"A new German horror film called Last Call is pushing a new ‘interactivity’ gimmick that will have one member of each theatrical audience receive a call from an onscreen character during the film."(filed under: filmsphones) (via: zarba)
"Type in any word to see which [London Underground] stations do not contain its letters." Proof that the St-Johns-Wood-Mackerel Conjecture still holds true in 2010.
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"Being an inept videogame guard in a warehouse in Hackney, for a Fire Hazard event. That noise, it was probably just rats." 1 day ago on Twitter
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"Spatial perception can easily be acquired if two separate sensory organs are available, such as two eyes for visual orientation. [...] Stereo smelling in animals is not new -- rats and humans are thought to have this ability as well."(filed under: antssmellrodents) (via: rhwe)
"[Those] like myself who came from a theatrical background arrived in the space and waited for something to happen, while the gamers immediately started pulling the set apart looking for clues (in one instance so thoroughly that he had to be stopped)."(filed under: gamestheatredesign)
"It sounds like FarmVille would only let you retire in that same sorry state I left my Animal Crossing town in on my GameCube half a decade ago, house full of weeds, roaches crawling, but with the added Facebook bonus of my friends being able to see that mess. Yes, I can see how I'd keep playing to avoid that shame."(filed under: gamesdesignpsychology) (via: zarba)
"Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo. All of the resources are gathered together and provided to you as a single collection of files."(filed under: webhistory)
"I recently had occasion to review some of the akrasia tricks I've found on Less Wrong, and it occurred to me that there's probably quite a lot of others who've tried them as well. Perhaps it's a good idea to organize the experiences of a couple dozen procrastinating rationalists?"(filed under: timepsychologysoftwaredelusionshacking) (via: adrianhon)
"The named plaintiffs say they learned that Big Brother was in their home when an assistant principal told their son that the school district knew he 'was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor plaintiff's personal laptop issued by the school district.'"(filed under: surveillancechildrencomputers) (via: holly)
"The city is under occupation by intelligent microbes, Martian bodysnatchers, mind control rays - you can't tell the resisters from the wholly invaded. Do not attract attention to yourself. Choose routes where the least number of people will see you. Use alleys and back paths. Walk calmly through crowds. Show no emotions. Ignore commodities. Hide your hunger."(filed under: walkinggamesdelusionszombies)
Tracking mosquito movement and burning their wings off with a pinpoint laser. "The idea behind the 'Death Star' laser is that it could be used to control mosquito populations in developing countries in hopes of reducing the number of deaths due to malaria."(filed under: insectslightdeathpestilencetechnology) (via: waxy)
"After the husks are cooked, sprayed with water and myco-vitamins and seeded with mushroom spores, the mixture is poured into a mold of the desired shape and left to grow in a dark warehouse. A week or two later, the finished product is popped out and the material rendered biologically inert."(filed under: architecturefungiconstruction) (via: zarba)
"We are a loose collection of mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers [who] decided that illustrating – or writing a comic – or a short story – inspired by all 69 songs was a worthwhile and exciting pursuit!"(filed under: musiccomicsartlove) (via: currybet)
"When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. Some companies are already using technology to try to identify individual computers."(filed under: websurveillancesecretsfonts) (via: brendan)
Logically exploiting an answer-yes-or-no Magic card (albeit from the joke Unhinged expansion). "Yes or no: You will do the actions in exactly 1 of the two following groups of actions: The first group is answering ‘no.’ The second group is forfeiting this turn but first giving me one rare of my choice from your deck."(filed under: gamesmtgmaths)
"StatsMonkey takes the statistics from a baseball game and produces a computer-generated news story about that game." [...] "We're really aiming this at a genuinely local audience. We're trying to write the stories no one else is writing."(filed under: newssportsoftware) (via: mugla)