If I’d gone down a different road four years ago and kept writing about games instead of making them, would I be the Jeffrey Lyons of the gaming industry by now?
links for 2008-11-29
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Artsy flashy particley puzzle fun.
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Play Pong and BreakOut at the same time.
links for 2008-11-26
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Open-source Mario clone with a level editor.
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'I’ve met developers that are actively recruiting from traditional software interaction design to take ownership of these features and if you look around you’re starting to see postings for UI designers.'
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'Cacioppo points out that loneliness isn’t about objective matters, like whether we live alone. It’s about subjective matters, like whether we feel alone.'
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'…like Paul Engle's epigram on the Duke of Alba as painted by Goya: "This is the kind of face that sheep / Must count at night, when they can't sleep."'
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"Control" a runner by lifting his leg muscles.
links for 2008-11-25
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'Mathematically speaking, “Napoleon Dynamite” is a very significant problem for the Netflix Prize. Amazingly, Bertoni has deduced that this single movie is causing 15 percent of his remaining error rate.'
links for 2008-11-24
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'Photographer Robbie Cooper shows just how focused young video-game players can be.'
links for 2008-11-22
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Oodles of end title cards from movies.
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Ani shows up where you least expect her.
links for 2008-11-21
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A bestiary of bad D&D monsters.
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Embed stickies on web pages for annotating webapp prototypes.
links for 2008-11-20
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Well, that was quick.
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It's back! And it runs on Twitter now, natch.
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'“Teens usually have a ‘full-time intimate community’ with whom they communicate in an always-on mode via mobile phones and instant messaging,” the study said.'
links for 2008-11-19
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Jenkins going to USC; Changes coming to MIT's Comparative Media Studies program?
links for 2008-11-18
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Thanksgiving-themed spoof of Cooking Mama. More fun than it has a right to be.
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'Ms. Johnson sustained a gunshot wound to the head late on Nov. 9, the police said, and officers found her body after responding to a shooting call in North Memphis.'
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'The massive supertanker would seem to present a daunting target for the pirates, who usually operate in small speedboats. At 1,080 feet, it is the length of an aircraft carrier and can carry about 2 million barrels of oil.'