This is not a gaming blog

But still, hahahaha



Obama & Palin as dowloadable characters in the game Mercenaries 2

(via.. guess what ? RPS again)

Play

The gameplay experiments at Ludomancy are really cute And interesting.

They're maybe not games as we usually mean it, but it's just another reason why you should try them ;)



Storyteller is like a pure form of "interactive fiction"




I wish I were the Moon is a bit …

Indie love

Two other interesting indie videogames videos via RPS


Ian Dallas' The Unfinished Swan




And the still mysterious Eskil Steenberg's Love

What I saw this weekend

Friday





Saturday



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Minotaur China Shop ♥

Ahh, more on Minotaur China Shop!

A new video :


And some (fantastic) explanations :

" In ancient times, there lived a dreadful beast descended from a divine bovine: the Minotaur. Though fearless and powerful, his strength was his undoing. While perusing a China Shop one …

Je ne suis pas certain de savoir ce qu'il faut en d

In the early 00s

http://www.google.com/search2001.html

For a month, you'll be able to search Google's index of January 2001.
A weird, almost alien world where Myspace, iPod or Gmail are not what you think.

A world without LOLCAT or ORLY owl. Where "I for one, welcome our" or "Epic Fail" …

You could form a band called Dread Zeppelin

and cover Led Zep in a reggae style.

But that would be too easy!



If your singer is an Elvis impersonator, now it.. really.. does..
uh..

you know...

mh..

... well, anyway, there you are!


Good ol' Richard Cheese

DM404

depechemode.com's 404 page






Et joyeux anniversaire monsieur JPKennyCoffe442

Books are love

Cover art by Wojtek Siudmak, whose more recent work surely isn't as psychedelic.

YouTube

Oh, xkcd got it right again <3



It's funny how The YouTube Comment has become in today's popular/net culture the paragon of internet stupidity.



See StupidFilter, a projet of software that would filter stupid comments; it used (at least initially) YouTube comments to build …

Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/toys/vimeoland

Damn, I've been thinking about something like that for a couple of years...
Well I guess that if someone made it, it wasn't a too bad idea ;)

An unprecedented crisis indeed

... as expected.

What I didn't expect was the almost cyclic nature of "crisis", especially between 2004 & 2006. What's going on there?
Crisis goes up, there's a a break around March, then it goes up again before going down toward June. Summer holidays seems to offer a …

Spore

Terribly imperfect after all the wait, but still fun(ny) and surprisingly beautiful, actually.


And post your Spore name so I can add you ;)
(even if you only played the Creature Creator Trial)

Overcome your fears

About the Pope

"The Pope is 20 cm tall, not including his tiara, and crafted from highest-quality white mohair. He is fully jointed. His nose, mouth and claws are lovingly stitched by hand.

(...)

The cloak with its extremely elaborate gold-, green- and silver-coloured embroidery.

(...)