Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Cthulhu rises after deep moon drilling

The Last Lovecraft: The Relic of Cthulhu

MUST SEE THIS!!! In the film Jeff, a down on his luck office worker, finds out he is the last living relative of horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft. What he doesn’t know is that Lovecraft’s monsters are real and will soon threaten the very existence of mankind. Jeff and his best friend Charlie are forced to [...]

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski

What if William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski? [The bowling green. Enter THE KNAVE, WALTER and DONALD, to play at ninepins] WALTER In sooth, then, faithful friend, this was a rug of value? Thou wouldst call it not a rug among ordinary rugs, but a rug of purpose? A star in a firmament, in step [...]

The Hunt For Gollum

This is very cool. It’s a 40min fan-made prequel for Lord of the Rings. Hopefully it won’t get taken down by the powers that be!

FanExpo 2009

So, Amanda and I are thinking it might be fun to go to FanExpo this year. The convention is like a celebration of all our geeky interests in one big place. Comics, Sci-fi, Anime, Gaming, and Horror all rolled into one. The event is in downtown Toronto on the 28th of August to the 30th. [...]

John Hodgman at the Correspondents’ Dinner

This man is a God! via Publick Nuisance – Score One for the Home Team.

Call of Cthulhu: At the Mountains of Madness Trailer

Some guy made this incredible mashup as a trailer for his Call of Cthulhu campaign!

Terry Pratchett Knighted

This reminds me that I should actually get around to reading Discworld sometime. Pratchett, 60, best known for his satirical Discworld fantasy series, becomes a knight, one of the queen’s most important honours, and will now be addressed as a ‘Sir’. “There are times when phrases such as ‘totally astonished’ just don’t do the job,” [...]

William Gibson’s AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed

While the text of William Gibson’s elusive electronic poem AGRIPPA is widely posted around the Web, it has not been seen in its original incarnation — custom-built software designed to scroll the poem through a single play before encrypting each line with an RSA algorithm — since 1992. Today is the 16th anniversary, to the [...]

Download the 1st Issue of EGM

The first ever issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, circa 1989, which features a preview of Mega Man 2 is now available for download on RetroMags here.

The Zen of Zombie