links for 2008-08-31
Universal Taoist Arts Home Page (tags: sanfrancisco taichi) Nintendo Papercraft - The resource for all your Nintendo themed papercrafts! (tags: paper craft nintendo)…
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Universal Taoist Arts Home Page (tags: sanfrancisco taichi) Nintendo Papercraft - The resource for all your Nintendo themed papercrafts! (tags: paper craft nintendo)…
JavaScript Rock Star Guitar Hero, without the guitar. (tags: javascript music games guitarhero) The Last Guy Everywhere Pac-man-esque game that generates levels based on screenshots of web sites. (tags: games images)…
Nihilogic : WolfenFlickr 3D - Wolfenstein 3D / Flickr JavaScript Mashup Not only is it Wolfenstein in JavaScript, it's Wolfenstein in JavaScript with photos from your Flickr pool pasted onto the walls. We are living in an age of wonders. (tags: wolfenstein flickr mashup)…
mysqlgame 'Are you tired of browser-based games that are thinly veiled interfaces for databases? Finally, there's a game that just is a database!' (tags: sql mmorpg database)…
CJR: Comma Suture âSeldom has the distinction between a restrictive and a nonrestrictive clause been more important,â (tags: language biden obama race puncuation) Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » Bolt: Storyboard vs. CG How to go from a fun and exciting board to a bland and formless final product. (tags: animation cartoons cgi) Gamasutra - Game Design Psychology: The Full Hirokazu Yasuhara Interview Good interview with a veteran level designer….
Infovore » Playing Together: What Games Can Learn from Social Software 'we should be facilitating activity for groups, not for individuals. And not rigidly, locked-down groups - guilds and clubs and societies - but the loose, flabby, overlapping groups that we really interact in.' (tags: socialsoftware games web2.0) Beijing 2008 - It's a wrap - The Big Picture - Boston.com (tags: photos olympics sports) GameDeveloperTools.com (tags: gamedev) Transphobic Words and Deeds…
Since I’ve solved all of Braid’s puzzles, I’m less annoyed than I initially was by how finicky and tightly wound some of them are.
IGDA - Credit Standards (tags: gamedev credits igda)…
Interrocolon Can you believe it[Interrocolon] People can make new punctuation marks up out of thin air. (tags: writing punctuation) Feministe » Hair-pulling and braid-weaving One of the better readings of Braid I've seen. Actually puts those damnable books into some sort of context. (Contains spoilers.) (tags: gender braid games dating) Robert Mackey: Cloak of Stupidity +5, or the Art of the False Political Assumption (tags: d&d mccain politics military culture)…
Games Without Frontiers: Fun Way to Lose Weight: Turn Dieting Into an RPG 'Type in any food you can think of — including brand-name snacks or boxed meals — and Weight Watchers has already calculated the points for you. If she makes a special sandwich at home, she can calculate the ingredients, save it with a custom name, and then drag and drop it into her day every time she eats…
Flagship Founder Bill Roper Interview Long interview with Roper on Flagship's fall. Short version: confusion over money. (tags: flagship roper interviews gamedev)…
FaceYourManga.com | Shake Yourself! Avatar maker o' the day. (tags: avatar face cariacature)…
Gamasutra - The Evolution Of Sega: A Conversation With Simon Jeffery (tags: sega secretlevel)…
iWant My TweenTV: iCarly, Sitcom 2.0 | 'A manifestation of how Nick has connected with a generation of viewers for whom itâs perfectly natural to watch clips of a TV show online as well as have nonlinear editing software installed on their home computer.' (tags: icarly television convergence) 101 Classic Computer Ads - Boing Boing Gadgets Selling the future, in the past. (tags: advertising computers retrogaming)…
CarlTown A socnet for Carleton alums? Really? (tags: carleton alumni socialnetworking) Canon 3D Papercraft - Origami (tags: origami paper craft)…
The Game AI Wiki â AiGameDev.com Still raw, but could become something useful. (tags: wikis ai gamedev) BBC NEWS | Europe | Russian forces battle Georgians (tags: russia georgia ossetia war) Russian Troops Enter Rebel Enclave - NYTimes.com (tags: russia georgia ossetia war)…
Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008 Lovely little hypertext piece. It's like editing, in reverse. (tags: words sentences writing hypertext tea)…
Sprite Stitch » Video Game Cupcakes by Naomi Yum. (tags: cupcakes baking retrogaming) Chillax - The Boston Globe 'Whenever I see "not a real word" used to stigmatize what is (usually) a perfectly cromulent word, I wonder why the writer felt the need to hang a big sign reading "I am not confident about my writing" on it.' (tags: mckean words language pedantic)…
:: Authentic Happiness :: Using the new Positive Psychology 'A new branch of psychology which focuses on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions.' (tags: psychology happiness positive flow) In Lean Times, Whole Foods Tries for a Fresh Image - NYTimes.com 'Whole Foods Market is on a mission to revise its gold-plated image as consumers pull back on discretionary spending in a troubled economy.'…
Rally and Action to Stop "America's Army" recruitment of children (tags: sanfrancisco secretlevel americasarmy) Playlist: The 'Boom De Ah Dah' Phenomenon (tags: discovery commercials parody music video) Magazine Preview - Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling - NYTimes.com 'I asked Fortuny whether a person is obliged to give food to a starving stranger. No, Fortuny argued; no one is entitled to our sympathy or empathy. We can choose to give…
Speak Up ⺠Cuteness and Green Design for a Brighter, Cuter Future 'Cute-ifying environmentalism can help newcomers understand the movement's goals, but it can also simplify and minimize the very real threat of environmental destruction.' (tags: cute environment branding design) When 'social poachers' snatch your friends - CNN.com "David Neverson, 27, has watched with mixed emotions as his social groups overlapped. After he introduced them, some of his high school friends…