Archive for the ‘Awesome’ Category

Video of the Video Game I’m Working On

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 [...]

Seriously, the Best Viral Marketing Since Subservient Chicken

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:

Flute, Now With Whammy Bar -OR- It’s Starting to Look Like a Triple Trumpet

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 [...]

Trends in Fantasy Novels Cover Art: More Guns, Dragons Steady, and Glowy Magic Way Down

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 [...]

NSFW! Vulgar! Obscene! But easily the greatest SF tribute song ever written!

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:

The Healing Blade–Magic-style Card Game That Teaches Med. Students About Infectious Disease

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 [...]

It’s a Small World After All: What Earth Looks Like From Mars
The Beautiful, Eerie Antarctica Bases

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 [...]

If You’re a Writer Late on Your Taxes, Here’s a Little Help Filing for Exemptions
Sick of that treacly, overplayed “Hey There Delilah” song? The answer: “Hey There Cthulhu”

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