"A Runway for an Overactive Imagination"

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/12/how-atari-games-showed-me-the-power-of-childrens-imagination.ars

Best description of video games I've ever heard, particularly in regard to older "vintage" games, where the low fidelity of the games provides plenty of room for imagination.

Gah!

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Entangled.

Spectacular short film on what should not be a controversial issue:

Irreferent.

Harold Camping, renowned end-of-world prediction failure, deserves no more introduction than I have just given.

What surprises me, however, is this line in his Wikipedia entry:

"October 21, 2011, passed without the predicted apocalypse^[16]"

The statement is reasonable, but do we really need a reference?

Photos of the Year.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/2011-the-year-in-photos-part-1-of-3/100203/

Part 1 of 3.  Extraordinary images.

The most chilling is #7, a family photo taken by a small-town politician moments before his assassination:

Perspectively Speaking.

Here's that iconic masterpiece, The Scream:

A question:

Is it a painting of a person screaming, or of a person hearing a scream?