Month: April 2011

The first person to climb Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps took three days to do it. Ueli Steck just did it in under three hours. This video makes my hands and feet sweaty.

Meet The Cleverlys, a bluegrass band that plays mainly covers of non-bluegrass music. In character.

Collectible card games have never been an interest of mine. Unless you count the Culdcept series…which is digital so it doesn’t really count. Wizards of The Coast just released some artwork from their latest Magic: The Gathering expansion set, New Phyrexia, and this stuff is kind of gorgeous. The detail that goes into this artwork…

Aperture Laboratories is looking for investors. They’ve created four videos to showcase some of the technologies they’ve been working on: Panels: Bot Trust: Turrets: Boots: Portal 2 comes out a week from today. I am…excited. Order it now.

Nice profile of Radiolab in the New York Times. This is how “Radiolab” addresses the tension between authenticity and artifice: capturing raw, off-the-cuff moments (or trying many times to get them right) and editing them in a gripping pastiche. The hope, Abumrad said, is to preserve the sense of excitement and discovery that often drains…

The Anonymous/Sony battle that’s been raging this week just blows my mind. Could you imagine end-users demanding permission from Nintendo to use NES cartridge programmers back in the 80s? Or the ability to install an alternate OS? Well that’s basically what’s happening here in 2011. At one point Sony provided users with the tools to…