Sep 2, 2010
Massive, multiplayer, online, Scrabble-like, crossword game
Currently 95,000 tiles have been played. If it weren’t virtual, the gameboard would be 145 square feet.
(Thx, Josh!)
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Sep 2, 2010
The Double Rainbow meme is dead, dead, dead. Here’s proof…
Prevailing wisdom is that a meme is officially dead when mainstream media picks it up and teleprompters nationwide tell anchorpeople to laugh at it on screen. But apparently, when that happens, a meme is only mostly dead, which, as we all know, is still partly alive.
So when does complete and total death comes to a hapless meme? When can we be certain that virtual rigor mortis is only moments away?
When Microsoft makes an ad out of it…
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Mind you, I’m not being critical toward Double Rainbow Man. I would do the exact same thing. He’s at 14:59 on his fame-clock and someone still wants to pay him…
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What if Stephen Crane’s naked, bestial creature weren’t so self-absorbed?
I interpret MGMT’s new music video as a reimagination of these lines by Stephen Crane:
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter – bitter”, he answered,
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
What if his heart weren’t bitter?
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Trapped miners ask for wine and get rejected
The trapped miners in Chile are already the longest-trapped in history and the wait will probably be months more.
In a telephone conversation last week with President Sebastian Pinera, the miners reportedly asked for “a little glass of wine” to ease the wait and to celebrate Chile’s bicentennial of independence, observed Sept. 18. “For the moment, there will be no alcohol. Nor tobacco, although almost all of them have asked for some,” writes a Chile correspondent…
The requests raise the issue of how to keep the miners psychologically sound.
Ya think?!
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