Fidgit SciFi branches out into games reviews, Tom Chick editing the site. (tags: scifi games reviews) Portland Journal - As Portland Changes, Blacks and Whites Talk It Over - NYTimes.com Gentrification in NE PDX leads to black/white tension. (tags: portland gentrification urban race) MPR: News Cut: Boring architecture (cont’d) ‘nominees for the most unimaginative and boring architecture in the Twin Cities.’ (tags: architecture twincities) Paul Gravett: Article - China Earthquake Stories…
May 31, 2008 9:30 AM;
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Top Ten Classes In MMOs « Broken Toys Today’s dose of game industry cynicism. (tags: cynicism gamedev mmorpg working) Moot Point » Valentino & Family Guy ‘The reason Family Guy is so popular is the same reason that torture porn movies make so much money: there’s no clear agenda they’re pushing, the spectacle is in the offensiveness.’ (tags: familyguy television humor offense) Harvey Korman of ‘Burnett Show’ Dies at 81 -…
May 30, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap - NYTimes.com “To live like a human being on the salary that I make is very difficult in this city…. You’ve got to forget about brands, you’ve got to forget about, you know, what your mom made you growing up, and take what’s out there.” (tags: newyork money spending frugal) Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes…
May 29, 2008 9:30 AM;
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GameSetWatch - Preventing Teen Dating Violence - The Game Competition Results (tags: seriousgames abuse teens dating)…
May 28, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters (tags: ai navigation flocking) AIWisdom.com - Game Articles & Research (tags: ai gamedev) Polyworld Evolutionary ALife simulator: ‘organisms reproduce sexually, fight and kill and eat each other, eat the food that grows throughout the world, and either develop successful strategies for survival or die.’ (tags: alife ai evolution simulation) BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD Drawing a circumnavigatory self-portrait with help from a GPS tracker and an…
May 26, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Does Gaming’s Future Depend on Wii Fit? news from 1UP.com Miyamoto touched on some of these things in his GDC keynote a while back: making the world safe for core gamers depends on making games part of our overall culture. (tags: games culture miyamoto interviews play) What Makes Gaming Social? - GigaOM Synchronous vs. asynchronous online gaming. (tags: onlinegames socialsoftware mmorpg) GameSetWatch - Opinion: Why EA, The Industry Shouldn’t Rely On…
May 25, 2008 9:30 AM;
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You Can’t Fake Quality, But That Never Stops Them from Trying (Magical Wasteland) Today’s dose of cynicism and despair. (tags: gamedev cynicism)…
May 24, 2008 9:30 AM;
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cubeecraft.com (tags: paper characters toys) Bandsintown :: Search | Share | Discover Live Music Does what it says on the tin. (tags: music performance local) Ariel Waldman » Blog Archive » Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service (tags: twitter griefing socialnetworking) Gamasutra - Microsoft To Delist Low-Ranking XBLA Titles, Raise Size Limit Titles with lower than 65 on Metacritic and less than 6% trial conversion to be dropped. (tags: xbla…
May 23, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online’s Bill Taylor After 1 week of a 4-week training period, Zappos offers new customer service reps a $1K bonus to *quit*, in the interest of weeding out not-really-into-it employees. (tags: zappos working engagement) WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN (tags: singleservingsites twitter)…
May 22, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Announcing the Totally Unofficial Build a Better Twitter Contest | Crave : The gadget blog (tags: twitter scale webapps) Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model) The flockiest of flocking behaviors. (tags: flocking ai alife)…
May 21, 2008 9:32 AM;
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Welcome to the new Sodaplay | sodaplay.com Now with more sticks and springs than ever. (tags: alife animation) Netflix’s Movie Box Launches With Roku; Selection Still Limited; Buys Stake in Roku | paidContent.org Hm, streaming Netflix box, you say? Sounds tempting. (tags: netflix video streaming rental)…
May 20, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Who Will Be Hillary Clinton’s Successor? - New York Times Imagining a successful woman presidential candidate. By this article’s math, Hillary is the best we’re going to see for a good long while. (tags: gender politics women profiling) Avant Game: The dark side of coming out to play ‘a good reminder of how incredibly powerful play is, and how much momentum a live game can take on, and how hard it…
May 19, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Golden Axe: Beast Rider First Look (tags: goldenaxe my.work previews) IGN: Golden Axe: Beast Rider Preview (tags: goldenaxe my.work previews) Golden Axe: Beast Rider Preview (Xbox 360) “dismembermy”? (tags: goldenaxe my.work previews) Golden Axe: Beast Rider impressions - Joystiq (tags: goldenaxe my.work previews) Osborne effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘When a company’s revelation of information about future products results in customers not purchasing (or delaying purchases of) the current offering.’…
