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SiSSYFiGHT 2000 returns
jkottke: If you’re of a certain internet age, from the time when idealistic nerds and not bizdev bros ruled the roost, you probably remember SiSSYFiGHT 2000. (If not, this Salon review of the game from 2000 may lift the fog.) The original creators of the game are bringing it back, open sourced, HTML5, and the…
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thisistheverge: Shapeshifters: phones of the future could morph on demand Scientists in Europe have developed prototype devices that could drastically change the way we interact with our smartphones and tablets. The six working prototypes, known as “Morphees,” are thin, electronic displays capable of automatically changing shape to perform certain functions. Researchers say that if brought…
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killscreen: The Times is hiring a games director, DIY Deep Sea, and Henry David Thoreau’s cabin, the videogame
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SiSSYFiGHT 2000 returns
jkottke: If you’re of a certain internet age, from the time when idealistic nerds and not bizdev bros ruled the roost, you probably remember SiSSYFiGHT 2000. (If not, this Salon review of the game from 2000 may lift the fog.) The original creators of the game are bringing it back, open sourced, HTML5, and the…
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inspirezme: I’m not a cash type of person, I use my card for almost everything and so I can’t reward top service with a tip, until now. Dipjar is a new project designed to take the convenience of cards and combine it with the courtesy of tipping. It’s as simple as a cash tip jar…
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pixelatedcowboy: last week I made some mini cacti voxel models! now I’m trying to turn them into papercraft. I’ve learnt that I’m not good at it but maybe you are and you’d like a go? Download this and print it off, then you can. at the end of the month I think I really want to…
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dataurbanism: Adjacency GraphAn Abstract Representation of Spatial Relationships The provinces of Netherlands, it’s adjacency graph representation and a rectangular population cartogram. [Citation] M. de Berg, E. Mumford, and B. Speckmann, “On rectilinear duals for vertex-weighted plane graphs,” Discrete Mathematics, vol. 309, no. 7, pp. 1794–1812, Apr. 2009.
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Cyberutopians vs Cyberoptimists
protoslacker: I’m a long-time reader of Ethan Zuckerman’s blog My Heart’s in Accra. In a recent post he points to a a piece in Foreign Policy by David Rieff and to his reply there. My heart sank as I read the title of Rieff’s essay: “The Singularity of Fools.” Had I not gotten to the article…
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wearenapoleon: works by jimmie durham.
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The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot be established at the moment, and of grasping the essential fact, discarding the unessential, even though one can give no account of the principles by which this is done. Joseph…