Relevantly Irrelevant
Remember when StumbleUpon was all the rage? Recently they sent me a newsletter with brand new timesink suggestions tailor-made for me from all my Stumbling preferences from 2007 to 2009, when I mostly used it.
Some things haven’t changed, thankfully, and one of them is my love for puzzles, most especially these elegant, zenny ones.
Try Curvy in HTML5 and see what I mean.
Thank you StumbleUpon. You never cease to amaze me.
During one of my latest web strolls I stumbled upon (not using StumbleUpon but doing it the old-fashioned way, you know, by actual chance) Tom Bissell. He’s an author and columnist who writes, among other things, for and about video games. I thought his style and content was heartfelt and had something genuine and important to say. Here’s what made me instantly interested in his work:
Video games: the addiction (his story of being simultaneously a GTA4 and a cocaine addict and how he reminisces both experiences)Poison tree: a letter to Niko Belic about GTA5 (the way I see it, a spiritual successor to the above article. Includes big realisations and critiques on the industry with which I completely agree)
I’ll leave the rest of the reading to you. Now I’m waiting for a couple of books he wrote to arrive in the mail, one on video games (Extra Lives) and another (The Disaster Artist) he co-authored with Greg Sestero -that is Mark from the legendary movie The Room (!)- on the story of the film and that of Tommy Wiseau. Can’t wait!