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I’d Buy That For A Dollar
Since Radiohead’s notorious In Rainbows pricing experiment last year (in which the band let consumers choose how much they wanted to pay for a digital copy of the album) every Thom, Cliff and Reznor’s been trying their hand at quirky ways to sell their music. Despite the fact only two in five ‘buyers’ paid anything ...
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Zero Wing and the Large Hadron Collider
In my head, this is exactly how the Large Hadron Collider thing plays out. “You are on the way to destruction.” “What you say !!” “You have no chance to survive make your time.” Also, this. (RE: All Your Base, have a read of this if you missed it when it first came around.)
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Best Thing I Saw Today #32: Hands on a Hard Body
“I would compare it to, er, killing a deer…the first time; the first time you kill a real big animal…exhilarating.” An unusual endurance contest is held each year at a Nissan dealership in Longview, Texas. Twenty-three names are drawn at random from a hat and those who are picked out given the opportunity to participate ...
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Our Deepest Fear
Monday, 7:30am and I’m semi-awake under the shower. Two, three minutes into that process of transferring life and consciousness to the body via hot water, I glance down. I yelp one of those violent, strangled yelps that’s pure fight/flight reaction. A spider the size of a dog is clawing at the side of the bath, ...
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Guitar Hero Praise: What’s Wrong With The ‘Christian’ Videogame?
Earlier this week gaming news outlets and blogs caught wind of a forthcoming, independent gaming release from hitherto little-known developer, Digital Praise. Appropriating the form and function of Harmonix’s Guitar Hero series (itself perhaps inspired by Konami’s Guitar Freaks games) Guitar Praise offers the faithful – at least, those of the affluent, American, evangelical variety ...
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Final Fantasy IV – Nintendo DS Review
Just after I sent this review over to Tom I counted how many iterations of Final Fantasy 4 I’ve owned. I think, in my attic I have: the original Japanese Super Famicom version, the American Super Nintendo version (FF2), the Japanese Super Famicom version of the American Super Nintendo version (Easy Type), the PlayStation standalone ...
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Quilting Bees vs. Videogames
As mentioned earlier in the year, I don’t collect videogames or any of their associated memorabilia any more. Nevertheless, this ebay-focused gaming collectibles blog is my new favourite thing. A few days ago one of the authors posted a link to this 1982 Pacman-themed joke book, a snip at $0.49. Imagine being commissioned to write ...
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50 Greatest Arts Videos
Oof. This is awesome but, be warned, it will eat your day, so be sure you’ve time to spare before you go clicking. Here’s the entry for the above clip, Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit: “Apparently Holiday used to break down every time after singing ‘Strange Fruit’. Seeing her perform it here (five months before ...