Month: February 2013

  • trick play. exploit. fair play. non-traditional. tactical.

  • Outside of academic discussions, encouraging a strict definition of “game” does nothing but foster conservatism and defensiveness in a culture already notorious for both. Ed Key WHAT ARE GAME « Proteus (via notgames)

  • Wisdom from Bernie DeKoven

    Wisdom from Bernie DeKoven

  • laughingsquid: André Cassagnes, Etch A Sketch Creator (1926-2013)

  • razorshapes: Duane Michals – Madame Schrodinger’s Cat (1998)

  • splitscreengaming: New Tearaway screens Another reason not to give up hope just yet and hold onto that PS Vita, Tearaway is looking amazing and will hopefully make good use of all those hardware extras the Vita has. Tearaway is expected to arrive sometime this year.

  • notational: “The very idea of design is faith we can make things make sense for people we don’t even know.” — Twitter / berkun: The very idea of design is … (via ario) there may be a scale, along the axis of aspiration, hope, faith, belief, confidence, and hubris. without this scale, we won’t have…

  • (via Shack Bot by MakerBot – Thingiverse) see also Wired from December of 2012 for build instructions. This is a collaboration between Thingiverse, Makerbot Industries, Radio Shack, and Wired. This little toy has pin connectors and allows for at least 8 points of articulation.

  • brianlucid: The Disciplines of User Experience A diagram by by Dan Saffer (redesigned by Thomas Gläser) that attempts to visualize the relationship between UX and all other aspects of design. via fastco.design. Saffer’s original diagram and notes are here.

  • 5 Legal Ways To Get Free Textbooks.

    emergentdigitalpractices: howtodropoutofschool: 1. Open Culture:  Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed. 2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on…