Cable Gal
This wiry broad (band) was created by digi-artist Kasey Mcmahon. If she were mine, I would call her Anne of Green Cables.
Kasey is more well known in Mep land for having given birth to the Compubeaver.
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ESPN’s 30 for 30 Conjures Fantasy Baseball Mythology
This week, ESPN’s groundbreaking “30 for 30” series explored the origins of one of the most popular internet activities – outside of Facebook and LOLcats. It attempted to re-enact the conditions under which “Rotisserie” baseball was created.
Formulaic Claptrap
An excellent demonstration of our vulnerability to certain combination of notes. Perhaps not to the level of a brown note, but still, an eye-opening display…
There’s No Horrible In The Middle of Good (Mep Report #119)
Clea Can’t Get No Satisfaction; Greg’s Life in Three Dimensions; Jackie Chan and the Masochistic Dragon Swoon; Mep Report Rare Ostrich Steak Attack GO!!!!!; The World According to EPCOT; We’re Much More Trekkie Than You; and Sometimes Horrible Is In The Middle of Good.
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OCD Gamer’s Simcity 3000 Megalopolis of the Future
Initially popularized on Reddit, this video depicts the creation of “Magnasanti,” a Simcity 3000 metropolis that, in terms of game mechanics and incentives, is a model of perfection.
Entitled “Simcity 3000 – ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM,” the creation video relays tales of a three-year construction period executing Da Vinci-like designs scrawled on reams of parchment. Magnasanti sports a population of over 6 million, a crime rate of zero, no roads (mass transit only), and a flawless integration of commercial, industrial, and residential zones modeled after the Bhavacakra, or Tibetan wheel of life.
A Dose of 8-Bit Reality
This Double Dragon/Super Mario protagonist ventures beyond the typical 8-bit endgame to find an even more harrowing challenge — keeping the affections of a rescued princess.
Link via BoingBoing
Death of the Word “Socialism”
As a self-proclaimed Pacifist Socialist, I was wildly excited to see CNN finally acknowledge how distant from Socialism our President is. Now if only the rest of the country could get on board…
Chan Oh Krap!
Here’s newest Yankee reliever, and Korean team national hero, Chan Ho Park, describing why he wasn’t pitching up to his best in the Yankee opener.
We’ve Got Company
I wonder if this became a popular action movie euphemism because it’s quaint to contrast friends with ones enemies, or because people generally want to murder their company.