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Archive for January, 2009

Mechanical Failure, Part 1

I try to find reasons to be amazed in this world every single day. Sometimes it’s in the intricate beauty of nature, sometimes it’s in the subtle humor of circumstance. Usually, though, I become amazed by the simple fact that humanity is still around, despite the huge number of terrible, TERRIBLE ideas we have. Today [...]

NRF: “Little Nemo: The Dream Master”

This week’s N.E.S. R.O.M. Friday has a little twist, confusionauts. It’s a review of a really lackluster sidescrolling platformer game from the early nineties… wait for it… with all kinds of bizarre imagery that probably lost its meaning in the translation over from Japanese… WAIT FOR IT… and is a tie-in to an animated movie [...]

Science: Murdered in Cold Blood

The other day I thought to myself, “Ian, what do you believe in?”.  I pondered the question for a while as I scrubbed burnt macaroni and eggs off the bottom of the pans in the sink. “I believe in… well I guess that’s a deceptively simple question, isn’t it? I suppose I believe that people [...]

Against All Palookas What Ain’t on the Up and Square

I like to think I’m smarter than the internet. See that punctuation I just used there? That alone makes me smarter than 99% of the internet. I know that there were movies made BEFORE The Dark Knight, I wouldn’t pay more than fifty cents for a supposed “jar of ghosts” no matter how many people [...]

The Adventures of Winston Churchill Part 14 of 100