Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Monument Valley figurines for sale



At Etsy.

Rise of the Tomb Raider



Rise of the Tomb Raider magazine cover and news.

Is the new Pirate Bay a honeypot?

Motherboard:
The Pirate Bay truther movement doesn’t really have any hard facts or any suggestions as to who could actually be running the torrent site, but theorize that the FBI or other government agency (either in the US or Sweden) could have brought the site back online as a honeypot, or fake site meant to entrap criminals. In any case, something “feels off" to many Twitter users and some Reddit users.

Monday, February 2, 2015

The One I Love is streaming on Netflix

Marvel can't reprint the old Shang-Chi comics because his father is Fu Manchu, and they don't own the rights to that character. So they're rebooting Shang-Chi, and his father will now be the evil "Zu."

"Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are paying to get around Adblock Plus"

Part of the company's "acceptable ads" program.

Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation is great

For those who have read the book, this is the destroyer of worlds starfish, and this is the real underground tower. This is why the setting feels so real:
Mainly, it's probably because the entire setting—besides the tower/tunnel—is the 14-mile trail I hike out at the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge in North Florida. Which I've been hiking for over 15 years now. So basically, I know it like the back of my hand, and a lot of weird things have happened out there. I once had to jump over an alligator, seen a Florida panther out there, been charged by both otter and boar, and experienced the weirdness of seeing dolphins come into fresh water canals at high tide, since it's on the coast, in part. And gotten lost there, too.
And this is the horror that inspires him:
I remember a novel by Ramsey Campbell where this guy is driving down a lonely forest road. The road loops and in the straight-aways, he sees some *thing* running down the road toward him, along the loop. So he only sees it, getting closer, on the straight-aways.