Inception has made its mark as one of the most thought provoking films ever made in recent history. What surprises me is that Inception’s IP isn’t being milked for what it’s worth. Call it respect for the franchise or something much deeper. I don’t know. Nonetheless, when I read about a card game based on INCEPTION from planet China, I was intrigued.

Yes, that’s serious trademark stuff there. But that’s not stopping it from being way epic. The art is amazing. The gameplay — well I really have no idea how it plays but I can surmise that the game has the following components based on the subtexts and captions:

a. You can either play as one of the Extractors that needs to get into the final dream level or play as the Mark that needs to prevent the Extractors from achieving their goal

b. Winning the game entails getting through all four stages and opening the “safe” to unlock the secret of the Mark. Extractors typically work together but there can only be one winner. If, by the time the draw pile is finished the mission isn’t accomplished, everyone wakes up and the Mark wins.

Looks pretty straightforward. Well ,the mechanics are. But the character cards start to boggle you after you do an initial look through. In fact if you take a look further, it goes farther away from INCEPTION and puts familiar characters into play: Nicolas Cage from Lord of War, Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ezio from Assassin’s Creed, a hybrid of Joker / Sith Lord (with matching lightning fingers!) .. and a couple more.

Mind-boggling. It’s a total fan mashup that makes use of Inception’s plot to bring forth game mechanics that don’t seem to suck.

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Written by Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés, Go the F**k to Sleep is a progressive bedtime story book that breaks the traditional norms of reading to your child. As someone who finished some units in child development, reading bedtime stories to your child has nothing to do with the choice of book. You could be reading the newspaper for all he or she cares but what is important is the tone of voice that you keep that soothes your little one, eventually falling into deep slumber.

Above is the audiobook version read by Samuel L. Jackson which is by far the best version out there. If you’re a member of Audible, the book costs a measly USD $1.71. Before the actual reading Samuel L. Jackson does a short commentary on the book, relating his experiences as a father and reading to his daughter. “Go the F to sleep!” is already a household saying that serves as a testament to tired parents around the globe. The story itself is a narration of a parent’s frustration (in rhyme) of how he can’t seem to get his kid to bed and in the process ends up falling asleep himself.

The book is a viral and household hit that many people have recorded their own versions such as this Asian grandma reading the book for the first time to her grandchild — coming out laughing when she realizes the language of the book.

As to the progressive nature of the book’s language, you can go on a long debate about child-rearing and the “bad” culture of saying dirty words vis a vis building resilience in your child. Truthfully, I think at the end of the day, it’s all about the latter and that certain childhood memories, though strong can still just be a small triviality when put into perspective against the other factors that influence a child’s life.

So yeah, I do suggest picking up a copy. It’s selling like hotcakes on Amazon with really epic reviews. It’s in its purest form a salute to parents for sacrificing time for their kids on that last stretch before they put them to bed for the day.

I’m sure everyone who needs internet to do their job or even those who don’t spend at least an hour or two a day mindless clicking through all sites like mentioned above and more. This comic aptly named “Jus’ Checkin’” is something we can all identify with.

Jus’ Checkin’ by Luke Pearson.

I do this everyday, only now I partially get paid for doing it as it is research needed to write online articles. Every web geek worth their cred is doing this daily to keep up their knowledge of the latest cool geek news. It’s like playing the lottery being one of the first to discover something new that just has been posted. But that requires a lot of screen time and at the end of the day just like the comic I’m ready to chuck my computer out of the window.

It’s not all bad though, reading Wikipedia is like going to the library to read, you leave with more knowledge then with which you came in.

Back to the comic itself, it is very nice done, the drawing, the concept, it’s print quality. I love coming across jewels like these, it makes all the time browsing websites worth it.

Way funny, I especially like the “Like to touch things?” question, it so is an iPhone and now iPad thing considering it’s touch screen only. Someone should also come with a flowchart focused on questions like: “Do you like flashy animations?”, “Yes”, “Buy a HP Slate”, “No” “Buy an iPad”. And for multitasking, 3G or WiFi , etc.

This fun flowchart sure made me think about which target group will be buying the iPad the most. iPhone became a mayor regular consumer product. Just like the iPod a lot of Windows user have an iPhone so I really wonder if Windows users will be buying the iPad in masses or choose for a Windows tablet.

