Via TartofDarkness
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By Unknown
Yeah. Made to advertise the release of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8, the ad features a character named Inori Aizawa, a "personification of Internet Explorer," fighting off killer robots (presumably with exoskeletons made of chrome. Subtle.).
The official Inori Aizawa Facebook page describes the character as:
"When I was younger, I used to be a clumsy, slow and awkward girl.
However, just like the story of ugly duckling, people told me that I have really matured and changed over the years. I feel confident in my abilities now, and I'm eager to show you what I can do.
Why don't you get to know me a little better?"
This isn't the first ad that Microsoft has been using the styles of anime: in September, they released a three-minute short of Ghost in the Shell characters using Surfaces. Chances are that they'll be making more of these types of ads in the future.
I, for one, was disappointed that the character wasn't named Inora the Explorer, but hey, you can't win 'em all, I guess...
By Unknown
Maybe we're getting into the spirit a little too soon, but can you blame us? It's one of the most wonderful times of the year! What are you dressing up as for Halloween?
Via Geekologie
Seen at the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival, which is a very real and very awesome thing.
Like our last awesome artist parent, David LaFerriere, Brooklyn-based graphic artist Nina Levy has taken it upon herself to make her two sons' lunches a bit more interesting each day. Yeah, you read that right: she's made art of this caliber for two lunches everyday for over half a decade. That's over 2,000 napkins! Check them all out on Levy's blog.
Via PC World
The Internet Archive, a non-profit working to build a library of the Internet, has added over 900 originally coin-operated arcade games to its site this week, all playable in your browser without any additional downloads.
"A lot of people are going to migrate to games they recognize and ones that they may not have played in years. They'll do a few rounds, probably get their asses kicked, smile, and go back to their news sites," writes Jason Scott the man who put this all together, effectively destroying workplace productivity across the country.
You may remember last year's "Console Living Room" section of the Internet Archive, which included games from Atari and Sega.
By Unknown
Want to make sure Doctor Who Is truly immortalized amongst the stars? Sign this petition!
However, unfortunately for us Doctor Who fans, the likelihood that a civilization of time lords lives there is slim-to-none. The newly discovered HD 106906 B is 11 times larger than Jupiter, and sits farther out from it's parent start than any planet we have yet to observe. Somewhere around 650 Astronomical Units (the average distance from the Earth to the Sun.)
Still there's always hope.
