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A site for Space Jam was put up in 1996, but was never taken down. This is why the Web exists.
links for 2010-12-30
links for 2010-12-28
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"I think a lot of game designers are putting in functionality that helps the disabled community, but they're not calling it that, and they might not be aware that that's even what it is."
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List of iPad apps used by Gorillaz on The Fall.
links for 2010-12-26
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History of the Starship Titanic game (with bonus info from a dev in the comments: http://www.metafilter.com/98848/The-Post-That-Cannot-Possibly-Go-Wrong#3435162)
links for 2010-12-25
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'Video and photo editing, smartphone apps, email and other digital tools are gaining popularity as parents try to persuade their 21st-century kids that there is a Santa Claus.'
links for 2010-12-19
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'Miyamoto has told variations on the cave story a few times over the years, in order to emphasize the extent to which he was surrounded by nature, as a child, and also to claim his youthful explorations as a source of his aptitude and enthusiasm for inventing and designing video games. The cave has become a misty but indispensable part of his legend, to Miyamoto what the cherry tree was to George Washington, or what LSD is to Steve Jobs.'
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'The Senate on Saturday voted to strike down the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, bringing to a close a 17-year struggle over a policy that forced thousands of Americans from the ranks and caused others to keep secret their sexual orientation.'
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Augmented reality app that filters for red-green color blindness.
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'We’ve just spent an hour poking around, and it turns out that in the nineteenth century, the most popular British Christmas games were those that involved grave risk of injury.'
links for 2010-12-18
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'The poultry-centric controversy began late last week when Lotte Mart… began selling its fried chicken at a level that undercut the prevailing market price by more than 60 per cent…. Their trade body, the Korea Franchise Association, quickly weighed in with a threat of legal action and allegations of “fried chicken dumping”.'
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So, I guess it's not quite dead yet. Yay!
links for 2010-12-16
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Well now, what's this?
links for 2010-12-08
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"The typical Onion reader tends to be an almost insufferably literate and unbearably thoughtful type, the sort of person whose emotional shortcomings render them unable to face the world without filtering it through a veil of sarcasm. These spiritual cripples refer to this escapist defense mechanism as a “sense of humor,” and if they were not willing to throw money around with remarkable abandon, they would be utterly useless. If that describes the average citizen of your almost intolerably vibrant community, you now have a chance to bleed them of cash until they are dried and withered hipster husks."
links for 2010-12-06
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'At first, it seemed like the logical thing to do was to walk away and hopefully refer them to someone else with more time on their hands… but we really wanted to work together. We started thinking… could it be possible?'
links for 2010-12-05
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'Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components.'
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'To build such a game, the system follows almost all of the same steps as in the abduced construction of Breakout, modifying a few steps at the end to produce a new game.'
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'Says Minaj, "Once I got into the arenas, I felt uncomfortable saying, 'Where my bad bitches at?' because people were bringing their eight-year-old daughter. Is the eight-year-old going to say, 'Yeah, Nicki Minaj, I'm a bad bitch'? So now when I go up there I say, 'Where's my Barbies at?' " On Pink Friday, she keeps the sex talk to a minimum. "Sex is the last thing on my mind right now anyway," she says — although her photo shoots are still steamy. "Pictures are different. You can be a whore in your pics."'