Reblogged from Discombobulated
I just had to get on Twitter again for a volunteer gig and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
This is an abstract landscape by Kandisnky. But doesn’t it look remarkably like a level from Super Mario World?
More on the Kandinsky-Super Mario overlap on my blog.
Reblogged from El Comfortador
Map Of The Most Common Locations Where Craigslist “Missed Connections” Occur
Dorothy Gambrell of Psychology Today put together this map of the number-one places where missed connections occur by state. It’s very telling and also pretty hilarious.
Reblogged from Dataviz by Sunlight
(Marine fish biomass dropped by 80% over the last century, which—taking into consideration the growth rate of the world’s shipping fleet—leads to an odd conclusion: Sometime in the last few years, we reached a point where there are, by weight, more ships in the ocean than fish.)
Reblogged from The Inimitable Tiff
NEW BIOSHOCK TRAILER. ALL CAPS FOREVER.
A Queer History of Computing
“Surprisingly, there are few serious treatments of Turing as a queer figure,[ix] perhaps due to the difficulty in applying anachronistic language to historical figures such as Turing, or because in many ways Turing’s work does not immediately lend itself to a radical queering. While we might argue that computers have come to play an important role in the formation, organization, and articulation of modern queer identity, this may have less to do with some aspect of computation that is inherently queer, and more to do with the broad indifference of these technologies toward such distinctions and the ease with which they facilitate contact and produce community.”
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR AN ARTICLE LIKE THIS! Thank you!
Reblogged from Modern & Im/material Things
So I just learned there’s a weird similarity between the first Sirena Beach mission in Super Mario Sunshine and the end of The Shining. No, really. It’s actually a remarkable coincidence. Observe the creepy menta shape in the video, and then compare this passage from The Shining:
From the window of the Presidential Suite he thought he saw a huge dark shape issue, blotting out the snowfield behind it. For a moment it assumed the shape of a huge, obscene manta, and then the wind seemed to catch it, to tear it and shred it like old dark paper. It fragmented, was caught in a whirling eddy of smoke, and a moment later it was gone as if it had never been.
Perhaps you don’t see the connection. Perhaps you really do and want to read more about it. Either way, hit this link for more.
Reblogged from El Comfortador
notgames: did you know how hilarious the patch notes to the sims are
- A faint line is no longer visible on the heads of babies.
- Fish are no longer duplicated in the fridge when moving homes.
- Sims can no longer “Try for Baby” with the Grim Reaper.
- Sims who are on fire will no longer be forced to attend graduation before they can put themselves…
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