Gynomite’s Reading Room!

May 12, 2011 at 10:00 am (gynomite's reading room, Uncategorized)

The newly crowned world’s tallest building, in Dubai, has been broken in- it just had its first suicide.

A lovely little interview with Kumail at Serial Optimist.

Is the PlayStation Network back up yet?

Blame hipsters for everything, it’s the new hotness.

Councilwoman Diana Reyna theorized that “hipsters” may be part of the cause for the inconsistency of the Census numbers, stating that some of them “only want to be counted in their home state.” She also added that they might not participate in the Census because it wouldn’t be “cool.”

Here’s a lovely little piece praising the writing in Portal 2, and here’s hoping that more games will put effort into their writing from now on.

Who eats better: American prisoners or American school children? (Hint- no one would be posting this if it was the school children)

Straight out of some bad sketch comedy show, gang members in Miami mistake two deaf men for rival gang members and stab them. Gangs really need to be a bit more selective.

This is an amazing piece of film taken from a camera strapped to a streetcar in San Francisco in 1905. It’s positively hypnotic, and the Air song playing doesn’t hurt. Amazing.

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