rinoramp on YouTube educates us on the physics of the Dark Ages with a video game capture from Chivalry: Medieval Warfare.
Fact: There was less gravity in the medieval times.
Actually, that fact is a complete lie.
Medieval Warfare in Low Gravity is Hilarious
The Science of Hipster Music
Priceonomics created a chart that scientifically measures the hipster factor of music. This is an application of their data crawl service. They used ratings data from the independent music review site Pitchfork and correlated it against the number of Facebook ‘likes’ of the review.
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
PhantomX Hexapod robotics kit
So. This exists. It’s a Trossen Robotics hexapod robotics kit. They’re not the cheapest things out there but that doesn’t mean they’re not cool as hell and that I want…
Why Katharine Haché is Playing Games With Stories
Katharine Haché is a graduate student at East Tennessee State University that has developed interactive fiction using TWINE. We started our discussion talking about classic arcade games Burger Time and Mario Bros. Not unlike many of us who grew up in the 80’s, Katherine played those games with her parents. She pointed out how those early experiences helped generate fond family memories and affected her current interests in storytelling. Other points that were made in the interview pertained to the nature of video games, the publishing industry around them, and the tropes and clichés their stories often rely on.
Richard Feynman – Ode To A Flower
From the BBC Interview for Horizon ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out‘. Animated by Fraser Davidson.
Ellen Tweets an Epic Selfie at the 86th Academy Awards and Makes Oscar History
In an attempt to capture the greatest selfie of all time at the 86th Academy Awards, Ellen DeGeneres took the following picture.