The Merciless Fantastic: Archive

Favicon Editor →

This is a really neat, per-pixel favicon editor for use on the web. Killer!

Oct 31st

Bush fundraiser linked to crashed drug plane →

Oct 31st

Oct 30th

Say yes to the yeasayer, yea!

I am listening to the new Yeasayer album and it is a lucious and magikal thing. It really is. All Hour Cymbals is a very similar album in terms of its influences to Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Menomena, Rapture (previous album, not the new scum), and others. Classic rock and progressive music of the seventies lives and breathes on these tracks. It is very powerful, intense, fun (but not in a...

Oct 29th

The new musics are the happening thing.

This morning I downloaded the new Mad Decent Radio Hallowe’en Podcast… and oh shit it is good. If you don’t know, Mad Decent is Diplo’s podcast. It is essentially him, DJing, just for you. Get it here Also snagged the new nerdcore mega-compilation here And from emusic found the new Modeselektor, Tough Alliance (not new), and Yeasayer. Here’s to music. LOLyalater!!

Oct 29th

Rhyme Torrents Halloween 2.0 →

OK, OK, here is a really cool freebie. A 2 disc (is it really discs?!? This is a torrent after all) album of Nerdcore for Hallowe’en. In case you aren’t in teh knowz, Nerdcore is rap that is nerdy… like really nerdy. Like about beating Ninja Gaiden in one sitting or soldering shit to make different shit. It’s cool. Give it teh lissenz.

Oct 29th

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Sweet video of a cat that REALLY like its butt itched.

Oct 27th

papafuji's DS Adventures Page →

Bad-ass. I posted before about text adventures on the DS before, well here is the money.

Oct 24th

Oct 23rd

Oct 19th

Most Frightening Game Speak Ever →

So I love video games. I also like BAD video games. I actually have a collection of some games that are pretty down right shitty and think that they are pretty sweet. In a cult movie kind of way. This link has sound samples of some of the worst voice acting in games. Quite good. Definitely worth the click.

Oct 17th

Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need 'Perfecting' →

This is a really bizarre interview. Ann Coulter is really, certifiably insane… or possibly evil. Anyway, its entertaining and chilling. She manages to make Christians, who she is supposed to be promoting in this interview, into Nazi’s. Shudder.

Oct 12th

Fatfree Vegan Recipes →

Wonderful! A recipe website is nice, a vegetarian recipe website is better, but for Marie-Claire and me a vegan recipe website is best for when we are cooking at home and need some good food ideas. Especially when it is a cold fall afternoon in Michigan.

Oct 12th

Ds Text Adventures: iPhone, DS Get Text Adventures... →

Since I have a flash card for my DS and already run lots of nifty home-brew software on it, I will have to check this out soon. Around the office in the Interaction Team area we often talk about the halcyon days of text adventure games on our Commodore 64s. The glory days. Ah.

Oct 11th

pdf-mags.com - Your PDF mag’s magazine →

Who knew that the world of webzines was still so healthy, flourishing even. As evidenced by this site (which is just a sliver of the online zine culture) you can see that there is a lot happening. Quite a bit of it is really well informed, impeccably designed, and very interesting. Imagine if this was connected to a print on demand service so if you loved something enough, you could subscribe to...

Oct 11th

What Barnes & Noble could have said →

This article is interesting to me, since I deal with this daily. We struggle every day to balance features with simple usability. I think it often becomes confused. The people we sell to, and often people in our own office, sometimes confuse features and buzzwords with what the actual benefits of a design are. Barnes and Noble are clearly dealing with that when citing “Motion” as a key...

Oct 10th

Should designers optimize for page views…or user... →

Another interesting article from Bokardo who seem to be some of the smartest people on the planet right now.

Oct 10th