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Mike Leyde flips the score counter on Bejeweled; Popcap puts out a press release.
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'The breathing of the volcano almost feels peaceful, like a hyperventilating giant with occasional sighs and coughs.'
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'Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true.'
links for 2010-04-30
links for 2010-04-28
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Local shuttle running between Powell St. station and UCSF Mission Bay.
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'There are plenty of reasons to suspect we may finally see a greater number of other form factors in computing in music performance – and to me, nothing tests the use of computers more than someone going in front of a crowd of people with one.'
links for 2010-04-27
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Computationally Minimal Art is a form of discrete art governed by a low computational complexity in the domains of time, description length and temporary storage. The most essential features of Computationally Minimal Art are those that persist the longest when the various levels of complexity approach zero."
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See what the FB Graph API exposes from your Facebook profile.
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Engine for iso browser games; all HTML5+JS.
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Trion relaunches Telara! It looks great.
links for 2010-04-26
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'Defiantly dressing as well as he could my grandfather took his family from the status of penniless refugees to one of wealth and education. A hundred years on is a granddaughter who can take as much pleasure in Dior as Tolstoy.'
links for 2010-04-24
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'NLL Lacrosse 2010 is the first fully licensed title to appear on the Indie Games channel.'
links for 2010-04-23
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Libraries for making games in HTML5.
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Some of the crazy things that happen in a game of Dwarf Fortress, in a format that the rest of us can read.
links for 2010-04-22
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'The Blazers are Ridley Scott’s Alien…. A surprising amount of the film’s running time is designated to portraying the characters going through seemingly ordinary sequences of action, which naturally makes the audience uneasy because they’re (1) aware that they’re watching a movie in which something interesting is supposed to be happening and (2) cognizant of the fact that the damn movie is called Alien, yet there have yet to be any aliens. The injury-plagued Blazers are very much the same, in that even the team’s most talented players are seemingly ordinary.'
links for 2010-04-21
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'Knowing that basic structure when creating a new game will have a huge difference compared to if you weren’t aware of the basics.'
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"The largest trial to date of 'brain-training' computer games suggests that people who use the software to boost their mental skills are likely to be disappointed."
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'But for kids, when it comes to play, they don’t make a big distinction between playing with a physical toy and playing with a virtual environment; and so I think the fact that these things want to blend and mix…in the same way that people are investing more and more time in their Facebook stuff and friends and profiles, but it intersects the real world and so they see a very smooth blending between the virtual and the real and they’re in some sense self supportive; they’re not exclusive of each other.'
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'We’ve been traveling back through time to rediscover and preserve the history of the legendary MTV U.S. series, 120 Minutes, which played alternative music videos with VJs, guests, and live performances, as well as its official successor, Subterranean on MTV2.'
links for 2010-04-20
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'Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file.'
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Scans of Radio Times articles and audience research reports charting audience reactions to regenerations.