Fuck Yeah, "Fuck Yeah Puppies"

It's been too long, so to get back on the horse in full effect, I am all about doing it WELL with the PUPPIES. Check out FUCK YEAH PUPPIES. It is greatness.

Cover Stars

Some ridiculously great work by NeoGAF folks in which they create Criterion Collection-like covers for video game classics.

(seen at Joystiq)

Press Start

In April's Johns Hopkins Magazine, "Gamer Theory," a tale of why fencing is a gateway drug to video game industry success. Name check: holla at Big Huge Games, good luck you nutty kids.

Alas, real life intruded on the awesome outro I had written on this, and I blame the sad financials at THQ and the economy and the Freemasons.



Photo by Will Kirk; thankfully the controllers are right!

"Muscan of girly music"

Somebody's been pranking Founding Father and Brigadier General William Whipple's Wikipedia entry! Talk about bored.

"After the war he became a painter and a muscan of girly music of the Superior Court of New Hampshire."

Zooming with Errol Morris

One of the many, many things Thee New York Times web site does so smartly is to create a space for things like Zoom, an irregular blog/feature by Errol Morris that (and this is my lame-ass explanation) examines how photographic images capture and distort moments from the real world. A new Zoom began on Sunday: Morris is attempting to track down the identity (both in a basic and a more conceptual sense) of the father of this boy in this photo, who was an unknown fatality at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The photo (an ambrotype, to be precise) has its own history. As an October 19, 1863 Philadelphia Inquirer put it:

"After the battle of Gettysburg, a Union soldier was found in a secluded spot on the field, where, wounded, he had laid himself down to die. In his hands, tightly clasped, was an ambrotype containing the portraits of three small children, and upon this picture his eyes, set in death, rested. The last object upon which the dying father looked was the image of his children, and as he silently gazed upon them his soul passed away. How touching! how solemn! What pen can describe the emotions of this patriot-father as he gazed upon these children, so soon to be made orphans!"

This marks part one of five in the series; check out this three-parter about a famous Crimean war photo.

Curious Cabinetry

From Morbid Anatomy, "the last surviving fragment of the once famed cabinet of Bonnier de la Mosson."

Complete flickr set of the images.

(via boingboing)

24 Hour Party People

"James Mann got interested in writing about Ronald Reagan when he discovered that, while Reagan was president, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld used to sneak off to undisclosed locations to prepare for Armageddon."


-The Washington Post, 3/26/09

Presenting Hakodate Japan: Where history is felt and beautiful spectacle enclosed by sea

This is how you entice people to visit your city, which in this case is Hakodate, Japan (home of the Comfortable Hakodate Tram Course).

(Endadget via Pink Tentacle)

Malexicon

Brobvious (brōb'vē-əs)
adj. - Apparent or easily understood but only to dudes.

"It's brobvious that hottie is scoping my lats. She's just pretending to read Pynchon."

"What do you mean, 'Should we rent Ladies in Lavender or Vanishing Point?' The answer is brobvious."