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ASIAN POP / Could Obama be the first Asian American president? “He talks about feeling like somewhat of an outsider; about coming to terms with his self-identity; about figuring out how to reconcile the values from his unique heritage with those of larger U.S. society. These are tensions and conflicts that play out (tags: obama identity asian race presidency) McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition). (tags: hamlet shakespeare facebook…
Pattern Tap : Collections Screenshots of web design patterns. (tags: design patterns webdesign)…
GIVE VACCINES Home Play a simple word quiz, raise money for immunization in developing countries. (tags: seriousgames words games quiz) inscription.com.au - Writing Comedy That Works. Notes from a comedy writing workshop, with an emphasis on honest characterization. (tags: charaters comedy writing) Living Life Online: pitfalls and perks | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon ‘With openness comes vulnerability…. in the sense of: ‘I’ve ripped my ribcage open for you to see my heart…
IGDA Leadership Forum » LF07 Vids/Slides/etc… (tags: igda production gamedev conference) AWS Service Health Dashboard - Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008 Notes from Amazon on a downtime incident. (tags: amazon disclosure saas uptime)…
Get Started With Django - Webmonkey (tags: django webdev) Here’s Another Olympic Sport: Skewering the Mascots - WSJ.com I don’t know, I think this crop of Olympic mascots is pretty cute. I like the elemental theme. (tags: mascots characters olympics china)…
Virtual Pursuits - Who’s on the Radar? : Kzero Big crazy, slightly dubious radar plot of the virtual worlds landscape. (tags: virtualworlds graphs) PlayCrafter: create fun flash games using our free online game maker Snap-together game builder with 2D physics. (tags: diy gamedev flashgames)…
Favtape.com Like muxtape, but the tracks are pulled from your Last.fm or Pandora favorites. (tags: last.fm pandora music mixtape) Box2D - Home 2D physics engine that’s been popping up all over the place. (tags: 2d physics programming gamedev)…
How To Make A Looney Tune, 1956 A three-page comic put out by WB in ‘56 to illustrate the cartoon production process. (tags: production warnerbros comics cartoons) Ironic Sans: Thsrs - The Shorter Thesaurus For those of us who tend to abuse big words. (tags: words thesaurus brevity) Zoomii.com - The “Real” Online Bookstore Completely impractical, totally rad way to browse books. (tags: books retail visualization) thisissand.com (tags: flashgames toys)…
California Extreme | An arcade game and pinball celebration (tags: games pinball expo)…
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer Lost tapes from Delia Derbyshire’s attic, incl. a track from the 60s that’s at least 30 yrs ahead of its time. (tags: derbyshire bbc electronica musiqueconcrete audio sounddesign)…
The Electric Sheep Company: Products: WebFlock White-label Flash VWs. (tags: virtualworlds flash) EA to Play in Knights of the Old Republic - Technology Blog - Tech Observer - Portfolio.com Riccitello confirms that Bioware’s MMO is KOTORO. (tags: kotor starwars bioware mmorpg electronicarts) Digital Rocks | Foodomain “Here is a normal rock…. Here is the same rock, as rendered by various video games and platforms.” (tags: games rocks graphics)…
Ze Frank’s Life Games Minigame/punchlines on Christianity, Buddhism, and Atheism. (tags: games flashgames religion) Gamasutra - Persuasive Games: Performative Play ‘Performativity in video games couple gameplay to real-world action. Performative gameplay describes mechanics that change the state of the world through play actions themselves.’ (tags: gamestudies performance performativity seriousgames workingplay)…
Worlds In Motion - Disney Bringing Club Penguin To Nintendo DS God help us all. (tags: games clubpenguin ds) getluky.net » Blog Archive » Sysadmins and Charlatans “The typical signs are refusal to document work, an excessive amount of jargon, hiding for large amounts of time in obscure projects, and a tendency to look at people as either allies or enemies.” (tags: engineering software working) Defender of the favicon. Play Defender…
Twin Skies | Home Upcoming casual MMOG from the people who made Neopets. (tags: mmorpg casualgames) Pentago-Online 5-in-a-row with a twist (pun intended). (tags: flashgames marbles boardgames) Collection of Real Pacman - Fubiz™ (tags: photos pacman)…
Why the hell am I not making games about “nurturing, growth, and affection,” or helping players “create new experiences for each other”? I need to put my money where my mouth is.
Spore prototypes EA/Maxis is releasing some early prototype tools used in the development of Spore for downloading. (tags: prototypes spore gamedev)…
Domestigeek: Live Twittered wedding! (tags: twitter marriage lifecasting)…
CJR: It’s All Over Now, Violet Blue ‘If anything, the Violet Blue/Boing Boing affair involves a sort of reverse censorship…. Here, Boing Boing’s readers (the public) wanted to censor what the site (the authority figures) could choose not to say.’ (tags: weblogging boingboing blue jardin censorship) GOG.com Download old PC games, DRM-free, in the $5.99-$9.99 range. (tags: games download) Kuler Dashboard Widget » Alex Jones (tags: color kuler dashboard macintosh)…
Wall-E is First-ever Arab Localized Game | GamePolitics (tags: l10n i18n gamedev language arabic walle) Mavericks at Work: Where the Most Original Minds in Business Connect ‘Turn [the typical Hollywood contract] model on its head and you get the Pixar version: a tightknit company of long-term collaborators who stick together, learn from one another, and strive to improve with every production’ (tags: pixar management working) Google Lively G’s embeddable, room-based VW….
wcco.com - ‘Wall-E’ Trailer Makes Woman Cry, Every Time ‘No matter where she is, every time Courtney Mault sees the preview to the new Pixar movie, “Wall-E”, her eyes tear up.’ As appreciation/consolation(?), Pixar flew her out to attend their wrap party. (tags: pixar wall-e crying emotion characters)…
Where The Hell Is Matt? Matt travels the world and shoots video of himself dancing. Charming. No, really! (tags: dance travel globalization)…
I do, on occasion, have thoughts that are larger than 140 characters.
memelabs » How Social Networks are like High School (tags: socialnetworking cliques analogy)…
Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture (tags: journal gamestudies) Public timeline - Identi.ca microblogging site o’ the day. (tags: microblogging socialsoftware) Subtext home visual programming languge that represents logic in a tabular format. (tags: programming languages visualization) Renewed artistic direction for Diablo 3 Some Diablo fans don’t like the art direction of Diablo 3. (tags: fandom diablo art color)…
Obama’s sister helps reach out to Asian-Americans - Yahoo! News Obama’s half-sister is half-Indonesian, her husband is Chinese-Canadian. (tags: obama family race campaign)…
Pacman source Assembler code for Pac-Man. (tags: pacman assembler code) Gamasutra - Spanking Death: Ron Gilbert Goes Episodic… And Loves It ‘It’s like every time [publishers] go to the play, they swing for the fences. And being able to hit like a single or a double is just beyond their comprehension, in a way.’ (tags: gamedev gilbert interviews) Inside Neopets Creators’ Ambitious New MMO | Game | Life from Wired.com ‘Imagine…