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 […]

 
Paint It Black are a Philadelphia hardcore band. They are also fine gents who have a new album coming out. This weekend they are having a record release blowout series of shows. We are talking free stuff and great punk rock (two great tastes that taste great together). These shows are gonna seriously be off the chain […]

HBO’s series The Wire really is the best show on television. The final episode of season four was absolutely heart breaking. I can’t wait for the last season to start. This week the New Yorker has a great profile on the producer, writer and creator of the show, David Simon.
Check it:  Stealing Life

9 Murders in the past 4 days. Way to go Philadelphia, you really know how to have a good time. Keep up the good work. Also Saturday night I was right around the corner from the Broad and Reed murder and my friend walked past the medical guys examining the body, THIS SHIT IS REAL

The war pigs Bush administration has recently announced a genious plan to sell billions and billions and billions of dollars worth of weapons to our good friends in the Middle East: Israel (but definitely NOT Palestine), the royal family of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. Apparently, these countries […]

So in the form of a text message from my ex-girlfriend, I was infromed last week that new evidence has come to light in the infamous 1993 West Memphis murders . This isn’t exactly breaking news being a week old, but cut me some slack. I just got my internet turned back on. Anyhow, for […]

As is tradition in Philly, when someone gets killed the plush animals appear and grow into a huge mound to memorialize the victim(s). The case of the shooting/murder down the street is no different.