January 2009
9 posts
The Absinthe Backlash Begins →
Photograph from _heather_r_ on Flickr This past Sunday at an event in Seattle sponsored by the Washington State Bartender’s Guild, distiller Gwydion Stone and I presented a one-hour…
Ducklings →
Co-op gaming is here to stay: Ars helps you find... →
These days it seems like developers are taking the addition of co-op content in their games seriously. We’re not just talking about some thrown-together levels, either—when Valve released …
Mother 3's melange of weird musical references →
The Game Boy Advance classic Mother 3 is apparently filled with musical references, appropriations, and allusions galore. You’ll hear Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, and, er, Batman. Over at…
Learn to program a PDP-11 videos →
Jason sez, “DePauw University presents a series of videos on how to program the PDP-11. They present all of the steps: toggling a loader, reading and punching paper tape and running an assembler….
Mark Lanegan and Kurt Cobain sing Leadbelly →
In a couple weeks, I’m going to see a performance by the Gutter Twins, the joint project of Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers frontman Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees and Queens…
New Chronulator clock kit spawns cigar-box clock →
ShareBrained Technology, makers of the wild and wooly Chronulator clock kit, have released a new version of their product. Chronulator is an electronics kit that lets you build arbitrarily weird…
Obama, The Action Hero →
Check out this marvelous Barack Obama action figure that makes him look like a cross between Chuck Norris and James Bond! The site (with lots more pictures) is in Japanese, so I don’t know if…
A Softer World: 391 →
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