Links for 2006-02-16
- Rejected Family Learning Channel Cartoon Absolutely stunningly funny set of cartoons allegedly sent in to the Family Learning Channel. Simon showed them to me and I basically fell off my chair laughing in sick glee...
- A fascinating article on the social aspects of WoW: Alone Together in 'World of Warcraft?' My thoughts: it's difficult to co-ordinate playing with real-life friends when you also have to keep your levels roughly in sync. It seems a bit like WoW is a game suited to a period before MMORPG-playing becomes ubiquitous...
- Better living through video games? Apparently being bilingual or playing a lot of computer games keeps your brain responsive into your sixties allowing you to focus on specific things without getting distracted...
- Glenn Greenwald ask, "Do Bush followers have a political ideology?" I couldn't be more in agreement with Greenwald - the question is not whether or not people agree politically, but whether or not they're effectively able to engage in political debates in the political arena.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
Being 'multilingual' (very subjective, I fear) and an avid gamer only keeps my brain mushy!! If anything, I'd at least had the placebo effect if I wasn't such a skeptic.
Sitting here typing at 4 AM (CET) may have something to do with all of it.
→ Posted by: jaspoid at February 16, 2006 3:20 AM
Tom,
The Rejected animations are from Don Hertzfeldt, one of the best animators in the history of the planet. You might have seen his greatest piece, Billy's Balloon, which can also be found on Google Video, here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2009901627018857215&q=billy%27s+balloon
His other brilliant animation is Ah l'Amour, also on Google here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5241699092321825059&q=Ah+L%27amour
Hertzfeldt has a knack for hilarious, bizarre, bitter humor, and the fine art of stick figure animation. I LOVE his work.
→ Posted by: chris at February 16, 2006 5:43 AM
The "Rejected" cartoon above is called "Rejected" and is by "Bitter Films". It can be bought on DVD at www.bitterfilms.com. It shouldn't really be up on google video at all, I don't think.
→ Posted by: Aquarion at February 16, 2006 7:31 AM
Being an American, I absolutely *cringe* when a republican tries to argue for, well, any of their points. You can count the minutes on one hand before they slip in to the "well, you must hate our freedom" line... again.
→ Posted by: Sam at February 16, 2006 3:36 PM