“Weapon of Mass Defacement”
The Graffiti Research Lab reports on Dutch taggers and their RV-mounted tagging laser. And if you’re interested, there’s open source code.
“Porn’s reality is… uncanny”
Behold, Susannah Breslin’s The Unporny Valley! And Grand Theft Auto IV in “Return to the Unporny Valley.”
Invisibility, Flight and Ira Glass
I admit it. I’m a sucker for This American Life. The second season of their television is starting, so in celebration here’s a link to a 2006 radio show with a theme worthy of the Gutter: “Superpowers.” (And here’s a preview of season 2).
Venture Bros., season 3
Fresh and toasty from the New York Comic Con, it’s the Venture Bros. season 3 promo with clips a-plenty! (thanks, tera!)
“Guillermo del Toro to make Hobbit films: bleah!”
Andrew O’Hehir is here to tell you that Guillermo del Toro making The Hobbit–and a sequel to The Hobbit–for Peter Jackson is not a good idea.
Infocom’s Lost Drive
A blogger got ahold of a network drive from Infocom circa 1989, which has the behind-the-scenes story — and a tiny playable demo — of the failed sequel to the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Universe, reconstructed from emails and other digital artefacts. Most of the text-game greats chime […]
The Cultural Gutter 