“[Old Entish] is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.” – Treebeard in The Two Towers

Passage: a Gamma256 video game by Jason Rohrer – This game is incredible…I knew what was going to happen and it still hit me hard. The guy who built it is pretty interesting too…here’s his explanation of the game (play it first).

This hovering war robot is pretty out of control. Check the video and the comment by Brent below.

Video of a trip to space – the fun starts around 1:40…who needs Richard Branson?

“In this age of mindless consumerism, of atomized populations living in boxes, working in boxes, and traveling in boxes, almost always alone, with only the electronic voices of their new feudal lords to guide them through life, the bicycle becomes an instrument of gentle revolution.” – Bicycle Fixation

This 3-meter-long, 2mm-thick carbon fiber table won’t fit in either my house or office, but I want it anyway…

“Brendan Walker is currently the world’s only Thrill Engineer.” – history: THRILL LABORATORY. I think that should be everybody’s title.

“We went and watched one Buster Keaton and one Charlie Chaplin movie per day,” he said. “What it did was confirmed our gut [instinct], which was that there’s nothing you can’t get across if you ripped away everything and could only do it visually.” – Andrew Stanton, director of WALL-E

December 15, 2008 - Psst

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