From the monthly archives:

April 2009

LOLcat Bible founder too squeamish to read Passion narrative in LOLspeak

April 14, 2009

Last week ABC Radio’s ‘Lingua Franca’ programme interviewed Martin Grondin, founder of the LOLcat Bible wiki. Grodin is a software engineer who served more as editor and abritrator than translator on the project. Grodin describes himself as coming from a religious background, although his faith lapsed some time ago. He still balks, however, at the [...]

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The New Twitterment

April 11, 2009

Bach’s Matthäuspassion takes almost 5 hours to perform in full, and the passion plays at Bozen in Tyrol were known to last for 7 days. Wall Street’s attention span is a bit more meagre, however, and from 12-3pm the Episcopalian Trinity Church delivered a passion play via Twitter in no more than 140-character ‘tweets’. [...]

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The 2nd Circle – Lust. For blood (and money).

April 9, 2009

Our coverage of upcoming EA game Dante’s Inferno continues. In an interview conducted by Hyper magazine with Dante producer Jonathan Knight, he reassured gamers that the development team were keeping as closely to the source material as possible. But to make a game out of it, they had to make Dante into a warrior.
“The fact [...]

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Jesus Is My Guild Leader

April 9, 2009

(With apologies to Penny Arcade.)
Seen the other day on Oceanic World of Warcraft realm Nagrand:
“Efimovich: is recruiting now. We are a Christian guild dedicated to following Christ’s example and playing Warcraft as he would wish us to. We are looking for a Christian warlock and Christian shaman to join our 25 man Naxx group.“
I [...]

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