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Portal was a game released in 2007 by Valve Corporation and “received praise for its unique gameplay and darkly humorous story.”1 I like the way Ben Gelinas puts it, “In Portal, your ‘gun’ isn’t really a gun at all, it’s a tool used to create doors (portals) in walls to [other locations]. Shoot a wall [...]

More Echochrome Info Typically when you play a puzzle game, you are given an objective and perhaps a few different ways that you can accomplish this task. However, you’re not frequently asked to readjust the reality of the world simply by manipulating the camera to close gaps between platforms. The same could be said about [...]

Come to think of it .. maybe the United States government ought to cancel all assistance to LA until these people develop an ability to think rationally. -Neal Boortz regarding California’s stand on Arizona’s immigration laws. I know Neal Boortz is being facetious and being facetious is entertaining, but he seems to be trying to [...]

From a letter to Werner Herzog by Roger Ebert: It is safe to say you are as admired and venerated as any filmmaker alive—among those who have heard of you, of course. Those who do not know your work, and the work of your comrades in the independent film world, are missing experiences that might [...]

Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic” In this video Arthur Benjamin calculates squares of 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers faster than you can do it on a calculator. I know. I tried to keep up while watching the video. Audience members give him their birthdate and he tells them what day of the [...]

Watch CBS News Videos Online Watch the 60 Minutes interview of James Cameron discussing his latest movie, Avatar.

I saw Avatar for the fifth time this weekend. This time I went with my friend, Henry, who wears glasses. I’ve heard people complain about having to wear the 3-D glasses over their regular glasses and having to deal with glare so I suggested that we see it in 2-D. For the most part I [...]

I have always enjoyed science fiction and fantasy movies, but I never became obsessed with them. I saw Star Wars for the first time on VHS on a 20″ television in the late 1980′s. I thoroughly enjoyed the Star Wars trilogy and I went to a midnight showing of Star Wars: Phantom Menace eagerly anticipating [...]