November 28th, 2012
Dynamo, Episode 1: BIT 313-A [Alternative YouTube link]:
In which the Amazingly Bearded Man (ABM) wards off the Flesh Bats, and Ava makes bad decisions.
An ambitious, distinctly offbeat web-based science fiction series. It looks amazingly polished for something produced on a budget that probably wouldn't pay for a single day's catering service on Michael Bay's next Transformers movie.
It feels a bit like a cross between Max Headroom, Terry Gilliam and Twin Peaks. All of which are good things, to my mind. Four episodes in and I'm hooked.
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June 17th, 2009
Is the Land Grant trophy, awarded since 1993 to the victor in the annual tie between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Michigan State Spartans, the strangest looking trophy in modern sport?
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June 14th, 2009
How can I resist Atlas Obscura? The subtitle tells you all you need to know: "A Compendium of The World's Wonders, Curiosities and Esoterica."
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August 23rd, 2008
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April 7th, 2008
Those Kiwis are nothing if not resourceful:
A man in New Zealand has been charged with using a hedgehog as a weapon, the New Zealand Herald has reported. [...]
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