Nothing is 0k is a program that allows Atari 2600 consoles to write poetry. This is a substantial feat, considering the machine only has 4 kilobytes of memory. The way this is done is rather geeky, but also very cool. The machine spits out a pattern of shapes and colors, as seen above, which can the
Gridiron fans aren’t normally considered Mensa material, but becoming immersed in a game of football provides plenty of mental stimulation. When a fan watches a game, as one University of Chicago study showed, the same areas of the brain are activated as would be if that person were playing. This en
I got a chance to play around with a quadrotor drone in an empty parking lot on New Years Eve. What’s the big deal, I thought. Yeah, it was cool that I could control the drone with an iPad using virtual thumbsticks, exactly like I’d play a first-person shooter. But the drone was pretty flimsy, it go
Via This is Colossal, a piece of stop-motion whimsy. Keep an eye out for the Space Invaders plug: After organizing their own bookshelf earlier this year, Sean Ohlenkamp and wife Lisa re-doubled their efforts for Type Books in Toronto. After several sleepless nights of animating with a crew of over 2
It’s that time again. Here’s today’s wrap-up of mainstream gaming news. – 3 years of development later, much-anticipated downloadable game, Journey, is done and will hopefully be out soon. – Minecraft developer Markus Persson aka Notch, wants to fund Psychonauts 2. – After some pretty serious finan
When I was sixteen, I got a speeding ticket. I knew I shouldn’t have been driving sixty-five miles per hour in a thirty-five mile per hour zone, but on the other hand how awesome was it (until I got pulled over)? Pretty awesome (until I got pulled over)! Wall Street Journal explains: Recent studies
If you watched the Super Bowl on Sunday, you undoubtedly saw some Will Ferrell lookalike jumping up and down on a rope in what might have been the craziest moment of a Super Bowl halftime show full of very crazy moments. It turns out that guy has a name, and it is not Ron Burgandy. Instead, it’s And
In his review of Sundance film Room 237, Slashfilm’s Germain Lussier details how the film serves as a retrospective on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The film portrays several different readings of its source material which range from almost plausible to hysterically absurd. The way the alternative