A Game of Blocks from Metafilter
WesterosCraft is an attempt to recreate the main continent from George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire in Minecraft. Completed builds include Winterfell, Castle Black and the Wall, Harrenhal, among others.
This is how you make Helm’s Deep out of LEGO from io9
Massive 200,000-Piece Roman Colosseum Is the Most Impressive Lego Architecture Model I’ve Ever Seen from Gizmodo
Did You Know Gaming: The Legend of Zelda [Video] from Geeks Are Sexy
Some interesting trivia about the universe behind The Legend of Zelda.
Best Gift Ever! from Neil Gaiman's blog
“Zombie Training” Magazine Aims to Educate Your Brain from Geeks Are Sexy
“Zombie Training” magazine focuses on “survival tips, theories on the nature of a zombie outbreak, combat tactics, new short story and serial fiction, interviews with like-minded zombie fans/celebrities, [and] updates on events and entertainment.”Ancient Library Signage from Tame the Web
Translation: Wifi is currently down. Please bring your papyrus scrolls to the front desk for processing.
Dan Rather reviews The Newsroom for Gawker: i freaken love this show. Granted Rather's reviews are a little overly glowing, but he gives some great insights into the real world of News Rooms.
Zombie Stroller
So excited for Dragon*Con this year!! The independent film festival was one of our favorites last year.
Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival Announces its 2012 Selections
Categories include Action & Suspense, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Horror Comedy, Magic Realism, Parody, Science Fiction, Short-Short, Animated Comedy, Animated Drama, Animated Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Animated Horror.
What is a Feminist? from The Rumpus
Nobel laureate occasionally hangs out on street corners, answering physics questions from BoingBoing
On at least two separate occasions, once in New York City and once in Chicago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman has basically just set a card table up on a street corner and allowed all comers to bring him their physics questions.
The left’s gone left but the right’s gone nuts: Asymmetrical polarization in action from Grist
"Here’s the way I’d put it: Today, the national Democratic Party contains everything from the center-right to the far-left. Economically its proposals tend to be center to center-right. Socially, its proposals tend to be center to center-left. The national Republican Party, by contrast, has now been almost entirely absorbed by the far right. It rejects the basic social consensus among post-war democracies and seeks to return to a pre-New Deal form of governance. It is hostile to social and economic equality. It remains committed to fossil fuels and sprawl and opposed to all sustainable alternatives. And it has built an epistemological cocoon around itself within which loopy misinformation spreads unchecked."
And on a serious note:
Why are Acts of Evil Always attributed to "Crazy People" or 'Muslim Terrorists"? from xoJane
A terrible, wrong thing happened in Denver this morning. And in response, people are perpetrating more violence and more harm with their rhetoric about crazed killers.
Game Designer Jane McGonical Explains How Gaming Can Help Your Mental Health
Did you know that there have been clinical studies that showed that online games can outperform pharmaceuticals for treating clinical anxiety and depression? She also promises to add seven minutes to your life.
Awesome movies & tv consumed!
Absentia: There's probably a reason why the Three Billy Goats fairy tale hasn't gotten made into too many movies. It's a really, really slow movie. You never see the monster, which can be done very well. This is not one of those movies. The creepy parts are super creepy but too far and few between to keep one more than mildly interested in these characters, which is a shame. The acting and cinematography are great.
A woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: this really is a poor man's Pan's Labyrinth but still comes off as an adorable haunted house, evil fairies movie. Guy Pierce is nothing to write home about, but Katie Holmes is a surprising bright spot in this film.
Starcrash: Hilariously bad attempt at making a Star Wars knock off in the 80s.
Epic action in outer space when the good guys set out to track the evil Count's secret weapon.
Not of this Earth: Traci Lords comes to Dragon*Con frequently but I'd never seen a movie of hers until now. Interesting science fiction take on vampires; hilariously bad acting; and a softcore porn feel makes this a cute, light-hearted movie.
A science fiction vampire movie. The Vampire is an emissary from an embattled world near destruction who teleports to Earth to see if they can live here. He finds that our blood is nourishing and that at least one source of it is a steady stream of transfusions. He hypnotizes a Dr. to provide them and has his blond nurse move in to administer them.
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