tags: billgates, president, scottadams, dilbert, politics - Black Mesa Source: A Half-Life 2 modification
These guys are doing a great job of recreating the original Half-Life in the Source Engine. I can’t wait to play this.
Tags: video, games, valve, halflife, hl2, mod, blackmesa, source - Turtle Rock making Zombie game for Source Engine
"Oh come on. The Source Engine? Zombies? Co-op? This is too good to be true."
Tags: turtlerock, valve, source, steam, zombies, coop, video, games - Chrysler "Person of the Year" ads
Whoops. Heh.
Tags: chrysler, time, advertising, personoftheyear - Pinata Island
The Viva Pinata wiki - very useful, since the manual and the in-game explanations can sometimes be lacking.
Tags: vivapinata, video, games, rare, microsoft, xbox, 360
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