Minecraft meets Cast Away

EXT. UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – NIGHT Shrouded with fog and surrounded by seaborne chickens, the tail of the big plane slowly SINKS beneath the calm, uniform water. Maynard does what he can to stay afloat and to head in the direction of a beach close by. EXT. BEACH – EARLY MORNING Night has passed. The water [...]

The simple shapes of stories – Game of Thrones

Rest assured, there won’t be any spoilers in here other than an expectation of highs and lows in the show based on the text of the book.  If you’d rather have a virginal experience, I’d suggest clicking one of the links to the right and see what else I’ve put on this site and am [...]

The simple shapes of stories

Inspired by the following video of Kurt Vonnegut, I decided to graph the general mood in well-known stories. I wrote a simple parser which evaluates a given text based on two collections of keywords, one collection of words indicating a positive, up-beat tone and the other collection indicating a negative, dramatic tone. I then graphed [...]

The Jack Bauer Jar by Xihilisk

The Jack Bauer Jar.

7 Popular PC games of the last 65 months that actually sucked

These games are all immensely popular, highly rated and a fair amount of fun, but each and every one of them is also a spectacular shitbag of suck. Mirror’s Edge (2009, metacritic 81, user score 8.2, 1+ million copies sold) Parkour does not translate well to the PC. Moments of fluid motion are rare, the [...]

5 Vintage Songs on the Modern Stage

The Lennon Sisters – Dry Bones The Ink Spots – Do I Worry? Tiny Tim – The Other Side Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel Les Baroques – Such A Cad

Law of the Rabbits

photo credit: nblumhardt The rabbit magistrates conferred. At the conclusion of the meeting, they resolved to write a law so convoluted and prolix, that no bunny or fox or human could ever hope to read or comprehend it in their lifetime. The rabbit magistrates would thus be able to make any judgment they wanted in [...]

The shared experience of single player games

We don’t often stop to think about the entire layer of shared experiences represented by video games.

Inside the giant egg

I was born inside a giant egg.

It had no yolk or albumen, just an inflatable swimming pool and plastic books.

Nobody loves 7 Upside Down like Henry M.

dnL was a short-lived soft drink, which you can read about in the screenshot below: Henry M. loves dnL. He loves it so very much that when he learned the product was going to be discontinued, he bought all the remaining stock in his town’s supermarkets and stored it in a cupboard, where his camping [...]