Author: Jer Clarke

Ze Frank has been making awesome and simple little internetmovies for a while now. Gems like Red Alert and Request always made me wish he would update his stuff more often (they were released pretty sporadically) so I wouldn’t forget to check. Luckily, this problem was solved while I was away from the internet (I’m back now, goodbye WoW). Ze is now producing a 3 minute show (called “The Show”) every weekday where he talks about politics, design and his social movement The League of Awesomeness (with it’s devotees, the Sports Racers). It’s fast as hell and immediately funny, sort of like The Daily Show but it only lasts three minutes and you don’t have to steal it off the internet to avoid that big blinking box in the living room .

The first episode can be found here while the newest episode can always be found here. I’m still working on my powermove.

(click image for trailer page)

Insanely, Al Gore has worked with some documentary filmmakers to make a feature length film about the nightmarish reality of global warming and the impending d00m that only a moron could ignore. Marc from BoingBoing’s writeup says it’s both entertaining and solutions based, I can’t believe it’s real. America, this is who was going to be Leader? Time to restart my time-machine work.

Is it just me, or is J-woo the best illustrator I have ever met?

An excellent birthday present I must say.

While we’re on the subject of the thinning effect social online games have on the line between reality and fiction I thought I’d share this, which I (I being the little gnome on the right) stumbled upon in the human land of Ellwin near the town of Goldshire.

Yes, those are two naked (in-game the underwear is as naked as it gets so it’s considered all-the-way) Night Elves and one naked human. Yes, the human is lying down with the elf sitting on top of him so it kind of looks like they’re having sex (no doubt it was a close enough resemblance for their purposes) and no, I’m not sure exactly what the third player is supposed to be doing.

While this doesn’t happen all the time in WoW, I think it happens enough that most people would be surprised. The lesson is that people will find ways to simulate sex in any and every virtual context you can throw at them, the only thing you can do is make them look dorky in the process by putting obstacles in their way.

(for proof of this, see Second Life where no burdens were placed on anything [the world is completely open to be designed by it’s users], and almost everything is somehow related to sex.)