Christopher Lantz

Video game developer Harmonix has just launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a successor to Amplitude, a popular interactive music video game for the PlayStation 2.

At current, the project aims to reproduce the original game in high definition with updated graphics, music, and general design improvements for online and local multiplayer as well as single player. As the crowdfunding campaign progresses, Harmonix may add new goals and the like that add to and improve the already promised experiences.

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Vancouver-based comedian Dave Shumka compiled a supercut of some of the best non-lyrical vocal hooks from 1990s alternative rock hits for CBC Music. The video includes pop scatting from artists like Beck, Pavement, The Breeders and Blur.

The 1990s were the glory days of alternative rock. Artists had a lot to say, though, come to think of it, they didn’t always say it with words.

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The latest video game in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, has been revealed by publisher Activision and developer Sledgehammer Games. The video game looks at battlegrounds and warfare of the future, features the voice and likeness of actor Kevin Spacey, and is scheduled for release on November 4th, 2014.

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In this video, Los Angeles-based vegan calisthenics expert Frank Medrano demonstrates more of his intense bodyweight workouts. Bodyweight exercises are “strength training exercises that do not require free weights,” but use the resistance from your own body weight. We previously wrote about Frank’s superhuman workouts.

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“Stayin’ in Black” is a brilliant musical mashup by Wax Audio of the Bee Gees‘ song “Stayin’ Alive” and AC/DC‘s “Back in Black“. The song is available to download in MP3 format from Soundcloud.

10 office buildings in China were built out of recycled construction material in one 24 hour period with the help of a 3D printer designed by creator Ma Yihe.

The latest theatrical trailer for The Internet’s Own Boy, a documentary about deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, offers a look at what Swartz championed during his life through the eyes of other people and in his own words. The Internet’s Own Boy is currently scheduled for release on June 27th, 2014.

image via The Internet’s Own Boy

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The New York Times has posted the short film “Verbatim”, a dramatization of a legal deposition wherein a lawyer argues about what does does not constitute a “photocopier,” and whether that question is even fair to ask. The dialogue comes from an actual deposition from 2010 given prior to an Ohio Supreme Court trial about the legality of charging $2 a page for photocopied records. Though the actors are presenting their own take and expressions, the actual words are taken verbatim from the transcript.

The short film, produced and directed by Brett Weiner, first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and marks the first in a series of similar videos from The New York Times.

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Korefe presents "The Real Cookbook," a book whose leaves are large lasagne noodles, impressed with a recipe for lasagne. As you read the recipe, you peel off each page and slather it with sauce and cheese, building up the dish described in its pages, leaving behind no trace save for your satisfied appetite and a slight propensity to insulin resistance.

The first and only Cookbook you can actually read, cook and eat.

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Chunlong Sun, a retouching artist based in Beijing China, has brilliantly imagined the highly improbable situation of world’s most infamous dictators being comforted by various stuffed animals in his series “Celebrity”.

Muammar Gaddafi

Saddam Hussein

Mobutu Sese Seko

Fidel Castro

Hugo Chávez

images by Chunlong Sun

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In his funny new video, Los Angeles comedy blogger Jeff Wysaski of Pleated-Jeans and co-star Reza Farazmand show us how to start and maintain a conversation with a stranger.

music by Arsy – “Our Love (Rap Instrumental Beat)“

As part of a documentary being made by Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios, an old landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico was excavated on April 26th in search of the legendary Atari video game burial of 1983. Former Atari manager James Heller says that the video game company tasked him with disposing of 728,000 cartridges they had stored in an El Paso, Texas warehouse after financial troubles crippled them, and the landfill dump was the result.

Part of the legend of the dump is that the majority of those cartridges buried were believed to be several million of the notoriously bad E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game made by Atari for their Atari 2600 console. Designer Howard Scott Warshaw was given a timeline of five and a half weeks to produce the game in time for the 1982 Christmas season, and it is often cited as one of the worst video games ever created.

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— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) April 26, 2014

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8-Bit Philosophy is a new web series from Napkin Note Productions that explores and explains philosophy through the use of graphics from retro video games like the original The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The first episode of the series explores Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which examines the nature of reality.

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judgmentalmaps.com. Here's a judgementally annotated map of San Francisco. It must be said, some of these maps, and some of the items on certain maps, reflect attitudes towards other human beings that I do not share. But others, I found funny and true. Hobo blow jobs. I laughed at Los Angeles.

In this video posted by Lisa Abeyta, an absolutely incredible moment was caught when Lisa’s father, largely non-verbal due to the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease, began speaking clear complete sentences to the family dog, Roscoe.

Yesterday afternoon, I had the privilege of spending a little bit of time with my dad who is in the advanced stages of Alzheimers…My parents have two dogs in their home, one of which, Molly, is my father’s constant companion. More than once, I’ve watched him coo and talk to Molly even as his ability to form sentences and find the words he needs to communicate has deteriorated. When my father and I arrived at my home yesterday to give my mom an hour to run some errands, our own family dog, Roscoe, greeted him at the door. For the next hour, my father petted and talked to Roscoe. Not wanting to lose the memory of the moment, I filmed a few moments of his interaction with our dog, amazed at the clarity of my father’s words.

Simply beautiful.

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