Carol of the old ones (via Tom Crosby)
Why James Cameron’s Aliens is the best movie about technology
Quartz has picked its chart of the year.
Talk about your end-of-an-eras – cartoonist Jack Davis retires at 90. Truly a legend.
Slate has selected their picks for the 25 best podcast episodes ever.
Introducing Carrot: a pitch-perfect satire of the tech industry (from the Atlantic)
Rewriting the rules of Dreidel so it’s actually fun and doesn’t take 19 hours to play. (If, like me, you didn’t know the rules of Dreidel, this works as a neat example of how simple rules that *seem* sensible have unexpected consequences, and how simple changes can deliver much much more fun. I spend a lot of time playing Snakes and Ladders right now, and it’s pretty tedious, but I keep myself entertained thinking of simple hacks like this that would make it awesome.)
The transfer of Buffy to HD/widescreen has been something of a debacle. Characters have their heads cut off, crew members appear on the screen, etc. i09 has the goss (via beloved leader David R)
And finally, Pulp Fiction’s most famous scene, a shot-for-shot remake, underwater