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  • Plain Sight Trailer
    "You have 1 point. 1 point is rubbish. You want more." Beautiful, fun-looking trailer for an XNA title due out next sure – that simultaneously captures what games are basically about. Or, at least, what points are all about.
    (tags: plainsight xna xbox games )
  • Iain Sinclair on HG Wells's The War of the Worlds | Books | The Guardian
    "Wells has received insufficient credit as a writer of rhythmic, incantatory prose, long-breath paragraphs to cut against his tight journalistic reportage. The War of the Worlds makes the journey from sensationalist incident to moral parable. Wells predicts an era when fiction and documentary will be inseparable." Fantastic writing from Iain Sinclair on HG Wells.
    (tags: hgwells scifi sciencefiction scientificromance novels books writing literature )
  • Caffè sospeso – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    "When a sospeso is ordered, the customer pays for two coffees, but only receives one. That way, when a person who is homeless or otherwise down on their luck walks into the café, the person can ask if there are any coffees held in suspense, and can have one as a courtesy of the first customer." Wonderful.
    (tags: coffee sospeso society culture drinks )
  • Red eye (drink) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Wikipedia quotation of the day: "Variations of the red eye based on the number of espresso shots include the black eye, which is made with two shots of espresso, and the dead eye, which is made with three shots of espresso. A 'fight club' contains four shots of espresso." A "fight club"!
    (tags: coffee drinks caffeine fightclub )
  • The Insane True Story Behind the Birth of the Internet – Funny Videos | Cracked.com
    "You forgot one thing, Dr. Roberts. You forgot that people are dicks." Aheheh.
    (tags: video technology internet meme humour )
  • chewing pixels » Guitar Hero Praise: What’s Wrong With The ‘Christian’ Videogame?
    "Perhaps then what people object to, whether they realize it or not, is an ideological and theological issue with religious gaming, rather than any particular distaste as the idea Christian gamers might simply want games that explore their faith and service their community."
    (tags: games theology ideology play religion christian )
  • Another forum game – The Gameshelf
    "So why am I mentioning this now? Because Alternity has just started. This is a new Harry Potter game, and it starts from the beginning — September 1, Harry's first day at school. Only not as in The Philosopher's Stone. In this scenario, Voldemort, er, won." Fanfic-cum-alt-universe-RPGs in the Potterverse being run solely on Livejournal. Amazing.
    (tags: games arg harrypotter livejournal fanfic rpg roleplaying storytelling story narrative )

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