Hey folks–many of you know I’ve been part of a team that is working on a computer roleplaying game that lets players follow the steps of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. We’ll we’re still a ways away from being done, but we have been making progress. Below is a video of the game as it [...]
Never has YouTube been used by business to create something this awesome. It takes Subservient Chicken to the next level. Enjoy! Click on the pic below to see it @ YouTube: Or, if you can, just watch it below:
The New York Times has an article today on innovative instruments, or the dearth thereof, in classical music. The gist is something like this: because classical music takes so many people and so much money, innovation is risky. There has to be a quorum of desirable music that takes advantage of new instruments, and, perhaps [...]
Not sure how I feel about this. Wired has a report today that Dr. Michael Mithoefer and nurse Anne Mithoefer have gotten a $500,000 grant to see if soldiers with PTSD can be treated by giving them Ecstasy. Don’t want to be a prude here, but isn’t Ecstasy largely not understood, and what is understood [...]
Orbit books, one of my favorite publishers, just put out their yearly “State of Fantasy Cover Art” chart. It’s a quick glance at some of the biggest clichés in fantasy novels, as well as some of the new fads we’re living through (e.g. zeppelins). Without further ado: I think I get what most of the [...]
El Caballo has been in the news a lot lately, most recently because he thinks Osama bin Ladin is a CIA agent. But now he has a blog. Read it, translated into English, here. After reading Castro’s My Life–an autobiography through interviews–I became convinced that he is, in the Miltonic sense, Luciferian: often he is [...]
Now there’s a goal: become so famous a writer that hawt alt-girls write dirty tribute songs about you. And this is a picture of Mr. Ray Bradbury’s reaction to watching the video:
Courtesy of the American Medical News website comes the story of The Healing Blade, a (collectible? non-collectible?) card game that, through play, teaches budding Med students the ins and outs of infectious disease. It was created by two doctors, Francis Kong and Arun Mathews, who founded the game company Nerdcore Learning (more on their extremely magnanimous [...]
The stuff that dreams are made of: Wired has a profile of various countries’ bases in Antarctica that, once again, make me wonder if I should have taken a degree in the sciences. If we ever live on the Moon or Mars, it will be, partially, because we had bases on Antarctica — learning to [...]
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