Month: June 2006

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For this competition: No drips, no hearts, no skulls, no birds, no over‐sized animals, no internet cliches, no clusters of random things, no pirates, no ninjas, no ironic references to 80s pop‐culture, no 45‐degree angles, and for the love of all that is holy – no more talking food!

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Perfect playthrough of Night Trap, one of the first games to use full‐motion‐video. This game seems like it was made just so that some schmuck would make fun of it on his blog twenty years later. As SeanBaby puts it:Night Trap is exactly like switching between eight different channels — only at any time, seven on them are static shots of empty rooms and one is the worst show you’ve ever seen.”

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The world of the World Cup is the one I want to live in. I cannot resist its United Nations–like pageantry and high‐mindedness, the apolitical display of national characteristics, the revelation of deep human flaws and unexpected greatnesses, the fact that entire nations walk off the job or wake up at 3 a.m. to watch men kick a ball.

Sean Wilsey
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var family = $$('ol#smith'); family.appendChild( document.createElement( 'li' ).setAttribute( 'id', 'jackson' ) ); Okay, I’m a geek. But Steve Smith is a father. Congratulations, Steve.

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Wow. I was sure of is. But the are people have convinced me. Put me down for are, and please hold while I go back and correct pretty much everything I’ve ever written.

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