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25 June 09
It appears that Battlefield Heroes is now out of beta. I’m looking forward to trying it out. The price is certainly right (it’s free, by the way).
22 June 09
Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Jim Rossignol took a 7+ hour drive through Fuel’s 5,560 square miles of terrain and lived to write about it. Roaming through the open world definitely seems like the big draw for this game, though the helicopter chase mode sounds like a blast.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Jim Rossignol took a 7+ hour drive through Fuel’s 5,560 square miles of terrain and lived to write about it. Roaming through the open world definitely seems like the big draw for this game, though the helicopter chase mode sounds like a blast.
21 June 09
For Father’s Day, my wife and kids got me a t-shirt version of this awesome Star Wars poster. Here’s more info on the art, in case you’re interested: From The Star Wars Posters Book: (United States / 1999 / 24x36) For this 1999 Star Wars Fan Club exclusive poster by Australian artist Hugh Fleming, the bearded artist featured himself as one of the Star Wars groupies in the audience. The piece was commissioned to accompany a story in Star Wars Insider, the official fan club magazine in the United States, about rock bands and music influenced by the original trilogy.

For Father’s Day, my wife and kids got me a t-shirt version of this awesome Star Wars poster. Here’s more info on the art, in case you’re interested:

From The Star Wars Posters Book:
(United States / 1999 / 24x36)
For this 1999 Star Wars Fan Club exclusive poster by Australian artist Hugh Fleming, the bearded artist featured himself as one of the Star Wars groupies in the audience. The piece was commissioned to accompany a story in Star Wars Insider, the official fan club magazine in the United States, about rock bands and music influenced by the original trilogy.

12 June 09
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith I saw this book on the best-sellers rack at Books-a-Million and thought it looked awesome. I can only hope there will be a movie adaptation starring Keira Knightley and Simon Pegg!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

I saw this book on the best-sellers rack at Books-a-Million and thought it looked awesome. I can only hope there will be a movie adaptation starring Keira Knightley and Simon Pegg!

8 June 09
“How to be Happy in Business” - This venn diagram could be pretty useful should I ever feel the need to expand upon just being paid. [via swissmiss]
“How to be Happy in Business” - This venn diagram could be pretty useful should I ever feel the need to expand upon just being paid. [via swissmiss]
Posted: 2:27 PM
I can’t resist a good typography pun. [via Lucius Kwok]
I can’t resist a good typography pun. [via Lucius Kwok]
3 June 09
A game of Flight Control generally ends in complete and total panic just before one or more crashes occur. The game is very simple: an aircraft flies onto the screen and you drag your finger from it to the runway or landing pad of its color. It starts at a nice leisurely pace and escalates into a multitasking panic attack. There are eleven aircraft on-screen, only two of which were heading to a landing zone…but a new personal hi score!
A game of Flight Control generally ends in complete and total panic just before one or more crashes occur. The game is very simple: an aircraft flies onto the screen and you drag your finger from it to the runway or landing pad of its color. It starts at a nice leisurely pace and escalates into a multitasking panic attack. There are eleven aircraft on-screen, only two of which were heading to a landing zone…but a new personal hi score!
Posted: 3:08 PM
It’s finds like this that make me wonder why I stopped reading Gizmodo. For the record, I stopped reading them because they post, on average, 43.2 posts per day…a bit more than I care to keep up with. [via Gizmodo]
27 May 09
[via Hark! a vagrant]
[via Hark! a vagrant]
20 May 09
Aliens vs. Predator for the Xbox 360 will be a game to keep an eye on. It’s being developed by Rebellion, who created the PC game way back in 1999. It’s an FPS that allows you to play as Alien, Predator, or Marine…and all the great gadgets, vision modes, and wall-crawlery are there. I remember playing the original with a friend directly connected over the phone line. If this new one has some kind of party system for the multiplayer, it should be a blast.
Aliens vs. Predator for the Xbox 360 will be a game to keep an eye on. It’s being developed by Rebellion, who created the PC game way back in 1999. It’s an FPS that allows you to play as Alien, Predator, or Marine…and all the great gadgets, vision modes, and wall-crawlery are there. I remember playing the original with a friend directly connected over the phone line. If this new one has some kind of party system for the multiplayer, it should be a blast.
8 May 09
[via Montygog’s Art-O-Rama!]
[via Montygog’s Art-O-Rama!]
21 March 09
[via Bizarro]
[via Bizarro]
19 March 09
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
I was looking for a ringtone today and thought it might be cool to use the bird song of a Whip-poor-will. I remember hearing them at my grandparents house and on camping trips…it’s a really cool sound and I always loved hearing it. And today I discovered that it wasn’t a Whip-poor-will that I was hearing, but a very similar bird called Chuck-will’s-widow. Which is weird, because I think the sound of the Chuck-will’s-widow sounds more like “Whip-poor-will”…but nobody asked me when naming them, so, oh well.
11 March 09
The Periodic Table of Typefaces! [via mstibbe]
The Periodic Table of Typefaces! [via mstibbe]
Posted: 1:04 PM
“The Mother of All Funk Chords” mixed by Kutiman. This guy has created an album of music mixed from YouTube videos…pretty incredible, if you ask me. [via 43 Folders via Jonathan Coulton]
Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh