Month: November 2012

  • [ SKRILLEX QUEST ]

    [ SKRILLEX QUEST ] fun, yeah!

  • soon after his time with Saarinen, Woods turned toward entirely theoretical, experimental architecture that often created more impact in its virtual state than real buildings in real cities ever could. Some compare his work to science fiction, because it resisted being fixed in the now and was always traveling past boundaries to what possibly could…

  • All in all, mobile service apps turn out to be a horrible place to close viral loops and win at the retention game. Only a handful of apps have succeeded mobile-first: Instagram, Tango, Shazam, maybe 2 or 3 others (Games drive short-term revenue but don’t get me started on that topic – sell a billion…

  • How to market our new league

    How to market our new league swagronskyy: Can we take a moment and appreciate this wonderful article by Joanna Lohman on how to market the new women’s pro league? We do not target those who will purely just buy what we are selling.  We target those who will buy why we are selling it. […] The new fan stays…

  • new-aesthetic: “Boilerplate disclaimer copy for use of in-store data-capture surveillance” – adamgreenfield

  • Dr. Manhattan seeks enlightenment, by Rafael Fajardo. Made with Paper

  • Making Games with No Previous Experience – Part 1: Code – by Alex Rose

    altnate: Gamasutra> A year ago I had no knowledge of the skills necessary to develop games, but I’ve self taught everything required to create a huge 2D puzzle game, from coding to art & VGM. In this series I’ll share the ways I’ve found most efficient to learn quickly. http://goo.gl/dIXzf #games #AltNate

  • I did end up making a working cloth RFID tag. This is a 2×3 inch iron-on patch with an antenna coil made of conductive thread. I sewed the bulk of the antenna by machine (and it would have been thicker if my thread hadn’t broke) then I did the more intricate bits by hand. The…

  • laphamsquarterly: OMG, history! lostsplendor: “The First Use of OMG was in a 1917 Letter to Winston Churchill” (via Smithsonianmag)

  • This whole interview looks worthy of a thoughtful read

    shrinkrants: elektrokardiogrammatology: Under the current conditions of debt and exposure, nation-states can’t bear to admit their abjection, can’t bear that they have become mere supplicants for the wealth that they have allowed to become privately held on behalf of a spectral growth on whose tithing the state has come to depend. The Euro-American state is…