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Monochrom’s Massive Multiplayer Thumb-Wrestling
Forget about MMORPGs, our friends at monochrom have have created Massive Multiplayer Thumb-Wrestling. Here are the rules if you want to start your own game.…
Neal Stephenson’s Latest Novel Invokes The Long Now
Today The Long Now Foundation announced it will be hosting the launch party for Neal Stephenson‘s new novel Anathem in San Francisco this fall. The…
Web Hosting Sys Admin/Tech Support Position Available
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who applied, the position has been filled. Laughing Squid is currently looking for a combined Sys Admin/Tech Support person to help…
The 14th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival
The 14th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival features two nights of original short movies from around the world projected on an outdoor screen in West…
Star Wars Photoshop Content by Worth 1000
Worth 1000 ran a Star Wars Ren Photoshop contest challenging their community to re-create classic works of art using a Star Wars theme. There were…
A 3D Exploration of Picasso’s Guernica by Lena Gieseke
Artist Lena Gieseke has created a haunting, meditative 3D exploration of Guernica – Pablo Picasso’s monumental 1937 painting in response to the Nazi bombing of Guernica…
San FermÃn in Nueva Orleans, The Running of the Roller Girls
A budding New Orleans tradition, the second annual San Fermin in Nueva Orleans (SFNO) took place last Saturday. Inspired by the famous running of the…
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog T-Shirts
Quick! As foretold by io9’s Annalee Newitz, the Internet’s Most Wanted Tee has arrived, and just in time for ComicCon. J!NX is now selling shirts…
The Eclectic Instruments of Electric Western
The brainchild of Lorin Edwin Parker and his wife Sarah Seeling, Electric Western is “Dedicated to the creative use of technology from tubes to germanium & steam to…
Dave Allen: The World’s Greatest Sitdown Comedian
A drinker, smoker, Irishman and atheist, Dave Allen was, above all, a natural raconteur. A fixture on British television during the sixties and seventies, he…