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'This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette…. This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time.'
links for 2010-07-28
links for 2010-07-23
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Surprise: ESPN has an ombudsman. Less of a surprise: said ombudsman does not think La Décision was a great idea.
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Linus Akesson gutted an old electric organ and turned it into an 8-bit synth — with on-board patch editing, arpeggiator, step sequencer, and mods on the pedals.
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'[Jeremy Lin] will be the litmus test of where Stu Scott can go and where he cannot, he will be most easily accessible, visible counterpoint to the emasculated Asian male. He will be the Great Yellow Hope for millions of Asian people, not just in the Bay Area, but in Flushing, K-Town, Little Saigon, Annandale, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei and Beijing.'
links for 2010-07-22
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'a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love to develop games.'
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'He was equally amused by the fact that, as a result, I would have to tell him the proper way to punctuate the verb “finger-blasting.” Was it hyphenated? One word? Two? What would it be in noun form? After more discussion of the matter than is probably appropriate in a work setting, I made an executive decision that it should be hyphenated. '
links for 2010-07-19
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Brief history of ROM hacking and fan-translated Japanese games.
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Dixit, a storytelling party game.
links for 2010-07-18
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'I would like to hypothesize that a new form of colon has emerged…. it’s a dependent clause + colon + just about anything, incorporating any and all elements of the other four colons, yet differing crucially in that its pre-colon segment is always a dependent clause.'
links for 2010-07-16
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Zeldafied maps of cities.
links for 2010-07-15
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Mystery sounds recorded by deep ocean arrays.
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'Take a Closer Listen is a project by the talented Dutch graphic designer Rutger Zuydervelt in which a variety of people have been asked to describe their favorite sound…. Flipping through the pamphlet is like reading a silent soundtrack to a landscape you will never see in full. '
links for 2010-07-12
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'The interrogative compared with the declarative form of introspective talk may elicit more intrinsically motivated reasons for action, resulting in goal-directed behavior.'