What kind of blog about cool stuff from the Internet would be complete without Plamoo’s stop motion movies done with Japanese action figures? For the past few years, he’s been perfecting the art with unusually smooth animations, unpredictable action sequences, and wacky parodies. 謎のストップモーション Also worth mentioning is LUXE37, which is this idea done with […]

Dead End Thrills brings out the best in video game environments. This community goes beyond simple screenshots by making modifications to the game engines to render super high resolution images so professional you’d think they’re marketing assets. My dual-monitor desktop just got taken over by this one from the new Shadow Warrior. Source: foothillsofpassage.png via […]

Our federal government couldn’t get their act together and agree on a budget before today’s deadline. Now vital federal services have lost funding and the global economy will suffer for it. If you’re in the US and your Congressmen come up for re-election, remember this shutdown and fire everyone involved. Source: Gravity trailer mashup: Government […]

For the past four years, I’ve been doing a weekly Twitch stream where I attack a game in my backlog. If I pick the game and fail to finish it in reasonable time, my viewers get to pick next week’s game as punishment. That happened tonight. This time, I’ve put up a poll with five […]

Thanks to some creative food scientists, you can now go to Walgreens and buy Oreo ice cream flavored Oreos. Sure enough, they taste like cookies and cream ice cream. TVTropes calls this Recursive Adaptation. Another one I’d like to track down: the Words with Friends board game. Source: My phone camera and SPOTTED ON SHELVES […]