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'In all the movies we did together, we hardly had to shower him with any verbal praise. He always knew he was doing OK because "I could hear David laughing during the take," he would say. And I was! Tough to just sit there silently during "Nice beaver!"'
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'Bingo has been a rite for Ms. Klivan for 30 years. To understand its galvanic pull, one need only rewind a few years, to the day her sister picked her up from the hospital after cancer surgery and asked, “Where do you want to eat?” Ms. Klivan told her she didn’t want to eat. And her sister, looking hard at her, said, “You’re not thinking the bingo hall?” Oh yes, she was.'
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'Critics argued he was being cast against type [in Airplane], but Nielsen disagreed. "I've always been cast against type before," he said, adding comedy was what he'd really always wanted to do.'
links for 2010-11-28
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'A large figure seemed to me false and a small one equally unbearable, and then often they became so tiny that with one touch of my knife they disappeared into dust. But head and figures seemed to me to have a bit of truth only when small.'
links for 2010-11-25
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huh.
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'This NBA player visualization was created by mapping player statistics to physical attributes of simple, cartoon, caricatures (more blocks equals longer arms, more rebounds results in longer legs etc.)'
links for 2010-11-23
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'We put up twenty Bus Stop Derby bus stops with interactive 72-inch touch screens. We developed four addictive games that you can play right then and there while waiting for your bus—and since it’s even more fun to play together (and especially to beat someone), you can challenge players at other Derby stops to live head-to-head games. And you aren’t just playing for personal glory you’re playing for your neighborhood.'
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'To summarize: a real app became a fake retro artwork joke which became a real retro game based on the fake artwork for the real app.'
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'A collection of four one kilobyte games for the Atari Video Computer System, one for each season, about the experience of observing things. Neither action nor strategy, each game requires a different kind of sedate observation and methodical input.'
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'It’s all about communication, and empathy for the end user. Those two factors work hand in hand for community pros.'
links for 2010-11-21
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'The truth is, I'll never pore over the sixteenth [ed of the Chicago Manual of Style] the way I did the fourteenth, a book years in the reading. Still, it's fun to see that some characters from that previous edition (Farnsworth, the excitable Henrietta) make cameos. That hussy Babs is awol here, as far as I can tell, and ever-eager Bill no longer graces the hyphenation table.'
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A game for the Commodore 64, being released after 20 years of development.
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Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.'
links for 2010-11-13
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Influences from Blow, Molyneux, Takahashi, Muzyka and Zeschuk, and more.
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'Mary Poppins star feared death after apparently falling asleep on his surfboard but friendly sea creatures pushed him to shore'