Month: August 2012

  • nevver: Forgive them

  • lacigreen: ZOMGGUISESOCOOL!  Check out this gender neutral toy store that recently opened in London!   Instead of separating the store into “stuff designed for girls” and “stuff designed for boys”, Harrods Toy Kingdom focuses on “stuff for children”.  Little Riley would be proud.

  • megazord: Seems like a good price

  • The term “illegal immigrant” was first used in 1939 as a slur by the British toward Jews who were fleeing the Nazis and entering Palestine without authorization. Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel aptly said that “no human being is illegal.” Why ‘illegal immigrant’ is a slur – CNN.com (via subalterity)

  • rafaelfajardo: My older son starts his college career tomorrow in interactive media at the School for Cinematic Arts at USC, also known as game design. I found this as I was cleaning out a drawer. I have no idea how old it is. It fills me with all sorts of complex emotions.

  • My older son starts his college career tomorrow in interactive media at the School for Cinematic Arts at USC, also known as game design. I found this as I was cleaning out a drawer. I have no idea how old it is. It fills me with all sorts of complex emotions.

  • Rules To participate in Gesamt follow these four simple steps: 1. Check out Lars Six Challenges and be inspired. 2. Film a maximum of five minutes material, in which you make your own reinterpretation of one or more of the six art pieces. 3. Make sure to familiarize yourself with the entry regulations on this…

  • richardrushfield: There have been two great epic-scale adventures of the post War era:  The fall of the Soviet empire and the Apollo program.  Neither of them has gotten a great movie yet. The Apollo program was the only truly uncharted adventure of our time. Where anything at all could have happened. Since then all we’ve…

  • Pretty much all games are based on black box design, which means player strive to optimize the output of the system. The better the player is at predicting and using the rules that are in the black box, the better they are at the game. This means that most games implicitly task the player to…

  • While Drill Instructors inherently and naturally instill fear in recruits, the reliance on yelling and screaming no longer is seen as being an effective means to developing the critical thinking, collaboration and self-confidence the Army seeks to imbue in every single soldier. Dressing down a recruit is seen as the last resort of effective leadership.…