Alexx's Journal

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/04/29/faith-fighter-2-you-gotta-believe/

One of the few venues to give equal time to the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

(Sorry, kestrell, but both of these are primarily about the visuals.)

A Wolf Loves Pork. Cool formal use of stop-motion animation.

Extremely small-scale knitting. The woman who (among other things) knit the sweaters for Coraline.

Had a dream last night in which I was playing a game which was a cross between Spore and Grand Theft Auto. Liberty City was full of purple octopuses, all well armed...

Warning, contains massive spoilers!
BioShock alternate opening

Amplifying signal on this *very* silly piece of performance poetry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ
(h/t siderea)

"There was still one aspect of the whole concept of a ravioli-loaded railgun type wepon which we, lolling about late on a weeknight, with only a few neurons randomly firing, could not resolve. Would a chunk of metal (can of ravioli) impacting another, larger, rest mass structure (star destroyer) produce an "explosion" effect, or simply punch an appropriately shaped hole as it passed through?"

Detailed answer here.

(Thanks to DK (LJ name?), who gave a dramatic reading of this at a party on Saturday.)

Via patrissimo, Louis CK talks about how cool the 21st century is, and how most people don't notice.

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/12/01/funny-pictures-oldest-ever-lolcat-found/

(Via siderea, through ironchan)

herooftheage and I have both been playing Fable 2 on the 360 (though not at the same time). Tonight the following exchange occurred:
V: I figured out how to donate to the Temple of Light. They gave me a really cool axe!
A: Wait a minute, let me get this straight. You favorably impressed a bunch of Good-aligned pacifist tree-worshippers and they gave you... an axe. Oooookay...