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jtotheizzoe: via infinity-imagined: City lights photographed from the International Space Station and Neurons imaged with fluorescence microscopy. Source images; Cities (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Neurons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) We can explore this at another level by remembering our old friend slime mold (see my previous slimy posts here), which give us reason to…
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It was as pure as pure gets, in terms of building software. Steve would draw a quick vision on the whiteboard, we’d go work on it for a while, bring it back, find out the ways in which it sucked, and we’d iterate, again and again and again. That’s how it always went. Iteration. It’s…
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Chercher Le Texte : call for artworks
The “chercher le texte” event deals with literary issues and text-oriented multimedia practices on digital devices: digital books, texts generated or animated through programming, fiction hypertexts, “manipulable”, playable works, or on the contrary works whose very program embraces literariness. The considered devices range from computers to mobile devices, including social networks. They can be used…
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dxinteractive: A game ~ Not by me, but contains my music. Fae is the name of a new quick-reflex 2D platformer that features a number of tracks from Slow Gravity. Game created by podbot. Play it here. Also have a recent remix I did of a Nebulo song, so a kind of spacey downtempo synth-driven…
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actualfacebookgraphsearches: “Married people who like Prostitutes … these people’s spouses”
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makegames: Before Spelunky I started a simple little roguelike game. Here’s the tilesheet I made for it – feel free to use these tiles in your own (non-commercial) projects, if you like. No credit necessary, although it would be appreciated!
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you,…
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Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It
emptyage: emptyage: Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going forward,” to borrow…
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I learned last night that the rules of Rugby have been continually modified to retain and increase flow. In this case it is not the psychology of optimal performance, but the fluidity and continuity of uninterrupted play.
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GetGoogleOutOfMyHead: What is up with personal branding?
GetGoogleOutOfMyHead: What is up with personal branding? hautepop: getgoogleoutofmyhead: hautepop: [Some waffle about why personal branding is an idea that doesn’t quite go away – the return of the repressed, if you will] I think there are three things happening here: 1. Brand production is a spontaneous cultural and psychological phenomenon. That phenomenon is much…