Nancy Drew Video Games Have A Posse And Other Facts
Nancy Drew Video Games Have A Diehard Following
Since 1995, Her Interactive has released 32 Nancy Drew video games. They're good point-and-click adventures, to be sure, but unlike similar titles the Nancy Drew series has gained a cult following with their own set of in-jokes, memes and a name: The Clue Crew. For a medium that is largely male-dominated in both content and the communities that surround them, the Clue Crew stands out as group that proves that women can be just as fanatical and obsessed without having to embrace the maleness of gaming fandom.
We're All Made Up Of Millions Of Tiny Machines
In biology, we're taught that the human body is made up of cells, which when combined form tissues, which combined form organs, which combined form organ systems, which combined form a human body. But according to biologist Paul Falkowski, it's much easier to think of our body not as a series of cells, but as a series of tiny machines within tiny machines.1 For example, we don't think of a phone in terms of its materials, we think of it as a series of functioning systems — a screen that displays, a modem that communicates, a processor that thinks. And thus, we should focus less on organs or cells, but the machinery within: the amino-acid producing ribosomes. Only then can we live in a future of nanomachines.
Google's Deep Dream Makes One Tasty, Trippy Pizza
In simple terms, Google's Deep Dream is an image enhancer. But ask it to enhance too many times and things will start to become, strange. For example: asking Deep Dream to enhance this montage of cheesy pizza footage. The pizza looks so tasty, and yet it bears an uncanny resemblance to Tetsuo at the end of Akira, hopelessly screaming "KANEDA" as it morphs out of control. And so we must eat the Deep Dream Pizza to end its suffering.
Handwriting Will Never Go Away
We type a lot these days, but when was the last time you wrote something down?2 Writing is slower, less readable and far more impermanent. And yet, as much as penmanship falls by the wayside, physical writing will never die. Batteries die, and that's why you should always leave a note.
Teens Love To Joke About 9/11
After September 11, many urged the public to Never Forget. And it would appear, based on the online activity of our youth, that even our teens — most of which where either too young or unborn to remember that day — have Never Forgotten. "Dick Cheney made money off the Iraq War," they tweet. "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams," they Vine. "Bush did 9/11," they comment. For once, teen humor has turned it's attention to a group that actually deserves mockery: 9/11 truthers.
Waves Of Grass In Norway Will Help You Find Your Chill
It has been a week. The New York Stock exchange gave us a scare. Hackers stole 21.5 million Social Security numbers. The new Archie is hot. A $1000 VR-enabled twerking robot butt exists. But watch this Norwegian field of grass calmly undulate to the whims of the wind. Be like this grass. Submit to the influence of the cosmos, let it guide you this way and that but never let it blow you away.
