A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.

It is time for Cello Fortress, a very silly game by Joost van Dongen:

Cello Fortress is a unique combination of a game and a live music performance. A cellist defends a fortress by improvising on his cello. Melodies control the guns, dissonant notes activate the flamethrowers. Players from the audience use game controllers to steer their tanks and attack the fortress.

You can’t download or buy this game; you literally book the author for a performance at your art gallery or concert or whatever, and he brings the gear and plays the cello while attendees get to try to blow him up.

Video games are cool.

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It turns out that the entire collection of reaction images on the internet was completely unnecessary and a waste of everyone’s time. Any situation bound by the laws of causality can be responded to by a frame from the 1945 Warner Bros. short “The Great Piggy Bank Robbery.” Classic Cartoons has a great big pile of them, all for you. Anything you’ll need.

Oh, I forgot to mention that every single frame in that post (click the link and go there damn it) comes from a passage that lasts only twelve seconds.

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Photo by Ints Kalnins for Reuters, via NBC News’s Photoblog, of… what exactly is this?

Fredrik Hjelmquist shows the CataCoffin in Stockholm Jan. 18. Music and video equipment store owner Hjelmquist said his hi-fi coffin would entertain the dead and provide solace for grieving friends and relatives by making it possible for them to alter the deceased’s playlist online.

Oh, well of course.

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YouTube user brutallillfjomp:

A not that well known easter egg in MGS. To do this, go to the option menu and change your sound from stereo to monaural. During the fight against Liquid in his Hind D, call Campbell two times.

Players openly mocked by Konami. Excellent.

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England cricketer Sarah Taylor could make history in men’s county match

England cricketer Sarah Taylor could make history in men’s county match

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Traffic Referee rules against Jonathan Frieman in corporate personhood case

Traffic Referee rules against Jonathan Frieman in corporate personhood case

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We have never used the “Art Tatum” tag before this post. THIS IS TERRIBLE

So that this tag now exists, here’s the master playing “Willow Weep for Me” in 1949.

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And now, for no particularly good reason, here’s Paul of LastLevelTech sending the video output of the Wii U into a Game Gear TV Tuner.

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Anonymous petitions U.S. to see DDoS attacks as legal protest

Anonymous petitions U.S. to see DDoS attacks as legal protest

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Check out this awesome set of photos at The Big Picture:

On January 13, 2013, the National Geographic Society will celebrate its 125th anniversary and its evolution from a small scientific body to one of the world’s largest educational and scientific organizations committed to inspiring people to care about the planet. The Society has shared some images that represent those moments of discovery and will continue in its 126th year, to provide a front-row seat to what’s happening at the extremes of exploration

The one accompanying this post was taken by Maynard Owen Williams in 1931:

1931 | AFGHANISTAN – In his favorite picture, legendary National Geographic photojournalist Maynard Owen Williams marveled how, in this Herat, Afghanistan, bazaar, no one blinked during the three seconds required to make the exposure.

Dang.

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