This is the direct sequel to last year’s sleeper hit “Actually, Let’s Cross the Streams.” It’s essentially a giant Chinese finger-trap, but instead it’s just a person covered in marshmallow fluff. Top leaderboard time clocked in at 35:29 before total diabetic shock kicked in. [video: crazyj1897]
Bookforum recently made a list of the best books in the emerging remix culture, including a write-up of a book called Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age by Kenneth Goldsmith that speaks to a lot of concepts that can carry over to gaming. Here’s the description of the book: Gold
Alan Taylor’s photo blog on The Atlantic has some gorgeous and elegiac photographs from Wonderland, an abandoned theme park in China. From Taylor’s description: Construction work at the park, which developers had promised would be “the largest amusement park in Asia,” stopped around 1998 after disag
Facebook has games. Why can’t Twitter? Andrea Phillips has posted a rulebook for playing charades in 140 characters or less. In case you are wondering how exactly you do play a game about pantomiming on a platform that is interfaced through a keyboard, the trick lies in hyperlinks. When you are on s
I love the look of Eskil’s LOVE because it answers one of life’s fundamental questions for me: what’s it like to be inside a watercolor painting that shoots at you? More screenshots at the link below. [img: quelsolaar]
The New Yorker recently posted their list of seven precepts that should govern any good Muppet movie. They are as follows: The Muppets should play themselves. The Muppets should have bigger parts than the humans. You need great cameos. Among the Muppets, Kermit and Piggy must have top billing. Go ea
Rizwan Virk, CEO of Tap Fish developers Gameview Studios, fumbles with his claim that his company’s free-to-play design for their game teaches children “responsibility” when Aasif Mandvi puts him face-to-face with an angry parent and a maxed-out credit card. Oops. Watch the video here. –Yannick LeJa
Forget barbies, beanie babies or Lovecraftian Pokemon Dolls. Jun Axup has some adorable DNA dolls to teach your kids the basics of chemical bonding. I started Biochemies.com two years ago to promote science education. It features images that convey biology and chemistry-related concepts through pers