WORK: Music Festival Collectible Card Game

a note of departure, naga jolokia infusion, japanese lessons

Hello, filthy, filthy readers, stalkers, spies, the Traning Office Block (and Dawe and the Scourge of Doom @ McCann ) and Miss Saltwhite and also that guy (or hopefully, girl) who’s xs’ing my blog from New Caledonia, apparently via a PS3. Dear guy …

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This is how Detroit’s Robocop statue will look like

The RoboCop statue has been in the works for a couple of years now, having raised money on Kickstarter after the mayor originally shot down the idea. (Understandably, since the city has more important things to spend its budget on right now.) The …

doktor sleepless: the first trade paperback

Engines of Desire, the first trade paperback of Warren Ellis’ new cyberpunkish-biopunkish comics series, Doktor Sleepless is on the shelves for the taking. Will write more when I receive that in my mailbox, although I’ve read the issues many times and after the …

ultraviolent solar outbursts, all in purple

The purplish aura reveals high-arcing loops of 3.6-million-degree plasma that link sunspots and other magnetic areas on the surface; white lines illustrate computer calculations of how the magnetic areas connect. (via dvice)

manifest destiny

Every time I find myself the recipient of one of these late night phone calls, tramping through some back alley behind another dark abandoned warehouse… Stuttering another secret password… Entering another hastily constructed operating room… Scalpel in hand, performing another indescribable procedure… I …

portal 2: glados is back… for science

E3 brings us surprises on many levels, such as the announcement for Portal 2 with the trailer above. Interested in more technical details and tidbits? Check out the GameInformer hub and funnily enough, Wikipedia.

patented tesla magnetic motor tattoo

A place of ROCK – Carl Zimmer’s Science Tattoo Emporium. How much of a geek can you get, really? (Thx, Dawe!)

you made some changes since the virus caught you sleeping

(not so) new headscan track, tomorrow square

If Syd Mead in the last post was a visual futurist, Toronto’s very own Headscan is his musical counterpart. Planetdamage is still a few steps away from starting its own dossiers on cyberpunk musicians (and their related kin) but until we hit it …

little boots gets reactive remixing app

RjDj’s been something of a household name this year – their idea of augmented music and sound environments is just something that could really dig its way into the experimental underground community of sound sculptors, music freaks and junkies alike. Seriously. Show the …

VIDEO: Huron – Broken Science

Toni Polkowski: This is my submission for “Anterior Cingulate Cortex”. It’s the name for the coming DVD from Perpetual Beta, a platform and network for the visualization of Netlabel Music that offers quality Graphic- and Motion Design to Netlabels and Musicians working under …

circuit strike.one

But, publisher Chillingo says the developer did manage to sneak in all of the audio/visual synced up effects promised but not implemented at the time, where “music, environments, vocal samples, and sound FX are mixed in real-time and triggered in sync with the …

black skull mala

Definitely on my wishlist. (via 109jewellery.co.uk)

lilt line, put your dirt inside

A new rhythm game (one of many, actually) is coming to the iPhone platform called Lilt Line with a dubstep flavour, according to creator Gordon Midwood. Looks like Audiosurf in 2D and although simplistic in its abstraction, it promises to an instant buy. …

battlefield 3 in an immersive virtual battleroom

When Battlefield 3 is out next week, we’ll all be playing it on either a TV or a monitor. Some of us on a big TV. Sadly, we won’t be playing like this guy is, on a rig that includes five HD projectors, …