Month: February 2016

  • Is Firewatch A Larp?

    gamedesignerben: This is an analysis of Firewatch’s form. While specific details of the main story won’t be mentioned, I will be talking about the beginning and ending of the game. So: spoiler warning. Campo Santo’s game Firewatch has been out for a couple of weeks now, and seems to be performing well enough to ensure…

  • Cultural Code

    Cultural Code Phillip Penix-Tadsen’s book has just been released by MIT Press!!! He creates a cultural ludology of Latin America. full disclosure, I might be mentioned, along with games by the SWEAT collaborative. we are grateful for the scholarly attention!

  • It should not be rare to have graduate students in science and engineering in literature, philosophy, and history of science courses. It should be the norm. It is in the augmentation of possibilities — the things we never knew existed — where remarkable opportunities exist at the intersection of engineering and humanities. The possibilities are…

  • Samsung warns customers not to discuss personal information in front of smart TVs

    Samsung warns customers not to discuss personal information in front of smart TVs desperately seeking an Internet of Ethical Things

  • gjmueller: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2015 You can read the report on the survey here, and below are some of its key findings: The percentage of academic leaders who said online learning was critical to their institution’s mission dropped from 71 percent, in 2014 — the highest ever — to 63 percent.…

  • 99percentinvisible: This week: the design of basketball and the political charge of the slam dunk

  • americaninfographic: Ode to Apollo 11

  • I might not notice these slightly fascist tendencies if I were sharp-sighted, fit, properly trained to the modern OS and also young and therefore unable to personally remember a looser, more democratic regime of computational life. But I will never be a marathon runner, and it seems odd that a computer technology is confronting us…

  • Zhang Huan’s Poppy Fields

    Zhang Huan’s Poppy Fields Chinese artist Zhang Huan’s paintings, entitled, “Poppy Fields” are intended to evoke the idea of liberated souls who have undergone the sky burial process that he discovered while traveling through Tibet. Source: ARTINFO PUBLISHING VIDEO Blogging here to keep for reference: “who are other artists who are working with images of poppies…

  • Dowse – The Internet of Things privacy hub

    Dowse – The Internet of Things privacy hub