Monty python animated a canardian vampire interviewing a dead hippy. Stop wars yo…

USC’s Gamepipe brings us Lockdown, which they describe as “a serious game for incident response to school shootings.” Obviously, this game, or simulator, or training application, however you want to bill it, isn’t about graphics, but I can’t stop thinking of Playmobil as I look at the video.
It’s supposed to be used to teach SWAT […]

In case you didn’t read the newzzz today [post, ht], America is at new highs in both our prison population and the percentage of our population in prison. We’ve smashed our records. We’re the worldwide champs. Most overall people in jail - 2, 300, 000! What’s up now, China? 1/99 Americans in jail! […]

OK, maybe they aren’t conquering the world but brothers Mike and Tom Quinn are making some big moves.

I first read about this in the Sept 2007 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. The article was about a device called a molinillo, which is basically a fancy stick used to stir chocolate drinks. Anyways, the article talks a little bit about the history of chocolate and how the world’s changing and people buy chocolate in […]

Hilarious and sad times we live in… T-Mob, aka T-Mobile, aka Deutsche Telekom apparently claim trademark ownership of the color magenta. I understand the whole pantone color trademark thing ie: Tiffany blue but, how anyone could own a fucking process color is beyond me. From this day forward i claim cyan to be the official […]