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• Sports

  Perfect

  07.23.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  In what will go down as one of the most memorable baseball games I have ever seen (on television anyway), Mark Buehrle tossed a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays here at U.S. Cellular Field today. Not a single Ray reached base, and since the Sox scored four of their five runs on Josh [...]

• Nature

  Total Eclipse

  07.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today marked the longest total eclipse of the sun to happen this entire century. Unfortunately for those of us stuck in the Western Hemisphere, the eclipse was only visible in a swath from India to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. LUCKILY for us, though, The Big Picture compiled a stunning set of photos of [...]

• Anime, Manga, Travel

  Otakon

  07.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Baltimore's Otakon has come and gone, and its three wild days have left me with a smattering of memories and a mountain of spoils. Conventions, for me, are less about events and panels and more about the loot! This show was a huge success, as you can see from the photo above. Here are the [...]

• Music

  8-Bit Animal Collective

  07.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Talk about combining all of my favorite things! Dr. Zilog from the 8bitcollective has put together a spot-on chiptune version of Animal Collective's "My Girls", my favorite song off this year's amazing Merriweather Post Pavilion. Not content to stop there, he also recreated the song's trippy music video in a suitably pixelated style. For you [...]

• Music

  Phoenix On The Interface

  07.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Lisztomania (Live)
  Anyone keeping score at home knows how much I love this band, their latest album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, a fixture in my car's CD player for weeks after its release. Late last week word came down from Phoenix's Facebook page that a live set and interview had been posted to Spinner.com, and [...]

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STEREOROBO is a personal smörgåsbord of gaming, music, and illustration blended into a pithy mush by Stephen Hack, a Chicago based arcade game developer and erstwhile polymath.

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