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Someone broke into Lady Gaga's closet to outfit these characters. I like the weird retro elements, and the idea of DJing as robot control.

Good trick.

Good overview.

Gaming is on the same device as everything else, now.

It's total youth pandering, but who else can pull off a slow jammed stump speech on student loan rates?

Amazing talk to space professionals on why our space program needs a future beyond low-earth orbit.

Heard quotes from this as part of a mix on the ETN.fm trance station. (Possibly NTS - Stronghold 020, but I think that's just the show?)

This is a pretty awesome security attack. The accelerometer is sensitive enough to determine where you were on the onscreen keyboard with each tap, and thus capture your passwords.

Great song. Since the coils can only do one note at a time, the backing music makes sense. The formerly vocal track is screaming.

As the future becomes reality, engineers turn to sci-fi for their inspiration. Crazy. (Smart solution to the problem of electric cars being near-silent, though.)

An example of how hard it is to port old games, because the various licenses are held by different companies and their parent conglomerates.

Someone's been learning to write Onion-style.

Interesting thoughts on games that aren't games.

Weird mini-story in a simple platformer.

Hahaha. Lots of nice touches for the trope.

Nifty models.

I wonder if his scholarship fund will work.

Weird, kinda cute. Not sure what the story is exactly.

Cassini really was amazing.

Rather blatantly Tron-inspired, but I'm not complaining.

Old-school editing tricks make the Reagans deliver a pro-drug message.

Good overview of how the industry responded to the iPhone, plus a review of the Galaxy Note.

I miss Netscape Communicator a little bit.

Stupid, but cool. The flour one looks like an AfterEffect more than reality.

Awesome bit of code archaeology.

Well worth visiting. I was surprised at how casual the library was, but they have quite the collection to look at, with beautiful page designs. I hope some of it does get preserved.

Fassbender plays a damn good creepy android. Love the retro look, too.

Amusing art style mashup of men's and women's magazines of the era.

I was first goatsed in a comment on my kuro5hin blog (pre-LJ, pre-self-hosted). Reading this bit of history satisfied some morbid curiosity. Definitely one of those "can't be unseen" things.

Hard to run a business with no legal or physical infrastructure, it turns out.