Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few -
Robert B. Reich presents a paradigm-shifting, clear-eyed examination of a political and economic status quo that no longer serves the people.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022
quote [ Why Publishers Clearing House, a famously low-odds way of becoming rich beyond your wildest dreams, suddenly wants to pass down your winnings … if you win. ]
In the publisher's screaming house
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quote [ After the second titles in both Kyrandia and Lands of Lore there was a big big push for us to start using 3D art and that was a tough time. Westwood had all these 2D artists and I had to go tell them to go learn 3D Studio. Some of them did a good job in trying to adapt to the changing times, while others didn’t. It was a time of flux. ]
Interesting interview about writing and producing games in the 90s, including anecdotes about the Virgin-Westwood relation and the upbringing of some of the game concepts.
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Monday, 17 January 2022
quote [ Hi. In today's episode, we discuss the literal only MLK quote that Republicans ever mention, how it's a single sentence, why they love it so much, and what else he said that they're avoiding. ]
🎉🎉🎉Happy Whitewashing Day!🎉🎉🎉
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quote [ After falling in love with an obscure anime rhythm game, I became obsessed with obtaining a machine of my own—or finding the people who could. ]
DDR, come on, come on
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Sunday, 16 January 2022
quote [ That this zine collection had existed under the librarians’ radar—and who knew for how long?—thrilled Tatton, who felt as if she’d discovered a treasure. ]
Cool project and a nice research summary: at the end, there's an interview with the creators.
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Do you want to dig up a T-Rex? -
Why didn't anyone tell me excavation kits are a thing?
quote [ Just a few years after The Waste Land appeared — a poem whose difficulty critics compared to some “pompous cross-word puzzle” — Edward Powys Mathers (alias: Torquemada) pioneered the cryptic: a puzzle form that, like modernist poetry, unwove language and rewove it anew. Roddy Howland Jackson reveals the pleasures and imaginative creatures lurking in Torquemada's lively grids. ]
Crosswords puzzle me
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Saturday, 15 January 2022
quote [ In the late 18th Century, a London tradesman even invented a special device for remembering all your most searing nightly insights – a "nocturnal remembrancer", which consisted of an enclosed pad of parchment with a horizontal opening that could be used as a writing guide. ]
I had too much to dream last night (extended).
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quote [ As 2021 came to a close, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on charges of sex-trafficking in connection with her former partner and accomplice, Jeffrey Epstein. However, it wasn’t her misconduct or the salacious details of her lifestyle that went viral, but rather a courtroom sketch … of Maxwell sketching the sketch artist back. ]
No Pictionary with the sketch artist
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Friday, 14 January 2022
quote [ CEP has that charming destructive can't undo two steps back editing, baby😂 ]
Some nice conversation. Here's the same thread on Nitter
This is unearthing tattoos as well as Apollo Brown sampling sessions, amongst other anecdotes from beatmakers worldwide. Found via Katrah-Quey. (quote source)
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quote [ Brown Windsor soup was reportedly a favorite of the Queen. The only problem? It may not have existed. ]
And good old Queen Victoria was the Queen
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