A Funkaoshi Production

The BET Cypher raps are always some of the best performances of the year.

Fuji seems to be on a roll with their recent cameras. The XPro1 looks pretty fantastic.

1/5 of all inmates are aboriginal. What?

The level of stupid in American politics is quite incredible.

I haven’t linked to an Apple event in a while, but todays was actually jammed full of stuff. There is a new iMac (finally!), a new Macbook Pro, a new Mini, a new iPad, and the new iPad Mini everyone was expecting. Apple is probably going to destroy Christmas.

Wired profiles Peter Molyneux (of Populus and a million other games fame) and his Twitter parody account. The twitter account is pretty fantastic:

Have you ever played a racing game and wanted to play as the road rather than the cars? I know I have …

The article is really great, even if you aren’t interested in video games.

A look at one reason games like Nethack or X-Com are so appealing.

This is a really great read. (Tangential to entire article, Florida describes Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi as “a young, Harvard-educated Muslim”. I don’t know how being a Muslim makes you a good mayor, but OK.)

Mineternia is a word that refers to the Eternia of the first eleven minicomics, which were packaged with the Masters toys between 1982 and 1983. It is a world that predates the five-issue DC Comics comic book series, in which the Adam / He-Man dual identity was introduced, and the Filmation cartoon that followed. The comics, listed below, were also published by DC Comics. However, after 1984, all other minicomics were produced solely by Mattel and were loyal, in content and tone, to the classic TV cartoon. The Pre-Classic minicomics weren’t Shakespeare (and were never intended to be), but, they had an enigmatic power unrivalled by any interpretation of He-Man to date — a power that lured us all into the world of mini-Eternia.

Suffice it to say, this is amazing. I have the vaguest of memories of these comics.

A really great article on how to teach programming, and a bit of a take down of the Khan Academy approach.

Colour photographs by German photographer and Nazi Hugo Jaeger.

The photographs are pretty unreal.

The Ontario NDP have a leader who doesn’t seem to do much of anything.

My friend’s game is out in beta. You should check it out if you like games like Go. It looks simpler than it actually is.

This is so good.

An interesting interview with Zak Smith and Mandy Morbid, two porn stars (and avid D&D fans), about their relationship.

It’s a short article, and this quote is enjoyable: “he was the king—better at doping than he was at pretending to win bicycle races through grit and determination.”

Not that you need another text editor / outliner / to-do list application, but this looks pretty damn fantastic.

This came way out of left field. My Twitter feed was quite funny yesterday. First from Chris:

Wow, McGuinty is officially out of touch. We need his resignation, not prorogation. #onpoli

Which was quickly followed by:

Oh, and here’s the resignation.

I need Shima to make Mythilli a Shockwave costume.