Oh wow. 

penamerican:

In the inaugural issue of the lit journal Tongue of the World, Brian Oliu reads a poem influenced by the point and click video game ‘Manic Mansion’. The interplay between the poem and the game—which features text—is fascinating. 

(via Tongue – Brian Oliu reads “Maniac Mansion”)

Videogamers can control their dreams

theweekmagazine:

Canadian psychologist Jayne Gackenbach says avid gamers are more likely to have lucid dreams, and are better able to turn bad dreams into more positive experiences. Gackenbach hopes her theories can help sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder overcome their symptoms.

5 startling facts about sleep

huffpostcomedy:

King Louis

Genius and friend-of-OTM Ethan Zuckerman has invented a new unit to measure how much attention a story gets: the Kardashian.

“Conceptually, the Kardashian is the amount of global attention Kim Kardashian commands across all media over the space of a day. In an ideal, frictionless universe, we’d determine a Kardashian by measuring the percentage of all broadcast media, conversations and thoughts dedicated to Kim Kardashian. In practical terms, we can approximate a Kardashian by using a tool like Google Insights for Search – compare a given search term to Kim Kardashian and you can discover how small a fraction of a Kardashian any given issue or cause merits.”

WHEN NOBODY HAS ANY GOOD IDEAS AT THE EDIT MEETING

Yep.

editorrealtalk:

Brooke Gladstone has joined Twitter. →

Pulitzer prize winning reporter Charlie LeDuff left the New York Times to cover his hometown, Detroit (our interview about that is here). Now, he’s reporting for the local Fox affiliate, where he produced maybe our favorite local newscast story ever.

Sexting, shameless judge + a reporter doing stand-ups in Ray-Bans + a distorted voice modulator interview = our favorite non-MCA related thing on the internet today.

Newsweek: One Goat, on Account →

newsweek:

To the Editor:

I had the great pleasure of reading your unsolicited critique of the “Ch-Check It Out” music video [“Licensed to Stand Still” by Stephanie Zacharek, May 16]. It took some time to get to me, as it had to be curried (sp?) on goatback through the fjords of my homeland, the…

Home video of the Beastie Boys ambushing a sleeping reporter in his hotel room with a bucket of water late at night, circa-sometime in the 80’s.