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'Public criers ask nothing; they don’t need anyone to take care of them. In some ways, that kind of transparency is as good a defense against interference as the famous blank New York stare.'
links for 2011-04-30
links for 2011-04-29
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Rules to Plastic Animal Chess. The jailer is kind of genius.
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'Recently I sat down with my eight-year-old and taught her how to play the king of all games: chess. Soon afterwards however, she surprised me by reinventing the game from the ground up.'
links for 2011-04-28
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'This gallery showcases images and links to awesome Korean dishes submitted by Korean food enthusiasts.'
links for 2011-04-25
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Stressed, tired, untrained, passive, independent, distracted users aren't dumb, they're just not in an optimal frame of mind for learning your application.
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'If we can lock on to the idea of modeling, achievements, and earning levels and additional help and put it into language that our students understand then I think that we are definitely on our way to getting students’ attention.'
links for 2011-04-24
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'This required that the camera be put on a motion-control rig and half of the set be put on another rig that counteracts the movement of the camera. So when the shot moved, the set, props and even the actors moved accordingly.'
links for 2011-04-18
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"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
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"The best metaphor I've devised for this wholly unsatisfying experience was 'fumbling around blindfolded in a darkened room, sure that there's a game in there somewhere, but unsure if we could recognise it by touch'. "
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25-year retrospective on the Rajneeshees and their impact on Oregon.
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'Mr. Culhane’s stunts, Mr. Klein posits, were of a higher order. He worked ultra-brief experimental art films into a handful of Woody Woodpecker cartoons.'
links for 2011-04-16
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'I challenge you to freeze-frame Bryant’s face in that moment of conflict with the referee Bennie Adams. Really examine the loathing and utter contempt, and realize this is something with which almost every lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender person is familiar. '
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'At this quasi-clandestine monthly event, a tribal gathering of young chefs, vendors and their iron-stomached followers are remaking the traditional farmers market as an indie food rave.'
links for 2011-04-15
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"My game supports 16 players / On one keyboard"
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Massively multiplayer Pac-Man?
links for 2011-04-14
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Annie Leibovitz photos Olivia Wilde and Alec Baldwin as the queen and mirror from Snow White; Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges as Beauty and the Beast; and Queen Latifah as Ursula from Little Mermaid. What.