Interesting aesthetic. "call it the first cyberpunk MMO: a virtual world about virtual worlds, in which your avatar is an avatar, the NPCs play NPCs, and you explore a multiverse in which you might be in realistic historical surroundings one minute, and cartoon fantasy ones the next. Everything changes, even your own appearance, and nothing is even pretending to be real."

permalink to a YouTube timecode, finally !!

the PS2 bonus of HL1 remade for PC

Oh, you gotta love DRM

"the period beginning September 1993.[2] The expression encapsulates the belief that an endless influx of new users (newbies) since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet."

It has a "set it and forget it" feature similar to Diskeeper, here based on "idle time" instead of "screensaver", and it can stop if the CPU goes over a certain threshold. Free, but it seems to use a little bit more of memory than DK. I think it can be recommended

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On the left, the logo for the Congressional Budget Office. On the right, the logo for Omni Consumer Products, the megacorporation from the Robocop..

they tend to be "of the same kind", and actually seem to be mostly "of the same kind of bands"... but they're nice for sure

c'est zarb d'utiliser topshop et pas illustrator.. mais bon, j'en connais un qui est le roi du détournement de tutoriaux qui pourrait trouver de quoi faire ;)

mhhh...

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About the Mac and PC's ads in Japan "In Japan you're considered particularly dumb and obnoxious if you're caught bragging about your strengths, and smart and nice if you play them down,"

kind of makes you wonder in a kind of nature vs. nurture way, are people wearing Scarface t-shirts more likely to commit a crime, or just more likely to get arrested?

"Dorothy applies every Photoshop filter, in order, to a photograph "

... men will be men...

"It's stuff like this that drives me crazy about Windows boxes." / It's actually stuff like this that drives me crazy about Apple softwares :p

well done, Good Journalism :@

a comprehensive overview that should cover most all questions and possible fears you might have about the Large Hadron Collider

adds more cowbell & walken to your mp3s

Poe's Law relates to fundamentalism, and the difficulty of identifying actual parodies of it.

Relay is an online music project curated by musician John Lambert (aka Chequerboard). Lambert will invite a selection of irish and international sound artists and musicians to contribute to Relay over the duration of the project. He will record an initial sound work and then relay this piece to the first contributor. Each work will be published online as it is completed, and this page will map the path of this dialogue of ideas between artists.