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  • The Movies and Space Robots

    I bought this PC game called The Movies the other night. It was on sale at Futureshop, so I thought, what harm can it do? Well the stupid game is so damn addictive that I can’t stop playing it. The basic premise is that you’re the head of a movie studio who’s in complete control.…

  • Retrievr Exposes Bruce Lee’s True Nature

    I found this kickass thing called Retrievr. It allows you to sketch something, and then it will search Flickr (a photo organization/sharing service…all the pictures on this site are actually linked from my Flickr account) for a photo that looks something like your sketch. It’s lots of fun to play with…I’ve already spent way too…

  • Smoke and Death and Elmo

    I have a few lovely things to share with you today. First, there’s this ad campaign (pictured) that graphically demonstrates how gross it is to kiss a smoker. Even as a (mostly) non-smoker, I really don’t find kissing smokers to be that gross. However, I think ads like this are a positive thing in the…