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Interview with Alan Moore on becoming a magician (not the kind with doves and cards).

monkeynonymous - Magic is afoot Part 1

I’m not usually a fan of Lovecraftian horror, but this web/card game has me hooked.
Direct link:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/458568

http://wellmedicated.com/inspiration/50-incredible-film-posters-from-poland/

I previously posted about the Korg software that turns a Nintendo DS into a portable music studio. As was somewhat inevitable, a group of musical nerds have made an album, which you can download from here.

(I haven’t listened to it, though)

Direct link:http://mp3death.us/diplodocus.html

According to the Guardian, Aaron Sorkin is working on Facebook: The Movie, which is just too hideous for words. Whether this is actually happening, is just a viral joke or I’m actually still asleep and this is just some horrible nightmare, there’s a page where Facebook users can get in touch with Sorkin (or ‘Sorkin’) and beg him to reconsider this hideous notion.

Scott McCloud’s latest webcomic The Right Number is available for free (or, at least, the first two parts). Well worth checking out, as is My Obsession with Chess.

While I think the trailer looks fairly good, I remain fairly sceptical about any two hour film’s ability to include all the nuances of the original material. I know that Kevin Smith has seen the film and has gone bananas over it, but his opinion is pretty much irrelevant after Jersey Girl.

And in a last piece of Watchmen related nonsense, it’s worth mentioning that Ben “Yahtzee” Crowshaw once did something halfway funny, namely placing Rorschach in a Hostess Pies ad. Well, it’s better than Zero Punctuation, anyway, which aside from its misogyny, homophobia and general incompetence, always strikes me as a second-rate Charlie Brooker knock-off.