Here’s something interesting: NPR wants you to help them fact-check the debate tonight, and they want you to use Twitter to do so. Make a Tweet that includes the hashtag “#factcheck” and has a primary source rebutting one of Palin’s or Biden’s claims, and NPR will take a look. You can follow along using a [...]
Author Archives: Stephen
2008 Interactive Fiction Competition
October 1, 2008 – 8:49 am
Psst, want to play some short text adventures? Each year I organize the yearly Interactive Fiction Competition for text adventures that are playable in 2 hours or less. The competition’s started, and all of the games are available. You’ve got nothing better to do over lunch, right? So download them, play them, and rate them!
And [...]
Look At Me Still Typing When There’s Science To Do
September 30, 2008 – 9:49 am
We’re still here, we’re just busy as all get-out. More later when we’re not swamped. In the meantime, what have you been busy with?
Rinse Cycle Not Included
September 26, 2008 – 1:02 pm
This is the last one, I swear. All I ask is that you watch it to just past the 1:40 mark.
Also, He’s Not Here to Make Friends
September 26, 2008 – 9:09 am
It turns out it’s not just Top Design contestants spouting alternafacts about history. Here’s VP candidate Joe Biden on the current economic crisis.
“Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicating to people … this is how [...]
We Also Always Clapped on 1 and 3
September 25, 2008 – 3:09 pm
Growing up in the Southern Baptist church, I often heard (from others, mind you, not my parents) that we shouldn’t dance. They said it was because dancing was sinful.
Now that I’m an adult, I realize there are other reasons why you might not want to dance.
Does this make up for yesterday’s video?
(the original source)
Another Great Quote From Bravo
September 25, 2008 – 7:56 am
“Sweet, ’cause my hands can use a break. My hands look like a Polish potato farmer during, like, the famine.”
–Top Design contestant Eddie Ross, from Greenwich, CT
First I learned about the Chinese and the Hiroshima bomb, and now this. By the end of this season I’ll have a whole collection of alternafacts about the world. [...]
I Bet I Could Have Beaten Him at Call of Duty 4, Though
September 24, 2008 – 4:14 pm
People often say that war-themed first-person shooters are completely unreasonable. No one person, they point out, could really do what your in-game avatar does.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Major Robert Henry Cain, recipient of the Victoria Cross. His weapon of choice was the Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank (PIAT), an early rocket-propelled grenade launcher. During the Battle [...]
Sadly We Occasionally Run Low on Christian Ska
September 24, 2008 – 8:59 am
Sometimes our non-Christian friends ask us what our church services are like. It’s always hard to describe them in words, which is why I’m glad a friend of ours pointed us to the video below. Our services are exactly like this.
Zap!
For the Record, I Don’t Like Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
September 22, 2008 – 4:35 pm
When I was in middle school, I was–well, “pudgy” would be the kindest word for it. I weighed about what I weigh now, but was half a foot shorter. I resembled Jerry O’Connell in Stand By Me. When I went to Space Camp, staffers took a picture of me in the Moon gravity chair. I [...]