Lo-Fi Video Game Anti-Piracy
Long before user authentication and online validation became a thorn in the side of software pirates, copy protection techniques were a little more friendly and a little more lo-fi: packaged with...
View ArticleThink of the children: hurt this man's face.
Every Friday, MeFi's own eamondaly will use his facial hair to lift things for charity. He'll add one pound per hundred dollars raised until he hits $5K (or his beard gives up the ghost). [via mefi...
View Article"I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist."
Somewhere between dada and surrealist, Marcel Duchamp revolutionized art with his "readymades," a term for foundobjects taken directly from society. Except, maybe they weren't.
View ArticleCONGRATULATIONS on your EFFORT
RUN! is a single-button flash game. Hold A to run, and let it go to slow down. There are three difficulty settings and five levels. The music, design and sfx are off-putting. You will probably either...
View Article"It's not the final answer, and you just lost a lot of money."
As George Carlin once said, "it is an infinitely more interesting news story for a team to repeatedly fail at the highest level than it is for them to finally win." After ten years and over 1,500...
View ArticleIt's Time To "Party"
November 13, 2001: Musical unknown Andrew W.K. (Previously 1, 2) releases his debut album "I Get Wet." It is a simple rock record of power chords and unabashed, un-ironic party music -- exemplified...
View ArticleCity of Brotherly UUUHHHHGGGGG
Sports fans in Philadelphia have a bad reputation. They booed when their long-time star quarterback Donovan McNabb was drafted. (Something he took personally for years.) They booed and threw snow balls...
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