February 20, 2009 – 5:42 pm
I had an awesome idea the other day. I have a technical description assignment due Saturday at midnight, so I was like: I should throw away my mediocrely organized, but ambitiously scaled project and pick something simple that I can also do awesome art for.
So I called up one of my boys who had some […]
February 1, 2009 – 4:48 pm
Google Calculator is, perhaps, man’s greatest accomplishments that nobody really recognizes. It’s great for simple math, percent chance and the like, but it also does amazing unit conversions.
Sure, it has the standards you’d expect: Imperial to metric. Metric prefixes. Currency (for when you want to be sad) and those esoteric number bases that programmers love.
But […]
January 14, 2009 – 4:24 pm
Via PS3 Fanboy, baadasssss news of another Final Fantasy XIII character.
Sazh Kalroy looks to care for a tiny chocobo/chicken critter and wears a fabulous trench coat. He also has what will probably be 2009’s greatest afro in fiction.
I’ll be interested to see whether he winds up being a good character or a massive failure. The […]
January 13, 2009 – 9:24 pm
You know Bill Watterson? Calvin and Hobbes and … nothing else?
Wrong. Watterson also did a variety of cartoons for his university newspaper and the Cincinatti Post, including one featuring my favorite building of all time and second favorite failed Midwestern urban revival plan (right after Pruitt-Igoe). One of the more interesting ones I found was […]
January 9, 2009 – 10:52 pm
This is the first time in close to a month that I’ve played Sega’s fantastic Valkyria Chronicles. It’s low-selling, rendered in a beautiful watercolor style and features John DiMaggio (Bender) in a bit part as the flamingest anti-tank gunner (features loud f-word) ever portrayed in fiction.
Tanks are the crux of my problem. I put Valkyria […]
January 5, 2009 – 11:01 pm
The NYT sells front page ads. This isn’t as shocking as I thought it might be. Major papers all over the world do it, why not us? Major US papers have been doing this for a while. But, as the national paper of record, everything that happens at or to the New York Times is […]
January 1, 2009 – 9:55 pm
Indulge me in some nerdy fawning, if you will. I didn’t care about COD4 until I realized it was already on sale in places.
I am surprised at how of portrays war. Until the fourth installment, the series had langored as another damn WWII shooter. But the careful attention to detail makes me understand why it […]
December 15, 2008 – 1:15 am
HA! Wrong day, but that’s alright.
“Tor” German gun.
Not just any German gun, a 60cm self-propelled beast. I don’t know a whole lot about it, but I assume it was some sort of siege mortar for blowing the hell out of distant fortifications and probably burning books.
600mm is 23 inches. The main guns on the Iowa-class […]
December 14, 2008 – 12:00 am
… on one thing: Wet floor effect.
Blah blah Reddit blah blah Logo Design Love (AWESOME!?): Rejected Obama logo designs.
My favorite is finalist #2, the bubbles, badass rounded sans and populist undertones. It reminds those little chunks of design I used to see on old commercials, but was really too young to process. Undeniably modern (somewhere […]
November 28, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Alright, it’s not that good a movie. Where it triumphs is in design. Everything is mid-century retrofuturism with a perfect color palette. Despite the criticism of its social message – which I take issue with – I think it’s really one of Pixar’s best efforts.
(I still need to see Wall-E to decide if it’s the […]
