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glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

Their album "Koop Island" is a modern noir treat in a way that meshes incredibly well with Gotan Project and Andrew Bird. Smoky, daring, and seductive.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

An awesome video demo for those interested in sound waves and audio manipulation!

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

I'll take one in charcoal, please! (After I get that other job...)

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

Black Books is... it's... it is simply the best thing.

All the lead actors are amazing. I find myself trying to talk like Dylan Moran after watching it, which is great (for me). Cheeky, sottish, and existential. It just doesn't give a... well, you know.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

Best without Kryten, but a lot of episodes are awesome in spite of him. >:)

This show combines the best of witty, surreal, and low-budget.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

She has a classic voice, perfect for rainy days, tea, books, and cushions.

"Non, je ne regrette rien" was popularized by Inception, but you've gotta hear her other stuff too! "Vie en Rose" was her main famous one before the movie, and "Mon Manège à Moi" is a great upbeat contrast.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

Sal Khan presents a broad variety of material in short, meaty, easily-digestible chunks. There are exercises to help you out, or you can just watch the videos, which are illustrated as he talks to engage all types of learners. Great for reviewing high school math and science, as well as learning new concepts.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

Fun, quaint, immersive, addictive. Cool sound effects, great animation, engrossing puzzles. This game has no language boundary and no obvious solutions; it's neither too easy nor too hard.

I believe this game is now part of one of the Humble Indie Bundles. Go for it!

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

One of my first sci-fi reads as a kid, and still a favorite. Bradbury is incredibly inventive, and this collection of interlinked short stories showcases his talent for sculpting beautiful worlds. A gun that shoots bees, a children's playroom/"holodeck", a ship that sails on sand... this book is filled with delight and violence.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

A cross between a board game and an RPG. Players are assigned identities, and one may be a traitor, who secretly hinders you as you collectively make your way through the game's quests. We had about a 50/50 chance of winning or losing - as a group - so beware if you don't like those odds.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

A collection of Harlan Ellison's visceral sci-fi short stories (although he prefers the term "speculative fiction"). My favorites are "Asleep: With Still Hands", "Run for the Stars", and "Worlds to Kill".

If you like "I Have No Mouth (And I Must Scream)", you'll love reading more from him!

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

Magic in 19th-century England, as used by two very different practitioners: an old scholar and a young hotshot. Gorgeous and absorptive.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

A really fast read centered around psychedelic drugs - part dream, part video game - and the protagonist's quest to find one rare variety, a hallucination within a hallucination. He must do so in order to save someone he loves.

Lean, exciting prose and beautiful imagery.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

He tracks the increase in life expectancy and wealth of 200 countries, up to the present day. It's awesome and makes me want to be a statistician... a little tiny bit.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

A decent way to waste a little time.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

Looks like a public-access show, with elevator music and form titles. Zach Galifianakis interviews celebrities in a manner ranging from awkward to hostile. Genius.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

I use a Petit1 and a Varsity daily. This one surprises everyone with its comfort for a compact pen. It even outperforms other cartridge pens - I like to refill cartridges with other inks, and while most cartridges tend to be loose after one use, these ones snap into place, preventing leaks. And both pens can be found for only $3!

Avoid Wine Red, though; it's more of a garish magenta.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

This pen is incredibly hardy. I have a bad history of screwing up fancy pens, so I like refilling disposables. They take a lot of hard knocks and come out unfazed.

This pen comes with rich black ink, and you can refill it with whatever you prefer by simply grasping the nib assembly with pliers (gently but firmly) and removing it. Rinse, drop the ink into the barrel, replace nib, and you're done!

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

Their colors are deep and wonderful, and if you look on their website, you'll find out the founder has an extreme oddball passion for the subject. Great ink, very permanent... a delight.

glowascii recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

I was given some Legal Lapis, but avoided it for a long time because I thought blue (even blue-black) inks were boring. But this one has substantial green notes, and is really a deep blue-green-black. Very nice.