The Story of PONG

by kartooner on February 28, 2003

Here is a fas­ci­nat­ing in-depth look at the his­tory of the world’s first video game. That’s right, the game known as Pong, invented by Ralph H. Baer. Read all about this now. It’s really a treat and makes you truly appre­ci­ate how far (…)

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Daredevil Naw-Naw

by kartooner on February 24, 2003

Went and saw the #1 Box Office movie, The Dare­devil, over the week­end and must say that it wasn’t half bad. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as Spider-man or XMen — it did man­age to hold my inter­est and (…)

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Pixel-icious!

by kartooner on February 19, 2003

Pixel Art has since become a wildly pop­u­lar Inter­net graph­ics phe­nom­e­non. Sev­eral sites have adopted Pixel-driven art to off­set real­is­tic graph­ics and sub­par “trendy” grid databases.

Scrollbar Joe

by kartooner on February 18, 2003

Last night I watched the final episode of Joe Mil­lion­aire. Inter­est­ingly enough, it was the first and the last episode I watched of this “real­ity” series. Any­body think that Evan “Joe” Mar­riott looks dis­turbingly like a gigan­tic Tarzan. He seemed kind of frozen in time when they revealed the twist at the end, when the lit­tle hob­bit but­ler put in his two cents and then pre­sented the cou­ple with a million-dollar check. Woo. Real­ity TV. Woo.

Sar­casm aside, here’s some odd links that you might find enjoy­able and sweetly satisfying.