Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity

This picture may appear to be a collection of color fields without meaning or purpose, but there is a ton of math and evil genius behind this image.

This is a view of Magnasanti, the metropolis that pushes SimCity to its population limits.

Read more of this post

Powers of Ten [Happy 10-10-10]

Happy October 10th, 2010, everyone!

Let’s celebrate this day of 10-10-10 by screening a truly kickass film made by Ray and Charles Eames, a wife-and-husband team that knew how to drop some serious knowledge.

This film, Powers of Ten, was made in the late 60s, but it retains all its vitality and awesomeness more than 40 years later.

Read more of this post

I Declare Bullshit on the “Mechanically Separated Chicken” Picture

I’m guessing that 75% or more of you have seen this image and the accompanying text, because I have seen it posted to Facebook a dozen times, and it’s now making its way into RSS sharing sites.

This meme is spreading fast, but I don’t really buy its claims.

Read more of this post

You Voted, We Kinda Listened: 2010 Readers’ Poll Results

A special thank you to everyone who took the time to vote in our 2010 readers poll.

An EXTRA special thanks to anyone who voted from multiple IPs to unduly influence the results! You have learned our devious ways well.

I’m ready to declare the survey a success. Although the hard-core readers who voted only represent a fraction of our overall readership, I’ve learned from the baseball-statistical genius codenamed Tom Tango that reader polls tend to stabilize after 25 votes. So consider this survey stable!

Here’s what we learned:

Read more of this post

ROTI Readers’ Poll 2010

Rumors on the Internets will return from our traditional summer hiatus of laziness soon. In the meantime, we have created this poll for our loyal and intelligent readers.

Your growing legions have made this site what it is today, a tiny blip in the vast universe of the internet that occasionally shows up in Google searches. When the site started out two years ago, the current level of readership seemed unattainable…but we want to take this site even further by satisfying our most loyal followers and encouraging them to visit more often and spread the word about ROTI.

Please take a few minutes to fill out the following series of polls. (Those viewing in RSS readers may need to click through to the site to participate.)

Read more of this post

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.