Month: March 2013

  • The Internet is a big fan of the worst-possible-thing. Many people thought Twitter was the worst possible way for people to communicate … One recipe for Internet success seems to be this: Start at the bottom, at the most awful, ridiculous, essential idea, and own it. Paul Ford Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last…

  • The M.I.A. book foreword

    vandlo: I met Maya in 1998 at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. She joined the film degree program late, with no interview. She just blagged her way in on the phone and turned up halfway through the term. We all dressed in dark colors and talked serious art theory. Maya wore…

  • We’ve allowed killing to become not simply mundane, but run of the mill — and more than that, filler. Death is dead: how modern video game designers killed danger | The Verge (via thisistheverge)

  • hyperallergic: Minds blown.  It’s from Nick Cave (the artist’s) FB page. creativetime: Nick Cave (Soundsuits, HEARD•NY) meets Nick Cave (singer, The Bad Seeds)!

  • The book is like the wheel – once invented, it cannot be bettered. Umberto Eco (This Is Not the End of the Book)

  • Rohrer laid out the game’s rules diagrammatically on three pages of archival, acid-free paper, hermetically sealed them inside a Pyrex glass tube — which were then housed inside a titanium baton — and set about burying them in the earth. The game is now embedded somewhere in the Nevada desert. Rohrer’s not exactly sure where,…

  • In 1936, Alan Turing showed that all computers are simply manifestations of an underlying logical architecture, no matter what materials they’re made of. Although most of the computer’s we’re familiar with are made of silicon semiconductors, other computers have been made of DNA, light, legos, paper, and many other unconventional materials. Now in a new…

  • Recess! 8 – Cardboard Inspiration

    karsalfrink: Recess! is a correspondence series with personal ruminations on games. Dear Alper and Niels, This morning I read the news that Jason Rohrer has won the final game design challenge at GDC. A Game For Someone is amazing—a boardgame buried in the Nevada desert, intended to be played in a few thousand years by…

  • Lessons Learned from YouTube’s $300M Hole

    wilwheaton: edwardspoonhands: THiS WALL OF TEXT IS ABOUT BUSINESS AND ONLINE VIDEO IF YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT STUFF KEEP SCROLLING I WILL POST MORE CAT GIFS SOON For those of you who don’t know, John and I were recipients of part of YouTube’s “Original Channel” funding initiative. We used that money to start Crash…

  • Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success

    Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success futurejournalismproject: As a startup we’re always on the lookout for tips and tricks that might help lead us toward success. Today, we’re thankful for this list by Anil Dash. Be raised with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. (Every tech billionaire I’ve ever spoken to has…