Game List

Here's a large list of flash games. The cow game from a couple of days ago came from this list. The games are a mixed bunch, from brilliant, like the cow game, to boring, like the "Archoon" game.

The Gnostic

This is an interesting short film I ran into. Very high-seeming production values and interesting story, but suffers from common problems that very low budget indie features have, lack of actor choice, etc.

Cow Game

I found this great German cow game where you solve interesting puzzles. I managed to get to level 32 before realizing I spent too much time on it. :) Lets see how well you can do.

Winnie the Pooh

A good analysis of religious allegory in Winnie the Pooh from a Muslim perspective. :)

Money...

Hmmm... I have the strong urge* to go kill some Danish cartoonists. :)

* for the humour-impaired, my urge is a joke. :)

Stupid "Cyberpunk"

When I saw this, I got reminded of the link to a recent anti-DMCA "cyberpunk" story on Majik Sznak's website. This particular one features the right's favourite boogey boogaboo man, the UN, as opposed to the perennial left favourite, evil big corporations. I have something to say to both sets of morons who write stuff like this: when the eeevvviiilll eeeevvviiilll nightmarish oppressive corporation/government takes over, the silly computer crap won't be so easy, because all the stupid "underground" geek culture you are familiar with, it's a product of the current free western society. In a truly repressive regime, the crap you do with computers won't be possible! On top of all that, you need a middle class to economically sustain the computer culture.

Pet Pro

There are some good comics out there. Here's another one. This is about a pet hitman. :)

Here are some examples of good ones:

A short film.

Cameo of a famous character.

Another cameo.

Space Hulk Miniatures

Well, I haven't been totally doing nothing with Space Hulk. I'm actually getting some miniatures painted.

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Here are some partially painted Genestealers.

A regular heavy power armour trooper walking.

A heavy power armour trooper with a machine gun, I suppose standing in for the assault cannon in Space Hulk.

A sergeant.

The space marine miniatures are not from Games Workshop, but are from a different manufacturer. I already had them, and like them rather better than the over-the-top GW miniatures.

Cute Bunnies

Now, this is a good cartoon. :)

Brokeback To The Future

Here's another one of those fake movie trailers. :)

Microwave

Things that you should never put into the microwave. :)

Making fun of gamers

This is good. :)

Uncleftish Beholding

Have you ever wondered what English would look like with all the non-Germanic words removed? Yeah, never. But here's an essay written by the late science fiction writer Poul Anderson called "Uncleftish Beholding" that sort of demonstrates the idea.

CBC Shakespeare Goof

In one of CBC Online's articles about expressing the election in Shakespearian terms, they have the paragraph:

NDP Leader Jack Layton as Brutus in Julius Caesar, asking his modern-day friends, Romans and countrymen: "Lend me your votes. I come to bury Martin, not to praise him."

Ugh, it was Mark Anthony who said "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears," in his famous speech to rouse the people of Rome against Caesar's killers.

WoW Musical

This is a funny musical made using World of Warcraft.

Piracy

Ow, the problem of piracy/counterfeiting in China is not just software:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1368082.cms

http://www.gmchina.com/english/brand_rotection/index.htm

http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0112/busi5.php

School Assignment

Darn... I wish I could've gone to that school. :)

More Nostalgia

There's a Sourceforge version of the game classic "StarControl 2." Apparently they took the old 3DO code for the game and modernized it, so it works on Windows with DirectX. They also have remixes for all the old music in the game.

Blood Rayne

I don't know much about this movie, but I read this funny bit from a reviewer who probably didn't like it :)

"I'm serious. If I find out that you went and saw this film after I told you not to, I'll phone your friends up and tell them to go to your house and pour ants in your bed. And when you wake up screaming, covered in ants, you'll think 'at least I'm not still watching Blood Rayne.'"

Religion vs. Cult

Here's an interesting quote I read from a discussion on a mailing list:

"Cults are leader-centric. Religions are institutional- and doctrine-
centric, with leadership being essentially disposable."

It makes a lot of sense, actually.