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Introversion (Defcon, Darwinia) had a rough 2008.
links for 2009-04-30
links for 2009-04-29
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Sometimes, everyone wins.
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Quitting a job via a game.
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Anonymous hacks the Time 100 Poll, rises moot to the top spot and embeds a message ("mARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME") into the poll results.
links for 2009-04-28
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5th-grade chorus in New York that has sung with the likes of Crowded House and Tori Amos.
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'For the most part, the women in the Girls-led boomlet did not exist in the world relative to husbands or boyfriends. Murphy Brown existed relative to her job, and the women in [The Golden Girls and Designing Women] existed relative to each other. Those were their most important relationships, and that's where most of the comedy came from.'
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A no-brainer, really.
links for 2009-04-27
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'In all, seven cases of the potentially deadly flu strain have been reported in California… in the two California counties – San Diego and Imperial – that share a border with Mexico. The virus has killed dozens of people in Mexico and sickened more than 1,000 others.'
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'American health officials on Sunday declared a public health emergency over increasing cases of swine flu, saying that they had confirmed 20 cases of the disease in the United States and expected to see more as investigators fan out to track down the path of the outbreak.'
links for 2009-04-26
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Sierra adventure games (Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc.) online. As you play, you can see and chat with other people playing in parallel.
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'the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows ''Maude'' and ''The Golden Girls'' and who won a Tony Award for the musical ''Mame,'' died Saturday. She was 86.'
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'Now, though, our existing environment has been shaped by decades of suburbanist development and the number of people who fit the suburbanist core demographic is a minority and on the decline.'
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'When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data. Data in your favor? Ok, launch it. Data shows negative effects? Back to the drawing board. And that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions.'
links for 2009-04-24
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'Of course you'd like to think that most of your daily conversation is weighty and witty but instead everyone chats about pedestrian nonsense with their pals.'
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Bartle on designing MMOs and VWs for Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy.
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Two weeks later, I was found in my apartment, dead of fun.
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'Make a custom Frank Chu protest sign!'
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Holy crap.
links for 2009-04-23
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'an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.' Wait, what?
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'Some people do bring the practice of sketching to a higher art form, but to me it's always been about visual brainstorming and record-keeping in a format with a ridiculously low barrier to entry.'
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I kind of like this one.
links for 2009-04-22
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'I am also happy that [Lady Gaga's] album, “The Fame,” will be with us all year, even if you can’t find Marx or Rilke anywhere in the music.'
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'Instead of waiting for houses to become abandoned and then pulling them down, local leaders are talking about demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods.'
links for 2009-04-21
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Meretzky on Infocom's early days: "a game really was one person's effort. It was much easier for one individual to put their stamp of vision and direction onto a game. Since the cost of developing a game was so much less, companies could really afford to be more experimental."
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Imagining a document-centric Adobe suite.
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Render text in the manner of your favorite olde-tyme arcade game.
links for 2009-04-19
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The utopian communes aren't that interesting, but the idea of post-apocalyptic envrionmentalism is.