Robot Sounds
No Sounds this week due to a variety of things! Check back next week for Robot Sounds 14 complete with a special twist. I love the word twist.
Greenhouse: Penny Arcade's New Game Distribution Site
Yup, Gabe and Tycho partner with Hothead Games (the Vancouver studio doing the Penny Arcade game) to create Greenhouse Games, a game distribution site. The idea is for the webcomic gods to point their massive following toward quality indie games, not just their own projects, but you can read all about it youself in this Wired interview.
WTF Wednesday: Git-R-Dun
This was going around a couple of weeks ago, and that’s where I saw it, and I tried to get it out of my brain. But it’s been completely, absolutely, irreversibly burned in. Father and son:
Now, I haven’t even dealt with the son. It will probably take a couple years for my mind to process that. I’m stuck on GIT-R-DUN. I mean, the wisdom of any forehead tattoo is beyond questionable, but GIT-R-DUN? Is that supposed to impress prospective employers?
Oh yeah – if you haven’t read the article yet, guess what’s tattooed on the back of ol’ Floyd’s head?
GOT-R-DID.
TSG actually has an excellent archive of facial tattoos, and I can’t go out without mentioning this: fuck you eyebrows.
GNE Is Back!
Waxy notes that the Game Neverending – GNE – is back, in possibly experimental or temporary form. GNE was the bizarre web-based MMO developed by Ludicorp before they moved on to Flickr. You can get at it here (you need to be logged in to a flickr/yahoo account for it to work).
I used to play this, back in the day. I recall it was awesome, although walking around in there now I don’t really remember what to do other than roam around collecting things. But give ‘er a shot! Let’s just hope it doesn’t go away when April Fools’ ends.
Attack of the Airbots
Well, in the ongoing theme we have regarding robots of any kind I bring you something new… well relatively. The article is over a year old, but is still pretty damn cool.
It’s a flying solar powered robot without any motor. It’s on the drawing board as a possability for planetary exploration. How? Well find out for yourself… I recommend the video, it’s funny but pretty informative.
The aircraft involves the use of Electroactive Polymer… a flexible material that regains its original rigid state when subjected to electricity. Many of us might remember this from Batman Begins… it’s good to know that among all that baterangs and shark repellent (all right, different movie) there is some real science.
For those who LOVE science you can also take a look at this.
I am a lazy jerk, and though I may have half a brain there was way too much material there for me, but good luck anyway! personally I think the development of a flexible lithium battery is half the coolness of the story… that and the creepy red orifice in the base of this thing. It makes it look like some kind of killer flying space-leech.
The Watchmen as Peanuts Characters
Self explanatory, really. By Evan Shaner.
Dinner
Lousy little rat…. ruining television for an entire generation….
So, This week was an interesting week.
Last tuesday I bit down on an almond and chipped a tooth. Let me tell you the story: Five years ago the roots in one of my molars up and died. according to the dentist there was no real reason for it… it just did. I had to have a root canal and my tooth was filled. Two years ago I was eating a piece of black licorice and my root canal broke, taking with it a piece of the tooth behind it. So I had to have the old root canal filled and the newly damaged tooth filled. NOW I get to have ANOTHER root canal and two crowns put in.
All that said… I actually take care of my teeth because every single nightmare I’ve had over the last 5 years involve losing teeth.
The past weekend was also interesting. Nadine and I went to Ad Astra, the book convention. I was honoured to share a beer with a number of authors I hold great respect for and even presented the chance to draw many of them in comic form in an upcoming, top secret project.