Music: Dan Deacon's Paddling Ghost

I have been following the career of Dan Deacon since his spectacular appearance at the 2007 Pitchfork music festival. Here is a music video of the song Paddling Ghost from his latest album titled Bromst.




Over the span of three years he certainly has refined his art. Hopefully we will see more examples of his musical expertise in the coming years.

Vidya Games: Cortex Command

I've been playing this game for a while so I thought I should share it with you guys.
According to Data Realm's website, cortex command is a 2D side scrolling game where you control robotic bodies and machines. The point of the game is to harvest gold to beat your competitors while defending your "Brain" from being liquefied by the enemy. The game uses pixel graphics and while that look may be dated, it actually adds nostalgia to the game experience. Really the physics for this game are amazing. You can interact with every particle. Be it a speck of dirt or sand, or the remains of fallen combatants or vehicles.
They have missions where you have to complete an objective, and skirmish mode where you build your base before the round begins and you have to survive an onslaught of enemies trying to take your lands gold while also trying to get into your base to destroy your brain. Below is a video of one of the games missions.

I highly suggest giving the game a try. Head on over to Data Realms and get a copy. It's also for Mac.

Are those.... Space Nazis???

I've known about this for a while, maybe some of you have seen this as well. It's a teaser trailer for an upcoming indie movie called "Iron Sky". Basically the premise of the story is that the Nazi's secretly evacuated to the dark side of the Moon right before they had their asses handed to them on Earth. They established a colony there and are preparing to invade Earth again.

The movie is ultimately a dark comedy and is really not meant to offend.
If you want to read more about the upcoming film and show them some support head on over to IronSky.Net.

An intresting read.

I myself have been a huge fan of Isaac Asimov's writing.
One short story in particular "The Last Question" I find to be rather mind blowing.
I would rather not ruin the story for you guys in this post so here is a link to the short story in full:

MultiVAX "The Last Question"

The short story has been posted for free by the people at MultiVAX.com.
I highly suggest reading it. It is an incredible work of literary art IMO.

In The Beginning...

Hey Internet!

It's my very first blog post!
I plan on putting up interesting posts regarding my particular interests.
A little bit of everything, from odd stuff I found on the inter-tubes to articles on science and vidya gaming.
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