It’s more like reviewing a unicorn.

Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It’s more like reviewing a unicorn. Should I primarily be blown away that it exists at all? Am I supposed to compare it to conventional horses? To a rhinoceros? Does its pre-existing mythology impact its actual value, or must it be examined inside a cultural vacuum, as if this creature is no more (or less) special than the remainder of the animal kingdom?

Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy

I have no use for this, but it’s still brilliant.


SMule: Ocarina [Zeldarian] from SonicMule, Inc. on Vimeo.

I have no use for this, but it’s still brilliant. I’m really enjoying that developers are turning the limited physical interface into something unexpected.

Disney goes urban.

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Disney goes urban. I personally liked it better when Burger King did it.

Dr. Horrible is one of 2008’s best… inventions?

And not just any invention, either. The Direct-to-Web Supervillain Musical is Time’s #15 in their Best Inventions of 2008 line-up. Hey, I’ll take all the press we can get for good…bad…ol’ doc!

Edit: on an unrelated related note, today only, Amazon has the Dr. Horrible soundtrack for $5.

Proving the commercial wrong

Now, there’s nothing more that I hate than horrible, almost false advertising and bad acting. And boy, does the current campaign for KFC hit a homerun there. Kurt Michael Friese from grist.org proved KFC wrong. And that, my friends, is awesome.