August 4th, 2006 – Imagine yourself in my place. Sitting through your last of three semesters of music history, finally having come to the 20th century. You’ve covered the greats – Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms – composers who have inspired young minds to pursue music for centuries. And yet you find yourself wondering – when […]
When Genres Collide
This is the first in my series of (hopefully) weekly columns talking about various design issues in different mediums. I have a certain aesthetic sense in how all things gaming and literary work, and I hope to share with you all some of my insights. I’ll also talk about various game designs, provided it doesn’t […]
A Slight Overreaction
It was in the news a few weeks back that, upon further analysis, there were in fact references to Doom in the notebooks of the two students who were responsible for the Columbine Massacre. The media seemed to accept this as ‘Veritas Lux Mea’ and that this was the final proof needed to complete another […]
YouTube of the Week: Secret Origin Edition
They'll Never Understand
Nearly word-for-word, this is exactly how it happened. To this day I am uncertain as to what I heard in my friend’s voice that day, but I believe it was along the lines of unbridled terror. A primal fear that these feminine robots might actually have been sent back in time to end his life, […]
YouTube of the Week: It's Only a Model Edition
YouTubes of the Week: Presidential Debate Edition
Bridge Troll stopped by Police, LSD
Modern day monsters do exist. Police arrested a man who was demanding $1 from passerbys to cross over his bridge, and when they refused to pay, he used his club against them (a broken golf club.) A man with the “troll” claimed that he was acting that way due to LSD. What’s great is that […]
So Foxy It Hurts
Sure, he may not have any coils named after him, but he still gets a birthday! That’s right ladies (and guys?) that stellar specimen of sheer ruggedness and “hotter-then-the-f-ing-sun-itself” good looks turns 40 today. Most famous these days for his leading role as the confused, puppy-dog-esque, and “I’m going to tell Locke what he can’t […]
Nikola Tesla is 150 Today
“He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene” –Nikola Tesla, about Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla, my favorite scientist and the guy who really defined “mad scientist”, had his 150th birthday today. (No doubt, of course, that he is […]
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