In the last couple of days, I’ve seen two different Twitter-based games percolate through the stream that act a lot like the more Facebookish variety of social gam.
links for 2009-05-31
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Web-based RPG that takes its input from Twitter replies and hashtags.
links for 2009-05-30
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'You create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave.'
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'Each player becomes a master of a spy ring based upon their Twitter followers list. The more people that follow you and are playing characters in Spymaster, the more powerful your network will be. As a spymaster, you can perform tasks or attack other spymasters on Twitter.'
Soon. Now?
I swear, as God is my witness, that I will start posting to this weblog again if it kills me.
And yes, I still call it a weblog. Get off my lawn!
links for 2009-05-27
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'Is Strauss vs. Horton, S168047 the equivalent of bringing a knife to a gun fight? If I understand this right, the central argument of the case attempted to repeal the initiative on a technicality. What? You can’t defeat discrimination on a technicality.'
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'I don’t seek people out, I am terrible at striking up conversations with strangers and I am happy exploring a strange city alone.'
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'This semester, I began running an "outdoor game design" course. Instead of huddling together in a computer lab, students collaborate in small groups, designing games to be played outside on the UC Berkeley campus.'
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'President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in Bronx public housing projects to become the nation’s first Hispanic justice.'
links for 2009-05-26
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'Easily insert Keyboard Cat into any YouTube video with this groundbreaking new technology, giving Keyboard Cat the chance to play off an almost unlimited amount of situations.'
links for 2009-05-25
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'I am sick of [the games-as-art debate] too. But not for the same reason. I’m sick of games. I’m sick of the endless debates on how we’re supposed to achieve something deeply meaningful by making people play with puzzles or achieving fake goals by adhering to arbitrary rules.'
links for 2009-05-23
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It's just the usual zomg-ninja-loot-who-cares thread, except that the posters suddenly decide to argue in rap form.
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Suggests optimal times during movies for a quick dash to the bathroom.
links for 2009-05-22
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'To move into the gated village of Laguna Woods… people must meet several requirements, one of which is that they do not need full-time care. Their minds are sharp when they arrive, whether they are 65 or 95. They begin a new life here…. They are as busy as arriving freshmen at a new campus, with one large difference: they are less interested in the future, or in the past. “We live for the day.”'
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'This is what the web-threatened punditry often fails to recognize: Focus is a paradox—it has distraction built into it. The two are symbiotic; they’re the systole and diastole of consciousness.'