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Tim Schafer and members of the Psychonauts development team sit down with speed-runner Stephen "SMK" Kiazyk to watch him do a run of the game and witness the different ways he's found around their painstakingly crafted work in order to complete it as fast as possible.

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If you’re familiar with LP album sleeves and National Lampoon covers of the 1970s, Overspray will be your time machine to that era.

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Animator Jilli Rose created this lovely animated short about a group of stick insects stranded for 80 years on Lord Howe Island, a sea stack with only one shrub for protection. It also tells the story of the scientists who discovered them and raced to save them from extinction. Read the rest

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Since 2008 Teller (Penn's partner) has been making a video show about living in a zombie infested world. His latest episode, the fifth in the series, was posted today.

Goldeneye 007, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 — all staples of the N64 that many of us have spent countless hours playing. Now let's watch this dude blaze through all three at once like it ain't no thing.

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Brian Knappenberger, who made the Internet's Own Boy Aaron Swartz documentary, has made an excellent, vital short film about network neutrality (or cable company fuckery). Read the rest

Whether you’re a child of the 80s or just a little nerdy (like us) and you fondly remember the almighty 8-bit graphic video games, you’ll probably dig these Pixel Panties. If not, at least they might make you laugh.

Designers Sebastião Teixeira and Cesária Martins, who are based in Lisbon, Portugal, concocted these 8-bit panties after an all-night battle of gaming which lead them to dream about women in pixelated lingerie.

So the duo got cracking and figured out a way to combine their love of retro games and 8-bit visuals into a fashionable and sexy pair of panties with a tagline that says, “Made with squares, fit for round bottoms.” The design is laser cut out of lycra to get the perfect squared off edges, making them the world’s first 8-bit underwear.

They’re hoping to get a start by having a small run produced with help from their Indiegogo campaign. Help them out and get your very own pair!

From Neatorama: "Coloring Book Corruptions is a delightful demonstration of what happens when you combine a sick mind and children’s entertainment. The anonymous artist adds his/her drawings, but invites you to submit your own."

Coloring Book Corruptions [NSFW]

This is an amazingly accurate rendering of exactly what happens at Paul's legendary Valley Wagonworks in San Rafael, California. Paul may be the main reason so many well cared for old Westys, like mine, grace Marin County.

(Thanks, Chris!)

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Maria Droujkova writes, "Last week, The Atlantic published my interview called 5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus. I have been following the discussions on blogs, forums, and news sites. The themes that emerge from discussions make me cautiously optimistic. Many grown-ups believe that young math will finally give them a second chance at making sense of algebra and calculus. Others look for the balance between conceptual understanding and the fluency at manipulating numbers. Even if 5-year-olds understand calculus, what would they use it for?

Can we even call activities 'algebra' or 'calculus' if there are no formulas? Are young kids capable of abstraction? Quite a few people come out saying they are already playing advanced math games with toddlers or young kids - or that their parents did so with them! My community Natural Math will be following up on these themes with an open event series, interviewing parents, teachers, researchers, and project leaders who work in related areas.

One theme that I wish was discussed more is the role of autonomy, decision-making, and openness. If kids can't have their free play, or can't say no to activities meaningless to them, math can hurt, whether you work on calculus or simple addition. That's where most of the 'math grief stories' I receive come from. If parents and teachers can't choose, adapt, localize, and remix activities, it severely limits how they can help children learn. And if materials don't have open licenses (I use Creative Commons), it is hard to share or even discuss these adaptations. How can we create diverse, robust, sustainable structures where children are free to learn mathematics, and grown-ups are free to help them?

5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus [Luba Vangelova/Atlantic]

(Thanks, Maria!)

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Just a pool, disguised as a pond, with a trampoline instead of a diving board.

I wrote a paper about these kinds of pools several years ago for a class when they were just prototypes. These pools have a natural filtration system that run based on the plants that are in the pool that give the water nutrients that allow it to not only be crystal clear, but you are also able to drink the water because it becomes so clean. And the best part is that once the initial filtration system is installed and calibrated, it maintains itself and eliminates the need for chlorine or constant maintenance like salt water pools. 

So rad!

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This is a terrific presentation from tech researcher and journalist Jacob Appelbaum. At December's Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg, he presented the latest documented revelations about how deep the NSA spying rabbit hole really goes.

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An epic, two-year thread on the Home Model Engine Machinist boards documents Keith5700's astounding journey to scratch-build a working, 1/4 scale V8 engine. It's an insane read, as Mr 5700 discovers a lot of difficult things the hard way, while a community of teeny-thing machining enthusiasts cheer him on and offer advice, leading to triumph after triumph. The photos alone are worth clicking through all 35 screens (I've put some of the best after the jump).

