Link: http://www.prey.com

Looking to try out a first person shooter videogame with mindblowing alien ideas and architecture that bends reality? Give Prey a try. I played the demo this morning and it's chockfull of ideas. The voice acting is kinda weak, but the level design is inspired. You play a Cherokee, abducted by aliens and fighting your way through the alien space ship to save your girl. Plenty of Quake-type human-torturing and Duke Nuke'em-style character commentary on events.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hU3x5scMQI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftvinjapan%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2006%2F06%2Fexceptionally%2Dstrange%2Danime%2Dwith%2Ehtml

Three minutes of a cartoon about cats from Japan. Includes pig discrimination! These characters appear in a US-licensed anime release called Cat Soup. [via TV in Japan]

A gift from Andrew Poisoner! Cinematic magic from days gone by! Click on thumbnails for full-size!

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Tom Petty used to drive trucks full of radioactive material. Didn't need the money. Just liked to turn sharply and throw dangerous material off the side. Tom Petty blinded Daredevil. But he refuses, to this day, to blind Ben Affleck.

Tom Petty gave Stevie Wonder his sight back.... only to take it away from him again. During that brief period, Stevie got to see Tom Petty make love to Stevie's mom. Tom Petty made him write a song about what he saw. That song was "My Cherie Amour."

Also: Tom Petty does not fly in defiance of the laws of gravity. In fact, it is the planet itself that forces itself away from Tom Petty, thus lending the illusion of flight.

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Link: http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2006/01/atoning_05.html

"There’s sadness in those cubes. And when you pull trash from those human veal crates, you see the sadness manifested in the workers’ daily diet: McDonald’s Wendy’s Taco Bell Payday Reese’s Lay’s Fritos Doritos wrappers crammed under Coke Pepsi Mountain Dew cans. Eight-plus hours staring at a screen, grazing on junk food, gazing up at family photos and clipped Dilbert comic strips for temporary relief. In one building the workers were under constant phone and video surveillance, and forced to give urine unannounced to make sure they were drug-free enough to help the managers increase market share. But all through the hallways hung framed posters telling the workers that they were part of the Company Family, posters showing people smiling and leaping for joy. Most of the workers I saw there were too heavy to leap, too beaten to smile."
--Dennis Perrin