May 17, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Gamasutra - Sega, PlatinumGames Partner For Four-Title Deal Inaba (Okami), Kouno (Steel Battalion), Kamiya (DMC and Viewtiful Joe), and Mikami (RE) to develop titles. (tags: sega gamedev) State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry ‘In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship.”’ (tags: lgbt marriage sanfrancisco california)…
May 16, 2008 9:32 AM;
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Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times ‘A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style.’ (tags: art obituaries rauschenberg modernism) gwap.com - Home Games With a Purpose: new home for the ESP Game, etc. (tags: vonahn workingplay seriousgames crowdsourcing)…
May 15, 2008 9:31 AM;
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‘t Is Goud - WalletCards on my iPhone “store” membership cards on your iPhone by scanning them into a photo album. (tags: iphone cards)…
May 14, 2008 9:31 AM;
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MPR: Budget Hero (tags: seriousgames budget mpr apm) Gamasutra - Content Kings: Square Enix’s Shiraishi And Tsuchida On WiiWare And Risk Mitigating risk — both market-wise and creatively — by spreading it across a portfolio of smaller, more diverse games. (tags: squareenix gamedev risk)…
May 13, 2008 9:32 AM;
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‘Mad Pride’ Fights a Stigma - New York Times ‘Just as gay-rights activists reclaimed the word queer…, these advocates proudly call themselves mad; they say their conditions do not preclude them from productive lives.’ (tags: madness psychology health) Lexicographical Longing - Online Dictionaries - The Medium - Virginia Heffernan - New York Times OED abandons print entirely. (tags: words oed print books)…
May 12, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Ugly Overload: Crab Comparison Coconut crabs ‘get up to 4 kg in weight, have enormous legspans, live for 30 - 60 years, and are capable of splitting coconuts with their pinchers.’ (tags: crab animals size) A Close Look at the Colossal Squid 1000 lb, 26’ long. (tags: animals size squid) Mistake by the Lake Sporting Times: Even You, Dorn WPA analysis of the Indians/Yankees one-game playoff in Major League. Even sabermetricians…
May 10, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Fishki.Net - Воплощение детских рисунков глазами фотографов (34 картинки) | Фишкина Картинка Children’s drawings interpreted by photographers. (tags: photography drawing children whimsy) RealNetworks To Spin Off Its Game Business; May Do An IPO Of The New Company | paidContent.org (tags: business realnetworks casualgames spinoff) Is the Fashion Press to Blame? » Manolo’s Shoe Blog ‘much of that which is sent down the runway is unwearable by anyone other than the 14-year-old…
May 9, 2008 9:31 AM;
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San Francisco Sunset District Events Calendar (tags: sanfrancisco calendar sunset neighborhoods) Moot Point » Fortuitous Reading Using Gossip Girls to illustrate Foucault. Or maybe the other way around. (tags: foucault gossipgirls cw television sexuality discourse) Sundance Channel : Green Porno Isabella Rossellini illustrates the mating habits of various creatures. (tags: rossellini film mating animals) Two Families Grapple with Sons’ Gender Preferences : NPR ‘Because Ehrensaft sees transgenderism as akin to homosexuality,…
May 8, 2008 9:34 AM;
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Minnesota Monitor:: Twin Cities community radio powers up KFAI gets a 900-watt transmitter, Radio K a 99-watt transmitter for FM. I miss MN radio. (tags: twincities radio kfai radiok) Flash Portal Now Real Portal | Game | Life from Wired.com We Make Stuff clones their clone of Portal using Portal. (tags: portal flashgames) Earnings: THQ Bombs, $35.3 Million Loss For ‘08; Percentage Of Rev From Mobile Games Drops | paidContent.org A…
May 7, 2008 9:32 AM;
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Mockingbird - The Game Making Game (tags: gamedev remix diy)…
May 5, 2008 9:34 AM;
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Keeping Promises ‘I’ve been amazed sometimes when I’ve realized that some four-page scene I’ve written actually plays better… as a one-page scene. You don’t always lose when you cut.’ (tags: espenson writing pacing) ESPN - Well-traveled Franco finally calls it quits after 23 years - MLB 49-yo infielder played 23 seasons in the majors, was the oldest to hit a HR (48). (tags: franco baseball age) XSketch - Word Sketch Game…
May 4, 2008 9:32 AM;
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Dashing Tweeds (tags: tweed fashion clothing fabric)…
May 2, 2008 9:31 AM;
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Richard Bartle: Gamers have won the battle against the censors | Technology | guardian.co.uk ‘Half the UK population has grown up playing computer games. They aren’t addicted, they aren’t psychopathic killers, and they resent those boneheads – that’s you – who imply that they are addicted and are psychopathic killers.’ (tags: censorship demographics games bartle) iGoogle Artist Themes G commissions artists to make homepage themes. (tags: google art customization) Tweets -…
May 1, 2008 9:35 AM;
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