Only ten bucks?? And it’s awesome! Now *that*, my friends, is value. Osmos is a really clever and entertaining “ambient physics” indie game developed by some very talented friends of mine, lead by friend and former roommate Eddy Boxerman. I was lucky enough to get a shot at playtesting it, and it’s become a really…
Month: August 2009
Kids in the Hall return to CBC!
Well, this is a bit of awesome. The Kids in the Hall are returning to the CBC in January, for an eight-episode series that Bruce McCullough calls “Corner Gas meets Twin Peaks“. Sounds… pretty promising, actually. I always liked the Kids best when the comedy got a little weird and black, like in “daddy drank”.
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987) and The Fall (2008)
I know I’m a philistine, but some movies just work best chopped up into bite-sized pieces. They might not work great as a whole, but watched in 20-40 minute chunks over the space of a few evenings, they go down a lot easier. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On is a Japanese documentary about Kenzo…
500 Internal Sulking Error
If you’ve been visiting the ol’ haikufactory lately, you’ve probably been seeing a lot of “500 Internal Server Error” messages popping up. This is being caused by PHP processes hanging. I’ve had no luck at all tracing the problem, but my suspicion is that a WordPress plugin is the cause, so I’ve turned them all…
time travel geekery
Stumbled on this awesome diagram of the history of time travel in the movies. I just wish they had used a logarithmic scale for travel so that everything before 1850 didn’t get lumped together. They also left out my very favourite time travel movie, Primer, but that’s okay, somebody else made a diagram of the…