1/4 scale V8, first project. (via OhGizmo)

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I’m always looking to contain that mess that develops when you take your phone out of your bag and empty your keys and everything else out of your pockets or purse. Tinsel & Timber have come up with a beautiful and smart solution to house your daily essentials all in one place in their Timber Tray. The Timber Tray is a functional catchall that helps organize those daily items that you can’t live without.

Each Timber Tray is handcrafted in the USA from a solid block of reclaimed American Walnut that comes outfitted with 100% wool felt in the space that holds your phone. There’s also a carved out bowl that let’s you rest all of your other essentials like your wallet, keys, watch, or jewelry. Currently they make four versions to accommodate various phones like the iPhone 4/4s, 5/5s, Samsung Galaxy S3, and S4 models. I love how it’s perfectly notched out to fit your phone charger.

Tinsel & Timber are currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help streamline their manufacturing, so pledge now to get one of your very own.

Prepare to have your afternoon wasted. Lamborghini has opened up its Sant'Agata museum to the all-seeing eyes of Google Street View, and not only can you see 50 years of Lambo hotness, you can actually get inside some of the marque's most legendary machines.

It's not just about making lemonade -- it's how you get the lemons. This is the best version of a the basic game I've played, and a perfect gateway drug to the real thing. No, silly, not Drug Wars -- Tai Pan!

Back in May, I reviewed The Man Who Laughs, a wonderful graphic novel adapted from a little-regarded Victor Hugo novel best known for inspiring Batman's nemesis The Joker. At the time, the book was only available in the UK, but as of today, you can get it in the US, too. Here's my review again:

The Man Who Laughs is a graphic novel adaptation of a 1869 Victor Hugo novel that is chiefly remembered for inspiring a 1928 film whose poster-art, in turn, inspired the character of the Joker.

As legions of disappointed Batman fans have discovered, the Victor Hugo novel is just not very good. It's one of Hugo's later works, written from exile in the Channel Islands, and it's a meandering political treatise grafted onto a novel. But there is a novel in there, buried amongst the self-indulgence and sloppiness, and it's this that author David Hine and illustrator Mark Stafford have teased out to make an absolutely stunning and grotesque new work.

The titular Man of Laughs is Gwynplaine, a horribly deformed boy who rescues a blind baby from her frozen mother's breast and then rescued by a traveling doctor who takes them both in and turns them into performers. They tour the countryside, and Gwynplaine and his blind adopted sister Dea fall in love, even as their mountebank father, Ursus, teaches them about the injustices of the English monarchy and shows them the relationship between the dire poverty around them and the fatted lords and ladies in London.

Gwynplaine's destiny becomes further entangled with the English aristocracy when he is discovered to be a long-lost nobleman himself, and is inducted into the House of Lords, where he makes impassioned, revolutionary speeches that fall on deaf ears -- and is forced to confront that all the riches he's gained have cost him his family and his love.

This adaptation is remarkably streamlined and razor-sharp, flensed of Hugo's excess by Hine's pen; the accompanying grotesque illustrations by Stafford hit the perfect of horror and sorrow.

The Man Who Laughs

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Group WalMaRT has released a small adventure game “Proteus”. Enjoy!

Description: Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Presented and controlled like a classic first-person shooter, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world. The procedurally generated islands are home to creatures natural and imagined, tranquil valleys and ruins with magical properties. Think Doom meets Brian Eno.

Features:

• Meditative play: the responsive world and lack of any text or hints distils an essence of curious, investigative play, and rewards patience and immersion.
• Dynamic soundtrack composed by award-winning musician David Kanaga follows the mood of the world and will appeal to fans of Boards of Canada, Brian Eno.
• A distinctive 2D-but-3D graphical style with wild shifting palettes that sits somewhere between 8-bit videogames and early 20th century modernist painting.
• Islands are uniquely generated every time, and although it’s theoretically possible to see everything in one playthrough, no-one ever does.
• Built-in “postcard” function encodes world data into each screenshot, allowing islands and discoveries to be saved and shared.

Publisher: Twisted Tree
Developer: Ed Key and David Kanaga
Genre: Adventure

Release Name: Proteus.v1.1.2-WaLMaRT
Size: 87.38 MB
Links: Homepage – IGN – Gamespot – NFO – NTi – TPB

Download: Uploaded.net

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