Friday, March 23, 2012

Hooker-Punching Game Inventor Buys Holly Golightly Scribe's Diggs

It's been revealed that one of the inventors of Grand Theft Auto purchased the most expensive house in Brooklyn for $12.5 million, where Truman Capote once wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's. Interestingly, the legendary author could only afford the basement apartment, whereas the profits from the violent video game allow the new residents to occupy the entire building, though they are "just a boring family." 

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Woolly Mammoth Burgers Coming Soon

South Korean scientists are planning to inject the DNA of a frozen woolly mammoth into the egg cell of an Indian elephant, which could theoretically produce the first prehistoric mammoth in over 10,000 years. The woolly mammoth is thought to have gone extinct in part due to early man's hunting of them. I bet they'd go good with a fried raptor egg and a side of fries.    

Ancient Rome Reimagined Minus the Horseshit, Beggars, and General Filth


Rome Reborn 2.2: A Tour of Ancient Rome in 320 CE from Bernard Frischer on Vimeo.

This neat digital model of Rome in 320 CE without any horses or litter makes me wonder if people of the future will imagine Brooklyn long after its fall without cars and aluminum siding.