Now, granted, it helps if you know what you might be up against. You can’t just come right out and say “Are you a criminal?” or “Are you going to rip me off?”, but you can take an educated guess.

That’s what one Mike Nash did when he was connected by a Mr Robert Dutu.

Mr Robert Dutu:
Hello
How are you?
Am Robert Dutu
I have a very important business proposition for your consideration.

Please can we chat on it?

Mike Nash:
let me guess? You have millions of dollars you want to give me. But I won’t get it. Instead, you will rip me off with advanced fee fraud

Mr Robert Dutu:
you are right

Mike Nash:
Well, appreciate the honesty

Mr Robert Dutu:
you are welcome

pleasure chatting with you

(handshake)

Mike Nash:
Good luck in finding an idiot

Mr Robert Dutu:
thanks man

You see, Mike even finished with a civility. How lovely.

Right, I’m off to find some 419ers.

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No offence meant to the guys over at Beastmoon.net, but I thought I’d recreate the article here with some nice images (no, not those kind of images) in place of the **** asterisks.

Here, you’ll see that word used 20 times — that’s TWENTY times. I can see why you wouldn’t want that word used so many times in a short article. particularly if you’re running Google ads.

This version should be safe. Anyway, you know what that word is, even if you choose to have the images turned off.

Brilliant! If you’re paranoid about **** fragments burying
themselves deep into your hard drive then you really should read this! (Funnily enough there was no download link on the original site, not that I’d include it here anyway.)

Delete today once and for all! You need to know how to delete from your hard drive. Deleting from your hard drive is not possible without the special software because the fragments bury deep into your hard drive and it becomes very hard to delete . Even fragmenting your hard drive wont get rid of it… You need to know how to delete as soon as possible or it can lend you in a lot of trouble!… You don’t even have to download yourself for it to get in to your computer hard drive, it comes from various sources and it starts to come up as pop ups and ads that are incredibly annoying and can cost you money!

What is the worst part about is it can lend you in some serious trouble and can cost you your family, your job and can even see you go to prison if you don’t successfully delete it from your hard drive and get caught by the computer forensics and cyber police! These guys keep a close eye out for suspicious information downloads and illegal and now they are catching illegal downloaders and fans more than ever before! Even if you didn’t buy or download and it entered the computer by itself through some kind of spyware and that will still get you in trouble even if you haven’t intentionally downloaded or knew it was there, So i suggest you delete from your hard drive now and the software that will help you is called Terminator…

I Downloaded the Terminator and within about 15 minutes it found over 1,346 fragments in the registry and my hard drive and it got rid of all of it for me, i can now sleep tight knowing that i don’t have to worry about having found on my computer! I encourage you to delete now that you know how to delete porn, You have a lot to lose because of on your pc, so delete ALL of it once and for all with Terminator!

Download Terminator Here…

Note how one instance of p**n slipped through the net in the second-to-last paragraph, just for good measure.

So, now you all know how to delete it from your hard drive. Sleep tight!

It would be great if the video was longer, with some more fancy moves, but this will do for now.

While it would be even more amazing if the ping pong ball was real, the fact is that there is some nifty animation going on.

If you’re in any doubt, look closely for the times when the ball loops the loop mid-table — unless you know anyone who can make a ball do that in real life, it’s animated.

More please!

• ALIENS: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications
• BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill
• BLADE: Obsessed loner stalks minority group
• CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: Deranged pedophile big-business industrialist tortures and mutilates young children
• CRANK: Drug addict spends last day in orgy of rape and violence
• KILL BILL: Irresponsible mother wants custody of her child
• LORD OF THE RINGS: Midget destroys stolen property
• SCARFACE: Immigrant finds running his own business stressful, dangerous
• SE7EN: Homicide detectives unable to prevent even a single murder by admitted serial killer, killer gives cop head
• THE EXORCIST: Jesus trumps science
• THE X-MEN: Minority group seeks overthrow of social order
• TRANSPORTER: Repressed homosexual kills employer
• WALL-E: Obsolete robot disrupts big business, disrupts lives of millions of innocent civilians
• WAR OF THE WORLDS: Immigrants face difficulty acclimating

More plot lines at (postmodernbarney).