who is eddy?
zeph’s pop culture quiz #55 Who is Eddy? Simply leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ at the end of the … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #55 Who is Eddy? Simply leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ at the end of the … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #56 What’s happening in this scene? Why are the two kids turning around? Simply leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #32 Why does the man sitting on the bed within that vast space seem to be so depressed? Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a … Continue reading →
↑Computer Choppers of West Linn, Oregon, builds custom computers, laptops, and electronics on request. Additionally they manufacture “limited-run specialty items,” of which the above pictured, 24karat goldplated MacBook Pro with diamonds is an example. Besides the fictional Auric Goldfinger, … Continue reading →
Word has it that Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) once coined the phrase ‘liquid television’. MTV grabbed the vocable and named a TV-show broadcasting animated cartoons likewise. The show even was to be seen in India via StarTV, and featured goodies like … Continue reading →
↑Jesper Juul, ↑the ludologist, has published his book ↑half-real—here’s the ↑about: A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world but we slay … Continue reading →
the mystery of the broken bicycle tyre inflator The uncanny breaks into everyday-life spontaneously and unpredictably. Today it hit me for the third time. The first two instances were “The riddle of the vanished filling station attendant” and “The amazing … Continue reading →
a study in second life avatar customization—part 1 True, my first duty these days should be writing up all the stuff of the last six years into a neat volume. But in order not to loose the immersion into modding … Continue reading →
This is the second instance of my blog ‘xirdalium.’ The first instance for years ran fine on a university server, but then technical problems became overwhelming. Ye ole ‘xirdalium’ meanwhile is no more. Hence I decided to give it a … Continue reading →