Month: March 2013

  • jazminchavez: Thank you to everyone for your votes and felicidades to @armandosomoza for being named one of New Yorks top #40under40 Latinos! And let us add our voice of congratulations and /felicitaciones/ for Armando and Jazmin, both alumni of graduate programs here at the University of Denver! Jazmin studied Law, and Armando received his MFA…

  • waterwasntbuilt: Martin Heidegger can overcome onto-theology, but can he see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

  • (via Pipe Trouble) (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • (via Ontario premier to investigate TVO game with pipeline-bombing | Canadian Politics | Canada | News | National Post)

  • Canadian “pipeline” game enrages humourless oilpatch blowhards – Boing Boing

    Canadian “pipeline” game enrages humourless oilpatch blowhards – Boing Boing

  • Whoever said that games couldn’t be educational AND fun? Certainly not developer Littleloud, which, based on a cursory but nonetheless scientific glance at the internet, appears to specialise in engaging interactive entertainment underpinned by a healthy dose of social commentary. Sweatshop HD review – iPad reviews | Pocket Gamer

  • Apple actually speaks about this very issue in the App Store developer guidelines, where it says “we view apps different [sic] than books or songs, which we do not curate.” So, “if you want to criticise a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create…

  • (via Apple kills a sweatshop app – Salon.com) Imagine you are the modern equivalent of Upton Sinclair, shopping your great muckracking novel about the working conditions of immigrants in a Chicago slaughterhouse, “The Jungle,” around to publishers. Except that unlike 1906, when there were multiple publishing houses, there’s only one or two left in the…

  • Most coaches I know use some variation of a 5 v 2 keep away game in a limited area. I’ve never liked 5 v 2 as a teaching tool because I have always felt that it was too static. Anson Dorrance did a great demonstration at our International Seminar a few years ago where he…

  • Hyper-Realistic CGI Is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers

    Hyper-Realistic CGI Is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers singularitarian: Computer-generated images are moving out of theaters and onto store shelves and catalog pages, thanks to software that makes it nearly impossible to distinguish the real from the photorealistic.